Lihe Huang
@tongji.edu.cn
A/Prof, School of Foreign Languages & Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care
Tongji University
A/Prof. Dr. Lihe Huang is Vice-Chair of School Council, Deputy Director of Research Ethics Committee of School of Foreign Languages, General Secretary of Research Center for Ageing, Language and Care, and Deputy Director of Institute of Linguistics and Multimodality in Tongji University. As one of the leading young scholars in multimodal study and gerontolinguistics in China, He has published widely in multimodal pragmatics, ageing and language and foreign language education and undertaken several research projects granted by different institutions. Lihe Huang is Humboldt Fellow of Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Honorary Postgraduate (Research Degree) Supervisor in the University of Liverpool and he conducted research at several world-class universities. He has received several honors and awards both at home and abroad for his academic and teaching performance or social service.
EDUCATION
In June 2007, Lihe Huang graduated with Bachelor Degree in English Language and Literature from English Department at Tongji University; from September 2004 to July 2006, he minored in Law at Fudan University; In March 2010, he graduated with MA Degree in Linguistics from English Department at Tongji University; In February 2016, he graduated with Doctorate in Linguistics from English Department at Tongji University. He is a visiting scholar at University of Cologne, University of Bremen, Technical University of Darmstadt, Brigham Young University, Academia Sinica and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As one of the leading young scholars in multimodal study and gerontolinguistics in China, Lihe Huang has published widely in multimodal pragmatics, ageing and language and foreign language education and undertaken several research projects granted by different institutions.
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Jingjing Yang and Lihe Huang
Elsevier BV
Lihe Huang, Huiyu Qu, and Deyu Zhou
Frontiers Media SA
This paper explores how older adults with different cognitive abilities perform the refusal speech act in the cognitive assessment in the setting of memory clinics. The refusal speech act and its corresponding illocutionary force produced by nine Chinese older adults in the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic was annotated and analyzed from a multimodal perspective. Overall, regardless of the older adults’ cognitive ability, the most common discursive device to refuse is the demonstration of their inability to carry out or continue the cognitive task. Individuals with lower cognitive ability were found to perform the refusal illocutionary force (hereafter RIF) with higher frequency and degree. Additionally, under the pragmatic compensation mechanism, which is influenced by cognitive ability, multiple expression devices (including prosodic features and non-verbal acts) interact dynamically and synergistically to help older adults carry out the refusal behavior and to unfold older adults’ intentional state and emotion as well. The findings indicate that both the degree and the frequency of performing the refusal speech act in the cognitive assessment are related to the cognitive ability of older adults.
Lihe Huang and Huiyu Qu
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Abstract Over its long period of development, Zen Buddhism in ancient China has adopted a unique method of enlightenment for the direct individual understanding of the Buddha-nature in the interaction between Zen masters and their disciples, instead of merely depending on written classics or oral teaching, which constitutes so-called “independence-from-words.” Communication between monks in Zen is a process of multimodal interaction, in which many different semiotic modes are included, for example strikes, roars, gestures, foot-poses, body poses, and image drawings. Meditation and understanding in Zen demand an interpretation of these multimodal cues in the interaction. Therefore, multimodal discourse analysis may serve as a novel perspective for analysing Zen modes of enlightenment, since MDA attaches great importance to various semiotic channels besides language. This paper aims to present how Zen masters flexibly utilized multimodal resources in enlightenment, starting from an introduction to the traditional understanding of multimodality in ancient China and how the interpretation of Zen can benefit from its analysis through the lens of MDA.
Wei Zhang, Xiaoran Zheng, Renren Li, Meng Liu, Weixin Xiao, Lihe Huang, Feiyang Xu, Ningxin Dong, and Yunxia Li
Wiley
Brain atrophy is an important feature in dementia and is meaningful to explore a brain atrophy model to predict dementia. Using machine learning algorithm to establish a dementia model and cognitive function model based on brain atrophy characteristics is unstoppable.
Jing Ma, Renren Li, Wei Zhang, Lihe Huang, Xing Wang, Yusheng He, Shasha Jin, Meng Liu, Jiequn Wang, Weixin Xiao,et al.
Informa UK Limited
OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the reliability and validity of the computer-aided cognitive test (CACT).
METHODS
219 Subjects of Tongji Hospital's Brain Health cohort (115 cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients and 104 cases of normal controls) were enrolled, of which 24 cases received a retest after 2 weeks. Finally, the reliability and validity of the scale were tested and analyzed.
