Zhao Jin (linguist)


Zhao Jin is a Chinese professor of German linguistics and a scholar in cultural-analytical linguistics.

Education and career

Zhao Jin completed her undergraduate study in 1991 and her master's study in 1997 at the Tongji University. She subsequently received a DAAD-scholarship and was awarded a doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg.
Zhao was Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, Diesterweg Research Fellow of the Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of Siegen and war awarded the title "Ten Outstanding Foreign Language Philologists in Shanghai.
Zhao has been a full professor of German Linguistics since 2008 and the dean of department of German since 2013 at the Tongji University. She was a fellow at the Research College Morphomata of the University of Cologne. She is also a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 2019 to 2020.
Zhao was awarded Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2011 and the research Award of Chinese Ministry of Education in 2013.

Main research areas

Zhao has published widely in the fields of language for specific purposes, text linguistics, contrastive linguistics, cultural-analytical linguistics, German-Chinese intercultural communication, LSP didactics and methodology for German as a foreign language and language philosophy. She is a co-editor of the 13-volume proceedings of the XIII. International Germanist Congress Shanghai 2015 "German Language and Literature between Tradition and Innovation" and several other conference proceedings. She is also a co-editor of Peter Lang German Linguistics International series.
Zhao has been researching Wilhelm von Humboldt’s philosophy of language since 2016 and is currently leading the project of translating Humboldt’s work on language philosophy and linguistics into Chinese.

Positions and memberships (selection)

Monographs