英语语言文学系
副教授
办公电话：027-88385007 电子邮箱：hunterghccnu@126.com
教育经历：
博士：华中师范大学 语言研究所 中外语言比较专业
硕士：华中师范大学 英语系 英语语言学与应用语言学专业
本科：湖北师范学院 英语系 英语语言文学专业
学习进修：
英国兰卡斯特大学语言学与英语系留学（国家留学基金委公派留学项目，联合合作导师为时任国际语言类型学会会长Anna Siewierska 教授和兰卡斯特大学荣休教授Geoffrey N. Leech）
浙江大学人文学院博士后工作站 学习（优秀等级出站，合作导师：汪维辉教授）
四川外国语大学高级访问学者（合作教师：王寅教授）
Dr. Guohua Zhang (张国华or 張國華) is associate professor of English with the School of Foreign Studies of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law(ZUEL), which he joined in 2012.He isdean of the Department of English Language and Literature, coordinator of the Major of English of the School and deputy director of the Center for Supervising MAPostgraduatesofForeign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. He teaches and supervises regular undergraduates as majors of English or Translation, as well as postgraduates majoring in linguistics and Masters of Translation and Interpretation (MTI). He is known or cited as Guohua (Robert) Zhang more often out of China PR.
He is an anonymous reviewer of Cognitive LinguisticsandJournal of Teaching in International Business, a correspondent reviewer with China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center(CDGDC) under China’s Ministry of Education, director of China Association for the Philosophy of Language under China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) and National Social Science Fund Project Appraiserappointed by National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciencesunder the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China.
His education and research experience:
Hubei Normal University BA of English Language and Literature (by 1994)
Central China Normal University MA of Applied Linguistics(by 2001)
Central China Normal University Doctoral Degree of Contrastive Linguistics(by 2009)
Lancaster University Visiting Research Fellow (funded by China Scholarship Counciland supervised jointly by Prof. Anna Siewierskaand Prof. Geoffrey N. Leech, since 2011 to 2012)
Zhejiang University Postdoctoral Fellow (supervised by Prof. Weihui Wang汪维辉, since 2013 to 2016, with “Excellence” grade rating in research)
Sichuan International Studies University Senior Visiting Scholarsupervised by Prof. Yin Wang (王寅, since 2018 to 2019)
Courses he teaches and has taught:
1) He teaches Introduction to Traditional Chinese Culture（中国传统文化导论）, Language and Cognition（语言与认知）and Contrastive Linguistics（对比语言学）to undergraduates since 2015 till the present.
2) He taught (jointly with colleagues) Introduction to Linguistic Science（语言科学引论）to undergraduates in 2015 through 2017.
3) He taught Advanced English (Vol. 1&2)（高级英语(1&2)）to undergraduates since 2010 till 2015.
4) He has taught the following courses to undergraduates since 1994 till 2010: Intensive English(primary and advanced), Extensive Reading(primary and advanced), Basic English, English Listening(primary and advanced), Oral English(primary and advanced), A General Introduction to English-speaking Countries, English Teaching Methodology, Modern Linguistics, English Grammar,Comprehensive English (Vol. 1&2), College English (Vol. 1, 2&3), English Communication and Phonetic Practice, Business English,Language Testing and English Newspaper Reading.
5) He teaches Cognitive Linguistics（认知语言学）and English Syntax（英语句法学）to postgraduates since 2015 till the present.
6) He teaches A General Introduction to Linguistics（语言学通论）to postgraduates since 2014 till the present.
7) He taught Modern Linguistic Schools（现代语言学流派）to postgraduates in 2013.
His work experience:
Yangtze University TA at the Dept. of English Language & Literature since 1994 till 2001
Central China Normal University (CCNU) Lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages since 2001 till 2009
Huazhong Agricultural University Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages since 2009 till 2012
ZUEL Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Studies since 2012 till the present
His research interests:
Dr. Guohua Zhanghas wide research interests in topics and areas related to comparison or contrast of syntactic constructions in English and Chinese, theoretically based on Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar (CxG). His research focuses on ditransitive constructions especially in the two languages approached or contrasted interlingually and intralingually, diachronically and synchronically, formally and semantically. Recently he focuses his research on relation between modes of thinking and language use, syntax in particular, with an effort to reveal how national patterns of thinking shapes organized patterns of language structure and linguistic behaviors, and, conversely, how syntactic structures in particular reflect or embody national thinking modes. Other types of structures or constructions such as lexical and morphological ones attract his attention as well.
