Weiwei Zhang

Email: sunnyzww@gmail.comweiwei.zhang@shisu.edu.cn

Employment

Assistant professor

September, 2013-present Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University

Education

2008-2013 PhD in linguistics, University of Leuven, Belgium

Supervisors: Prof. Dirk Geeraerts, Prof. Dirk Speelman

Research Unit of Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics

Dissertation title: Variation in Metonymy: A Corpus-based Cognitive Linguistic Approach

2006-2008 Master in linguistics, Beihang University, China

2002-2006 Bachelor in English language, Beihang University, China

Grants

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Geeraerts, and Dirk Speelman. 2015. Visualizing onomasiological change: Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns for WOMAN in Chinese. Cognitive Linguistics 26(2), 289–330. DOI 10.1515/cog-2014-0093

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Geeraerts, and Dirk Speelman. 2015. Cross-linguistic variation in metonymies for PERSON: A Chinese-English contrastive study. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13(1), 220–256. DOI 10.1075/rcl.13.1.09zha

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts. 2011. Variation in the (non) metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese. Metaphor and the Social World 1 (1), p. 90-112. DOI 10.1075/msw.1.1.09zha

Zhang, Weiwei and Nian Liu. To appear in 2015. Advanced quantitative methods in Cognitive Linguistics research. Wai Guo Yu (Journal of Foreign Languages).

Zhang, Weiwei and Nian Liu. 2015. The “empirical cycle” in Cognitive Linguistics. Wai Yu Yan Jiu (Foreign Languages Research) 3, 43-49.

He, Yuyin and Weiwei Zhang. 2011.On genre analysis of scientific English textbook prefaces. Zhong Guo ESP Yan Jiu (Journal of English for Specific Purposes Studies) 5(1), 28-40.

Li, Wei and Weiwei Zhang. 2008. The explanatory power and limitations of reference point theory. Wai Yu Xue Kan (Foreign Language Research) (7), 7-8.

Book reviews in peer-reviewed journals

Fang, Na and Weiwei Zhang. 2014. Review of the Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics “Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use”. Zhong Guo She Hui Yu Yan Xue (The Chinese Journal of Sociolinguistics) (2).

Anishchanka, Alena and Weiwei Zhang. 2012. Book review of Colouring Meaning. Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language by Gill Philips. Metaphor and the Social World 2 (1), 121-129.

Li, Fuyin and Weiwei Zhang. 2007. Book review of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics by Verena Haser. Wai Yu Jiao Xue Yu Yan Jiu (Foreign Language Teaching and Research) (5), 411-414.

Book chapters (peer reviewed)

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, and Dirk Geeraerts. To appear. (Non)metonymic expressions for government in Chinese: A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis. In Speelman, Dirk; Heylen, Kris; Geeraerts, Dirk (Eds.), Mixed Models and Modern Multivariate Methods in Linguistics. (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences Series). The Springer Press.

Zhang, Weiwei. 2008. Prototype theory. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 92-109.

Zhang, Weiwei. 2008. Frame and frame semantics. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 119-130.

Zhang, Weiwei. 2008. Conceptual metonymy theory. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 144-167.

Zhang, Weiwei. 2008. Embodiment hypothesis. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 247-257.

Zhang, Weiwei, Wei Li. 2008. Cognitive reference point. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 321-335.

Ding, Yan, Weiwei Zhang, Fuyin Li. 2008. Topics in Cognitive Linguistics. In Fuyin Li (ed.), An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing: Peking University Press, 30-40.

Books, as editors

Li, Fuyin, Yan Ding and Weiwei Zhang(eds.). To appear. Stefan Gries: Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-linguistic, Experimental, and Statistical Applications. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Li, Fuyin, Weiwei Zhang and Yuan Gao (eds.). 2010. Dirk Geeraerts: Ten Lectures on Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Conference papers

Zhang, Weiwei, Fang Wang. Syntactically marked passive constructions in Chinese: A corpus-based multivariate study. 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Newcastle, UK. July 20-25.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Visualizing onomasiological change: A corpus-based analysis of metonymic patterns for WOMAN in Chinese. First Sino-UK Symposium on Corpus Linguistics. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, December 13th, 2014.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts.Capital name metonymy in Chinese and English: A quantitative usage-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics: Theory and Practice.Nanjing,October 24-26, 2014.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts.A multifactorial analysis of onomasiological variation: Metonymic vs. literal expressions for government.10th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor. June, 2014.

