PERMANENT STAFF
Lai Liangtao
PhD, lecturer of School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research interest
Systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, educational linguistics, translation studies
Education
September 2003-July 2006, MA, School of Foreign Languages, Fuzhou University, supervised by Professor Yili LIU
September 2007- July 2011, PhD candidate, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, supervised by Professor YANG Xinzhang
September 2008- February 2010, Joint Ph.D. candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, supervised by Professor James R. Martin
Experience
August 1994-September 2000: Chinese language teachers in primary schools and English teachers in middle schools
2001 to now: full-time/part-time senior translator in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Xiamen, translating technical documents in such fields as telecommunication, electric/ electronic manufacturing, law and commerce
July 2006- July 2007: assistant lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages, Fujian Institute of Education; courses offered including pragmatic translation, linguistics, and lexicology
July 2011-to July 2013: Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Linguistics, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University; research subject: a social semiotic approach to educational linguistics
September 2013-now: Department of English & Martin Center for Appliable Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Publications & research report
Monograph
Lai, Liangtao. 2012. A Telos-oriented Model of Genre Analysis—a Case Study of Corporate Website Genres [M]. Xiamen, Fujian Province: Xiamen University Press.
Lai, Liangtao. 2014. Educational linguistics: a social semiotic approach. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (in press).
Papers
Lai, Liangtao. 2009. Language and the construction of power [J]. Foreign Language and Literature Studies, Vol. 26(3): 159-163.
Lai, Liangtao. 2010. Nominalization and the construction of power [J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Sciences), Vol. 9 (3): 120-125.
Lai, Liangtao, and Bai, Fang. 2010. Bakhtin's dialogism and its implications to the engagement system [J]. Jiangxi Social Sciences 11: 203-207.
Yang, Xinzhang, and Lai, Liangtao. 2012. Construction of female identity from the perspective of functional discourse analysis [A]. Studies in Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (IV)[C]. Beijing: Higher Education Press. 356-367.
Lai, Liangtao. 2012. An exploration into the negotiation mechanism of texts [J]. Contemporary Foreign Language Studies 9: 28-32.
Lai, Liangtao, 2013. Review: LEARNING TO WRITE, READING TO LEARN (D. Rose and J. Martin). Applied Linguistics: 1-4.
Lai, Liangtao. 2014. Introduction. In J. R. Martin & D. Rose Genre Relations: Mapping Culture. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (in press).
Lai, Liangtao. 2014. Theoretical foundations of educational linguistics [A]. In Yu Liming (ed.) Educational Linguistics in China [C]. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press (in press).
Lai, Liangtao, 2014. A survey of educational linguistic studies in China [A]. In Yu Liming (ed.) Educational Linguistics in China [C]. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press (in press).
Research projects
Hosting:
A study of the foundation theories of educational linguistics, 2011, Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University
A text-based study of knowledge construction, 2012, Dong's Fund for Social Sciences Studies, Zhejiang University
A study of knowledge construction based on the analysis of the ideational meanings of texts, Bureau of Education, Zhejiang Province
A study of the language power construction in online media texts, School of Foreign Languages, SJTU.
Participating in:
Gender relation and English/Chinese Languages, 2009, Fujian Association of Social Sciences, hosted by Professor Yang Xinzhang
A study of the bilingual dictionary automatic compiling system― English/Chinese Parallel Corpus, Xiamen University Subproject, 2010, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, hosted by Professor Jianping Wu
Attitudinal meaning and interpersonal relation― a study based on a multi-dimensional analysis of attitudinal meanings, 2011, the Ministry of Education, hosted by Dr. Chengfang Song
Contact
Add: 上海市闵行区东川路800号上海交通大学外国语学院，200240
Email: billowswright@163.com
