Dr Zhengdao Ye
Areas of expertise
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Lexicography 200407
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Translation And Interpretation Studies 200323
- Discourse And Pragmatics 200403
- Cognitive Sciences 1702
- Chinese Languages 200311
Research interests
general linguistic issues pertaining to meaning, culture and human cognition and their implications for human communication, including the practice of translation; semantics; pragmatics; lexicology; translation and stylistics; translatability; intercultural communication and its education; the language of emotion; emotion and bilingualism; psychological anthropology; Chinese linguistics; Chinese literature; life writing.
Teaching interests:
LING2008 & LING6008 Semantics
LING2015 & LING6015 Language, Culture, Translation
LING2017 & LING6017 Chinese Linguistics
LANG3001 & LANG6001 Translation Across Languages: Literary Translation
LANG3002 & LANG6002 Translation Across Languages: Specialised Materials
Biography
Zhengdao Ye moved to Australia after receiving her BA in Chinese Linguistics and Literature from the East China Normal University. She completed a Grad.Dip in Applied Linguistics from the Australian National University in 1998, followed by an MA in Linguistics (2000) and a PhD in Linguistics (2007). She has taught linguistic courses at the University of New England, Monash University, and the Australian Linguistic Institute held at the Macquarie University. The courses she has taught in a number of institutions include Semantics, The Language of Emotions, Cross-Cultural Communication, Language, Culture and Translation, Translation Across Languages (Literary Texts & Specialised Materials), Second Language in Use, and Introduction to the Study of Language. Some of the highlights in her academic experiences include invited linguistic consultant at the Instituto Universitario Orientale (IUO) in Italy, invited lecturer on Lexicography and Cultural Semantics at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , invited speaker as ‘Distinct New Voice’ on Intercultural Communication at IATEFL conference in Aberdeen, and invited panellist on words and feelings at International Congress of Psychology in Berlin. She was the keynote speaker on Cross-Cultural Communication for the Pre-Departure Training for the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development, and delivered a training session on culture and communication at the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in Michael Wesley's Navigating Asia course.
Zhengdao Ye joined the ANU as a full-time lecturer in Linguistics and Translation Studies in 2014. She is the convenor of the Master of Translation Program, and a NAATI accredited translator.
Current student projects
PhD theses
A Cultural Dictionary of Australian English for Learners: Theory and Practice
Greetings, partings and forms of address in English and Italian: An Ethnopragmatic approach
Coetzee's Multiple Voices in Vietnamese Translation
Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
MA theses
George Orwell in Chinese Translation.
"Happiness" and "Pain" in Javanese
On translating Ma Yuan.
The semantics of 'uncle'-type kinship terms in two Sinitic languages
Honours theses
Chinese forms of address as a pragmatic resource
Past student projects
MA Theses
Translation and Exegesis: Speakability in Drama Translation: The Case of Ray Lawler's Summer of Seventeenth Doll into Chinese. (Yewei Wang, 2015)
Translation and Exegesis: Megan Marshall's Biography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. (Qiling Lin, 2015)
How easy is it to translate 'Type 2 Diabetes for Dummies' into Arabic: Challenges and Solutions. (Naif Bogami, 2013)
An Inquiry into Happiness and Anger in Romanian. (Alina Harabor, 2011)
Honours Theses
The Semantics of Cantonese Particles laa1 and laa3. (Helen Leung, 2011)
Publications
- Ye, Z 2017, 'The semantics of nouns: A cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective', in Zhengdao Ye (ed.), The Semantics of Nouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-18.
- Ye, Z 2017, 'The semantics of social relation nouns in Chinese', in Zhengdao Ye (ed.), The Semantics of Nouns, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 63-88.
- Ye, Z, ed., 2017, The Semantics of Noun, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Goddard, C & Ye, Z, eds, 2016, "Happiness" and "Pain: across Languages and Cultures, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam Holland.
- Goddard, C & Ye, Z 2016, 'Exploring "happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures', in Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye (ed.), "Happiness "and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam Holland, pp. 1-18. (A slightly revised version of Goddard & Ye 2014.)
- Ye, Z 2016, 'Stranger and acquaintance in English: meaning and cultural scripts', in Agnieszka Uberman and Teodor Hrehovcik (eds.), Text - Sentence - Word: Studies in English Linguistics, Vol II, pp. 119-130.
- Ye, Z 2016, 'The meaning of "happiness" (xingfu) and "emotional pain" (tongku) in Chinese', in Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye (ed.), "Happiness "and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam Holland, pp. 65-86. (A slightly revised version of Ye 2014.)
- Goddard, C & Ye, Zhengdao 2015, 'Ethnopragmatics', in Farzad Sharifian (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, pp. 66-83.
- Ye, Z. 2014, 'Opposites in Language and Thought: A Chinese Perspective', 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, ed. G Rundblad, A Tytus, O Knapton, C Tang, UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, London United Kingdom, pp. 284-302.
- Ye, Z 2014, 'The meaning of "happiness" (xingfu) and "emotional pain" (tongku) in Chinese', International Journal of Language and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 194-215.
- Goddard, C & Ye, Z 2014, 'Exploring "happiness" and "pain" across languages and cultures', International Journal of Language and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 131-148.
