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Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Professor
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
zjingsch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4023
Office: 318 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00-5:00PM on zoom and by appointment
Research Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Emotion in Language; Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics

Research

My current research examines grammatica surprise, sensory metaphor, and the linguistic construal of perception and experience. I investigate how grammatical patterns encode expectancy violations, affective intensity, and embodied cognition, revealing how speakers structure subjective experience through recurrent form–meaning pairings across languages and constructions.

Education: BA - Peking University; MAs - Peking University, UCLA; PhD in General Linguistics - University of Cologne, Germany

Areas of Research:

Sociolinguistics: popular and political discourse, language and gender, new media in contemporary China

Cognitive Linguistics: Emotion and language, sensory metaphor, surprise, and conceptualization

Linguistic pragmatics: Grammar, meaning, language use, and pragmatically driven language change

Applied Linguistics: Chinese second language acquisition and pedagogy, second language identity development

 

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Publications

Selected Recent publications

2024

Jun Lang & Z. Jing-Schmidt. The blurry lines between popular media and party propaganda: China’s convergence culture through a linguistic lens. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297499

Jing-Schmidt, Z. Grammatical surprise: on the cognitive affective mechanism of linguistic dramaticity. 《当代语言学》Contemporary Linguistics 26(3), 317-335.

2023Jun Lang & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Gendered social address in China's convergence culture: the case of meinü (beautiful woman). China Information 37(3), 382-405 https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X221139435
2022

Jing-Schmidt, Z., Jun Lang, Heidi H. Shi, Steffi Hung, & Lin Zhu. 2022. Aspect construal in Mandarin: A usage-based constructionist perspective on LE. Linguistics 60(2), 541-577. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0198

Jing-Schmidt, Z. Sentence-final Particles: Sociolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives. In C. Huang, Y. Lin, I. Chen, & Y. Hsu (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, 597-615. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108329019.031

Lang, Jun & Jing-Schmidt, Z. Building collocational knowledge between lexicon and grammar. In F. Yuan & B. He (eds.), Pedagogical grammar and grammar pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language, 34-55. London: Routledge.DOI:10.4324/9781003161646-5

2021

Wang, H., H. Shi, Z. Jing-Schmidt. Affective stance in constructional idioms: A usage-based constructionist approach to Mandarin [yòu X yòu Y]. Journal of Pragmatics 177, 29-50.

Jun Lang, Wesley W. Erickson, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. #MaskOn! #MaskOff! Digital polarization of mask-wearing in the United States during COVID-19. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250817 (Open Access) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250817

Jing-Schmidt, Z. Euphemism. In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics Online. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://benjamins.com/online/hop/articles/eup1

2020

Heidi H. Shi, Sophia X. Liu, & Z. Jing-Schmidt. “Manual action metaphors in Chinese: A usage-based constructionist study”. In B. Basciano, F. Gatti, & A. Morbiato (eds.), 111-130. Corpus-based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics [Sinica Venetiana 6]. Venice, Italy: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari University Press. DOI 10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/004 (open access: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/manual-action-metaphors-in-chinese/)

Shi, Heidi H. & Z. Jing-Schmidt. Little cutie one piece: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture. Chinese Language & Discourse 11(1), 31-54

2019

C-R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt, B. Meisterernst (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. London: Routledge. 

Jing-Schmidt, Z. & S.-K. Hsieh. “Chinese neologisms“. In C.R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt & B. Meisterernst (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, 514-534. London: Routledge.

Jing-Schmidt, Z. “Corpus and computational methods within usage-based model of language learning: toward a professional multilingualism.” In X. Lu & B. Chen (eds.), Computational and Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Chinese Language Learning, 13-31. Singapore: Springer.

Jing-Schmidt, Z. “Grammatical constructions and Chinese discourse.” In C. Shei (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, 102-115. London: Routledge.

Jing-Schmidt, Z. “Cursing, taboo, and euphemism.” In C.R. Huang, Z. Jing-Schmidt & B. Meisterernst (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, 391-406. London: Routledge.

 

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