Zhonghan Lin

Zhonghan Lin is a PhD candidate in the School of Education, Communication & Society at King's College London. She serves as one of the doctoral conveners of the Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC) centre's doctoral lab.

Prior to King's, Zhonghan Lin was a Mandarin teacher. She has been teaching non-native speakers across Australia and the UK since 2018, and has experience working with the British Council. Recently, she developed and led a course on 'An Introduction to Mandarin Chinese' at the British Museum.

Research

Her thesis title is: The Study of Family Language Policy Among Diasporic London Chinese. 

Zhonghan's scholarly pursuits encompass ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and family language policy, with a specific focus on Asian diasporic communities and heritage language maintenance. Zhonghan's research investigates the transmission of cultural identity across generations, the interplay between diasporic individuals' linguistic practices and broader societal changes, and the conscious negotiation of language use between parents and children to accommodate their ongoing needs and interests.

Her principal supervisor is Professor Beatrice Szczepek Reed. Professor Constant Leung is her secondary supervisor.

Recent publication:

Zhonghan, L. 2020. A Contrastive Study of Spatial-Temporal Metaphorical Representations in Chinese and English. Modern Linguistic,8(6).