There are 10 teachers in Centre for Linguistic Studies, including 4 professors, 5 associate professors, 4 teachers with doctoral degrees, including 1 returnee doctor, and 8 teachers with overseas study experience. The center offers more than 10 graduate courses such as “Pragmatics”, “Linguistic Statistics”, “Functional Linguistics”, and “Introduction to Terminology”, and carries out the talent training of more than 30 graduate students in linguistics.  

The teachers of the center have undertaken 1 project of the National Social Science Foundation and more than 50 provincial and ministerial projects. They have published more than 170 papers, including 5 in SSCI, more than 10 in CSSCI, and more than 20 in national Chinese core journals. Teachers have published 5 monographs and 3 translations and have won Heilongjiang Provincial Advanced Individual Teacher Ethics Awards, Heilongjiang Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards and more than 20 scientific research awards at or above the provincial level.

The highlights of the center’s research interests are pragmatics and applied linguistics. Professor Mao Yansheng, an academic leader and doctoral supervisor in the field of pragmatics, is a well-known expert in the field of pragmatics research and a reviewer of more than 30 high-impact journals at home and abroad. In recent years, he has supervised graduate students to publish many papers in SSCI and core journals, and guided 5 students to be admitted to Nanjing University, Tongji University, Southeast University and other well-known universities to study for doctoral degrees. Professor Xi Hongmei leads the Applied Linguistics team to focus on the intersection of second language acquisition theory and practice, pedagogy, second language acquisition and functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and ecolinguistics. The Interdisciplinary Research Branch of Second Language Acquisition of Heilongjiang Foreign Language Chinese Society, sponsored by the School of Foreign Studies, is an important base for applied linguistics research and leads the development of foreign language teaching in colleges and universities in the new era.