On the afternoon of April 13th, Li Wen, Associate Professor of School of Foreign Studies, was invited to attend the fifth Sharing Space round-table and give a lecture online on Language Construction of Subject Knowledge. The conference, hosted by Zhuang Xiaoyu, the member of the student council, sat over 100 students from all colleges and lasted about an hour.

The conference began with Professor Li’s introduction to the concept of language construction of knowledge. Next, by analyzing examples, he provided the explanation of language construction in three critical fields, during which he made a comparison between language construction of science and that of humanities in education. Then, he expanded his analysis to the filed of judicial practice and revealed the legal knowledge gap in the trial practice through the analysis of the construction of legal knowledge in Chinese trial discourse. Professor Li compared the characteristics of the language construction of science, humanities and law and pointed out their respective characteristics. Science knowledge is strong in profession and preciseness; humanities knowledge is abstract; legal knowledge is normative and precise.

Finally, two postgraduate students were asked to discuss the application of Systematic Functional Linguistics in English for Academic Purposes and Ecological Discourse Analysis.

Professor Li pointed out how different academic backgrounds influence language construction at the conference. And under the lead of Professor Li, students were able to gain a comprehensive understanding of their characteristics. This conference broadened students’ academic horizons and enhanced students’ concept - knowledge results from people’s cognition about experience through language and differences between all types of knowledge reflect differences of all types of discourses in the ways of cognizing experience.