Yongping RAN, Professor, Ph.D.

Research interests: pragmatics, conversation/discourse analysis

Contact:

Tel: 86-20-36317482 (office), Fax: 86-20-36209276

E-mail: ranyongping@hotmail.com；ranyp@gdufs.edu.cn

Education Background：

1984-1988: BA in English, College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Southwest China Normal University (Southwest China University, Chongqing).

1990-1993: MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Faulty of English Language and Culture, Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages.

1997-2000: PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Center for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

Professional Background：

1988-1990: Assistant at College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Southwest China Normal University

1993-1995: Lecturer at College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Southwest China Normal University

1995-1997: Associate professor at College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Chongqing University

2000-2001: Associate Professor at Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

2003-2004: Visiting scholar at Linguistics Department, University of Wales (Bangor, U.K.)

2009-2010: Fulbright Scholar at Linguistics Department, University of California (Berkeley, U.S.A.)

2001- present: Professor and researcher at Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Research projects:

2005-2009: Lexical pragmatics -- use and interpretation of English and Chinese lexical expressions (5JJD740005), funded by Ministry of Education of China.

2009-2012: A pragmatic study of Constructing Model and Constraint Mechanism of English and Chinese Conflict Utterances (09BYY070), funded by China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

2012-2015: A pragmatic study of conflict and mitigation in interaction (122-GK120002), funded by Department of Education of Guangdong Province, China

2012-2015: A socio-pragmatic study of harmonious-disharmonious discourse (GD12CWW08), funded by Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences, China.

2015-2018: The pragmatics of media discourse in the context of crisis (15BYY045), funded by China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

2016-2020, The study of interpersonal pragmatic competence (16JJD740007), funded by Ministry of Education of China.

2021-2025, The socio-pragmatic study of online harmonious discourse construction and its leading mechanism (21AYY011), funded by China National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Publications：

A. Books

Z.R.He & Y.P. Ran. 2001. Pragmatics and Cognition: Relevance Theory. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Z.R.He & Y.P. Ran. 2002. A Survey of Pragmatics (revised edition). Hunan: Hunan Education Press.

Y.P.Ran. 2006. Pragmatics: Phenomena and Their Analyses. Beijing: Peking University Press.

Z.R.He, Y.P. Ran, A.P. Mo & Y. WANG. 2006. Cognitive Pragmatics -- Cognition in Verbal Communication. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Y.P.Ran & X.H. Zhang. 2007.Pragmatics. Beijing: Higher Education Press.

Z.R.He & Y.P. Ran. 2009. A New Survey of Pragmatics. Beijing: Peking University Press.

Y.P.Ran. 2012. New Explorations in Lexical Pragmatics. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Y.P.Ran & Y.Q. Zhang. 2016. (ed.）Applied Linguistics Research (Vol. 2). Beijing: Higher Education Press.

Y.P.Ran. 2021.Ten Lecture on Pragmatics. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreing Language Education Press.

B. Journal articles

Z. A. Chen & Y.P. Ran. 1995. Hedges and their pragmatic functions. Journal of Sichuan International Studies University, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 1995. On communicative competence and foreign language teaching. Journal of Southwest China Normal University (social sciences), special issue.

Y.P. Ran. 1996. On fuzziness of language in English news report. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in Fujian, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 1996. Face threatening act and their regulating strategies in verbal interaction. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), No.2.

Y.P. Ran & L. Li. 1996. On computer-aided EFL teaching and learning.(Journal of)Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Education, No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 1996. Theories of reading and reading process. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 1997. Pragmatic foundation of discourse analysis. (Journal of) Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, No.1.

X. W. Peng & Y.P. Ran. 1997. A comparison of numeratives, epithets and classifiers in English and Chinese. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 1998. From classical Gricean theory of conversational implicature to Neo-Gricean theory of conversational implicature. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), No.2.

Z.R. He & Y.P. Ran. 1998. A review of relevance theory -- the essentials of cognitive pragmatics. (Journal of)Modern Foreign Languages, No.3.

Y.P. Ran & Y. Xue. 1998. Relevance theory and pragmatic study. Journal of Chongqing University (Social Sciences), No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 1998. Dynamic study of pragmatic meaning. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 1999. A review of Pragmatics and English Learning. Foreign Languages Research, No.2.

Z. R. He & Y.P. Ran. 1999. The pragmatic constraints of discourse connectives.(Journal of)Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 2000. A review of Clinical Pragmatics: Unraveling the Complexities of Communicative Failure, Benita Rae Smith. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2000. Pragmatic study of discourse markers: A survey. (Journal of) Foreign Languages Research, No.2.

Y.P. Ran. 2000. Cognitive contexts and constraints in pragmatic processes. (Journal of) Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, No.8.

Y.P. Ran. 2000. A review of Bridging and Relevance, Tomoko Matsui. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2001. A pragmatic study of politeness. (Journal of) Researches in Foreign Languages and Literatures, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. Tentative reflections on cognitive pragmatics. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. Development and application of relevance theory in China. Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. On the social dimension of relevance theory. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. Meta-representational structures and their understanding. (Journal of)Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. On the pragmatic functions of the discourse marker You Know. Journal of PlA University of Foreign Languages, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. A preliminary study of cognitive pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Language Research, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2002. A relevance-theoretical account of politeness. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2003. Interdisciplinary research on pragmatics and sociolinguistics -- A review of Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of Adolescents, Gisle Andersen.(Journal of)Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2003. A pragmatic account of the discourse marker WELL. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.3.

