RONG Rong; PhD; MA; BA
Research Interests:Cognitive Stylistics; Cognitive Poetics; Gender Studies
Education
2011: PhD in Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK
2007: MA in English Language and Contemporary Literary Studies at Lancaster University, UK
2006: BA in English Language and Literature at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Professional positions held
2013-Present: Lecture of English, South China University of Techonology
2014-Present: Vice Director of Business English Department, South China University of Technology
Research Projects
l2013-2016: Leader of research program, “Cognitive Poetic Study of Memroy (Re)presentations”, funded by The Social Science Fund of Guangdong Province;
l2016-2017: Leader of research program, “Towards a Cognitive Poetic Modal of Flashback Interpretation”, funded by The Social Science Fund of Guangzhou
l2015-2017: Leader of research program, “Cognitive Poetic Study of Flashback”, funded by Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities,South China University of Techonology
l2013-2015: Leader of research program, “Stylistic Features, Effects and Functions of Flashbacks”, funded by Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities,South China University of Techonology
l2014-2015: Leader of research program, “One Woman, One Herstory: Autobiographical Writing of Female Workers and Sexual Identity”, funded by International Association fort he Study of Sexuality Culture and Society.
Publications
Rong, R. (2016) Towards a Cogntive Stylistic Model of Memory Flashback Interpretation.Journal of Xi’an University of Foreign Languages, (3):32-37
Rong, R. (2015) Multimodal Stylistic Analysis of Filmic Scenes. Journal of Shandong Foreign Languages Teaching, (4):15-24.
Rong, R. (2014) A Cognitive Stylistic Approach towards Fantasy Presentation. Journal of Foreign Languages Teaching, (6): 31-35.
Rong, R. (2011)Contextual frame theory and monitoring flashbacks,Online Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
Longman Prize Winner for the best postgraduate article
[http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2011/rong2011.pdf]
Rong, R. (2009) How to make a drama out of (im)politeness: (im)politeness inThe Joy Luck Club (1993), Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and English Teaching. Vol. 3: 98-121. ISSN 1756-123X
[http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/pgconference/v03/Rong.pdf]
Conference publications：
Rong, R. (2013) A Linguistic Investigation of Self-Discovery in an English Creative Writing Practice.The 12th Symposium on Second Language Writing. Jinan, China. 21 October 2013.
Rong, R. (2011) Using pragmatic tools to analyze film dialogue: with special reference toTheJoy Luck Club.Stylistics and Creative Writing Workshop, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 6 December 2011.
Rong, R. (2011)Emmott’s contextual frame theory and monitoring flashbacks.31th Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).Windhoek,Namibia,3-5July 2011.
Rong, R. (2011)Emmott’s contextual frame theory and monitoring flashbacks.Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group (PASTY). Lancaster, UK, June 2011.
