Lecturer
Overview
Dr Chang is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Queensland. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 2013. The PhD thesis is entitled ‘face and face practices in Chinese talk-in-interactions: an empirical analysis of business interactions in Taiwan’, which focuses on the interactional aspect of face in business contexts in Chinese. She is also involved in the research project of Humour in Taiwan funded by Chiang-Ching Kuo foundation for three years (2016-2019), aiming to study the norms and practices of humour in Taiwan.
Research Interests
- Pragmatics
- Intercultural communication
- Applied linguistics
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
Publications
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Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Fukushima, Saeko (2017) ‘Your care and concern are my burden!’: Accounting for the emic concepts of ‘attentiveness’ and ‘empathy’ in interpersonal relationships among Taiwanese females. East Asian Pragmatics, 2 1: . doi:10.1558/eap.33081
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Book Chapter: (Im)politeness and relationality
Ohashi, Jun and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2017). (Im)politeness and relationality. In Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness (pp. 257-285) London, United Kingdom: Springer. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_11
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Book Chapter: Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2017). Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese. In Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun (Ed.), Key issues in Chinese as a second language research (pp. 267-286) New York, United States: Routledge.
Publications
Book
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Face and face practices in Chinese interaction: a study in interactional pragmatics
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody Face and face practices in Chinese interaction: a study in interactional pragmatics. London, United Kingdom: Equinox, 2016.
Book Chapter
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(Im)politeness and relationality
Ohashi, Jun and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2017). (Im)politeness and relationality. In Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness (pp. 257-285) London, United Kingdom: Springer. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_11
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Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2017). Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese. In Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun (Ed.), Key issues in Chinese as a second language research (pp. 267-286) New York, United States: Routledge.
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Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2017). Intercultural communicative competence and emotion among second language learners of Chinese. In Istvan Kecskes and Chaofen Sun (Ed.), Key issues in Chinese as a second language research (pp. 267-286) London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315660264
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Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2015). Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards. In Marta Dynel and Jan Chovanec (Ed.), Participation in public and social media interactions (pp. 99-133) Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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'Face' in Taiwanese business interactions: from emic concepts to emic practices
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2013). 'Face' in Taiwanese business interactions: from emic concepts to emic practices. In Yuling Pan and Daniel Z. Kadar (Ed.), Chinese discourse and interaction (pp. 126-150) Bristol, United Kingdom: Equinox Publishing.
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Collaborative creation of spoken language corpora
Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2013). Collaborative creation of spoken language corpora. In Tim Greer, Donna Tatsuki and Carsten Roever (Ed.), Pragmatics language learning (pp. 133-159) Honolulu, HI, United States: National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Journal Article
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Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Fukushima, Saeko (2017) ‘Your care and concern are my burden!’: Accounting for the emic concepts of ‘attentiveness’ and ‘empathy’ in interpersonal relationships among Taiwanese females. East Asian Pragmatics, 2 1: . doi:10.1558/eap.33081
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"Doing Deference": Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards
Haugh, Michael, Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Kadar, Daniel Z. (2015) "Doing Deference": Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards. Pragmatics, 25 1: 73-98. doi:10.1075/prag.25.1.04hau
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Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2015) Understanding im/politeness across cultures: an interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 53 4: 389-414. doi:10.1515/iral-2015-0018
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Kadar, Daniel Z., Haugh, Michael and Chang, Wei-Lin Melody (2013) Aggression and perceived national face threats in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese CMC discussion boards. Multilingua, 32 3: 343-372. doi:10.1515/multi-2013-0016
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Strategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2011) Strategic embarrassment and face threatening in business interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 12: 2948-2963. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.05.009
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Evaluations of im/politeness of an intercultural apology
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Haugh, Michael (2011) Evaluations of im/politeness of an intercultural apology. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8 3: 411-442. doi:10.1515/iprg.2011.019