Y.P. Ran. 2004. New achievement of interdisciplinary research on pragmatics and SLA -- A review of Pragmatic Development in a Second Language, Gabriele Kasper, & Kenneth R. Rose.(Journal of)Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.2.

Y.P. Ran. 2004. Pragmatic functions of the Chinese discourse marker ba and its contextual adaptability. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2004. The adaptation-relevance model of interaction and its application to situated conversational discourse. (Journal of) Foreign Language Research, No.2.

Y.P. Ran. 2005. Lexical pragmatics and pragmatic enrichment of word meaning. (Journal of)Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.5.

Y.P. Ran. 2005. Recent trends in contemporary pragmatics. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2005. Pragmatic metalinguistics and their indicative functions in verbal interaction. (Journal of) Foreign Language Research, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2006. A survey on pragmatics in foreign language learning. (Journal of) Foreign Languages Research, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2006. Contextual enrichment of lexical units in utterance interpretation: evidence from Chinese and English. Intercultural Pragmatics, No.2.

Y.P. Ran. 2006. A review of Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Louise Cummings. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2006. Information gaps, contextual compensation and pragmatic enrichment in translation or interpreting. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.6.

R. Zhou & Y.P. Ran. 2007. A new approach to pragmatic research -- experimental pragmatics. Journal of Foreign Languages, No. 5.

Y. P. Ran. 2007. The pragmatic stance of person deixis, its empathic and de-empathic functions in interpersonal discourse. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.5.

Y.P. Ran. 2007. On the recent studies and trends of contemporary pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2008. On the looseness of lexical meaning and its pragmatic enrichment. (Journal of) Foreign Languages Research, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2008. On the speaker’s self-enrichment and its pragmatic motivation. (Journal of) Foreign Languages Research, No.5.

Y.P. Ran & X. G. Fang. 2008. The interpersonal pragmatic functions of rhetorical questions from the perspective of the linguistic adaptation theory. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.4.

Y.P. Ran. 2008. Incompleteness and instantaneousness of lexical pragmatic meanings and their contextual construction. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2009. Contextual independence of lexical pragmatic information and the inefficiency of its interpretation in dictionaries. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China, No.2.

Y.P. Ran & H.B. Hou. 2009. A pragmatic account of implicit repairs in interpersonal conflicts. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2010. A survey of the pragmatics studies of conflict talk. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education, No.1.

Y.P. Ran. 2010. A pragmatic study of the divergence orientation of conflict utterances. (Journal of) Modern Foreign Languages, No.2.

C.T. Li & Y.P. Ran. 2011. A pragmatic approach to conflict management in verbal interaction. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China, No.2.

Y.P. Ran & W. Yang. 2011. A pragmatic analysis of deliberate offensive utterances in interpersonal conflicts. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.3.

Y.P. Ran & Y.F. Liu. 2011. A pragmatic study of conflicting responses in non-aggressive speech. (Journal of) Foreign Language Research, No.5.

Y.P. Ran. 2011. Multidimensional features of contemporary pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.5.

Y.P. Ran. 2011. Pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2012. The rapport management model and its violation in interpersonal interaction. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education, No.4.

H. H. Zhou & Y.P. Ran. 2012. On the new socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, No.4.

C.T. Li & Y.P. Ran. 2012. A pragmatic study of implicit negation of other-identity in interaction. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China, No.5.

H. H. Zhou & Y.P. Ran. 2012. The study on context from the social cognitive approach to pragmatics. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.6.

Y.P. Ran. 2012. Rapport orientation of mitigators and their interpersonal pragmatic functions. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, No. 11, Vol. 383.

Y.P. Ran. 2012. On the interdisciplinarity of pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Language and Literature, No.5.

Y.P. Ran. 2013. The metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device. Journal of Pragmatics, vol.48, issue 1.

H.D. Lai & Y.P. Ran. A pragmatic contrastive study of English and Chinese insincere refusals.(Journal of ) Language Education, No. 3, 33-41.

Y.P. Ran. 2013. Review of Foundations of Pragmatics, by Wolfram Bulitz, Andrew H. Jucker & Klaus P. Schneider (eds.). (Journal of) Contemporary Linguistics No.4: 481-483.

Y.P. Ran. 2013. Pragmatic considerations in research of English as a lingua franca from a multi-context perspective. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.5: 669-680.

Q. Chen & Y.P. Ran. 2013. Rapport-challenge orientation of identity construction in intentional impoliteness. (Journal of) Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, No.6.

Y.P. Rang & H.D. Lai. 2014. A study of the interpersonal pragmatic motivations of ostensible refusals. (Journal of) Foreign Language Research, No.2: 65-70.

C.T. Li & Y.P. Ran. 2014. Mock politeness in interaction and its pragmatic features. Journal of Foreign Languages, No.2: 42-51.

