Wenhui Yang is currently a Professor and Vice Dean at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and a research fellow of Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, GDUFS. Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics, she is also the General Secretary of Committee for Teaching Instruction of MOE (Ministry of Education) Training Centers for Overseas Studies. Her research interests include discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, and communication studies. She has published over 40 academic papers and books internationally and domestically, including the book
A Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Business Negotiations (2009, Science Press) and the paper "
Small Talk" --
A Strategic Interaction in Chinese Interpersonal Business Negotiation (2012, Communication & Discourse). She is the Chairperson of a research program supported by the MOE Research Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, China, on
Empirical Cross-cultural Studies on Social Discourses and Their Cognitive Frames (14JJD740011).