Professor Qian Guanlian

Born on July 15, 1939, in Xiantao City, Hubei Province, China, Qian Guanlian graduated from Department of Foreign Languages of Normal University of Central China in 1962. In 1981-1982, he went to Wuhan University for advanced study of English-American literature, then, in 1983-1984, to Fudan University, Shanghai, also for advanced research in English-American literature, linguistics and stylistics. As visiting professor, he was at work on pragmatics in the Research Center for International Pragmatics Association ( IPrA, located in Antwerp, Belgium ) in 1992-1993. Having successively been supervisor of M.A., vice-editor-in-chief of Modern Foreign Languages, and vice-director of Center for Languages and Cultures of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, he is now being buried in his working on theoretical linguistics, the philosophy of language, pragmatics and aesthetic-linguistics. His academic careers: member of the council of Hubei Linguistic Society (twice), visiting research fellow of IPrA, member of IPrA, vice-president of Profession Committee of China Association of Comparative Study of English-Chinese. Qian is, undoubtedly, among the scholars who distinguished themselves by the originality of his works on linguistics and other topics.

In 2000, Qian was engaged as a full-time professor and, then, supervisor of doctor candidates in linguistics by the National Key Research Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences（located in GdUFS）, on the one hand, a part-time professor of Chongqing University and so on, on the other.

His works published up to now numbered more than 2 million Chinese characters in all including 4 monographs in addition to 60 treatises on linguistics, philosophy of language and pragmatics. He is rated as one of the first authors in China who published works in periodic journals on pragmatics abroad. “ Qian has taken a distinguished place in terms of introducing pragmatics to China from abroad and developing it ”, according to the most influential linguist in China, Professor Wang Zhongyan. He is widely influential in the circle of pragmatics at home. His third monograph, Pragmatics in Chinese Culture is the first one on pragmatics in China, therefore, in the world, based on the Chinese language and culture, having a ready market shortly after its coming off the Tsinghua University Press. In 1999, Qian won the Award of Social Science of Guangdong Province for this work, which was, then（2001）, successfully recommended by the National Education Committee as one of books used for doctor and master degree candidates. His first book The Equivalents of Three Hundred Chinese Expressions sold well all over the country and on Taiwan markets. His second monograph Aesthetic Linguistics: The Beautiful: Language and Speech was ranked among the absolutely original disciplines at home and abroad, so it has drawn the great attention from such media at home (and abroad) as academic periodicals of universities, news papers, journals and TV stations. To it the first rate of 7th Excellent-publications Award of City-publishing-houses was honorably granted.

In addition, he has created works on literature comments and essays amounting to 200 thousand Chinese characters in all.

Modern Foreign Languages (1989-1997/1) （co-）edited by him was rated as one of the most influential periodicals of the three leading universities of foreign studies in China.

Qian has won the special allowance provided by the State Council of central government.

Since 1998, officially invited by Tsinghua University Press, he has been presiding editing a series of books on “New Subdisciplines of Linguistics in Chinese” aiming at transforming linguistics abroad into the Chinese language. In 2000, he was engaged as an adviser for a series of books named Tsinghua English. Also, since 2001, Qian has been leading the project named " Formulated Activities and Their Discourse Patterns-- A pragmatic study of 20 cases of Chinese language-games" ratified by The National Education Committee.