my activities

I, together with Professors Paul Chilton, Ruth Wodak and Zhang Maizeng, organised the first NDCC conference held in Nankai University 8-10 April 2006. 

I, together with Professors Paul Chilton (second from right), Ruth Wodak (middle), Bob Jessop (second from left) and David Brown (first from right), organised the second NDCC conference held at Lancaster University 20-21 September 2007.

Latest activities

I will give an open lecture “Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China” on 14th October in University of Warsaw. link to http://en.uw.edu.pl/open-lecture-prof-hailong-tian/ 

Past activities

I, together with Prof Paul Chilton and Prof Li Yi, organized the 3rd NDCC conference in Nankai University, 15-16 May 2009. About 80 discourse analysts attended the conference.

I was involved in organising the fourth international conference on "New Discourses in Contemporary China", held in Guangdong Foreign Studies University, 11-13 November, 2011. (See the Call for Papers,programme, and abstracts)

I, as the executive editor-in-chief, edited the second issue of the 2009 Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics. see the contents.

Trusted by the Senate of the Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics, I organised the 8th International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics, which was held in September 2012 in my home University. (See the Call for Papers, programme)

I organized a round-table meeting on Discourse Studies at Tianjin University of Commerce, 17-18 April 2010. Fifteen scholars from different universities are invited to the meeting, which is a forum for free discussion on the way of doing (critical) discourse analysis in China.

I was invited to give a talk on "New discourses in contemporary China: Conceptualisation of the social" at the Centre for Nordic studies, Helsinki University, 1 April 2008. The talk is one of the the seminars of "Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations" convened by Prof. Bo Strath. This activity is also associated with the NDCC project. (abstract) For this "conceptual history and global translations" project, I also attended a number of meetings, e.g. its meeting at Bankok in March 2009, its meeting at Max-Plancs Institute of Social Development in Berlin 18-22 October 2009, and its meeting in Damascus 26-28 March 2010.

I was invited to give keynote speeches at conferences held at Dalian University of Technology, October, 2012 and Inner Mongolia University, June, 2012. 

I, together with Professor Jianxin Ding, edited Nankai Discourse Studies Series. This book series publishes monographs and themed volumes  that explore the complexity of discourse in relation to society, particularly to the socio-political transformations in contemporary China. It also publishes introductory textbooks that prepare students for research on discourse studies. (See series preface, and the advisory board)

I am invited to have give talks and lectures in a number of universities, such as

Peking University, 2013

Jilin University, March, 2013

Hebei Normal University for Nationalities, October, 2012

Nanjin Normal University, December, 2011

Guangdong University of Commerce, November, 2011

Xiamen University, 21 May 2010.

Fuzhou Normal University, 20 May 2010.

Fuzhou University, 19 May 2010.

Tianjin Normal University, March 2010.

North China Electric Power University (Beijing) in November 2008.

Beijing University of Science and Technology (Zhuhai) November 2008.

Hunan Normal University 15 June 2008.

Tianjin University of Science and Technology, December 2007.

China Centre of Lancaster University 16 November 2007.

Shandong University 22 May 2007.

Hubei Normal University, Huangshi Institute of Science and Technology, November 2006.

I am interested in giving presentations/talks in:

National Conference on Discourse Analysis, the 13th, June 16-17, 2012. Huhehaote, Inner Mongolia, China.

International Conference on Chinese Sociolinguistics, the 7th, July 17-19, 2010. Xining, Qianghai, China; The 4th, December 9-12, 2005. Guangzhou, China.

International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, the 2nd, April 13-15, 2007. Hangzhou, China.

The 1st Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, December 27-28, 2007, Hangzhou, China.

International Symposium on ELT in China, the 3rd, May 19-21, 2001, Beijing, China; The 4th, May 21-25, 2004, Beijing, China.