Professor of Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages,
Shanghai Maritime University,
Pudong District, Lingang New City, Haigang Av. No. 1550,
Shanghai, PRC. 201306. mack_ghliu@163.com
Education
1982-1986 Nanchong Normal University, School of Foreign Languages, major in English language and literature, for BA degree;
1989-1991 Sichuan University, College of Foreign Languages, major in English language, especially linguistics, for MA degree;
2000-2003 Fudan University, College of Foreign Languages, major in English language, especially linguistics, for Ph. D. degree;
2012-2013 University of Colorado, United States, Boulder, as a senior visiting scholar.
Professional Employment
1986-1989 Kangding High School, Sichuan Province, offering English Intensive Reading including Grammar to high school students;
1991-2000 Xihua Normal University, associate professor, offering courses like English grammar and English Lexicology to BA students;
2003-2008 Chongqing University, professor, vice dean, offering courses such as general linguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics to MA and Ph. D. students;
2008-2010 Hangzhou Normal University, professor, dean, offering courses like general linguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and academic paper writing to MA students;
2010-Present Shanghai Maritime University, professor, offering courses like English lexicology, English grammar, general linguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and academic paper writing to MA students.
Mentoring Experience
1999-present As MA and Ph. D. supervisor, mentoring over 80 students in different universities and colleges, covering almost all subjects in linguistic theories and applications, especially pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, and English-Chinese contrastive studies.
Honors/Awards
Evaluation expert of National Social Science Project, 2005-present;
Evaluation expert of doctoral dissertation of Ministry of Education, 2004-present;
Evaluation expert of Shanghai graduate dissertation, 2011-present;
Member of the Fifth Discipline Evaluation Group of Shanghai Academic Degrees Committee, 2012-Present;
Third Prize of Social Science by Sichuan Provincial Government in 2001, for the academic book, titled Contemporary Language Theory and Practical Exploration. Southwest Jiaotong University Press, 1999;
Third prize of Excellent Scientific Research Achievements by Sichuan Provincial Department of Education in 2001, for the book titled Introduction to Historical Comparative Linguistics. Sichuan University Press, 2000;
GE Award and Guanghua Second Prize for scientific research achievements. Fudan University, 2001, 2002;
Doctoral dissertation "A Theoretical and Empirical Comparative Study of English-Chinese Request Strategies" (2003.6) has been included in China Outstanding Doctoral and Master's Dissertation Database (CDMD);
Backbone teachers of Chongqing university in 2006, rated "excellent teacher", Chongqing University in 2007.
Professional Memberships
Executive director of Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Society, 2007-present;
Executive director of Chinese Pragmatics Society, 2019-present;
Executive director of Chinese Embodied Cognitive Linguistics Society, 2017-present;
Director of Chinese Language Education Society and director of Chinese English Teaching Society, 2004-present;
Evaluation expert for core or authoritative academic journals such as Foreign Languages and Modern Foreign Languages. From 2013 to now, he has been employed as a special evaluation expert for the academic journals of Foreign Languages Studies, Henan University. In 2014, as an evaluation expert for Journal of Shanghai University for Science and Technology (Social Science edition). In 2014, as an anonymous evaluation expert for Journal of PLA Foreign Language.
Grant Support
Presided over and participated in a number of social science projects at the
provincial or ministerial and above，such as the following:
On the Dynamic Integration of Word-Sentence-Text under the Perspective of Cognitive Science, National Social Science Research Fund 2012, 150000 yuan;
On the Syntactic Studies of Chinese Language, 2004, Chongqing Social Science Research Fund, 3000 yuan;
On the Cognitive Semantics and Functions of Nominalizations, 2009, Hangzhou Social Science Research Fund, 19000 yuan.
Publications
The following list is the representative works and academic papers in the past years, such as:
1. A Dynamic-Integrational Approach to Nominalizations, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2021.
2. A Study of Contemporary Linguistic Theory and Application. Beijing:China Social Sciences Press, 2010.
3. A Contrastive Study of Request Strategies in English and Chinese, Higher Education Press, 2007.
4. An Empirical Approach to the Track of English Noun-Verb Conversions, Journal of Foreign Langauges, 2021, (2): 23-30.
5. Time and Space: Which is More Dominant? Based on the Diachronic Study of English Spatio-temporal Representations. Foreign Language Research, 2021, (4): 114-121.
6. Synchronic Distribution and Diachronic Evolution of English HEART Emotional Idioms, Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, 2021,（1）：36-47.
7. The Stylistic Distribution and Diachronic Evolution of English Morphological Form X-able Based on the Corpus EmpiricalＲesearch under Big Data , TEFLE, 2015,（164）：69-74.
8. How to Make Facts Speak Louder than Words Based on the Merits and Demerits of Corpus Quantification, TEFLE, 2009,（129）：19-25.
9. Dynamic Integration of Grammatical Categories and its Impact upon Linguistic System, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, 2016, (1): 58-64.
10. The Implications from a Diachronic Survey of Western Linguistic Research: Observation, Description and Explanation, FLC, 2010, (3): 89-94.
Academic Lectures and Conferences
Delivered lectures more than 10 times in Zhejiang University, Fudan University, National University of Defense Science and Technology, Southwest University, Shaanxi Normal University, Henan University and other universities, and meanwhile hosted several national academic conferences on linguistic studies, just like pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and functional linguistics.
