Hong Wang 
Associate Professor of Human Communication Studies
Office: Dauphin Humanities 315 (DHC)
Phone: 717.477.1692
Email: HoWang@ship.edu
Education/Degrees:
B.A., English Language and Literature, Changsha Tiedao University, People's Republic of China;
M.A., Linguistics, University of Essex, England;
Ph.D., Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois.
Research/Teaching Interests:
Rhetoric of Technology, Asian-American Communication, Intergroup/Intercultural Communication, Language & Meaning, Oral communication Theory
Selected Publications and Presentations:
Publications
Lu, X.A. & Wang, H. (2009). Cyberdating: Misinformation and (Dis)trust in Online Interaction, in E. Cohen & T. G. Gill (Eds.), Foundations of Informing Science: 1999-2008, pp. 619-642. Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Press.
(2008) Greima's semiotic square and its application in the anti-corruption campaign in mainland China. The American Journal of Semiotics.
Wang, H. & Lu, X.A. (2007) Cyberdating: Misinformation and (dis)trust in online interaction. Information Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Discipline. Vol.10.
(2005) "Marriage and divorce" in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization 1949-Present (Luo, Jing, Ed.) London: Greenwood Press. 381-384.
(2005) "Social strata" in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Civilization 1949-Present (Luo, Jing, Ed.) London: Greenwood Press. 573-376.
Lu, X. & Wang. H. (Eds.) (2003). A Manual of Quotations, Guidelines, and Versatile Phrases for Basic Oral Communication. New York: iUniverse, Inc. (ISBN 0-595-29636-X)
(2001) Cultural shades of Grice's cooperative discourse principle. American Journal of Semiotics Vol. 17: 237-252.
Professional Presentations
(2009) "In Search of the Personal Signified: The semiotic square", paper presented at the 34th Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 15-18
(2009) "International/Interracial adoption: Exploring the process of cross-cultural and intercultural communication". Panel chair/moderator at the 2009 China Association for intercultural communication conference, Beijing, June.
(2009) "The affective component of ethnic identity in intercultural communication", paper presented at Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, April 26
(2008) "Multi-dimensions of Greimas' Semiotic Square", paper presented at the 33rd Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Houston, October 16-19
(2008) "What's hotter than English, except the weather?" panel presentation at the 2nd Biennial Modern Languages Conference at Shippensburg University (April)
(2008) "Going home (hui jia), but where is it? A cross-semiotic examination of the 'home' myth", Eastern Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, May
(2007) "Ideal image: A TV construction of good Chinese" Paper for the joined conference of Chinese Communication Studies: West China and Globalization, Chengdu, China. June.
(2007) "Creating a New Pair of Paradigms in an Intercultural Communication Class: Dialectics of Signs in Absentia and in Presentia", paper presented at Eastern Communication Association Convention, Providence, April.
(2006) "Class website and relationship: what does the web do in changing and maintaining the old ties?" paper presented at Conference of Digital Communication (Hong Kong), December 15-17.
(2005) "Divorce, Chinese style: When the middle-age crisis is perceived through a gender lens", paper presented at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, November.
(2004) "Online dating as a contesting site for the Cooperative Principles", paper presented at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November.
(2003) "Inter-power Communication", panel proposal accepted for presentation at NCA Convention, Miami, Florida.
(2003)"Similar Signs in Different Cultural Frameworks--Unemployment across the Ocean",paper presented at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Miami, Florida. November.
(2003)"'The Boxer Uprising as event, experience, and myth': A semiotic analysis of historical recordings, presented at National Communication Association Annual Convention, Miami, Florida. November.
(2003)"Receiving message as code: When Addressee becomes another 'I'", accepted for presentation at 28th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Ottawa, Canada, October 11.
(2003) (primary author) "Virtual fraud and misinformation in the new age--Revisiting Grice's Cooperative Principle" paper accepted for Informing Science and IT Education Conference. Pori, Finland: Insite Nu
(2003) (co-author) "Personally authenticating the digital divide", paper accepted for Informing Science and IT Education Conference. Pori, Finland: Insite Nu
(2002) "Expression plane as a meaning negotiating field: China's economic reform and unemployment", presented at 27th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2002.
(2002)"I deserve to be the center of attention: A reflection of BOC teaching", poster accepted for National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans. November.