SONG is an associate professor at the School of Art Administration and Education. She earned her Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Zhejiang University in 2010 with a dissertation focusing on language Iconicity. Her current research interests include cognitive linguistics, intercultural pragmatics, visual studies and linguistic landscape.
Research Expertise and Interest
cognitive linguistics, intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, visual cultures, linguistic landscape
Publications
Books:
Language Iconicity: The Symbolic Mapping of Nature, Shanghai: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2017.
Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics (written by Michalle Gal, translated by Xiaoxiao Song), Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming.
Papers:
Book Review: Christiane Lütge, Thorsten Merse & Petra Rauschert (eds.) ，Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education： Concepts, Practices, Connections, Journal of Language and Politics 22(5):767-770, 2023.
Book Reiview: Maximiliane Frobenius, A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language: Cofluencies as sites of accountability, sequentiality, and multimodality, Journal of Pragmatics 211(2023):41-43,2023.
Book Review: Anke Beger, The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse: An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines, Discourse Studies 23(2):237-239, 2021.
Language Mapping of Cognitive Sequences, Journal of Yunmeng, 2018(3): 107-111.
Interlanguage Universals Study and the Development of Metalinguistic Awareness in Foreign Language Learning, Language. Art—Foreign languages Teaching and Research in Art Academies of China, 2016:128-134.
Evidence of Iconicity from the Paleography, Journal of Yunmeng, 2014(1):125-128.
Perceptual Continuity & Closure and Their Language Representations, Journal of Xi’an International Studies University, 2010(4): 35-38.
On Native Language Transfer and Reference Points, Journal of Hunan University of Science and Engineering, 2010(11): 147-150.
The Trichotomy of Signs and Liushu of Chinese Characters, Journal of Zhejiang University (Humanities and Social Science, 2010(1):135-141.
On the Original of DONGXI and Metonymical Thought, Journal of Hunan University (Social Science Edition) 2009(2):79-82.
On the Visibility of the Translator: the perspectives of holistic cognition and translation psychology, Journal of Yunmeng, 2005(3): 133-135.
A Cultural Perspective on the Systematic Variability in Interlanguage, Journal of Xi'an International Studies University, 2004(3):14-16.
Funding &Projects
Promoting Metalanguage Awareness in Second Language Acquisition. The Construction Program of Key Universities (China Academy of Art) of Zhejiang Province ,1/1, 2020,09-2022,12.
Linguistic Landscape Study: A Constructionism Perspective. 2017-2018 Key Project of Social Sciences of Zhejiang Province (2018QN066), 1/3, 2018,08-2022,05.
Iconicity: The Symbolic Mapping of Nature. The Construction Program of Key Universities (China Academy of Art) of Zhejiang Province ,1/1, 2016,06-2017,12
The Research of the Definition and Classification of Iconicity. The Project supported by Zhejiang Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Circles, (2013Z78), 1/3, 2013,07-2017,07
The Study of Cognitive Acquisition of English Grammar based on the Theory of Iconicity. The project of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Hangzhou City, (B13YY15Q), 1/2, 2013,07-2017,07
Iconicity and the systematic Variability of Interlanguage. The project of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Hangzhou City, (D09YY11),1/2, 2009.07-2011,09
