Hongyin Tao (Phd in linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara 1993) is professor and coordinator of the Chinese language program of the ALC Department. He also holds a zero-time joint appoinment with the Applied Linguistics and TESL Department at UCLA. Prior to UCLA, he taught at the National University of Singapore and Cornell University. His areas of expertise include Mandarin discourse and grammar (e.g., Units in Mandarin Conversation: Prosody, Discourse, and Grammar, John Benjamins, 1996); language and society and culture (e.g. Current Trends in Sociolinguistics (in Chinese, co-authered with D. Xu and T. Xie, 2nd edition, Zhongguo Sheke, 2004); applied linguistics (e.g., heritage language learning and research), and corpus linguistics (e.g. as co-coordinator of the US component of the International Corpus of Engoish (ICE), the UCLA Corpus of Written Chinese and the Lancaster-Los Angeles Corpus of Spoken Chinese).
Recent projects include epistemic stance marking in spoken Mandarin (supported by the UCLA Academic Senate) and a US Department of Education sponsored project for advanced language teaching (being the director of the Chinese project at CALPER, Penn State University). He is on a number of editorial boards, including the Routledge Frequency Dictionaries series, the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, and the Heritage Language Journal. Professor Tao’s most recent articles have appeared in Language, Journal of Chinese Language and Computing, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of English Linguistics, Studies in Language, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
For more information, please visit his home page at:
http://ht37.bol.ucla.edu/.