Dr. XU Youping

 

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

xuyouping003@gdufs.edu.cn

xuyouping003@aliyun.com

Tel：（+86）020 3620 7157

Dr. XU Youping is a lecturer of English in School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). She obtained her doctoral degree majored in linguistics and applied linguistics in 2011. She is now the Secretary General of the China Association of Forensic Linguistics (CAFL) and a member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL). Her publications include a book “Realization of Persuasion in Chinese Court Conciliation: The Discourse Information Approach” (2013) and many articles on forensic linguistics and linguistics. She has undertaken two research projects sponsored by the university and participated in three research projects sponsored by Guangdong Province and one by the Ministry of Education in China.

Fields of Research

u  Forensic Linguistics

u  Legal Translation

u  Discourse Analysis

Research Interests:

²  Persuasion in mediation discourse

²  Discourse Information Analysis

²  Legal English Teaching

²  Discourse Analysis

Research Projects

·            GDUFS Research Project: Discourse-information-based Persuasion Model of Court Conciliation

·            GDUFS Publishing Project: A Discourse Information Approach to Persuasion in Court Conciliation

·            Ministry Research Project: Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of Information Chunk in Chinese and English Legal Discourse (participation)

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

·            Provincial Research Project: Foreign-related Legal Information Processing Research (participation)

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

·            Innovation Research Team Research Project of GDUFS: Applied Research of Forensic Linguistics (participation)

Key Methodologies

·            Multimodal Analysis

·            Discourse Information Analysis (DIA)

·            Discourse Analysis

·            Experimental Research

Affiliations

·            Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: Lecturer of English

·            The China Association of Forensic Linguistics: Secretary General

·            International Association of Forensic Linguists: Member

Publications

Book

XU Youping. Realization of Persuasion in Chinese Court Conciliation: The Discourse Information Approach. Beijing: Science Press. 2013.9.

 

Articles

1           XU Youping. Dancing with shackles: Judges’ Engagement in Court Conciliation of Chinese Civil Cases, Meta: Translators’ Journal (Special Issue: Legal Translation and Jurilinguistics), 2013, 58 (3).

2           XU Youping. Judges’ Choice of Discourse Information processing Strategies and Effects Thereof in Court Conciliation, Journal of Harbin Institute of Vocational Technology, 2012(4): 42-44.

3           XU Youping. A CAT-based Analysis of the Persuasiveness of Judges’ Conciliation Discourse, Journal of Lishui University, 2012(6):101-105.

4           XU Youping. Information Processing and Persuasion Styles in Court Conciliation, Du Jinbang,  Chen Jinshi & Yu Suqing (eds.), New Developments in Studies of Legal Language. Beijing: University of International Business and Economics Press, 2010: 9-16.

5           XU Youping. Difficulties in Legal English Long Sentence Translation and Countermeasures--- A Study Based on the Legal Translation Internship Base, Time Education, 2009(6): 73-74.

6           XU Youping.  The Application of the Prototype Theory to the Elimination of Vagueness of Legislative Words.  Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. 2006 (4):73-76.

7           XU Youping. The Function of Discourse Markers in Court Conciliation: From the Perspective of Relevance Theory. Rhetoric Learning. 2006 (4):52-55.