Name  Zhang Yan

Email zh0313@163.com

Position Associate professor

Areas of expertise legal linguistics applied linguistics

Research interests

legal language(interrogative language /legal document language/legislative language), teaching Chinese as a foreign language, experimental phonetics

QualificationsPh.Dof Linguistics and Applied Linguistics，Nankai University

Student education

Modern Chinese, Modern Chinese Speech Research, Applied Linguistics Research, Legal Linguistics Research, Judicial Linguistics Research

Selectedpublications

Books

1.Essentials of Making Non-prosecution Decision, 2018.

2.A Study on the Prosodic Features of Modal Particle in Beijing Dialect

Journal articles

1. “An Empirical Study on the Reasoning of Non-prosecution Decision”,The Chinese Procurators,2019(4).

2. “Issues in the Language Transcription Effecting the Objective Authenticity of Interrogation Records”,Evidence Science,2018(5).

3. “Linguistics Problems in Normalization of Legal Language”,Journal of Liaoning Normal University(social science edition),2017(3).

4. “Discrimination between Niding(拟订), Niding(拟定)and Zhiding(制订), Zhiding(制定)”，Linguistic Research,2016(2).

5. “Vague Usage of Language in the Iinquiry”，Legal Theory & Practice Review(Korea), 2015(10).

6. “Presupposition Strategies to Deal with Lies in Interrogation”，Journal of CUPL,2014(5).

Research Grants

“Study on the Language Norms of Interrogation Transcripts of Public Security Organs”,Philosophy and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education, 2015.

External roles

Director, Legal Language Research Branch of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese

Academic visiting

Oct. 2007- Sep. 2008, a visiting scholar atUniversity of Trier,Germany.