Liping ZHANG, Phd, professor of applied linguistics in School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University in Nanjing, China. Her major academic interests include courtroom discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. She has published three monographs (in Chinese language) and contributed papers, on topics related to legal language, in peer-reviewed Chinese journals like Waiyu Jiaoxue(Journal of Foreign Language Education), Yuyan Wenzi Yingying(Journal of Applied Linguistics), Waiyu Yu Waiyu Jiaoxue(Foreign Languages and Their Teaching), and international ones such as TEXT and TALK, Discourse and Communication, International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.