Date   of Birth

1984.1

Professional   Title

Associate Professor

E-mail

wesleyxmj@njtech.edu.cn

Research   Fields

Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse   Analysis, Contrastive Rhetoric

Personal   Profile

Doctor of Literature of   Zhejiang University, Associate Research Fellow employed by Nanjing Tech   University, Master Tutor, Director of the Chinese Classics Bilingual   Association of China pre-Qin History Society, member of International   Cognitive Linguistics Association and the International Society for the   History of Rhetoric. Mr. Xiang has been selected as Doctor of   Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the "Mass Entrepreneurship and   Innovation Plan" of Jiangsu Province in 2019 (World famous University Class   and University Innovation Class). As an instructor, he teaches General   Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics for postgraduates and Introduction   to English Linguistics for undergraduates.

Representative   Research Projects / Works / Papers

Major   scientific research projects:

1.   Project of Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (2021-2024): "Comparative Study of   Philosophical Rhetoric between Zhuangzi and Plato from An Interdisciplinary   Perspective". Project Leader. In Progress.

2.   Major Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Jiangsu   Universities (2021-2024): "Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of   Rhetoric Debate between Chinese and Greek Philosophers in the 'Axis   Era". Project Leader. In Progress.

Representative   papers:

1.   Xu, J., & Xiang, M.* (2019). Review of Blending technologies in second   language classrooms, Palgrave Macmillan, Don Hinkelman. London, England   (2018), Pp. Xxxii + 407. System, 81, 216-218. (SSCI)

2.   Xiang, M., & Ma, B. (2020). How can I persuade you without making   self-assertions? A cognitive rhetorical analysis of the use of fictive   questions in an early Daoist text. In Vera da Silva Sinha, Ana Moreno-Núñez,   & Zhen Tian (Eds.), Language, Thought and Identity - Signs of   Life (pp. 249–273). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

3.   Lin Meizhen, Xiang Mingjian, Ma Bosen.(2020). A review of Innovative   Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Contemporary   Linguistics. 22(2). 303-307. (CSSCI)

4.   Xiang, M., Pascual, E., & Ma, B. (2021). Who’s speaking for whom?   Rhetorical questions as intersubjective mixed viewpoint constructions in an   early Daoist text. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 22(2).   (SSCI, A&HCI)