Contacts

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Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Professional Memberships

• reviewer for the Journal of Qualitative Health Communication

Academic Experience

• B.A., Southwest Minzu Univeristy, China, 2009.09-2013.6
• M.A., Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, 2013.9-2016.6
• Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2019.10-2023.02

Courses Taught

• news translation, interpretation topics, English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation

Research Area / Research Interests

• discourse analysis, health communication, metaphor, translation studies

Recent Major Publications (recent 5 years)

• Huang, X. (2025). Responsibilization of weight management: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of losing weight articles in Chinese official WeChat posts. Critical Discourse Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2025.2453186

• Xiang Huang. (2023). Metaphor, Stance and Obesity in the People’s Daily (2010-2020). In: STANCE, INTER/SUBJECTIVITY AND IDENTITY IN DISCOURSE. Marín-Arrese, J,. Hidalgo-Downing, L., & Zamorano-Mansilla, J.D. (eds) (2023). Peter Lang.
• Xiang Huang. (2022). Book review: Brookes, G. & Baker, P. (2021) Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press. Cambridge University Press. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies, 1(1): 26-29.
• Xiang Huang. (2022). Book review: Brookes, G. & Daniel, H. (eds). Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches. Qualitative Health Communication, 1(1): 151–153.
• Xiang Huang & Mario Bisiada. (2021). Is obesity just a health issue? Metaphorical framings of obesity in the People’s Daily. CADAAD Journal, 13(2). 18−40.
• 莫爱屏，黄祥，官雪梅. (2020). 岭南旅游翻译文本中文化身份构建的语言景观视角. 外语与翻译(03), 33-39+98. [Aiping Mo, Xiang Huang, Xuemei Guan. (2020). Construction of Cultural Identity of Lingnan Culture in the Perspective of Linguistic Landscape: A Case Study of Tourism Translation. Foreign Languages and Translation (03), 33-39+98];