معرفی
Dr. Zhengdao Ye is a Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Program at the Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from ANU and has taught at multiple institutions including Monash University and the University of New England. Her research focuses on semantics, pragmatics, and intercultural communication with particular emphasis on Chinese linguistics and cultural pragmatics.
Education: BA (East China Normal University), GradDip (ANU), MA and PhD (ANU).
Research Interests: She explores meaning, culture, and cognition across languages, focusing on emotion semantics, cross-cultural communication, and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) theory. Key areas include lexical-cultural analysis of concepts like happiness, pain, and danger, as well as translatability and bilingualism.
Professional Activities: She has held visiting roles at institutions globally, including Italy’s IUO and Mexico’s UNAM. She co-organizes the annual NSM Workshop and leads the NSMLab@anu international research node.
Awards: Recipient of the 2021 VC’s Award for Excellence in Supervision.
Teaching: Leads courses on semantics, cross-cultural communication, and Chinese linguistics. Active in supervising PhD, Honours, and Master’s students, with a focus on projects like Sinitic language ideophones and emotion discourse in migrant families.
Projects: Current initiatives include studies on Chinese migrants to Australia and linguistic approaches to meaning-building.
