Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Ph.D. (Linguistics): University of Cologne, 2005
Email: zjingsch@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-3199
Office: 242 Straub Hall
Website: http://logos.uoregon.edu/friends/jing-schmidt_index.html

I am interested in languages as a window into human cognition and emotion as well as cultural traditions. Therefore, my research focus is not linguistic structure and meaning per se, but the conceptual significance, psychological grounding and cultural ramifications of language as a tool of communication and a transmitter of culture. My published work on grammatical constructions, lexical semantics, and pragmatics arises from this central concern. I am committed to empirical research and my data are largely drawn from Chinese.