Name: Huai Yanmei (Annie)

PhD Program：Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Research Field：Forensic Linguistics

 

I. Academic Interests & Strength：

1. Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA)

2. Discourse Information Theory (DIT)

3. Classroom Instruction of English for Legal Purpose (CIELP)

II. Introduction to the Research Topic：

1. The Research Topic: Multimodal Information Processing in the Classroom Instruction of English for Legal Purpose.

2. Introduction: From the perspective of multimodal discourse information processing, the research is to study how the multimodal information in CIELP is processed by working out the features of multimodal information, the factors of multimodal information processing, the strategies of multimodal information processing, and the verification of the strategies’ effect under the framework of DIT.

III. Academic Background：

1. Chair of the ministerial Social Science Research Project (12YJC740034): Logic-Information-Multimodality: The 3-D Model Construction of Legal Reasoning in Judicial Discourse

2. Chair of the provincial Education and Research Project (2010tjk008): On the Necessity and Feasibility of the Parliamentary Debate Course

3. Chair of the university Education and Reform Research Project (JG11110): On the Reform Model of College Oral English Teaching

4. Chair of the university President’s Fund Research Project (2008S022): The Comparative Study of Chinese and British Marriage Law from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics

Research Paper

5. A Study of the Legal Issues of Import Substitution Subsidy from the Perspective of WTO Law Framework [D]. Peking University. 2007.

6. The Application of Linguistic Skills to Legal English Teaching [A]. Du Jinbang. The Research and Application of Forensic Linguistics in the 21st Century [C]. University of International Business and Economics Press

7. The Functional Analysis and Model Construction of Courtroom Discourse [J].  Journal of Yangtze University: Social Sciences. 2013(1).

8. The Persuasive Model Construction of Political Discourse: A Discourse Information Analysis Perspective [J]. Theory and Reform. 2013(1).

9. The Theoretical Construction of Modality under the Multimodal Discourse Information Framework [J].  Journal of Mudanjiang University. 2013(1).

10. On Similarity and Difference of British and American Jury System in Legal Dramas [J]. Movie Literature. 2013(3).

11. On the Teaching Model of Content-based English Critical Thinking Instruction [J].  Journal of Yangtze University: Social Sciences. 2012(12).

12. Topic Control and Pragmatic Inference in Twelve Angry Men [J]. Movie Literature. 2012(3).

13. Presupposition and Persuasion in Legal Discourse [J]. Writer. 2012(6).

14. On the Reform Model of Parliamentary English Debate in Legal English Teaching [J]. Master. 2012(7).

15. A Study of Reform Model in College Oral English Teaching --- The Schema Construction of British Parliamentary Debate Model [J]. Science and Technology Information. 2011(21).

16. On the Motivation and Effect of Interaction in Parliamentary English Debate Course: The Alignment Effect of Role Play on Critical Thinking and SLA [J]. Foreign Language and Literature. 2013(4).

IV. Status Quo and Research Trend

1. Status Quo: Legal English Teaching is one of the essential branches of Applied Forensic Linguistics. Due to the double high quality requirements of both legal skills and English skills, it has been rarely touched field among ESP instructions. However, after China’s entry into WTO, the increasing social demand of large amount of legal English talents has made the legal English teaching the impressing Forensic Linguistics issue.

2. Research Trend: With the wide application of multimedia pedagogical technology, multimodality has become the research trend in studies of real language teaching activities. The main approaches to multimodality include social semiotics, discourse analysis (CDA & SFL), and cognitive linguistics. As a result, the multimodal information processing perspective has become the trend in legal English teaching even other ESP instruction or EFL/ESL teaching.

V. Research Focuses：

1. Content-based CIELP Material

2. Features of Multimodal Information in CIELP

3. Factors of Multimodal Information Processing in CIELP

4. Strategies of Multimodal Information Processing in CIELP

5. Verification of Multimodal Information Processing in CIELP

VI. Academic Recommendations：

1. Du Jinbang. Application of Multimodal Information Corpus Techniques in Legal English Teaching[J]. International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse. 2012(4).

2. Du Jinbang. How Is Multimodal Information to Be Managed in the Legal English Class?[J]. International Journal of Legal English. 2013(1).