Name: LI Chengtuan

Gender: Male

Title: Professor and MA/PhD Supervisor

Department: Department of Regional, International and Cross-cultural Studies

Research Interest: pragmatics, cross-cultural communication and discourse analysis

Personal Homepage: https://felc.gdufs.edu.cn/info/2104/7716.htm

Office: Room 458, Teaching Building 1 North

Email: lichengtuan@163.com

Education

2004-2006 B.A. Foreign language and culture

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2009-2014 Ph.D. Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Work Experience

2006-2008 Lecturer, Faculty of English Language and Education,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2009-2012 Assistant professor, Faculty of English Language and Education,

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2013-2018 Professor, Faculty of English Language and Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2018-present Professor, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong

University of Foreign Studies

Research Projects

• The National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences in P. R. China（18BYY223）

• The Department of Education of Philosophy and Social Sciences

• The Department of Education of Guangdong Province (2018WCXTD002)

  Academic Publications

1. Li C., Zhao Z., & Han J. (2024). “I’m the ghost hunter”: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects. Lingua.

2. Li C. (2022). A study of emotion management and identity construction in Chinese medical treatment discussions. Discourse Studies.

3. Li C. (2022). A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication. Pragmatics and Society.

4. Li C. (2019). Identity construction in Chinese discourse (book chapter), in Shei C (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, Routledge, Taylors & Francis Group.

5. Li C. Ran Y. & Kadar J.(2018). Self-expert identity construction via other-identity negation in Chinese televised debating discourse. TEXT & TALK.

Academic Affiliations

• China Association of Pragmatics of CAP)

• American Association for Pragmatics (AAP)

  Courses Taught

• Cross-Cultural Communication

• Pragmatics

• Academic English

• Advanced Communicative English

• English Reading

• English Newspaper Reading

• English Writing for Graduate Students