GRANTS (CI)
2022– 基于多语自然会话语料库的会话动态性分层模型研究，国家社会科学基金青年项目（A multi-stratal approach to dynamism in conversation based on multilingual corpora of naturally occurring conversations; National Social Science Fund of China）
2021– 学科蒙古语语法隐喻研究，对外经济贸易大学校级项目（Grammatical metaphor in disciplinary Mongolian; UIBE internal grant）
2021-2023 蒙古语科尔沁土语语料库建设及其应用，对外经济贸易大学校级项目（Development and application of Khorchin Mongolian corpus; UIBE internal grant）
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
[14] Zhang, Dongbing, Winfred Wenhui Xuan & Xu Qingxin*. 2026. Theory-informed language descriptions: A systematic review of systemic-functional grammatical descriptions from 2004 to 2024. Lingua. 336. 104160. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104160.
[13] Zhang, Dongbing, Jiajia Wang & Chengfang Song*. 2025. Scaffolding instruction in an EFL drama lesson: A systemic functional analysis. IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 63(1): 185-212. [Special Issue “Broadening the Appliability of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Language Education”, edited by Winfred Wenhui Xuan, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen & Jorge Arús Hita] DOI: 10.1515/iral-2024-0033
[12] Sun, Ya, Na Zhang, Dongheng Yang & Dongbing Zhang. 2025. #奋进的石油人#💪💪: Emoji-text intersemiotic convergence in self-praise Weibo posts of Chinese corporations. Discourse, Context & Media 68. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100957. Download: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m3VG7suQG01fa
[11] Zhang, Dongbing. 2024. Towards a responsibility-based model of the move system in discourse semantics: Reasoning from above. Lingua 309. 103796. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103796
[10] Xuan, Winfred Wenhui & Dongbing Zhang*. 2023. Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing: A systemic functional perspective. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 46(1). 29-53. DOI: 10.1075/aral.20045.xua
[9] Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. The nominal group in Khorchin Mongolian: A systemic functional perspective. WORD 67(3). 350-386. [Special Issue “The Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives”, edited by J.R. Martin, Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang] DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2021.1957548
[8] Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. TENSE in Khorchin Mongolian: An interpersonal perspective. Language Sciences 85. DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101371
[7] Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. Dynamism in knowledge exchanges: Developing move systems based on Khorchin Mongolian interactions. Discourse Studies 23(3). 386-413. DOI: 10.1177/1461445620982113
[6] Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang. 2021. Nominal group grammar: System and structure. WORD 67(3). 248-280. [Special Issue “The Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives”, edited by J.R. Martin, Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang] DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2021.1957545
[5] Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Dialogic positioning in Khorchin Mongolian: The temporal and spatial dimensions of propositional engagement in conversations. Lingua 244. DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102920
[4] Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Towards a discourse semantic characterisation of the modal particles in Khorchin Mongolian: A case study of an interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 158. 13–32. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.013
[3] Hood, Susan & Dongbing Zhang. 2020. GRADUATION in play with other systems of meaning in the enactment of interpersonal relations. Journal of Foreign Languages [Waiguoyu] 43(6). 21–41.
[2] Maton, Karl, Cuiying Li, Wenchao Zhao & Dongbing Zhang. 2020. Seeing the world differently. Educational Linguistics Studies [Jiaoyu Yuyanxue Yanjiu] 2. 36-49. DOI: 10.26914/c.cnkihy.2019.091178
[1] Zhang, Dongbing & Jinfeng Ding. 2016. Case study of the effects of autonomous text dictation on college-level engineering-major EFL learners’ listening comprehension. The Asian ESP Journal 12(1). 85-105.
Books
Martin, J.R., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Clare Painter & Dongbing Zhang. Under contract. Deploying functional grammar: A companion to Halliday’s introduction to functional grammar (3rd edn.). Routledge.
李翠英、张冬冰、赵文超、牟许琴、左红珊(译)，2022，《语篇类型与读写教学》，北京：外语教学与研究出版社（A translation of David Rose & J.R. Martin. 2012. Learning to write, reading to learn: Genre, knowledge and pedagogy in the Sydney School. Sheffield: Equinox.）
Book Chapters
[4] Zhang, Dongbing. 2025. Chapter 3. MOOD: How do we interact with each other? In Hui Yu, Chenguang Chang, Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.), Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description, and application, 37-64. London/New York: Routledge.
[3] Zhang, Dongbing. 2024. Representing minority history in a multi-ethnic country. In Jing Hao & J.R. Martin (eds.), The discourse of history: A systemic functional linguistic perspective. 271 – 299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009024884.012
[2] Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. Interpersonal grammar in Khorchin Mongolian. In J.R. Martin, Beatriz Quiroz & Giacomo Figueredo (eds.), Interpersonal grammar: Systemic functional linguistic theory and description. 64-95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108663120.003
[1] Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Axial argumentation below the clause: The verbal group in Khorchin Mongolian. In J.R. Martin, Y.J. Doran & Giacomo Figueredo (eds.), Systemic functional language description: Making meaning matter, 35-72. New York/London: Routledge.
Edited Special Issues
Martin, J.R., Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen & Dongbing Zhang (eds.). 2025-2026. Verbal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Descriptions. Lingua.
Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang (eds.). 2022. Special Issue on the Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives (Part 3). WORD 68(2).
Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang (eds.). 2022. Special Issue on the Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives (Part 2, b). WORD 68(1).
Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang (eds.). 2021. Special Issue on the Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives (Part 2, a). WORD 67(4).
Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang (eds.). 2021. Special Issue on the Grammar of Nominal Groups: Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspectives (Part 1). WORD 67(3).
THESES
Zhang, Dongbing. 2020. Negotiating interpersonal meaning in Khorchin Mongolian: Discourse and grammar. PhD thesis supervised by Prof J.R. Martin and Dr Y.J.Doran. The University of Sydney. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22835.
Zhang, Dongbing. 2013. An appraisal-based analysis of personal identity in narrative: The case of Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea. MA thesis supervised by Prof PENG Xuanwei. Beijing Normal University.
Zhang, Dongbing. 2010. An investigation of the influence of college students’ ethnic identity on their attitude towards taboo utterances. BA thesis supervised by Prof PENG Xuanwei. Beijing Normal University.
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