Liang-lin ZHANG, Ph. D.
Professor
School of Foreign Languages, Changshu Institute of Technology, China
Email: zll_edward@163.com
Diplomas
09. 2009—06. 2012, Nanjing Normal University, China
Ph. D, Semiotics, Major courses taken are: semiotic theories, western aesthetics, western Marxism, selected readings of western linguistic works, film semiotics, Canadian literature, etc.
Thesis topic: On Morris’s Semiotic Ideas
09. 1993—06. 1997, Suzhou University, China
Master of Arts, English Linguistics and Semiotics
Major courses taken are: English linguistics, semiotics, American and British literature, literary theory, philosophy, etc.
Thesis topic: A Critique of Structuralist Literary Criticism
09. 1989—06. 1993, Suzhou University, China
Bachelor of Arts, English Major
Research Activities
1997-2000: Lecturer, Changshu Institute of Technology, China
2000-2012: Associate Professor, Changshu Institute of Technology, China
2015-2016: Visiting Scholar, Indiana University, U.S.A.
2012- : Professor, Changshu Institute of Technology, China
Research Interests
Semiotics, Literary Theory, Linguistics
Publications :
Books:
1.Search for the Meaning-producing Mechanism of Linguistic Signs, Suzhou University Publishing Press, 2008
2. Communication, signification and semiotic perspective, Guangming Journal Publishing Press, 2012
Articles:
“On Carnap and Morris”, Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2012/02
“On Mead’s influence on Morris’s semiotics”, Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University(Social Sciences), 2011/05
“On the voyage from modality to speech act theory”, Journal of Soochow University(Philosophy & Social Science Edition), 2010/01
“On the background of structuralist literary criticism”, Journal of Pla University of Foreign Languages, 1999/S1
“On the linguistic roots of structuralist literary criticism”, Foreign Language and Literature, 2001/01
“Lost humanism------on the difficulties of structuralist literary criticism”, Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology , 2001/01
“On the sign character of metaphor”, Foreign Language Research, 2010/06
“On the similarities between Plato’s and Aristotle’s aesthetics”, Journal of China West Normal University(Philosophy & Social Sciences), 2011/03
“On the significance of componential analysis”, Journal of Jiangxi Normal University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2010/03
“A comparison between semiotics of communication and semiotics of signification ”, Foreign Languages Research, 2011/03
“Upside down binarism”, Foreign Literatures, 2013/04
“On abduction and its linguistic and semiotic significance”, Journal of Nanjing Normal University(Social Science Edition), 2010/05
“On the mechanism of information communication and aesthetic judgment in literary works”, Forward Position, 2010/12
“A comparison between Saussurean semiology and Peircean semiotics”, Journal of Changchun Normal University, 2004/06
“A semiotic interpretation of linguistic fuziness”, Journal of Chengdu Normal University. 2004/03
“On the defects of the principle of arbitrariness”, Journal of Guangxi Normal University(Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2007/01
“A comparison between arbitrariness and iconicity”, Journal of Qiqihar University(Philosophy & Social Science Edition), 2006/05
“An analysis on some English verbs in the perspective of syntax-semantics interface theory”, Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology, 2007/11
“On the analogical mechanism of linguistic signs”, Journal of Foshan University(Social Science Edition), 2008/05
“On the origins of European and American modern semiotic theories”, Journal of Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities(Social Sciences), 2004/06
“Comment on Peircean semiotics”, Journal of Yangzhou University(Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), 1999/01
“On kinesics”, Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology, 1999/05
“On the simulacrum of signs in information age”, Journal of Anqing Teachers College(Social Science Edition), 2000/06
“Russian formalism in light of semiotics”, Journal of Russian Literature and Arts,2016/01
“An analysis of morris’s aesthetic semiotics”, Journal of Soochow University(Philosophy & Social Science Edition)2015/02
“Theoretical sources of Charles Morris' s semiotics”, Language and Semiotic Studies 2016/04
“An iconic mapping of linguistics into literary criticism——on the linguistic roots of structuralist literary criticism”, Language and Semiotic Studies, 2018/01
Awards and Group Memberships
– the honorary titles of “the top 3000 young talents of Jiangsu Province”, “young leading teachers of Jiangsu Province”, “leading research fellow of Changshu Institute of Technology”, “young talented teacher of Changshu Institute of Technology ”, “top ten graduates of Nanjing Normal University”, “prize of social studies in Changshu”, research fellow at the Semiotic Centre of Tianjing Foreign Studies, executive director of Chinese Language and Semiotic Association, research fellow at Peirce Edition Project of American Thought Institute, IUPUI .
Homepage: https://wgy.cslg.edu.cn/
