Name: Jing CUI
Title: Lecturer, MA supervisor
E-mail: cuijing1113@126.com
Jing Cui obtained Ph.D. from Xiamen University, with joint doctoral training at the University of Alberta, and was a former visiting scholar at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests lie in Cognitive Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. Her research primarily focuses on the cognitive processing and social interaction mechanisms of verbal irony/sarcasm and deception/lie, with particular emphasis on both online communication (e.g., emojis and other digital symbols) and offline communication (e.g., facial expressions, prosody, and contextual information), as well as Human–AI interaction and comparative studies. She has published approximately 20 papers in domestic and international academic journals as first author or corresponding author. Serves as Principal Investigator of one National Social Science Fund for Young Scholars project, and has completed one Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education research project and one Central Universities Fundamental Research Funds project, and also participated in more than 10 research projects at various levels. In 2025, she was awarded as the recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Fujian Province. She serves as an anonymous reviewer for several international academic journals.
