About

This site is for professional information about Dr Zhang Dongbing (张冬冰 in Chinese characters), also known as Mus /mus/, a Mongolian name used among colleagues. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Sydney, and has published primarily on the grammar of Khorchin Mongolian, his native language. He also works on educational linguistics, discourse studies, and media & health communication within the framework of systemic functional linguistics.

I am currently Associate Professor of Linguistics in the School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing. My research interests lie primarily in understanding

  • the way grammar works in discourse across languages (with particular attention to Mongolian, Chinese, and English),
  • the dynamic unfolding of social interaction,
  • and the systemic modelling of semiotic systems in general.

Courses I teach at UIBE

  • Undergraduate
    ENG786 Introduction to Linguistics
    ENG797 Syntax
    ENG822 Discourse analysis
  • Postgraduate
    06103012 Syntax
    06103011 Functional Linguistics

I have also been teaching English as a foreign language for over ten years at various universities in China.

Selected publications (see Research page for more)

Articles in which I develop the systems at move rank in discourse semantics

Articles in which I describe Khorchin Mongolian from an SFL perspective

My other sites

ResearchGate
ORCID
Google Scholar
UIBE page