Professor DU Jinbang

Linguistics

everremember@gdufs.edu.cn
Phone: +86 020 36206324

Professor of English, PhD in linguistics and applied linguistics, supervisor of PhD students in forensic linguistics and PhD students in Business English Study, and the president of the Chinese Association of Forensic Linguistics, China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, who has published a book “Forensic Linguistics” , articles on forensic linguistics and linguistics, edited a book “Discourse Analysis,” and put forward the “tree model of legal discourse information which has been developed into DIT(Discourse Information Theory).

Fields of Research

u  Forensic Linguistics

u  Business English Study

u  Legal Translation

u  Discourse Analysis

Research Interests:

²  Corpus Linguistics

²  Discourse Information Analysis

²  Natural Language Processing

²  English Teaching

²  Legal English Teaching

²  Computerized Language Testing

Research Projects

·            National research project: Corpus-Based Legal Information Mining Mechanism and Its Application

·            Provincial Research Project: Corpus-based Legal Discourse Information Pattern Recognition and Identification Research

·            Provincial Research Project: Foreign-related Legal Information Processing Research

·            Provincial Research Project: Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Legal Discourse Information Structure

·            Innovation Research Team Research Project of GDUFS: Applied Research of Forensic Linguistics

Key Methodologies

·            Corpus-based Study

·            Computer-aided Study

·            Discourse Information Analysis (DIA)

·            Multimodal Analysis

·            Discourse Analysis

·            Experimental Research

Affiliations

·            Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: Professor of English

·            The Chinese Association of Forensic Linguistics: President

·            International Language and Law Association: Founding Memeber

Publications

Books

1. DU Jinbang, 2004. Forensic Linguistics [M]. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

2. DU Jinbang, 2013. Discourse Analysis [M]. Wuhan University Press.

3. DU Jinbang,2014, Discourse Information Analysis [M].People's Publishing House.

4. DU Jinbang, Chen Jinshi &Yu Suqing (eds.), 2010. New Developments in Studies of Legal Language [C]. University of International Business and Economics Press.

5.DU Jinbang & GE Yunfeng, 2016. On Methodology of Forensic Linguistics[M]. People’s Publishing House.  

Articles

1. DU Jinbang 2012. Realization of objectives of participants in courtroom interaction: From the perspective of hierarchical information processing [J]. Journal of Pla University of Foreign Languages (1).

2. DU Jinbang & Pan Xiaojue 2011. Information flow of process control in courtroom question and response [J]. Journal of Foreign Languages (2).

3. DU Jinbang 2010. Realization of persuasive reasoning in courtroom discourse: From the perspective of transaction-oriented information processing [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (4).

4. DU Jinbang 2010. A study on legal facts constructed via courtroom dialogue [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2).

5. DU Jinbang 2009. A study of the functions of courtroom questioning and answering and participants’ communicative objective attainment [J].  Modern Foreign Languages (4).

6. DU Jinbang 2009. Information flow in discourse [J].  Journal of Foreign Languages (3).

7. DU Jinbang 2009. A study on the discourse information features of senior English majors’ compositions [J]. Foreign Language Education (2).

8. DU Jinbang 2008. A study on implicit persuasion in legal discourse [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (3).

9. DU Jinbang 2008. A study on the theories and methodologies of discourse analysis [J]. Foreign Language Research (1).

10. DU Jinbang 2008. A study on judges’ manipulation of information flow in courtroom interaction [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2).

11. DU Jinbang 2007. A study of the tree information structure of legal discourse [J].Modern Foreign Languages (1).

12. DU Jinbang 2006. A study on the basic elements of legal rhetoric and their relations[J]. Rhetoric Learning (4).

13. DU Jinbang 2006. On attainment of the objectives of legal English curriculum [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (2).

14. DU Jinbang 2005. Principles of legal exchange and legal translation [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (4).

15. DU Jinbang, Zhang Fu & Yuan Liang, 2004.A study on the problems and solutions in translation of Chinese laws and regulations [J]. Chinese Translators Journal (3).

16. DU Jinbang 2004. Cusum analysis of Chinese texts [J]. Rhctoric Learning (6).

17. DU Jinbang 2003. On the study and the development of forensic linguistics [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (1).

18. DU Jinbang 2002. An overview of the research of forensic psycholinguistics [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (1).

19. DU Jinbang 2001. Analysis of the construction of English item banks [J]. Shandong Foreige Languages Journal (2).

20. DU Jinbang 2001. The transition from uncertainty of legal language to certainty of the judicial result [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (3).

21. DU Jinbang 2001. An analysis of errors in writing and teaching writing  [J]. Foreign Language Education (2).

22. DU Jinbang 2000. The macrostructure of forensic linguistics: an overview based on current researches [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (1).

23. DU Jinbang 2000. An experimental study of computerized diagnostic testing of reading [J].Foreign Language Teaching And Research (5).

24. DU Jinbang 2000. Meaning and background knowledge-- a philosophical view[J].Journal of Pla University of Foreign Languages (5).

25. DU Jinbang 1999. Text analysis and reading comprehension at higher levels [J].Journal of Guangzhou Normal University (6).

26. DU Jinbang 1999. Problems in designing computer assisted English reading courses[J]. Journal of Guangzhou Normal University (3).

27. DU Jinbang 1999. Diagnostic tests in foreign language teaching [J]. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (4).

28. DU Jinbang 1997. The bilingual phenomenon and its development in Hong Kong[J].Journal of Guangzhou Normal University (3).

29. DU Jinbang 1996. The influence of the mother tongue’s syntactical structure on Chinese students’ understanding of English sentences[J]. Psychological Science (5).

30. DU Jinbang 1994. Truth, meaning and meaning environment [J]. Modern Foreign Languages (2).

31. DU Jinbang 1992.Bilinguals’ bilingualism-- comments on bilingual research[J].Psychological Science (2).

32. DU Jinbang 1990. A review of studies on the relationship between first and second language acquisition [J]. Psychological Science (5).

33. Du Jinbang 2003. New science in new century--the study and development of forensic linguistics [A]. In Zhou Qingsheng, Wang Jie & Su Jinzhi (Eds.), New Perspective on Studies of Language and Law. Law Press China [C].

34. Du Jinbang 2010. Application of discourse information analysis in legal English teaching [A]. In Du Jinbang, Chen Jinshi &Yu Suqing (eds.), New Development in Studies of Legal Language. University of International Business and Economics Press.

35. Du Jinbang 2005. Chinese students’ misuse of English verbs: From the perspective of valence of verbs [A]. In Yang Huizhong, Gui Shichun & Yang Dafu (Eds.), Corpus-based Analysis of Chinese Learners [A]. Shanghai Foreign Language Education press.

36. Du Jinbang 2001. Qualifiers and speech acts in legislative language [A]. In Dong Yanping & Wang Chuming (Eds.), Linguistic Studies and Application in China [C]. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

37. Du Jinbang 2010. Application of discourse information element analysis in advanced legal translation teaching [A]. In Yu Suqing (ed.), Legal Language and Translation [C]. Shanghai Translation Publishing House.

38. Du Jinbang 2012. Application of Multimodal Information Corpus Techniques. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse Volume 2.4 2012：19-38.(December) in Legal English Teaching.