Dr. Guohua Zhangis also a passionate translator. He translates some academic monographs on language, translation, literature, psychology and culture and other related topics that interest him, between English and Chinese. He has lasting interests in, and reads extensively on, literature on historical linguistics, linguistic philosophy, social linguistics, pragmatics, cognitive translation theory and practice, history of English grammar teaching, history of linguistics, history of grammatical studies, linguistic psychology, linguistic typology, anthropological linguistics, cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis.
He has been invited to chair Master-degree thesis defense meetings of postgraduates from many other universities in Chinese mainland in the past years. In addition, he acted as a blind-reviewer of Master-degree thesis and translation reports of MTI from other universities in the past, including Shanghai International Studies University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yangtze University, Three Gorges University, Huazhong Agricultural University, Nanchang University, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Ningbo University, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang Technology and Business University, among others.
Research projects undertaken
Since 2001 till 2010, as a major member of research groups, Dr. Guohua Zhang had participated infive research projects at the national and Provincial/Ministerial levels, along with two other projects funded by the university or school he served, respectively.
The following is an incompletelist of research projects he has undertaken and was held responsible for as head since 2010.
1）A Comparative Study of Double Object Constructions in English and Chinese (No. 10YJC740131) funded by the Ministry of Education in 2010 for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences（2010年度教育部社科基金项目“英汉双宾构式比较研究”）
2）A Study of the Teaching and Testing of Double-Object Verbs to English Majors (No. 2010B095) as Project in “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” for Education Science of Hubei Province funded in 2010 （“英语专业大学生双宾动词教学和测试研究”）
3）A Study ofEnglish Grammar Teaching Based on Construction Grammar Theory (No. 31541210204) as a Revitalization Project funded by Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL) in 2012 （振兴工程项目“基于构式语法理论的英语语法教学研究”）
4）Valency Classes in the World’s Languages, carried out by Andrej Malchukov, Iren Hartmann, Martin Haspelmath, Bernard Comrie and Søren Wichmann at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropologyin Leipzig (http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/valency/index.php) since 2010 till 2015. He was the only constructor of the Mandarin Chinese (PTH) dataset of the Leipzig Valency Classes Project. (http://www.valpal.info/languages/mandarin)（德国马克斯•普朗克演化人类学研究所“莱比锡配价类型学”）
5）A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of the Evolution of Chinese and English Prototypical Double Object Constructionsfunded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundationin 2014 (of the 55thbatch of projects, titled “基于语料库的汉、英原型双宾构式历时演变比较研究”，中国博士后面上资助项目)
6）A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of the Constructionalization and the Semantic Specification of Chinese and English Double Object Constructionsfunded by the National Social Sciences Fundin 2015 (No. 15BYY013) （2015年度国家社科基金项目“汉、英双宾结构的构式化和语义表达专门化进程语料库比较研究”）
7）An Empirical Study of the Lexical Means for Expression of Causal Relationship in English and Their Acquisitionfunded by ZUEL in 2017 as a teaching research project (No. YB2017019) （中南财经政法大学2017年校级教学研究立项课题一般项目“英语致因关系表达的词汇手段及其习得实证研究”）
8）A Comparative Study of the Categorical Attributes of the Chinese and English Double Object Constructions and theMutual Influences between Them and the National Thinking Modesfunded in 2021 by the Hubei Provincial Department of Educationas a project of Philosophical and Social Sciences Research for Universities in Hubei Province(No. 21G044) （“汉、英双宾构式的范畴属性及其与民族思维方式相互影响的比较研究”）
9）Innovative Research Project for Young Teachersof Year 2024supported by theFundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (No. 2722024BK012)
10）Comprehensively Improving the Linguistic Literacy of Postgraduates of Linguisticssupported by theGraduate Education and Teaching Reform Project of Year 2020, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (No. YZGG201907)
His recent publications since 2011
1) Zhang, G., Wang, L., & Ai, B.. 2021. Improving translation teaching for transnational business: Voices of translators from Chinese enterprises in Africa[J]. Journal of Teaching in International Business, 32(2): 176-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/08975930.2021.1960245 (Routledge, ESCI)
2) Lu, Bingfu. Zhang, Guohua & Bisang, Walter. 2015. Valency Classes in Mandarin[A]. In Malchukov, Andrej. & Comrie, Bernard. (eds.) Valency Classes in the World's Languages. [C]. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp:709-765.
