Zhen Pan visiting scholar at the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam
Next week, Zhen Pan will arrive in Amsterdam to visit the Metaphor Lab for a couple of months as a visiting scholar.
Zhen Pan, is an English associate professor in School of Foreign Studies, Jiangsu Normal University, China. He has graduated from East China Normal University (ECNU, in Shanghai) with a Ph. D. degree with a dissertation concerning the transmission of traditional Chinese emotions in 2011. He is also a director of Jiangsu Academic Society of Translators and Interpreters, China Cognitive Linguistics Association and China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese.
His academic interest is cognitive linguistics. And his research now focuses on emotional constructions and their cognitive mechanism like metaphotonymy. It is a fact that different emotional constructions, with the connotation of profound emotional culture, can be used to express definite human emotions. Therefore, his research begins with the analysis of the language of natural emotions (like happiness, anger, sadness and so on) both in Chinese and English, carries out the comprehensive and in-depth study on the various emotional constructions together with their traditional cultures, and compares and contrasts the Chinese and western transmissions of emotions together with their cognitive and national cultural motives. His research aims at the deeper understanding of the cognitive mechanism in emotional languages and the comprehensive construction of emotional culture systems.
On Tuesday 17 November, he will present his work during a research meeting.