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Guying Zhou
Guying Zhou

LecturerBeijing Foreign Studies University

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Guying Zhou

周顾盈(she/her/hers)

Lecturer, Beijing Foreign Studies University

讲师, 北京外国语大学德语学院

My research interests lie in pragmatics, German linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and statistical methods for linguistic research.

Recent work

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  1. In press
    dassBNC2014: Retrieving and mapping directive speech acts in an open-domain corpus of everyday conversations
    Zhou, G., Xu, J.
    International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  2. 2026
    Bridging form and function: An exploratory LLM approach toward automated retrieval of directive speech acts in spoken English
    Zhou, G., Xu, J.
    Journal of Pragmatics, 264, 1–16
  3. 2026
    数智驱动言语行为研究前沿趋势：从语料库检索到大模型微调
    周顾盈、许家金
    外语教学理论与实践, (2), 15–24

Education

  1. 2025
    Ph.D. in Linguistics
    Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Thesis: A corpus-based study of variation in indirectness across English directive speech acts
  2. 2022
    M.A. in German Linguistics
    Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Thesis: Eine multifaktorielle Analyse zur Wahl von anaphorischen Formen im Deutschen
  3. 2019
    B.A. in German
    Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Thesis: Eine kontrastive textpragmatische Analyse von chinesischen und deutschen Berichterstattungen über Chinas Müll-Importstopp

Experience

  1. 2025–
    Lecturer
    School of German Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University
  2. 2024
    Visiting Scholar
    University of California, Santa Barbara

Languages · Skills

Chinese
native
English / German
fluent
R / Python
basic