Dr. XU Youping
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
xuyouping003@gdufs.edu.cn
xuyouping003@aliyun.com
Tel：（+86）020 36207157
Dr. XU Youping is anassociate professor of English in School of English for International Business,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). She obtained her doctoraldegree majored in linguistics and applied linguistics in 2011. She is now the vicepresident and Secretary General of the Chinese Association of ForensicLinguistics, China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (shortfor CAFL) and a member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists(IAFL). Her publications include a book “Realization of Persuasion in ChineseCourt Conciliation: The Discourse Information Approach” (2013) and articles onforensic linguistics and linguistics in SSCI-indexed international journals.She has undertaken one research project sponsored by the Guangdong Province and one by the Department of Education in the Guangdong Province. She has finished twouniversity-sponsored research projects and participated in three researchprojects sponsored by the Guangdong Province and one by the Ministry of Educationin China.
Fields of Research
ForensicLinguistics
LegalTranslation
DiscourseAnalysis
Research Interests:
Persuasion in mediation discourse
Discourse Information Analysis
Legal English Teaching
Discourse Analysis
Research Projects
1. GDUFS Research Project:Discourse-information-based Persuasion Model of Court Conciliation
2. GDUFS Publishing Project: A DiscourseInformation Approach to Persuasion in Court Conciliation
3. Ministry Research Project: Corpus-basedContrastive Analysis of Information Chunk in Chinese and English LegalDiscourse (participation)
4. Provincial Research Project: Corpus-based LegalDiscourse Information Pattern Recognition and Identification Research(participation)
5. Provincial Research Project: Foreign-relatedLegal Information Processing Research (participation)
6. Provincial Research Project: Corpus-basedContrastive Analysis of Legal Discourse Information Structure (participation)
7. Innovation Research Team Research Project ofGDUFS: Applied Research of Forensic Linguistics (participation)
Key Methodologies
MultimodalAnalysis
DiscourseInformation Analysis (DIA)
DiscourseAnalysis
ExperimentalResearch
Affiliations
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: associate professor
TheChinese Association of Forensic Linguistics, China Association forComparative Studies of English and Chinese (short for CAFL): vice president and Secretary General
InternationalAssociation of Forensic Linguists: Member
Publications
Book
XU Youping. Realizationof Persuasion in Chinese Court Conciliation: The Discourse InformationApproach. Beijing: Science Press. 2013.9.
Articles
1. XU Youping. 2017. Mission Impossible? Judges’Playing of Dual Roles as Adjudicator and Mediator in Chinese Court Conciliation[J]. Semiotica,forthcoming.
2. XU Youping. 2016. Burying Attitudes in Words:Linguistic Realization of the Shift of Judges’ Court Conciliation Style[J].,Special Issue “Hidden Meanings in Legal Discourse”, 209 :397-418.
3. XU Youping. 2015. Dancing with shackles: Judges’engagement in court conciliation of Chinese civil cases[J]. InternationalJournal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique,28(1): 209-226.
4. XU Youping. 2014. Realisation of persuasion inChinese court conciliation: a discourse information perspective[J]. TheInternational Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 21(1):157-162.
5. XU Youping. 2015. To accommodate not to abandon:Use of legislative modal verb shall in China’s legal translation[A]. In Cheng,L., Yu, S., Sin, K.K. and others (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth InternationalConference on Law, Translation and Culture[C], Shanghai, June 13-16. TheAmerican Scholars Press Inc, 2014, pp. 257-264.XU Youping. Dancing withshackles: Judges’ Engagement in Court Conciliation of Chinese Civil Cases, Meta: Translators’ Journal (Special Issue: Legal Translation and Jurilinguistics), 2013, 58(3).
6. XU Youping. Judges’ Choice of DiscourseInformation processing Strategies and Effects Thereof in Court Conciliation,Journal of Harbin Institute of Vocational Technology, 2012(4): 42-44.
7. XU Youping. A CAT-based Analysis of thePersuasiveness of Judges’ Conciliation Discourse, Journal of Lishui University,2012(6):101-105.
8. XU Youping. Information Processing andPersuasion Styles in Court Conciliation, Du Jinbang, Chen Jinshi & YuSuqing (eds.), New Developments in Studies of Legal Language. Beijing: University of International Business and Economics Press, 2010: 9-16.
9. XU Youping. Difficulties in Legal English LongSentence Translation and Countermeasures--- A Study Based on the LegalTranslation Internship Base, Time Education, 2009(6): 73-74.
10. XUYouping. The Application of the Prototype Theory to the Elimination ofVagueness of Legislative Words. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 2006 (4):73-76.
11. XUYouping. The Function of Discourse Markers in Court Conciliation: From thePerspective of Relevance Theory. Rhetoric Learning. 2006 (4):52-55.
