About the Speaker
Chen Yanping is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, a researcher at the China Northeast Asian Language Research Center, a national-level research institution, and a doctoral supervisor in the field of Northeast Asian International Politics and Language Studies. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Language Education and as a Standing Council Member of the Discourse Studies Professional Committee of China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC). Her primary research areas include pragmatics, discourse analysis, and international political linguistics. She has successively led two National Social Science Fund projects, three overseas Korean Studies research projects, and multiple other research initiatives. She has published over 30 papers indexed in CSSCI, KCI, and other databases, among which two have been reprinted by Renmin University's Copy Materials. She has received multiple awards including the Liaoning Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award, the Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Textbook Award, and the Liaoning Provincial Outstanding Talent honor.
Lecture Time and Venue
Time: 19:00–21:00, Thursday, June 25, 2026
Venue: Tencent Meeting 125-408-729
Lecture Title
A Study of Honorifics and Humble Forms in Diplomatic Documents between the Qing Dynasty and the Joseon Dynasty from the Perspective of Interaction Ritual
Lecture Abstract
In the historical exchanges within the East Asian Chinese-character cultural sphere, diplomatic documents served not only as important media for inter-state communication but also as significant vehicles for the co-construction of language, ritual, and political order. Focusing on the Joseon-period collection of Chinese-language diplomatic documents Tongwen Huikao (Compendium of Diplomatic Correspondence), this lecture examines the characteristics and pragmatic functions of honorifics and humble forms in imperial edicts and thanksgiving memorials within Qing-Joseon diplomatic documents from the perspective of interaction ritual. By analyzing the interactive relationship between linguistic forms and diplomatic relations, the lecture further reveals the discursive operational mechanisms and cultural interaction patterns in East Asian historical exchanges. Through in-depth exploration of foreign-held Chinese-language historical documents, it re-examines the cultural value of Chinese characters from an external perspective, thereby expanding new horizons in Sino-Korean linguistic and cultural research.
