research

Books

• Xu, Q. (2026). Appraisal Approach to Conflict Styles: Computational Mapping of Disputant’s Attitudinal Disposition Patterns in Family Mediations. Springer Nature Singapore. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-6256-5)

Journal articles

• Zhang, D., Xuan, W. W., & Xu, Q. (2026). Theory-informed language descriptions: A systematic review of systemic-functional grammatical descriptions from 2004 to 2024. Lingua, 336, 104160. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104160)
• Xu, Q. (2024). Identifying disputants’ attitudinal variations in family mediations: A data mining approach. Discourse Studies, 26(5), 693–719. (https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241237378)
• Xu, Q., & Jing, Y. (2024). Ambient identity construction via massive anonymous danmu comments. Language Sciences, 104, 101631. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101631) download
• Xu, Q., & Xiao, X. (2024). Deaf translator’s visibility in political discourse: A dialogic positioning perspective. Perspectives, 32(2), 242–260. (https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2022.2130080) download
• Jing, Y., & Xu, Q. (2023). Danmu video as the resemiotised: An attitudinal analysis of Home Visit. Media, Culture & Society, 45(4), 753–768. (https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231158514) download
• Xu, Q., & White, P. R. R. (2021). ‘My husband always crosses the line’: Textual identity and presentation of ‘the self’ in family conflict communication. Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 12(2), 52–73. (https://doi.org/10.22055/RALS.2021.17009) download
• Xu, Q., & Chen, J. (2020). 数据科学视角下的评价话语分析：以冲突话语中会话者评价风格识别为例. 天津外国语大学学报, 27(6), 24–38. (Appraisal-based discourse analysis through the lens of Data Science: Identifying evaluative styles in adversarial interactions. Journal of Tianjing Foreign Studies University. download
• Xu, Q. (2013). “情景模拟”在商务英语教学中的应用. 《厦门大学学报》外语及教学研究专辑, 12, 108–120. (Teaching Business English to Pre-Experienced Undergraduates with Simulation. Journal of Xiamen University (Special Issue: Foreign Languages Teaching and Research))
• Xu, Q. (2007). 词汇语法拼写校对软件——功能语法的应用实例. 天津外国语大学学报, 14(2), 49–54.(A lexicogorammar-based spelling checker: Application of Functional Grammar. Journal of Tianjing Foreign Studies University) download

Edited Volumes

• Song, J., Guan, X., & Xu, Q. (2015). 英语戏剧教材（上册）. 厦门大学出版社. (English Drama Course (I)) Xiamen University Press.
• Li, Y., & Xu, Q. Trans. (2012). 让宝宝着迷的美国宝宝创意玩法大全. 现代出版社. (365 Creative Games and Activities to Occupy Your 3 to 6 Year-old). Modern Press.
• Lv, H., Zhou, J., & Xu, Q. (2011). 文化创意产业翻译. 外文出版社. (Translation of Culture and Creative Industries) Foreign Languages Press.
• Huang, H., & ** Xu, Q*. (2010). *英语应用文. 对外经贸大学出版社. (The Write Way – Practical English Writing. University of International Business and Economics Press.)
• Huang, H. et al. (2007). 职业英语系列——物流英语. 高等教育出版社. (Vocational English: Logistics English) Higher Education Press.

Book chapters

• Xu, Q. (2024). 基于话语观的公共外语课程思政教学模式建构及实践研究. In 高等教育教学实践探索:厦门大学解决方案 (pp. 94-105). 厦门大学出版社. (A Model for Ideological and Political Education in College Foreign Language Courses: A Discourse Perspective. In Exploring Teaching Practices in Higher Education: Xiamen University Solution Xiamen University Press.)
• Xu, Q. (2019). 基于美国初级阶段汉语学习者中介语的评价性语言研究. In 江桂英 (Ed.), 公共外语教学与研究 (pp. 221–232). 厦门大学出版社. (Language of evaluation in interlanguage: Evidence from writings by beginning learns of Chinese in the US. In Jiang G. (Ed.) Foreign Languages Teaching and Research. Xiamen University Press.)
• Xu, Q. (2007). 从大学英语教学向双语教学过渡. In 詹树魁、李美华(Ed.),大学英语教学论文集 (pp.73-81). 厦门大学出版社. (Transitting from College English Teaching to Bilingual Education. In Zhan S. & Li M. (Ed.) Collective Papers in College English Education. Xiamen University Press.)

