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       Xie Fang, female, received her Bachelor’s degree in Translation from the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University, and obtained her Master’s and Ph.D. in Linguistics/English Studies from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in Linguistics. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of English, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University. She has published more than ten papers in SSCI, A&HCI, ESCI, and CSSCI journals, and has participated in three major projects, including key projects of the National Social Science Fund of China and major/key projects of the National Language Commission. She is a member of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) and the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), and serves as a reviewer for SSCI/A&HCI journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, and Sage Open. Her main research areas include experimental pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, internet pragmatics, and digital humanities. She focuses on cross-cultural differences in language use, multimodal forms of expression, and their cognitive processing mechanisms, with particular attention to the perception of multimodal speech acts. In addition, she applies digital humanities methods to language studies, employing tools such as Python, R, and complex network analysis to conduct data-driven, multi-level analyses of social media language, new media discourse, and online culture.

Selected Publications

Xie, Fang, & Liu, Haitao. (2025). The scientification and internationalization of Chinese linguistics: Exploring pathways towards an independent knowledge system. Yangtze River Academic, (5), 93–102. (CSSCI)

2. Xie, F*. (2025). From Words to Multimodalities: Compliment Perceptions across Lingua Cultures. Journal of Pragmatics, 239, 94-116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006  (SSCI Q1, A&HCI)

3. Xie, F*. (2025) “This looks so good”: Emoji functions in compliments on TikTok and

DouYin. Internet Pragmatics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00131.xie (ESCI, Q2)

4. Xie, F*, Tang, T. (2025) From redundancy to emphasis: Teaching pragmatic stacking frames in Chinese as a Foreign Language. Researching and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. 

5. Gao, Z, Xie, F*. (2025) Said with Politeness, Heard with Impoliteness: Production–Perception Asymmetries in Mandarin Request Prosody. In: Xie (ed.). Advances in (Im)politeness. Springer Nature.

6. Xie, F*. (2024). Politeness Variation: Politeness in Britain, Australia and Hong Kong. Corpus Pragmatics, 8, 313–333. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-024-00174-1 (ESCI, Q2)

7. Wang, Y., Wang, L., Wang, X., Xie, F*. (2024). Decoding Online Literature: A Quantitative Analysis of Language Features. Glottometrics, 57, 54–77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53482/2024_57_421 (ESCI)

8. Xie, Fang. (2025). The phonetic translation Wukong (悟空) promotes cultural globalization. In National Language Commission (Ed.), Report on Language Life in China 2025. Beijing: The Commercial Press.

9. Xie, Fang, et al. (2023). “Multilingual + knowledge” live-streaming e-commerce gains popularity. In National Language Commission (Ed.), Report on Language Life in China 2023. Beijing: The Commercial Press.

10. Xie, Fang, et al. (2022). New progress in intelligent sign-language anchors. In National Language Commission (Ed.), Report on Language Life in China 2022. Beijing: The Commercial Press.

Public Impact and Policy Contributions

Three of her policy reports were officially adopted by the Language Information Management Division, Ministry of Education of China, and included in the national Green Book series Reports on Language Situation in China as first author.

Research Projects

1. Constructing a Chinese Linguistic Discourse System in the Age of Intelligence, Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (24AYY001), 2024–2027. (Participant)

2. Research on the Construction and Communication of Chinese Linguistic Discourse, Major Project of the National Language Commission (ZDA145-2), 2023–2025. (Participant)

3. Normative Research on Internet Media Language, Key Planning Project of the National Language Commission (ZDI135-93), 2019–2022. (Participant)

Academic Presentations and Conferences

1. Invited Talk: From Words to Multimodalities: Compliment Perceptions across Lingua Cultures, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, March 2025.

2. Conference Presentation: Multimodality and Speech Act Perceptions across Cultures, 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Brussels, Belgium, July 2023.

3. “The thumb-up looks insincere”: Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Multimodal Compliments with Gestures, 10th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA), Pisa, Italy, May 2024.

4. “He offered a compliment smile”: Facial Expressions in Compliment Perceptions, SWELL Conference, Basel, Switzerland, February 2022.

5. Politeness Variation in Britain, Australia, and Hong Kong, 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Brisbane, Australia, June 2025.

Educational Experience

• 2021.1 to 2024.8

  瑞士苏黎世大学 | 语言学 | 博士 | 哲学博士学位

• 2014.9 to 2018.6

  武汉大学 | 翻译 | 学士 | 大学本科

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