Životopis

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Name: Wei-lun Lu

  Date of birth: 18 Feb, 1977

  Place of birth: Taipei, Taiwan

  Married (number of children: 2)

Department

• Department of Chinese Studies

Employment - Position

• Associate Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• Docent in General and Diachronic Linguistics (2023)

  Ph.D. in Linguistics, National Taiwan University (2011)

  B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (2000)

Employment history

• 3.2023-present Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

  7.2018-2.2023 Assistant Professor, Language Center and Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

  4.2013-12.2020 Resesarcher, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

  09.2011-08.2012 Visiting Researcher, Leiden University Center for Linguistics

Teaching Activities

• Anthropology of China

  Intercultural Communication

  Academic Chinese

  Basic Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Language, Culture and Mind

  Cultural Linguistics for Chinese Majors

  Summer School of Linguistics in Dačice, 2014

  Summer School of Chinese Linguistics in Olomouc, 2014

Scientific and Research Activities

• Virtual Theatre as a New Medium of Understanding Culture/Virtuální divadlo jako nové médium poznávání kultury (Technology Agency of the Czech Republic/SIGMA/TQ01000265)

  Employment of Best Young Scientists for International Cooperation Empowerment (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0037)

  The Language of Death in Contemporary Taiwan: Evidence from Condolatory Idioms, Presidential Eulogies and the Self-introductions of Undertakers (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange)

Internship

• Fulbright scholar to Rice University, the U.S.A. (8.2008-5.2009)

  Postdoc Fellowship to Leiden University, the Netherlands (9.2011-8.2012)

  Long-term Fellowship to National Chengchi University, Taiwan (5.2014-6.2014)

  Long-term Fellowship to Leiden University, the Netherlands (7.2014-8.2014)

  Long-term Fellowship to Northumbria University, the U.K. (9.2014-10.2014)

Activities Outside University

• Review Editor of Review of Cognitive Linguistics (John Benjamins)

  Editorial Board of Cognitive Linguistic Studies (John Benjamins)

  Editorial Board of International Journal of Language and Culture (John Benjamins)

  Editorial Board of Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education (Springer)

  Editorial Board of Studia Orientalia Slovaca (Comenius University Press)

  Editorial Board of Acta Linguistica Asiatica (University of Ljubljana Press)

  Council Member of European Association of Chinese Teaching

Awards Related to Science and Research

• Young Scholars Award 2015 (European Association for Taiwan Studies)

2025/05/05