Zhang，Weiwei and Nian Liu. Advanced quantitative methods in Cognitive Linguistics research. 4^th Symposium on Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Jiangshu University,April 18-20, 2014.

Zhang, Weiwei & Dirk Geeraerts.Metonymy for person in English and Chinese: A cross-language perspective. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Alberta, Canada. June 23-28, 2013.

Zhang, Weiwei. Metonymic patterns for women across time: A usage-based approach to visualizations of language change. 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Alberta, Canada. June 23-28, 2013.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns: Using multidimensional scaling as a visualization tool. 12th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. Beijing, May 27-31, 2013.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Metonymic vs. literal expressions: A corpus-based onomosiological study. 43rd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2012)-Corpus Approaches to (Lexical and Grammatical) Semantics. Poznań, 8–10 September 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Variation in Metonymy between Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese: A case study of location for government. ULS10: Managing Linguistic Diversities. Utrecht, August 17-19, 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. (Non)metonymic expressions for government in Chinese: A usage-based analysis. 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. London, July 10-12, 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. A comparative study of metonymy for person in English and Chinese. 9th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor. Lancaster, July 4-7, 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. (Non)metonymic expressions for government in Chinese: A mixed regression model. Leuven Statistics Days 2012: Mixed Models and Modern Multivariate Methods in Linguistics. Leuven, June 7 and 8, 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman. Metonymic conceptualization of woman in the history of Chinese: A usage-based approach. 44th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño. September 8-11, 2011.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. (Non)metonymic expressions for government in Chinese. 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Xi'an, China, July 11-17, 2011.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. The diachronic and stylistic variation of Chinese metonymies: An onomasiological study. Rsearching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM): ‘Metaphor across Time and Genre’. Almagro, Spain, May 4-7, 2011.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Chained metonymies in Chinese compounds. 8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor'. Amsterdam. June 30-July 03, 2010.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. Variation in the distribution of (non-)metonymic capital names: A usage-based account. 34th International LAUD Symposium Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Landau. March 15-18, 2010.

Zhang, Weiwei, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts. How do the Chinese people conceptualize the world: A metonymic perspective. Conference 'CLAVIER 09 - Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation', Modena. November 5-7, 2009.

Zhang, Weiwei. Chinese opposite verbs KAI (open) and GUAN (close): A cognitive semantic study on polysemy. 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Krakow, July 15-20, 2007.

Zhang, Weiwei, Fuyin Li. How do the Chinese build their characters?: A metonymic perspective. 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Krakow, July 15-20, 2007.

Zhang, Weiwei. The possessive DE in Chinese: A cognitive study. 5th Chinese National Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Changsha, May 2007.

Conference posters

Zhang, Weiwei. A mixed-effects logistic regression analysis on naming choices for government. Summer School “Digital Humanities”, University of Leuven, September 19-21, 2012.

Zhang, Weiwei. Variation in metonymies: A Usage-based approach. LOT Summer School, University of Leuven. June 2011.

Teaching

Graduate-level courses, Institute of Linguistics, SISU

Membership in organizations

The Societas Linguistica Europaea

Researching and Applying Metaphor

International Cognitive Linguistics Association

Academic service

2010-2012 Assistant editor, International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics (http://ijcl.buaa.edu.cn)

2006-2008, 2013 Co-organizer, China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (http://cifcl.buaa.edu.cn)

Peer review

Review of Cognitive Linguistics (John Benjamins)

Metaphor and the Social World (John Benjamins)

Cognitive Semantics (Brill)

International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics (Nova publisher)

Abstract reviewer: The 11th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Xi’an, 2011)

Research interests

Cognitive Linguistics, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, language change and variation, empirical/quantitative methods in linguistics

Skills

Statistics regression, correspondence analysis, multidimensional scaling, random forest, visual representation of data and other multivariate techniques with R

ITOS: Windows, Linux; Programming skills: R and Python; Text editors: Microsoft Office and LaTex