- Goddard, C & Ye, Z, eds, 2014, "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures.
- Ye, Z 2013, 'Understanding the conceptual basis of the 'old friend' formula in Chinese social interaction and foreign diplomacy: A cultural script approach, Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 365-385.
- Ye, Z. 2013. Comparing the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to Emotion and the GRID paradigm. In Johnny Fontaine, Klaus Scherer, and Cristina Soriano (eds.), Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 399-409.
- Ye, Z 2012, 'Eating and drinking in Mandarin and Shanghainese: A Lexical-Conceptual analysis', in Cathryn Donohue, Shunichi Ishihara, William Steed (eds.), Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics: Studies in honour of Phil Rose, Lincom Europa, Munich, Germany, pp. 265-280. [A slightly revised version of Ye 2010]
- Ye, Z 2012, 'Review of the Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics), ed Kirsten Malmkjær and Kevin Windle. 2011. Oxford. Oxford University Press', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 201-204. [DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2012.657751]
- Ye, Z. 2012. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies edited by Kirsten Malmkjær and Kevin Windle. 2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press (xvii+607 pp.) Australian Journal of Linguistics, 32(1): 201-204.
- Ye. Z. 2011. Review of Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays edited by Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang. 2010. Leiden and Boston: Brill (ix +231pp). New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 13 (2), 118-122.
- Ye, Z. 2010. Eating and Drinking in Mandarin and Shanghainese: A Lexical-Conceptual Analysis. In W. Christensen, E. Schier, and J. Sutton (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 375-383). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.
- Ye, Z. 2007, 'Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition', in Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos (ed.), Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 109-132.
- Ye, Z. 2007, 'Memorization, learning, and cultural cognition: the notion of bei ('auditory memorizing') in the written Chinese tradition', in Mengistu Amberber (ed.), The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 139-180.
- Ye, Z. 2007, 'Returning to my mother tongue: Veronica's journey continues', in Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka (ed.), Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Australia, pp. 56-69.
- Ye, Z. 2006, 'Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 127-169.
- Ye, Z. 2006, 'Why Are There Two 'Joy-like' 'Basic' Emotions in Chinese?: Semantic Theory and Empirical Findings', in Paolo Santangelo (ed.), Love, Hatred, and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, Koninklijke Brill, Netherlands, pp. 59-77.
- Ye, Z. 2005. Reflections on the new Introduction of Anna Wierzbicka's Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction (2nd Edn, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter). RASK, 22:111-122. [ISBN 3110220962, 9783110220964]
- Ye, Z. 2004. 'La Double vie de Veronica': reflections on my life as a Chinese migrant in Australia. Life Writing, 1(1): 133-146. (Reprinted from Mots Pluriels, 2003,23.) [DOI: 10.1080/10408340308518247]
- Ye, Z 2004, 'When Empty Words Are Not Empty: Examples from the Semantic Analyses of some Emotional Adverbs in Mandarin Chinese', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 139-161. [DOI: 10.1080/0726860042000271807]
- Ye, Z. 2004, 'The Chinese Folk Model of Facial Expressions: A Linguistic Perspective', Culture and Psychology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 195-222. [DOI: 10.1177/1354067X04040928]
- Ye, Z 2004, 'Categorisation of Chinese interpersonal relationships and the cultural logic of Chinese social interaction: an indigenous perspective', Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 211-230. (Translated into Russian.) [DOI: 10.1515/iprg.2004.1.2.211]
- Ye, Z. 2004.Thesaurus Linguae Sericae: A historical and comparative encyclopaedia of Chinese conceptual schemes. Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies, 23(3): 23-28. [Taipei: Centre for Chinese Studies]. [In Chinese]
- Ye, Z 2003, 'La double vie de Veronica: reflections on my life as a Chinese migrant in Australia', Mots Pluriels, vol. 23, no. March, pp. ?-?.
- Ye, Z. 2003. Chinese women speak out. Review of Xinran's Good Women of China: Hidden Voices (Vintage, 2003). The Canberra Times, August 9.
- Ye, Z. 2002, 'I'm not a ghost! semantic analyses of some emotional adverbs in Mandarin Chinese', Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2002, ed. Peter Collins and Mengistu Amberber, Australian Linguistics Society, Sydney, pp. 1-11. [http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2002/Ye_doc.pdf]
- Ye, Z. 2002, 'Different modes of describing emotions in Chinese: Bodily changes, sensations and bodily images', Pragmatics and Cognition, vol. 10, no. 1/2, pp. 307-339. [DOI: 10.1075/pc.10.12.13ye]
- Ye, Z. 2002, 'Los sentimientos morales de la <> china: Una ilustracion del aceramiento del Metalenguaje Semanitico Natural (MSN) al analisis de algunas emociones chinas <>', Isegoria: revista de filosofia moral y politica, vol. 25, pp. 201-221.
- Ye, Z. 2002. Notes on the International Conference on Emotions and the Analysis of Historical Sources in China. Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies, 21(2): 41-50. [Taipei: Centre for Chinese Studies]. (In Chinese)
- Ye, Z. 2001, 'An inquiry into sadness in Chinese', in Harkins, Jean and Wierzbicka, Anna (ed.), Emotions in Cross Linguistic Perspective, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 359-404. [DOI: 10.1515/9783110880168]
