Name:

CAI Huaxiang

Email:

475667729@qq.com

Research direction:

Chinese Dialectology；Bibliolinguistics

Personal introduction: (text description about 500 words)

Cai Huaxiang（蔡华祥）, male, Yancheng, Jiangsu, born in 1981. A professor in the Department of Chinese at Jiangnan University, a subject leader in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and a supervisor of master's degree students. Studied in the Department of Chinese at Soochow University in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Wang Ping（汪平）, and entered the Postdoctoral Station of the Department of Chinese at Nanjing University in 2016 under the supervision of Professor Gu Qian（顾黔）.

Engaged in the investigation and research of Chinese dialects for more than 20 years, including Wu, Hui, Gan, Jin dialects, and Jiang-huai mandarin. Have presided over more than 30 projects and participated in major national projects such as the Chinese Language Protection Project, Linguistic Atlas of Chinese Dialects、Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chinese Dialectology etc. Has published works such as Map of the Rugao dialect、Wujiang Dialect Journal、A Study of the Yancheng Dialect、Compilation of Language Resources in Jiangsu (Nantong and Yancheng volumes) etc. Has published 31 papers in Chinese and foreign journals such as Studies of the Chinese Language、Dialect、Chinese Linguistics、The Collected Works of Chinese Language and Literature [Korea], etc. In 2017, been selected as one of the outstanding young backbone teachers of the "Qing Lan Project" of Colleges and universities in Jiangsu; the executive director of the Linguistic Society of Jiangsu Province, a part-time researcher of the Institute of Dialect and Culture of Nanjing University, an expert in the appraisal of the results of the project completed by the National Social Science Foundation, and an expert in Chinese language education in Jiangsu Province, a reviewer for Macrolinguistics of Nanjing University.

Learning Experience:

Master's Degree: 2005, majoring in Chinese Language and Literature, Jiangsu Normal University, China

PhD: 2008, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Soochow University

Postdoctoral: 2016, Chinese Language and Literature，Nanjing University

Research projects conducted in the last five years (Max. 5 items)

1. 2019, Research on the way, steps, laws and development trend of contact evolution between Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi’s Jiang-huai mandarin and neighbouring dialects, 19ZDA307, sub-project of the major project of National Social Science Foundation of China.

2. 2020, Study on the co-temporal distribution and ephemeral evolution of body markers of Jiangsu dialects, 2020SJZDA010, Major Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Jiangsu Universities, 100,000 yuan.

3. 2020, History of Wu dialect, 19WMB084, Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund special general project of cultural lineage, 60,000 yuan.

4. 2023, Research on the Construction of Wuxi Dialect History from the Perspective of Historical Linguistics, WXSK23-C-102, Annual Wuxi Philosophy and Social Science Excellence Project.

5. 2023, Jiangsu Oral Culture Corpus Transcription (Wuxi, etc.), 2023YYWZ, Jiangsu Provincial Language and Literature Working Committee.

Representative academic papers (Max. 5 papers)

1. Cai Huaxiang(蔡华祥), The Suffixes "儿" and "儿+子" in Dongtai Dialect, Studies of the Chinese Language, No.3, 2014.

2. Cai Huaxiang(蔡华祥), "喽" in Fengxian Dialect, Studies of the Chinese Language, No.3, 2016.

3. Cai Huaxiang(蔡华祥), Addition of "子" to number words in the Bufeng dialect of Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Dialect, No.1, 2008.

4. Cai Huaxiang(蔡华祥), The Questioning Inflection of Yancheng Dialect in Jiangsu Province, Journal of Chinese Language, Vol.1, No.1, 2008.

5. Cai Huaxiang(蔡华祥)， A Study of the Yancheng Dialect, Jiangsu Dialect Research Series, edited by Bao Mingwei (鲍明炜) and Gu Qian (顾黔), Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju (中华书局), 2011.