Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is a Professor at the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. Her research explores the intersection of language, cognition, emotion, and sociocultural dynamics, with a focus on contemporary Chinese discourse and second language acquisition.

• Education: BA (Peking University), MAs (Peking University, UCLA), PhD (University of Cologne, Germany).

Her work bridges cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics, examining how language reflects and shapes social identity, political discourse, and digital culture in China. Key themes include metaphor, emotional language, usage-based constructionism, and pragmatically driven language change.

Recent publications analyze linguistic dramaticity through grammatical constructions, digital polarization during the pandemic, and social address terms in China’s convergence culture. Her research integrates corpus methods, computational analysis, and cognitive theory to address pedagogical and theoretical challenges in Chinese language learning.

As a leading scholar in Chinese applied linguistics, she contributes to handbooks on discourse analysis, pedagogy, and cultural models, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to language education and professional multilingualism.