GRANTS (CI)
2022-2026
A multi-stratal approach to dynamism in conversation based on multilingual corpora of naturally occurring conversations, National Social Science Fund of China (22CYY057)
2021-2024
Grammatical metaphor in disciplinary Mongolian, University of International Business and Economics (internal)
2021-2023
Development and Application of Khorchin Mongolian Corpus, University of International Business and Economics (internal)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. The nominal group in Khorchin Mongolian: A systemic functional perspective. WORD 67(3). 350-386. DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2021.1957548
Zhang, Dongbing. 2021. TENSE in Khorchin Mongolian: An interpersonal perspective. Language Sciences 85. DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101371
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
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
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
Martin, J.R., Y.J. Doran & Dongbing Zhang. 2021. Nominal group grammar: System and structure. WORD 67(3). 248-280. DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2021.1957545
Xuan, Winfred Wenhui & Dongbing Zhang. 2021. Understanding textual meaning-making in Chinese high school EFL learners’ writing: A systemic functional perspective. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (Online). DOI: 10.1075/aral.20045.xua
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.
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
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.
Book Chapters
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
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.
Journal Guest Editing
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).
Books
Co-authored Chinese translation of David Rose & J.R. Martin. 2012. Learning to write, reading to learn: Genre, knowledge and pedagogy in the Sydney School. Sheffield: Equinox. Translation published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing, 2022. [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]
Co-authored textbook on independent writing for the TOEFL iBT, published by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing, 2017. [李丽君、张冬冰，2017，《托福独立写作进阶式训 练》。北京:清华大学出版社]
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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