RESULTS
(1) Reliability: (a) the internal consistency reliability of the total score of the scale was 0.645; (b) the retest reliability correlation coefficient of the total score of the scale was 0.900; (c) the Guttman Split-Half coefficient was 0.631; (2) Validity: (a) construct validity analysis showed that the correlation coefficient between each section score was between 0.036 and 0.408, and the correlation coefficient between each section score and the total score was between 0.468 and 0.781; (b) criterion validity analysis showed that the correlation coefficient between the total score of CACT and that of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) was 0.733, and the coefficient between the total score of CACT and that of the basic version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was 0.763; (c) the area under the ROC curve of the CACT to distinguish between MCI patients and controls was 0.920, with an optimal diagnostic threshold of 20, a sensitivity of 88.5%, and a specificity of 80.9%.
CONCLUSION
The CACT is little influenced by education level. It has good reliability and validity, which can be used for early clinical screening of cognitive dysfunction.
Lihe Huang, Zhuoya Liu, and Yunxia Li
Informa UK Limited
Alzheimer's disease (AD) can manifest itself with prominent language dysfunction. Incompleteness in discourse refers to the lack of indispensable sentence-constructing elements that hinder communication fluency and accuracy. The current study investigates how the pattern of incompleteness is associated with the descriptive discourse produced by elders without AD and those with different stages of AD. The Chinese discourse samples were collected from the picture description of 40 elders with mild probable AD (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) 21-26, Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale-Basic (MoCA-B) 15-19), 40 elders with moderate probable AD (MMSE 11-20, MoCA-B 10-14), and 40 controls (MMSE 26-29, MoCA-B 24-29). The total production of incomplete sentences and six incompleteness features were examined. The Mild AD, Moderate AD, and Control groups differed in the total output of the incomplete sentence. Group differences also emerged in four incompleteness features: missing subject, missing predicate, missing object, and missing functional word. The Moderate AD group differed from the Mild AD group with respect to most significant features, while Mild AD and Control groups were very similar. The results suggested that AD impairs the sentence construction ability of Chinese elders, especially at the later stage. These statistically significant differences between the groups might provide some references when diagnosing the risk and possibility of cognitive impairment of Chinese elders, facilitating the design of clinical evaluation or screening for probable AD.
Lihe Huang, Qi Zhu, and Deyu Zhou
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Abstract This study explores how the identity is constructed of elders who have Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT) by examining the communicative disorder in daily interactions with other interlocutors. Specifically, this paper evaluates a conversation between one Chinese elder with early-stage DAT and the interviewer. It analyzes the identity construction processes in the discourse in depth, using the age-identity taxonomy, self-identity representation theory, and the pragmatic emergentist model. Based on the case study, this paper confirms the five dimensions of age-identity taxonomy provided by Coupland as: (1) disclosure of chronological age, (2) age-related categories/role reference, (3) age-identity concerning health, decrement, and death, (4) adding time-past perspective, and (5) self-association with the past. Meanwhile, two more approaches to the age-identity taxonomy were developed, i.e., address behavior and cross-generational contrast. Self-identity to realize interactional goals is typically constructed at the individual level, although rarely at the relational level. The DAT elder conducts compensation in the interaction by adopting verbal and non-verbal strategies to bridge cognitive disorders such as memory loss, word-finding difficulty, or meeting the desire to enhance the pragmatic effects of their identity. This shows that the self-identity construction also facilitates the DAT elders in generating a discourse strategy when encountering pragmatic impairment.
Meng Liu, Zhi-Yu Nie, Ren-Ren Li, Wei Zhang, Li-He Huang, Jie-Qun Wang, Wei-Xin Xiao, Jialin C. Zheng, and Yun-Xia Li
Frontiers Media SA
Visual working memory (VWM), the core process inherent to many advanced cognitive processes, deteriorates with age. Elderly individuals usually experience defects in the processing of VWM. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is a key structure for the top-down control of working memory processes. Many studies have shown that repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves VWM by modulating the excitability of neurons in the target cortical region, though the underlying neural mechanism has not been clarified. Therefore, this study sought to assess the characteristics of brain memory function post-rTMS targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The study stimulated the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in elderly individuals by performing a high-frequency rTMS protocol and evaluated behavioral performance using cognitive tasks and a VWM task. Based on the simultaneously recorded electroencephalogram signals, event-related potential and event-related spectral perturbation analysis techniques were used to investigate the variation characteristics of event-related potential components' (N2PC and CDA) amplitudes and neural oscillations in elderly individuals to elucidate the effect of high-frequency rTMS. The results found that rTMS enhanced VWM performance and significantly improved attention and executive function in elderly individuals with subjective cognitive decline. We therefore speculate that rTMS enhances VWM by increasing the N2PC and CDA amplitude, alongside increasing β oscillation activity. This would improve the attention and allocation of resources in elderly individuals such as to improve an individual's VWM.
