From October 27th to 29th, 2023, the 9th Discourse Linguistics Symposium and the 7th Daxia Interdisciplinary Linguistics Forum, sponsored by the National Association of Discourse Linguistics and hosted by the School of Foreign Languages of East China Normal University, were held in Minhang Campus. The theme of this academic event is “Integration, Innovation and Development of Discourse Linguistics in the New Era”, which attracted more than 150 foreign language teachers and graduate students from colleges and universities nationwide.

The forum invited eight renowned experts and scholars to make keynote speeches and academic dialogues:

1. “Research on Human-Computer dialogue under the threshold of human verbal communication” by Prof. Li Zowen, Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Human Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University

2. “The legitimating effects of proximization in discourses of public health crisis: An experimental study” by Professor Zhang Hui, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing Normal University

3. “Discerning the vein of abnormal discourse phenomenon” by Prof. Du Shihong, College of Foreign Languages, Southwest University

4. “Discourse from the perspective of communication” by Prof. Xiang Mingyou, School of English, University of International Business and Economics

5. “The construction and persuasion function of metaphor in discourse” by Prof. Wen Xu, College of Foreign Languages, Southwest University, China

6. “The discourse analysis of ecocriticism on the rhetoric of “Bleaching Green” by Prof. Miao Xingwei, School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Normal University

7. “The systemic functional model of textbook discourse research” by Prof. Yang Yanning, School of Foreign Languages, East China Normal University

8. “A discourse perspective analysis of social media boastful communication” by Prof. Ren Wei, School of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

In the discussion session of the expert forum, young teachers and master and doctoral students from various universities, with their research interests, had a warm academic discussion with the experts.