Zhang Zaihong
Associate Professor
Literature
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
Biography
Zhang Zaihong is a Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Her area of research is cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition, as well as literary linguistics and contrastive studies of English and Chinese, where much of her work is devoted to cognitive study of lexical cultural meaning, with cognitive and affective factors in interpreting as her current primary empirical focus. She is the vice dean of Foreign Language school. She has received Baogang Distinguished Teacher’s Award in 2014 and the Distinguished Social Science Achievement Award from Hubei Province in 2013. Her writings deal with various aspects of cognitive studies of lexical meaning, language and culture, interpreting & translation and listening.
Research Interest
Cognitive Linguistics, Literary Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Contrastive Studies of Chinese & English and Translation