Lihe Huang
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract Human interaction is multimodal in nature, and meaning in discourse is created through an interplay of an array of modalities. Inspired by the integration of multimodality and corpus pragmatics, we are concerned with a general multimodal framework that facilitates the exploration on pragmatic questions by using corpus methods. By demonstrating how the study on speech acts in situated discourse is benefited from the multimodal corpus approach, we claim that the scope and methods of pragmatic studies will be enriched and the classic pragmatic theories could be further developed toward multimodal corpus pragmatics. This article, therefore, hopes to inspire further theoretical discussion and case study in this domain.
Lin Zhu and Lihe Huang
Equinox Publishing
Verbal repetition has been acknowledged as one of the most common symptoms in early Dementia of Alzheimer's Type (DAT). Despite previous attempts, the applicability of verbal repetition as an essential linguistic marker indicating this disease remains unexplored for Chinese DAT patients. This study collects Chinese DAT patients' daily conversation data to investigate both structural and functional aspects of pathological verbal repetition. Three major types are set regarding the cases of pathological repetition, respectively ‘unconscious concept repetition', ‘perseveration', and ‘involuntary word repetition'. The analysis focuses on what features these repetitions have from the perspective of ‘ideational function', ‘interpersonal function', and ‘textual function' within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. A better understanding of pathological verbal repetition by DAT elders as the linguistic markers of cognitive impairment promotes effective communication between patients, nursing staff, and family members.
Huang Lihe
National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE)
China’s launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has had profound linguistic implications on its foreign language education policy. Successful foreign language programs are vital to any country’s national security and global interest promotion. An analysis of China’s current foreign language education with the BRI compliance will provide the backdrop for this paper’s suggestions. The challenges and opportunities associated with the development of foreign language education in today’s China will be analyzed under these four aspects: 1) improving in the variety and quality of foreign language education, 2) developing students’ international and intercultural competence, 3) deepening general education in target languages, and 4) strengthening English as the lingua franca for expertise training. Even with the significant progress made thus far since 40 years of “Reform and Opening-up”, China still has a long way to go in developing its national foreign language capacity to serve its expanding national interests for development.
Ren-Ren Li, Yu-Sheng He, Meng Liu, Zhi-Yu Nie, Li-He Huang, Zheng Lu, Ling-Jing Jin, and Yun-Xia Li
Informa UK Limited
Purpose This study aimed to characterize white matter lesions (WMLs) and regional cerebral perfusion, and evaluate their correlations with cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. Patient and methods One hundred and twenty-eight patients with AD (AD group) and 75 subjects without AD (control group) were recruited. The medical information was collected from each subject. Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA) was employed for the assessment of cognition. Cranial MRI was performed, and the KIM scoring system was used to evaluate the white matter hyperintensity. The CT perfusion (CTP) imaging was employed to assess the whole cerebral perfusion, and the region of interest (ROI) was selected to determine the blood perfusion at different parts. Results The education level and MoCA score in AD group were significantly lower than in control group (P<0.001). The KIM score of juxtaventricular WML (JVWMLs) was significantly different between two groups (P<0.05) and AD group showed a higher incidence of severe JVWML and periventricular WML (PVWMLs); in AD group, the total KIM score and KIM scores of JVWMLs, PVWMLs and deep WML (DWMLs) showed negative relationships with the MoCA score (P<0.001). As compared to control group, the blood perfusion of either whole brain or different parts in the AD group reduced significantly (P<0.05). In the AD group, there was a negative correlations of blood perfusion at JVWM and PVWM with corresponding KIM scores (P<0.05 or 0.01). In the AD group, the blood perfusions of the whole brain, JVWMLs, PVWMLs and deep WML were negatively related to MoCA score (P<0.05). Conclusion In conclusion, the cognitive deficits in the AD patients are associated with the degree of WMLs, especially the JVWML, PVWML and DWML as well as with the reduced perfusion of JVWM, PVWM and deep WM.
Lihe Huang
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Yu Cheng, Lilei Song and Lihe Huang
Springer Singapore
Lihe Huang
Springer Singapore
Yu Cheng, Lilei Song and Lihe Huang
Springer Singapore
Lihe Huang
Informa UK Limited
Abstract Institutional internationalisation is regarded as an important aspect in today’s higher education development. This paper first argues that the development of intercultural competence should be considered as an important students’ outcome of institutional internationalisation. It is believed that English teaching and related activities are easily accessible resources which can be fully utilised to promote students’ intercultural competence at universities, and based on this, the author proposes a working model of intercultural competence that consists of three dimensions, i.e. knowledge, action and reflection. To practice this working model, a four-module pattern of co-curricular activity-based intercultural competence training programme is introduced. In addition, some further principles (organisation, participation and evaluation) rising from the author’s empirical practice are discussed. This programme could be, to a large extent, applicable to many higher educational institutions in the global arena.