Dr ZHAO Qingqing's Story

Dr ZHAO Qingqing
PhD Graduate (2018) from the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

ZHAO Qingqing was previously a PhD student at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, supervised by Prof. HUANG Chu-Ren. She obtained her PhD degree in 2018 and her thesis entitled “Synaesthesia, Metaphor, and Cognition: A Corpus-Based Study on Synaesthetic Adjectives in Mandarin Chinese” received the Faculty’s Distinguished Thesis Award for PhD Students 2017/2018. Dr. Zhao is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Linguistics in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Her main research interests are lexical semantics and cognitive linguistics, topics on which she has published one book and more than ten papers in high-impact SCI/SSCI journals and prestigious CSSCI journals, including Linguistics, PLoS ONE, Lingua, Zhongguoyuwen, and so forth.