People
Faculty
LuMing Mao
Titles
- Professor
- Guest Professor of English at Shanghai University
Education
- Ph. D., University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), August 1992
- M.A., University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), January 1989
- B.A., East China Normal University, July 1982
Teaching Interests
- History of rhetorics and comparative rhetoric
- Ethnic rhetoric, Chinese American rhetoric, and Chinese rhetoric
- Writing in multi-cultural spaces
- Pragmatics, politeness study, and speech act theory
- World Englishes and minority language
Research Interests
- Comparative rhetoric and Chinese rhetoric
- Asian American, especially Chinese American, rhetoric
- Writing in multi-cultural spaces
- Protest rhetoric
- Pragmatics and critical discourse analysis
Selected Publications
- “‘Why Don’t We Speak with an Accent?’: Practicing Interdependence-in-Difference.” Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Ed. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Matsuda. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2009.
- Searching for Tertium Quid in Global Contact Zones: Chinese Rhetoric Retold. A special issue scheduled to appear in the November, 2009 issue of College English (guest-editor).
- Double Trouble: Seeing Chinese Rhetoric through Its Own Lens. A special symposium scheduled to appear in the June, 2009 issue of College Composition and Communication (co-edited with C. Jan Swearingen).
- Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2008 (co-edited with Morris Young).
- “Studying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presenting the Native’s Point of View.” College English 69.3 (January 2007): 216-37. 2007. Winner of the Richard Ohmann Award for the outstanding essay published in College English that “makes the most significant contribution to scholarship, research, theory, or pedagogy in English Studies.”
- Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006.
- “Principles and Rules.” Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd ed. Ed. Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005. Vol. 10. 103-105.
- ”Rhetorical Borderlands: Chinese American Rhetoric in the Making.” College Composition and Communication 56 (2005): 422-65.
- “Uniqueness or Borderlands?: The Making of Asian American Rhetorics.” Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 2004. 46-55.
- “Foreign Language Education in the PRC: A Brief Overview.” (co-authored with Yue Min) Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China. Ed. Minglang Zhou. Boston: Kluwer, 2004. 319-29.
- “Reflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative Rhetoric.” Style 37 (Winter 2003): 401-25.
- “Re-clustering Traditional Academic Discourse: Alternating with Confucian Discourse.” ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Ed. Helen Fox, Christopher Schroeder, and Patricia Bizzell. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 2002. 112-25.
- “What's in a Name? That Which Is Called ‘Rhetoric’ Would in the Analects Mean ‘Participatory Discourse.’” Festschrift. Ed. Anna A. Grotans, et al. Goeppinger: Verlag, 2001. 506-22.
- “What to Say to Someone Who Pays for Your Service: The Use of Address Terms in the Service Industry in Shanghai.” Chicago Linguistics Society Proceedings (35) 2000: 81-88.
- “Social Implicature and Chinese First Person Pronouns.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (1996): 106-28.
- “Understanding Self and Face through Compliment Responses.” Language and Culture in Multilingual Societies: Issues and Attitudes. Ed. Makhan L Tickoo. Singapore: Regional Language Centre, 1995. 209-26.
- “‘Individualism’ or ‘Personhood:’ A Battle of Locution or Rhetorics.” Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literracy. Ed. John Fred Reynolds. Erlbaum, 1995. 127-35.
- “Metadiscourse.” Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1995. 437-38.
- “Discourse Analysis: Applications and Implications.” Pragmatics and Cognition 3 (2) (1995): 365-76.
- “Beyond Politeness Theory: ‘Face’ Revisited and Renewed.” Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1994): 451-86.
- “Idioms, Intertextuality, and Rhetorical Significances.” Textual Studies in Canada 4 (1994): 53-68.
- “I Conclude Not: Toward a Pragmatic Account of Metadiscourse.” Rhetoric Review 11 (1993): 265-89. (The essay was named Outstanding Essay of the year.)
- “Invitational Discourse and Chinese Identity.” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 3 (1992): 79-96.
Work in Progress
LuMing Mao is currently working on two projects. He is co-editing, with Robert Hariman, Susan Jarratt, Andrea Lunsford, and Jacqueline Jones Royster, The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing (under contract with Norton). He is also starting a new book-length project which aims to theorize the yin-yang rhetoric in ancient China and to illustrate its discursive presences in transcultural and transnational contact zones.