Chinese Linguistics
(Names listed in alphabetical order)
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt is Professor of Chinese Linguistics in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon. She holds a BA and an MA in German Language and Literature from Peking University, an MA in Germanic Linguistics from UCLA, and a PhD in General Linguistics from the Institute for Linguistics, University of Cologne, Germany. A recipient of the Lise-Meitner Award, research grants from the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and the PI of multi-year U.S. federal grants for the Chinese Flagship Program, Dr. Jing-Schmidt engages in research and teaching at the interface of language, culture, emotion, cognition, and society. Her work cuts across cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Internet linguistics, and second language learning. Her scholarly work has been placed in leading international journals and academic presses. She is currently Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed international journal Chinese Language and Discourse and serves on the Board of Consulting Editors for Linguistics and the editorial boards of other peer-reviewed international journals such as Lingua and Concentrics.
Yen-Hui Audrey Li
Y.-H. Audrey Li, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California (USC), received her doctoral degree in Linguistics from USC in 1985. After teaching at California State University at Fresno for a year, she returned to USC and has been teaching there since 1986. She served in both the Department of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures till 2018 when she turned to only the Department of Linguistics to focus on research and teaching, after serving as the department chair of EALC in 2004-2007 and 2014-2018. She was elected as president of Chinese Language Teachers Association in 2007 and president of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics in 2011 and has been serving on the editorial or advisory board of a good number of international journals and publishers. Her research focuses on syntax, and its interface with semantics, prosody, discourse, and implications for language acquisition and education. Most of her publications are available at Yen-Hui Audrey Li.
Chaofen Sun
Professor Chaofen Sun was originally English major (1974) at East China Normal University in Shanghai and received his MA (University of Oregon 1984) and Ph.D. (Cornell 1988) in linguistics. He previously taught English, classical Chinese, and Chinese Linguistics at East China Normal University, City University of Hong Kong, and University of Wisconsin in Madison. Since 1991 he has been teaching Chinese linguistics and classical Chinese at Stanford University. He has been Stanford's Chinese program coordinator since 1991 and served as chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (1999-2002, 2008-2011) and director of Center for East Asian Studies (2006-2009). In 2017 he was elected president of the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association, USA. He published extensively in Chinese linguistics and language education with articles in academic journals and books by Stanford University Press (1997), Cambridge University Press (2006), Oxford University Press (2015), and Routledge (2017).
Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics
(Names listed in alphabetical order)
Lise Abrams
Lise Abrams is the Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Coordinator of the Cognitive Science major at Pomona College, her alma mater. She double-majored in psychology and mathematics at Pomona, then earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from UCLA. After 20 years as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida, she returned to Pomona in 2018 and established the Psycholinguistic Research in Memory (PRIME) Laboratory. Her research focuses on real-world retrieval problems in younger and older adults, including tip-of-the-tongue states and difficulties retrieving proper names, disfluencies during speech production, and interference from taboo and other emotional words. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Psychology and Aging and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Gerontological Society of America, and the Psychonomic Society.
Naoko Taguchi
Naoko Taguchi is Professor in the English Department at Northern Arizona University where she teaches courses in applied linguistics and TESOL. Her primary research interests include second language pragmatics, intercultural competence, and technology-mediated language learning. Her current research projects involve using immersive virtual reality for teaching language and culture, digital-game applications to pragmatics instruction, and intercultural development in an English-medium university. Her recent book publications include The Routledge Handbook of SLA and Pragmatics (Routledge, 2019) and Teaching and Learning Pragmatics in the Globalized World (special issue with MLJ, 2021). She is currently co-editing the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics Pragmatics Volume. She is the co-editor of Language Learning (Wiley) and Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins), and serves on the editorial/advisory board for 11 journals and book series, including Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Language Teaching.
Seth Wiener
Seth Wiener is an Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the Principal Investigator of the Language Acquisition, Processing, and Pedagogy Lab or LAPP Lab at Carnegie Mellon where he mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Wiener received his BA from Boston University and his MA and PhD from The Ohio State University where he trained with Professors Marjorie Chan, Shari Speer, and Kiwako Ito. He is currently an Associate Editor for the journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editorial board member for the journals Chinese as a Second Language, and Studies in Chinese Learning and Teaching.