Profile

Chuanlin Liao received her PhD from the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University. Her research interests lie in multimodal discourse analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Educational Experience

September 2022-July 2026, PhD in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Peking UniversityPeking University

Work Experience

Since July 2026, Chuanlin Liao has been serving as a Boya Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University.

Research Interests

Multimodal discourse analysis, Systemic Functional linguistics, Media discourse, Linguistic Landscape

Teaching Courses

English vocabulary and AngloAmerican culture

Selected Publications

1.廖传琳、高一虹 (2026).“养老”的指向性意义和秩序——城市与乡镇养老院语言景观比较，语言政策与规划研究 , (1), 202-223.

2.Liao, C. & Luo, Z. (2026). Deploying digital affordance for social media interaction: Users’ metacommunicative reflections on the “tap-tap” function in WeChat messaging. Discourse, Context & Media, 70, 100996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2026.100996

3.Liao, C., & Luo, Z. (2026). Creative appropriation of offline linguistic landscapes on Chinese social media: the case of playful mockery of universities on Sina Weibo. Social Semiotics, 36(3), 410-437.

4.Zhou, F. Liao, C. & Yang, L (2025). Digital writing, recreated orality, and identity: domestication and exoticization of multilingual speech on Chinese social media. Multimodal Communication, 4(1), 7-22.

5.Liao, C. (2024). AINO KOIVISTO, HEIDI VEPSÄLÄINEN & MIKKO T. VIRTANEN. Conversation analytic perspectives to digital interaction: Practices, resources, and affordances. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. 2023. pp. 285. eBook open access, Pb. 45€ (Book note). Language in Society, 53(4), 763-764.

6.高彦梅，李寒冰，廖传琳 (译) (2025). 语篇研究——跨越小句的意义，北京：商务印书馆。

Honors and Awards

The National Scholarship, the Peking University President’s Scholarship for Doctoral Students, the Peking University Liao Kaiyuan Scholarship, the Peking University Academic Innovation Award, the Outstanding Graduate Award, and the Merit Student Award.

Overseas Experience

1. 2025.11 The 3rd International Online Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference 

2. 2024.06 Sociolinguistics Symposium 25

3. 2023.11 The 4th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research

4. 2023.6 The 25th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics