Hui Shi
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Department of Chinese hui.shi@utu.fi Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: B347 Office Hours: Mon and Wed 2-3 pm or by appointment ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1150-7654 |
Chinese as a second language pedagogy; cognitive linguistics (esp. metaphor and construction grammar); language and gender (e.g., gender socialization); digital media and language; corpus linguistics and quantitative methods.
Chinese as a second language teaching/learning, Chinese social media, metaphor and construction grammar
Heidi Hui Shi (Shí Huì 石慧) obtained her Ph.D. specializing in Chinese linguistics from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon, USA.
She also holds an MA in linguistics from University of Oregon (Eugene, USA), another MA in international studies and East Asian Studies from Sogang University (Seoul, South Korea), and a BA in international economics and trade from Southeast University (Nanjing, China).
From March 2022 to July 2024, she served as a University Lecturer (yliopistonlehtori) of Chinese at UTU School of Language and Translation Studies. Since August 2024, she has been on a tenure track as an Assistant Professor (apulaisprofessori) of Chinese.
Before joining UTU, she was employed by University of Oregon, USA, where she taught East Asian language courses across proficiency levels (Chinese and Korean) and lectured linguistics content courses about East Asian linguistics and their pedagogies.
She has over 16 years of experience teaching Mandarin Chinese as a second or foreign language in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contexts, including China, South Korea, the US, and Finland.
As a linguist, Dr. Shi looks forward to contributing to the study of Chinese language and culture in the US, EU, and beyond. By doing so, her research focuses on facilitating Chinese language and culture instruction by accelerating the exchange of quality scholarship, expertise, and teaching materials.
Her study aims to bridge the gap between theoretical research and in-field Chinese teaching and learning. From a usage-based approach, she explores the interaction between Chinese language phenomena and cognition to provide an empirical basis for teaching and learning the language. She is also dedicated to the study of online neologisms and communications in the digital age, which is an angle to explore the interaction between language, mind and social experiences.
In summary, Dr. Shi’s research interests lie in Chinese as a second language pedagogy; cognitive linguistics (esp. metaphor and construction grammar); language and gender (e.g., gender socialization); digital media and language; corpus linguistics and quantitative methods. She adopts corpus-based and quantitative approaches to language research.
Her research language focus includes Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and English.
Dr. Shi has taught the following courses at UTU:
1. Chinese language courses: basic Chinese II; intermediate Chinese I & II; advanced Chinese I & II; MA classical Chinese (wenyanwen), MA business communication in Chinese
2. Linguistics content courses: Chinese grammar; language variation; interaction and communication in Chinese; language policies and reforms; advanced writing in Chinese
3. Research & thesis seminars: BA proseminar, MA seminar, MA research methodology
4. Strategic funding courses: project management in China and East Asia; Chinese workplace cultures
Dr. Shi is also PhD supervisor who welcomes prospective PhD reseachers.
- Digital Misinformation and Rumor-Busting: Diverse Portrayals Of ‘Beiou Feng’ (Nordic Style) on Chinese Social Media (2024) 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHINESE SOCIOLINGUISTICS Conference Information Book Shi, Hui
(Other publication) - Digital Misinformation and Rumor-Busting: Diverse Portrayals Of ‘Beiou Feng’ (Nordic Style) on Chinese Social Media (2024) AFinLA Autumn Symposium 2024 Abstracts Shi, Hui
(Abstract) - Digital Disinformation and Rumor-Busting: Diverse Interpretations of ‘Beiou Feng’ (Nordic Style) on Chinese Social Media (2023) Abstract book of 18th International Pragmatics Conference Brussels 9-14 July 2023 Shi Hui
(Other publication) - Gender Socialization of Chinese Children: Empirical Evidence from School, Family, and Media (2023) Abstract book of LangGeSex 2023 Shi Hui
(Other publication) - Aspect construal in Mandarin: a usage-based constructionist perspective on LE (2022)
- Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Méi: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture (2022)
- Suomen Soveltavan Kielitieteen Yhdistyksen Afinlan Julkaisuja
(Other publication) - Qinhuai-joelta aurajoelle: Näkökulmia kiinan kielen opettamiseen Turun Yliopistossa (2022)
- Kiina sanoin ja kuvin
(E1 Popularised article) - Affective stance in constructional idioms: A usage-based constructionist approach to Mandarin [you X you Y] (2021)
- Journal of Pragmatics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gender socialization of Chinese children: empirical evidence from school, family, and media (2021) Hui Shi
(G4 Monograph dissertation) - Méi: An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture (2021) Proceedings of the 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland Heidi Hui Shi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Little cutie one piece An innovative human classifier and its social indexicality in Chinese digital culture (2020)
- Chinese language and discourse
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Manual Action Metaphors in Chinese (2020) Corpus-based Research on Chinese Language and Linguistics [Sinica Venetiana] Heidi Hui Shi, Sophia Xiaoyu Liu, Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Bridging usage-based theory, corpus research, and grammar teaching: An innovative approach to le (2019) Proceedings of 2019 CLTA Annual Conference at Seattle, WA, USA Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, S H Hung, Jun Lang, Heidi Hui Shi, Lin Zhu
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Comparing L1 and L2 Chinese vowels: A pilot study of linguistic training in the language classroom. (2019) Proceedings of ACTFL 2019 Annual Convention and World Language Expo, Washington DC, USA. https://www.actfl.org/convention-and-expo Hui Shi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The diminished online persona: A semantic change of Chinese classifier méi on Weibo. (2018) Proceedings of the 20th International Research Conference, Paris, France August 27-28, 2018 Hui Shi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Teaching Chinese collocations: integrating vocabulary and grammar in CSL (2016) Proceedings of 2016 ACTFL Annual Convention and World Language Expo at Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA, USA Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xinjia Peng, Hui Shi, Lin Zhu
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Usage-based constructionist theory and task-based Chinese language teaching (2016) Proceedings of the 2nd CLTA International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning, College Park, MD, USA Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Xingjia Peng, Lin Zhu, Hui Shi
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )