Professor Yuan Chuanyou

200711501@oamail.gdufs.edu.cn
Phone: +86 020 86319343

Professor of English, PhD in linguistics and applied linguistics. Supervisor of PhD and MA students in forensic linguistics. Vice President of the China Association of Forensic Linguistics. Ordinary Member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists. Senior Visiting Researcher of China Scholarship Council to Cardiff University.

Fields of Research

u  Forensic Linguistics

u  Systemic Functional Linguistics

u  Legal and Business Discourse Studies

Research Interests:

²  Forensic Discourse Analysis

²  Multimodal Discourse Analysis

²  Business Discourse Analysis

Research Projects

·           National research project: Multimodality in New Media Public Legal Education Discourse

·           Provincial Research Project: A Corpus-based Study of Forensic Discourse

Key Methodologies

·           Corpus-based Study

·           Systemic-Functional Approach

·           Multimodal Analysis

·           Discourse Analysis

·           Experimental Research

Affiliations

·           Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: Professor of English

·           The China Association of Forensic Linguistics: Vice President

·           International Association of Forensic Linguists: Ordinary Member

·           GDUFS Center for Business and Legal Discourse Studies: Director

·           GDUFS Center for Forensic Linguistics: Director

Publications

Journal Articles

Yuan Chuanyou & Hu Jinfen. 2012. Punishing crimes: An analysis of appraisal resources in public prosecution’s statements [J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 23: 55-59.

Yuan Chuanyou & Hu Jinfen. 2011. An adaptation analysis of engagement resources in lawyer representation [J]. Languages Teaching and Linguistic Studies 3:87-94.

Yuan Chuanyou. 2010. Construction of multimodal information and cognition model from teaching and learning practice [J]. Research in Teaching 33: 50-55.

Yuan Chuanyou. 2010. A tripartite model of multimodal information and cognition: Trial application on the teaching and learning of legal English [J]. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal 137: 10-18.

Yuan Chuanyou & Liao Zexia. 2010. On the Implicit Persuasion of Rhetorical Questions in Attorneys’ Pleading [J]. Modern Rhetoric 160: 24-30.

Yuan Chuanyou. 2010. Speech accommodation in investigation interrogations [J]. Journal of Jilin Radio and TV University 104: 13-15.

Yuan C. 2009. Avoiding Revictimization: Shifting from Police Interrogations to Police Interviewing in China [J]. International Journal of Speech Language and the Law 16: 293-297.

Yuan, Chuanyou. 2008. Interpersonal meanings in police interrogations: An appraisal-engagement perspective [J]. Modern Foreign Languages 31: 141-149.

Yuan, Chuanyou. 2005. Construction of Chinese Police Caution System on the Basis of Discourse Analysis of Police Caution in USA, UK and China [J]. Rhetoric Learning 127: 12-17.

Yuan, Chuanyou. 2001. My views on interdisciplinary construction and education administration at English department [J]. Research in Teaching 24: 50-55.

Monograph

Yuan, Chuanyou. 2010. Avoiding Revictimization: A Study of Police Interrogations [M]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Conference Proceedings

Justice Must be Seen to be Done: An Empirical Study of Appraisal Resources in Chinese and Common-law Civil Judgments. IAFL09, VU University, Amsterdam, 2009. Unpublished.

Appreciate others’ beauty as well as one’s own: a contrastive multimodal discourse analysis of two courtroom trials. IAFL10, Aston University, Birmingham, 2011. In Proceedings of The International Association of Forensic Linguists’ Tenth Biennial Conference.

The best of times or the worst of times? (Micro-)blogging and multimodality in public legal education discourse in China. IAFL11, UNAM, Mexico City, 2013. Unpublished.