Daniel Z. Kadar & Y.P. Ran. 2015. Ritual in intercultural contact: A metapragmatic case study of heckling. Journal of Pragmatics (SSCI), vol.77, No.2: 41-55.

Y.P. Ran & P. Liu. 2015. Interpersonal relations from the perspective of interpersonal pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education, No.4: 1-7.

Y.P. Ran & Q. Yang. 2015. Reconceptualization of Pragmatic Competence in English as a Lingua Franca. (Journal of) Foreign Language World, No.5: 10-17.

Y.P. Ran & Q. Yang. 2016. Pragmatic competence in English as a lingua franca and its reconceptualization. (Journal of) Foreign Language Teaching and Research, No.2: 287-299.

Y.P. Ran & L.L. Gong. 2016. The recent trends of research methods and topics in pragmatics under the influence of social sciences and technologies. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China, No.6.

C.T. Li & Y.P. Ran. 2016. Self-professional identity construction through other-identity deconstruction in Chinese televised debating discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 94: 47-63.

P. Liu & Y.P. Ran. 2016. The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program. Pragmatics & Society 7(3): 463-481.

P. Liu & Y.P. Ran. 2016. Creating meso-contexts: The functions of metapragmatic expressions in argumentative TV talk shows. Intercultural Pragmatics 13(2): 283-307.

Y. P. Ran & Q. Chen. 2017. Experts’ identity construction and rapport management in the Chinese context of the Ph.D. oral defenses, in X. Chen (ed.), Politeness Phenomena across Chinese Genres. Equinox: 135-167.

Y.P. Ran & P. Liu. 2018. Intercultural pragmatics in multilingual context. (Journal of) Foreign Languages in China (4): 27-33.

D.Z. Kadar, P. Ning & Y.P. Ran. 2018. Public ritual apology—A case study of Chinese. Discourse, Context & Media Vol. 26: 21-31.

C.T. Li, Y. P. Ran & D. Kádár. 2018. Constructing self-expert identity via other-identity negation in Chinese televised debating discourse. Text &Talk 38(4): 435-455.

Y.P. Ran & L.S. Zhao. 2018. Building mutual affection-based face in conflict mediation: A Chinese relationship management model. Journal of Pragmatics 129: 185-198.

Y. P. Ran & L.S. Zhao. 2018. A new interpersonal model based on Renqing Principle: A Grassroots perspective on interpersonal pragmatics. (Journal of) Foreign Languages and Their Teaching (2): 34-45.

Y.P. Ran. 2018.  The Renqing Principle in managing interpersonal relationship from the perspective of interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Foreign Languages (4): 45-55.

D.Z. Kadar & Y.P. Ran. 2019. Globalisation and politeness: A cross-cultural inquiry. In: Pilar Blitvich & Eva Ogiermann (eds.) Perspective on Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

L.S. Zhao & Y.P. Ran. 2019. Impoliteness revisited: Evidence from qingmian threats in Chinese Interpersonal Conflicts. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture 15(2): 257-291.

Y.P. Ran & X. Huang, 2019. A pragmatic study of interpersonal relationship. (Journal of) Foreign Language Education (2): 19-25.

Y.P. Ran & X. Huang, 2019. Deontic authority in intervention discourse. Discourse Studies,21(5): 540-560.

L.L. Gong & Y.P.Ran, 2019. Review of Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29(1): 133-139.

X.F. LI & Y.P. RAN*. 2020. Interactional consequences of topical divergences in clinical interviews: Indications of pragmatic impairment. Journal of Pragmatics 157: 39-52.

Y.P. RAN, L.S. ZHAO & D. Z. Kadar. 2020. The Rite of Reintegrative Shaming in Chinese Public Dispute Mediation. Pragmatics 30(1): 40-63. 

L.L. GONG &Y.P. RAN. 2020. Discursive constraints of teasing: Constructing professionality via teasing in Chinese entertainment interviews. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 43(1): 64-82.

X.F. LI & Y.P. RAN. Discourse Marker Na (那) as an interpersonal-level compensatory strategy in clinical interviews. Chinese Journal of Chinese Applied Linguistics, 2020, No.4.

Y.P. Ran & X. HUANG. 2020. Politeness and relationship from the perspective of interpersonal pragmatics. Journal of Foreign Languages (3): 35-45.

J.B. HU & Y.P. RAN.2021. Review of Politeness in Professional Contexts. Journal of Pragmatics, vol.180.

L.S. ZHAO & Y.P. RAN*. 2022. Rationalizing impoliteness: Taking offence and providing vicarious accounts in mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict mediation. Journal of Pragmatics 197: 69-80.

M.W. WEI & Y.P. RAN*. 2024. Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation. Pragmatics & Society 2: 295-319.

X. HUANG & Y.P. RAN*. 2024. Complaint formulation and negotiation: The use of zenme-interrogatives in e-commerce service encounters. Lingua 303.

X. HUANG & Y.P. RAN*, (forthcoming). Nǐ kànzhe bàn ba: negotiating complaint solutions in e-shopping service encounters. Text & Talk. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2021-0188