Conference/seminar Presentations/ Invited talks

• 2026, July. Unpacking Attitudinal Disposition Stability from a Logogenetic Perspective. The 51st International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC2026), Hong Kong, China.
• 2024, November. The Appraisal framework and its applications in discourse analysis. Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, China.
• 2024, July. Can Generative AI models replace human teachers in English for Academic Purposes (EAP)?: An Appraisal perspective The 49th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC2024), Sydney, Australia.
• 2023, November. 当评价理论遇到R——基于数字人文方法的话语分析. 系统功能语言学与认知语言学互鉴、融合与创新, 对外经济贸易大学, Beijing, China.
• 2023, Noverber. Deaf Translator’s Dialogic Positioning in Chinese Sign Language Translation. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Annual Conference 2023, Wollongong, Australia.
• 2023, November. 生成式人工智能模型能否取代学术英语课程(EAP)中的真人教师？——评价资源视角. 第十八届功能语言学学术研讨会, 中山大学, Zhuhai, China.
• 2022, December. 语言学研究中的数据结构化——以基于中国自然手语的研究为例. 第十五届研究生学术研讨会, 厦门大学, Xiamen, China.- 2021, December. 态度与话语身份：婚姻调解对话中冲突双方的自我呈现. 外文学院青年学者沙龙第十四期, 厦门大学, Xiamen, China.
• 2021, June. Variability in the spouses’ construal of attitudinal disposition in family dispute resolutions. SFL Friday seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• 2019, December. Semantic variation in evaluative meaning making: Evaluative style in family dispute resolution reality TV shows. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2019, Sydney, Australia.
• 2019, December. The presentation of self via evaluative language: Evaluative styles in family dispute resolution reality TV programs. The 7th New Zealand Discourse Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
• 2019, October. The presentation of self via evaluative meaning-making in family dispute mediations. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Annual Conference 2019, Sydney, Australia.
• 2019, July. Colloquium: Issues in the conceptualisation and analysis of social identity and discursive persona. The 46th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC2019), Santiago, Chile. (With Peter R.R. White and Alexanne Don)
• 2019, July. Parameters of variation: The presentation of self via evaluative meaning-making. The 46th International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC2019), Santiago, Chile.
• 2018, September. Are They Talking Past Each Other?”– Axiological Cosmology Analysis of Conflict Talk in Mandarin Reality TV Show. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Annual Conference 2018, Adelaide, Australia.

Grants & Fundings

Principal Investigator

• 福建省哲学社会科学规划项目：数据挖掘支撑的福建聋人译者话语身份研究 (Fujian Deaf translator’s discursive identity construction: A data mining approach; Grant# FJ2022B050; Fujian Federation of Social Sciences; 2022-2025)
• 厦门大学首批AI赋能课程教学改革创新校级项目：全球胜任力培养背景下AI教学工具辅助公共外语教学的实践研究 (Xiamen University AI-enabled Curriculum Education Reform Project; Xiamen University; 2024-2025)
• 厦门大学教学改革研究项目（教材研究专项）：新形态大学英语说理教材的结构性短缺与自主原创性资源填补策略研究 (Xiamen University Education Reform Research Project (Textbook Research Special); Grant# JG20240901; Xiamen University; 2024-2027)
• 厦门大学课程思政教学研究项目：话语观视角下的公共外语课程思政教学实施路径研究 (Xiamen University Course Ideological and Political Education Research Project; Grant# JG20230808; Xiamen University; 2023-2024)

Co-Principal Investigator/Project Member

• 国家社科基金中华学术外译项目：《中国古典美学》（英文版) (National Social Science Fund Project for Chinese Academic Translation: ‘Classical Chinese Aesthetics’ (English Version); Grant# 23WZWB004; The National Social Science Fund of China; 2024-2027)
• 教育部青年基金项目：教育数字化背景下高校外语空间教学建构机制和效果路径研究 (Research on the Construction Mechanism and Effectiveness Pathways of Space Teaching in Foreign Languages in Higher Education under the Background of Digital Education; Grant#24XJC740007; Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Grant; 2024-2027)
• 教育部青年基金项目：中国新能源话语的多模态叙事策略与国际传播优化研究 (Research on Multimodal Narrative Strategies of China’s New Energy Discourse and Optimization of International Communication; Grant# 24YJC740021; Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Grant; 2024-2027)
• 厦门大学美育与通识教育一流课程建设：手语轻松入门 (Xiamen University First-Class Course Development in Aesthetic Education and General Education: Easy Introduction to Sign Language; Xiamen University; 2022-2025)
• 国家社科基金一般项目：手语翻译教育的中国模式研究 (Towards a Sign Language Translator/Interpreter Training Model; PI: Xiaoyan XIAO; Grant# 19BYY105; The National Social Science Fund of China; 2019-2022)
• 中残联手语盲文项目：习近平治国理政高频词句手语翻译术语库建设 (Translating key terms from the Chinese national leader’s political speeches into Chinese Sign Language; PI: Xiaoyan XIAO; Grant# CLS2019-04; China Disabled People’s Federation; 2019-2022)
• 厦门大学繁荣哲学社会科学计划：语篇语料库（2014年） (Xiamen University Prosperity in Philosophy and Social Sciences Program: Discourse Corpus; Xiamen University, 2014)
• 福建省中青年教师教育科研项目A类课题：戏剧英语教材 (Fujian Province Education Research Project for Young and Middle-Aged Teachers, Category A: Drama English Textbook; Grant# JA13692S; Fujian Provincial Department of Education; 2013-2015)

Awards and Honors

• 福建省级高层次人才 (Accredited talent at the provincial level) (Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Fujian Province, 2022)
• 厦门市高层次留学人员 (Overseas talent at the municipal level) (Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Xiamen Municipal Government, 2021)
• University International Postgraduate Award (University of New South Wales, 2017-2021)
• Faculty Top-Up Scholarship (University of New South Wales, 2017-2021)
• HDR Completion scholarship (University of New South Wales, 2021)
• HDR Faculty Supported Research Funding (University of New South Wales, 2018, 2019)
• Best Teacher of the Year (Confucius Institute at the University of Delaware, 2016, 2017)
• 3rd Prize, 2014 Cambridge English Star Teacher Competition (British Council, 2014)
• 厦门大学2014年度奖教金 (Excellent Teacher Award) (Xiamen University, 2014)
• 厦门大学“我最喜爱的十位老师” (My Top 10 Favourite Teachers Award) (Xiamen University, 2013)