Email

changpenghuan@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 9295

Office

E21-4063

Consultation Hours

  • Tuesday: 14:00-15:00
  • Wednesday: 11:00-12:00

Changpeng HUAN

Introduction

Dr Changpeng Huan joined the University of Macau as Associate Professor of English Linguistics in 2025. Prior to this appointment, he was Full Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he directed the “Artificial Intelligence + Foreign Languages” undergraduate curriculum-reform initiative and was Program Director of the Minor in Language Data Science. He currently serves on the editorial boards of two SSCI-indexed journals – Social Semiotics and Journal of Language and Politics.

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Changpeng-Huan

Education

Changpeng Huan earned his PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia, in 2015, under the supervision of the late Emeritus Professor Christopher N. Candlin.

Research Interests

My work sits at the intersection of discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and natural-language processing. Methodologically, I am intrigued by building and interrogating large textual (and increasingly multimodal) corpora with Python-based NLP tools to uncover systematic patterns in language use. My current foci include

  • news and social media discourse studies
  • corpus construction, annotation, and text mining
  • national image and brand communication
  • conversation analysis

I welcome enquiries from research students whose projects engage critically with any of the above areas.

Courses Regularly Taught

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Analyzing Spoken Discourse
  • Corpus Linguistics

  • Executive board member, Professional Committee of Discourse Studies. 中國英漢語比較研究會話語研究專業委員會
  • Executive board member, Foreign Language Education. 中國英漢語比較研究會外語教育學專業委員會

Books

  • Huan, C. Data-driven Approaches to Discourse Studies. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press. [Textbook]
  • Wang, G. & Huan. 2025. Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies. Singapore: Routledge. [Edited Volume]
  • Caple, H., Huan, & M. Bednarek. 2020. Multimodal News Analysis Across Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Huan, C. Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News. Singapore: Springer.

Research articles and book chapters

2024

  • Ye, J., Huan & H. Su. 2024. Local Grammar Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on the Discursive Representation of Climate Change in the UN News. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12652 [SSCI, Linguistics]
  • Xia, Y. & Huan*. 2024. Fair or Biased? A Corpus-Based Study of Australia’s Early COVID-19 Media Representation of China. Social Semiotics. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2024.2341394. [SSCI, Q2, Linguistics]
  • Li, W. & Huan. 2024. Review of Qualitative Research Using Social Media. Discourse & Communication, 18(2), 341-343. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]

2023

  • Huan, C. Politicized or popularized? News values and news voices in China’s and Australia’s media discourse of climate change. Critical Discourse Studies. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2200194 [SSCI, Q3, Linguistics]
  • Wang, G. & Huan*. 2023. Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies. Critical Discourse Studies. DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2198725. [SSCI, Q3, Linguistics]
  • Huan, C. China opportunity or China threat? A corpus-based study of China’s image in Australian news discourse. Social Semiotics. DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2023.2196716 [SSCI, Q2, Linguistics]

2022

  • Huan, C. & X. Guan. The discourse and translation turns of China’s image studies —Using Python-informed and bibliometric methods to map research trends (1994—2021). TEFLE, 1:56-62, 109. [CSSCI]
  • Wei, R. & Huan. 2022. The language of violent jihad. New Media & Society, 24(10): 2376–2378. [SSCI, Q1, Communication]
  • Li, W., & Huan. 2022. News Values from an Audience Perspective. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. DOI: 10.1386/ajms_00077_5.

2021

  • Bednarek, M., H. Caple, & Huan. 2021. Computer-based analysis of news values: A case study on national day reporting. Journalism Studies, 22(6): 702-722. [SSCI, Q1, Communication]
  • Huan, C. & Deng. 2021. Partners or predators? A corpus-based study of China’s image in South African media. African Journalism Studies, 42(3): 34-50. [SSCI, Q4, Communication]
  • Huan, C., Deng, & Napak-on Sritrakarn. 2021. The Bangkok Blast as a finger-pointing blame game: How attitudinal positioning construes a divided polity. Journal of Language and Politics, 20(4): 493–514. [SSCI, Q3, Linguistics]

2020

  • Huan, C., & X. Guan. 2020. Sketching landscapes in discourse analysis (1978-2018): A bibliometric study. Discourse Studies, 22 (6): 679-719. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]

2019

  • Deng, M., & Huan. 2019. War and its ideologies: a social-semiotic theory and description. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(5): 589-591. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]
  • Huan, C. The Language of Brexit: How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union. Discourse & Communication, 13(5): 583-586. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]

2018

  • Huan, C. Evaluating news actors in Chinese hard news reporting: Language patterns and social values. Text & Talk, 38(1): 23-46. [SSCI, Q4, Linguistics]
    • Bednarek, M. & Huan. 2018. Key principles in Appraisal studies. Foreign Languages Research, (1):39-45. [CSSCI]
    • Huan, C. News production and attribution construction in Chinese local press: A progression analysis. In Marcel Burger (Ed.) Investigating Journalism Practices, pp. 75-94. Lausanne: Université de Lausanne.
    • Huan, C. The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(1): 312-314. [SSCI, Q2, Communication]

2017

  • Huan, C. The Strategic Ritual of Emotionality in Chinese and Australian Hard News: A Corpus-based Study. Critical Discourse Studies, 14(5): 461-479. [SSCI, Q3, Linguistics]
  • Zhang, Z., D. Perrin, & Huan, 2017. Soft power in the newsroom: Media mindsets as limiters of China’s media strategies in Europe. In Gabriele Balbi, Jiang Fei and Giuseppe Richeri (eds.) China and the Global Media Landscape. Remapping and Remapped. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2016

  • Huan, C. Leaders or readers, whom to please? News values in the transition of the Chinese press. Discourse Context & Media, 13: 114-121. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]
  • Huan, C. Journalistic engagement patterns and power relations: Corpus evidence from Chinese and Australian hard news reporting. Discourse & Communication, 10(2): 137-156. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]
    • Huan, C. Introducing a discursive approach to news values. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 9(5): 26-32.
    • Huan, C. Negotiating risk in Chinese and Australian print media hard news reporting on food safety: A corpus-based study. In Crichton, J., Candlin, C.N. & Firkins, A. (eds.) Communicating Risk, pp. 245-266. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • C. 2016. Linguistic ethnography: Interdisciplinary explorations. Applied Linguistics, 37: 587-590. [SSCI, Q1, Linguistics]

2015

  • Huan, C. & Wu, C. 2015. Appraisal framework: Its history, status quo and future development. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 4:15-22,42.
  • Huan, C. The linguistics of newswriting. Discourse & Communication, 9(1): 135-138. [SSCI, Q4, Communication]

2014

  • Huan, C. Stance and voices in academic writing. Discourse & Society, 25(6): 814-816. [SSCI, Q3, Communication]

2013

  • Huan, C. News discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, (5): 103-104. [SSCI, Q2, Linguistics]
  • Huan, C. 2013. Conference Report: The first APPRAISAL symposium. Journal of Contemporary Linguistics [CSSCI]