3) Zhang, Guohua. 2014. On Two Syntactic Constructions Related to Until[J]. Foreign Language Education (6): 20-26.
张国华. 2014. 与until有关的两个句法构式研究[J]. 外语教学(6): 20-26.
4) Zhang, Guohua. 2016. On Identification of English Resultative Construction and Its Diachrony[J]. Foreign Language and Literature (2): 47-55.
张国华. 2016. 英语动结构式的甄别和历史源考[J]. 外国语文(2): 47-55.
5) Zhang, Guohua. 2014. Objecthood and the general direction of the historical change of the Chinese Double Object Construction[A]. In Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, Jerzy Wójcik & Anna Bloch-Rozmej (eds.). Language Change: Faces and Facets[C]. Pp: 261-310. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.
6) Zhang, Guohua. 2012. Readdressing the Syntactic Status of the Take-Type Double Object Construction in Modern Chinese[A]. In Pan, Wenguo (Ed.) English-Chinese Comparative Study and Translation (Vol. 9)[C]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.Pp: 211-227.
张国华.2012. 现代汉语获取义双宾结构句法地位新论[A]. （载潘文国主编）英汉语比较与翻译（九）[C]. 上海：上海外语教育出版社 Pp: 211-227.
7) Zhang, Guohua. On the Five Constructions Based on Because as Used in Three Cognitive Domains（“与because相关的五个构式及其三域用法”，in review）
8) Zhang, Guohua. Unpackingthe Rise and Decline of “Pure Grammar”(1921-1961)as aPedagogical Reform in Britain: A DiachronicReview（“纯粹语法”运动兴衰考辩：论英国的英语语法研究（1900-1960），in review）
9) Zhang, Guohua.A Semantic Analysis of English Adverbial just and Its Pragmatic AmbiguityBased on Scalar Restriction. （副词Just的语义结构及其基于级阶性限制功能的语用性歧义，in review）
10) Zhang, Guohua.2016. “Guide to Reading”of Construction Grammar and Its Application in English Grammar(Photocopies, by Martin Hilpert) Beijing: Beijing University Press. Pp: 1-20.
张国华. 2016. 构式语法及其在英语中的应用（构式语法教程）“导读”. 北京：北京大学出版社Pp: 1-20.
11) Xu, Dekuan & Zhang, Guohua. 2011. On the Criterion for Double Object Construction in Modern Chinese[J]. Research in Theoretical Linguistics (5):142-154.
徐德宽，张国华. 2011. 现代汉语双宾构造的鉴别标准[J]. 理论语言学研究 (5):142-154.
12) Lu, Bingfu, Ying Xuefeng & Zhang, Guohua. 2015. On the mighty category status of the complement of state in Chinese grammar[J]. Studies of the Chinese Language (3): 195-205.
陆丙甫、应学凤&张国华. 2015. 状态补语是汉语的显赫句法成分[J]. 中国语文 (3): 195-205.
13) Xu, Dekuan & Zhang, Guohua. 2012. An Experiment of Machine Translation of Chinese Double-object Construction into English based on Semantic-selection Translation Model[J]. International Journal of Knowledge and Language Processing 3(3): 27-35.
14) Zhang, Guohua. 2011. A Comparative Study of Double Object Constructions in Chinese and English[M]. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press
张国华. 2011. 汉、英双宾构式比较研究[M]. 上海：华东师范大学出版社
15) Zhang, Guohua. 2024. A Diachronic Comparative Study of Semantic Narrowing in Chinese and English Double Object Constructions[M]. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press
张国华. 2024. 汉、英双宾构式语义窄化历时比较研究[M]. 武汉：武汉大学出版社
16) Zhang, Guohua (trans.). 2016. Construction Grammar and Its Application in English Grammar(by Martin Hilpert)[M]. Beijing: Beijing University Press
张国华（译）. 2016. 构式语法及其在英语中的应用（构式语法教程）. 北京：北京大学出版社
17) Zhang, Guohua & Wang, Zhen (trans.). 2021.Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning Revisited: The Case of Conditionals[M]. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press
张国华、王振（译）. 2021. 再论语义学、语用学和意义问题[M]. 武汉：武汉大学出版社
18) Zhang, Guohua (trans. & preprint). 2024.A General History of Chinese Accounting (Vol. I): From Prehistory to the Warring States Period(by Guo, Daoyang)[M].Beijing: China Financial & Economic Publishing House & Singapore: Springer
张国华（译）. 2024. （郭道扬著）中国会计通史（第一册）：远古到战国[M].北京：中国财政经济出版社 & Singapore: Springer
19) Zhang, Guohua (trans.).The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language (by Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, Anna Dina L. Joaquin, Andrea W. Mates, John H. Schumann) [M]. Beijing: xxxxx Publishing House（to come out）
张国华（译）. 2025. 互动本能：语言的演化与习得[M]. Beijing：XX出版社（待出）
Excellence in education, teaching and thesis supervision
Dr. Guohua Zhang has supervised over 70 BA theses and 30 MA theses or MTI reports (since 2012 and by Feb. 28 2025) and received excellence awards or ratings in various fields in his service at various universities in the past 30 years of teaching. The following are some of them:
1) CCNU Awards for Excellence in Teaching (Academic Year 2003 & 2005) （2003、2005年先后获得华中师范大学校级“教学优秀奖”）
2) CCNU Awards for Excellence inDirecting Teaching Practice (Academic Year 2004)（2004年获得华中师范大学“校级优秀实习指导教师”称号）
3) Undergraduates receiving ZUEL Awards for Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis under his supervision in various academic years include (according to incomplete statistics) Jiangmei Zhou (周江梅, 2016), Juanjuan, Hao (郝娟娟, 2017), Ranran Wang & Wenjia Ouyang (王冉冉、欧阳雯佳, 2018), Yiran Wang & Wen Wang (王怡然、汪雯, 2019), Shuzhen Lyu, Han Xie & Ying Meng (吕淑桢、谢晗、孟莹, 2020), Lirong Wang & Yuxin Xie (王立蓉、谢雨馨, 2023) and Yang Li (李洋, 2024).（“校级优秀硕士论文”）
4) Undergraduates receiving Hubei Provincial Awards for Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis under his supervision were Jing Yang (杨静, 2006 CCNU) & Wenfang Huang (黄文芳2011 Huazhong Agriculture University), hence Dr. Zhang was awarded Excellence in Supervising Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis at Hubei Provincial Level twice in the two years. （“湖北省优秀学士论文指导教师”）
5) MA postgraduates receiving ZUEL Awards for Excellent Master’s Thesis under his supervision in various academic years include (according to incomplete statistics) Qiuya Chen (陈秋雅, 2017), Xiaoting Ji (吉晓婷, 2018), Wangyang Xu (徐汪阳, 2020, MTI), Chun Dong (董醇, 2022, MTI), Qinlin Wei (隗钦琳, 2022), and Jiaohua Zou (邹娇华, 2022, MTI nominated Excellence Report).
6) A research group headed by Yiran Wang under Dr. Guohua Zhang’s supervision and direction won a project funded by China College Students’Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition at national level in 2015, which passed the final assessment in 2020.（指导英语系2015级王怡然团队获得“大创”国家级立项1项且以“良好”结项）
7) A research group headed by Yujia Zhao under Dr. Guohua Zhang’s supervision and direction won a project funded by China College Students’Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition at provincial level in 2025, which is still in progress.（指导英语系2022级赵雨佳团队获得“大创”省级立项1项）
8) Dr. Guohua Zhang won Excellent Mentor Award in 2018 for his supervisionand direction of a group of contestants who won the First Prize in Translation Contest for non-English Majors (Group A) inThe 24th Hubei Provincial Translation & Interpreting Contest（2018年指导学生荣获湖北省第24届外语翻译大赛“非英语专业A组笔译”一等奖，获“优秀指导教师”称号）
9) Dr. Guohua Zhang won Excellent Class Mentor Award in 2021 granted by ZUEL. （2021年度中南财经政法大学“优秀班级导师”）
10) Dr. Guohua Zhang received an“Excellent”grade rating in the annual assessment held by the personnel departments of CCNU and ZUEL in 2004, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2021 and 2024.
11) Dr. Guohua Zhangwas a team member which was the Third Prize winner of Excellent Teaching Courseware for Higher Education Institutions awarded by China’s Ministry of Education in 2006.The name of the courseware was “Modern Linguistics”.（2006年获得教育部高等院校优秀教学课件三等奖（《现代语言学》，团队获奖）
Dr. Guohua Zhang’s personal contact:
Email：hunterghccnu@126.com
