•ADVISORS

•EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Per Aage Brandt, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, UK

Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Canada

Zhuanglin Hu, Peking University, China (Chief Advisor)

Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia

Richard Lanigan, Southern Illinois University, USA

Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Inna Semetsky, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Paul Thibault, University of Agder, Norway

Jun Wang

Soochow University

•ASSISTANT EDITORS

Alexander Brandt, Junwen Cao, Ningyang Chen, Mingqiang Gao, Qianwei He, Zhi Huang, Ian Hunter, Xiangchun Meng, Xiaofei Shi

Soochow University

Juming Shen

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

•MANAGING EDITOR

Qiushi Wang

Soochow University

•EDITORIAL BOARD

Cosimo Caputo, Università del Salento, Italy

Xinren Chen, Nanjing University, China

Ersu Ding, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

Tony Jappy, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France

James Liszka, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA

Charls Pearson, American Semiotics Research Institute, USA

Susan Petrilli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Augusto Ponzio, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Jun Wang, Soochow University, China

Mingyu Wang, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China

Bin Xin, Nanjing Normal University, China

Caimei Yang, Soochow University, China

Lianglin Zhang, Changshu Institute of Technology, China

Yiheng Zhao, Sichuan University, China