LIU Linqi is an associate professor and academic adviser for MA program in the School of Humanities at BUPT. She was the visiting scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics. She is also a member of China Pragmatics Association and Chinese Association of Cognitive Poetics and Cognitive Literary Studies. Her research interests focus on linguistics and applied linguistics, linguistic theories and practices, pragmatics, and language teaching. In the recent five years, she has published seven (CSSCI) articles, three (international journal and core journals) articles and several articles in conference proceedings. In the meanwhile, she was also invited as session chairs and paper presenters several times in international conferences. As the principal investigator, she is currently leading the following research projects, such as, one project funded by Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Chinese Ministry of Education, eight projects funded by Social Sciences Projects of BUPT, Teaching Reform Projects of BUPT and Commercial Research Funds. She has authored one academic monograph independently, co-authored one translated book and three textbooks.