Senior Lecturer Guo Wu

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr Wu completed his MA in English at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China in 1983 (thesis title: Lexical Cohesion in English Text), and worked as a lecturer and later associate professor of English at Shaanxi Institute of Mechanical Engineering in Xi’an. He was awarded a postgraduate research scholarship from the University of Newcastle (NSW) in 1988 and came to Australia to study for his PhD in the Department of Linguistics of the university (thesis title: Information Structure in Chinese). He worked as a lecturer of Chinese in the Modern Languages Department of the university in 1993.

After being awarded his doctorate in the same year, Dr Wu joined UWS at the beginning of 1994. At UWS he has designed the Chinese program and developed the Chinese units at all levels, completed a series of research projects, worked as an affiliated fellow in the International Institute of Asian Studies, the Netherlands in 1998 and 2002.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Chinese language, culture and literature, Chinese linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, Translation.

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Grants / Current Projects

2009: Project title: Translating differences
Stage 2 of Introducing Australian Children’s Literature to China. Research into how to retain cultural differences in translation.

2008: The Australia-China Council General Grant
Project title: Introducing Australian Children’s Literature to China.

2007: The Subjective use of the Chinese particle le.

2005- 2009: The discourse function of the Chinese particle ne.

2005: Maintaining information flow in translation.

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Awards and Recognition

1988 – 1993 Postgraduate research scholarship, The University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia).

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Selected Publications

Refereed books

Berg, Marinus & Guo Wu. 2006. On Chinese Discourse LE: Discourse construction and pragmatic marking in Chinese. London and New York: Routledge.

Wu, Guo. 1998. Information Structure in Chinese. Beijing: Peking University Press.

Refereed book chapters

Wu, Guo. 2001. “A new approach to an old problem: on Chinese discourse LE”. In Husken, Frans & Dick van der Meij (eds.), Reading Asia. 261–278. Richmond: Curzon Press.

Wu, Guo. 1998. “The Information Structure of the shi … de Construction in Chinese.” In Benjamin K. Ts’ou, ed. Studia Lingistica Serica. City University of Hong Kong. 1998. pp. 465–85.

Refereed journal articles

Wu, Guo. 2009. “’The subjective use of the adverbial hai”. Chinese Teaching in the World Vol 23, No 3: 322-333.

Wu, Guo. 2008. “The particle ne and the durative aspect”. Hanyu Yajiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) 6: 72-90.

Wu, Guo. 2008. “Subjective changes expressed by the Chinese particle le”. Yuyanxue Luncong (Linguistic Forum) 36: 342-363.

Wu, Guo. 2008. “’The particle ‘ne and the durative aspect’”. Hanyu Yajiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) 6: 65-93 (in print, to be out in Sept.).

Wu, Guo. 2008. “Subjective changes expressed by the Chinese particle le”. Yuyanxue Luncong (Linguistic Forum) 36: 342-363.

Wu, Guo. 2007. “’Cai’ sentences and the particle ‘ne’”. Hanyu Yajiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) 5: 216-237.

Wu, Guo. 2006. “The co-occurrence of the particles le and ne” Hanyu Yanjiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) 4: 396-413.

Wu, Guo 2006. “The Thematic Question: Non-interrogative form plus the particle NE”. Yuyanxue luncong (Linguistic Forum) 32: 63-80. Peking University.

Wu, Guo 2005. “The Particle Ne in Questions”. Hanyu Yanjiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) 3: 72-90.

Wu, Guo 2005. “The Discourse Function of the Chinese Particle NE in Statements”. Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association. Feb. 47-81.

Wu, Guo. 2005. “Maintaining Textual Equivalence - Translating English relative clauses into Chinese”. CAESS Conference Scholarship and Community, UWS.

Wu, Guo. 2004. “Grounding in discourse and the Chinese verbal le” in Hanyu Yanjiu yu Yingyong (Chinese Language Research and Application) Vol.2:. pp235-257.

Wu, Guo. 2000. “The Origin of the Chinese Discourse particle LE.” Journal of Chinese Language Teachers’ Association. February 2000, Vol 35: 1, pp. 29-60.

Wu, Guo and Lu Wenhua. 1998. “The Sentence Pattern Field of LE Sentences”. Chinese Teaching in the World, No. 2: pp. 13–21.

Translations

Wu, Guo. 2009. “Xiaofeng de Gushi” (Being Bee by Catherine Bateson, University of Queensland Press, 2006 edition). Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House.

Wu Guo, 2009. “Rui’en he Dani’er Chuanchang” (Rain May and Captain Daniel by Catherine Bateson, University of Queensland Press, 2002 edition). Beijing: People’s Literature Publishing House.

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