Degrees

BA in English from Yangzhou University

PhD in English from Shanghai International   Studies University

Academic   Publications

Monographs

2014. A   Socio-cognitive Study on   Chinese Impoliteness Constructions: The Case of A Dream of Red Mansions.   Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Journal   Articles

1.   2016. Minfen Yan & Jianxue Li. Review of Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word   Formation, and Syntax. Foreign   Language Teaching and Research, 1: 155-158.

2.2016.   Jiafeng Xing & Minfen Yan. A Study on Poetry Language Based on Corpus:   The Case of Shakespeare’ Sonnets. Social   Sciences in Hunan.3:191-195.

3.2015.   Minfen Yan & Min Wang. Review of Language   Learning Beyond the Classroom. Modern   Foreign Languages, 6: 868-871.

4.   2015. Minhua Zhu & Minfen Yan. A Study   on the design of English curriculum in multi-literacy background. Journal of the Chinese society of   Education.8:79-81

5.   2012. Minfen Yan. Review of Impoliteness:   Using Language to cause Offence. Modern   Foreign Languages, 2: 209-211.

6.   2012. Minfen Yan. A Case Study on the Relationship between Teacher Talk and   English Curriculum Philosophy. Curriculum,   Teaching Material and Method,11: 62-66.

7.   2010. Minfen Yan & Jianxue Li. On the Objective, Approaches and Methods   of Metaphor Corpus Studies. Journal of   Shenzhen University (Humanities & Social Sciences), 2: 116-120.

8.   2003. Minfen Yan. On the Externalization   of Imperative Intention. Foreign Languages and Their Teaching,11:15-18.

9.   2002. Minfen Yan. The   Commonness of Poetic Metaphor and Poetic Translation .   Foreign Languages and Their Teaching,10:43-46.

10.   2002. Minfen Yan. A Pragmatic   Study on Pun Utterances. Journal   of Xi’an International Studies University,2:26-31.

Conferences   (papers presented)

1. A Study on Construction   Morphology. Keynote speech on The Fourth session of Jiangsu linguistic forums.(May   2014, Wuxi, Jiangsu)

2. A Socio-cognitive Study on Chinese   Impoliteness. Speech on the first symposium on pragmatics   and cognitive linguistics: the international symposium on theory and   application.(March 2014, Nanjing, Jiangsu)

3. On the Way construction and its Diachronic   changes. Speech on the Form and function: international symposium on   linguistics.(March 2015,Suzhou,Jiangsu)

Scholarly   Exchanges

1991-1992   Visiting   Scholar In Shanghai Normal University

Past   Schools

Jiangsu Normal University

Awards & Grants

1.   2017. Provincial first prize excellent graduation thesis supervisor in   Jiangsu institutions of higher education.

2.2017 Excellent graduation thesis supervisor in   Jiangnan University.

3.   2015. The second prize coach award in the Jiangsu Provincial Final “FLTRE Cup”   English Public Speaking Contest.

4.   2014. Provincial third prize excellent graduation thesis supervisor in   Jiangsu institutions of higher education.

5.   2014. The second prize coach award in the Jiangsu Provincial Final “FLTRE Cup”   English Public Speaking Contest.

6.2013 Excellent graduation thesis supervisor in   Jiangnan University.

7.   2013. The second prize coach award in the Jiangsu Provincial Final “FLTRE Cup”   English Public Speaking Contest.

8.   2009 The Second Prize for Outstanding Multimedia Teaching Courseware in   Jiangsu institutions of higher education.

9.   2012-2015, Research on Linguistic Impoliteness from the Perspective of   Postcolonial Pragmatics, the general project of the Ministry of Education’s   humanities and social sciences, the director.