Huang Jie

Biography

Dr. Jie Huang is an associate professor in linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She got her Ph.D degree in linguistics in Shanghai International Studies University, furthered her research in Fudan University as a postdoctoral fellow afterwards, and studied in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar sponsored by the China Scholarship Council. She has been to universities in the UK, Germany, the US to attend international conferences in linguistics and cognitive science. She is currently a member of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), a member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), and one of the directors of China Cognitive Linguistics Association (CCLA). Her primary research interests are semantics, cognitive linguistics, language and thought, language acquisition. She has done some studies in cognitive approaches to lexical semantics, including noun-noun compounds, atypical VO constructions, and spatial words. She has received 9 grants, including the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSF) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF), and published almost twenty articles in linguistics in core journals of China Social Science Index (CSSCI), such as Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages, Journal of Contemporary Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, Foreign Language Research. She has been invited to be peer reviewers of such core journals as Modern Foreign Languages and Foreign Languages and Their Teaching.

Research Interest

lexical semantics; grammatical constructions; metaphor and metonymy; linguistic relativity; language universals and typology