The Corpus Linguistics Research Group brings together scholars interested in the computer-aided analysis of large digital collections of text (corpora) across multiple disciplines and areas of study, such as language learning and teaching, discourse analysis, translation, natural language processing and literature.
Research draws on data from large ready-made corpus collections as well as custom-made specialist corpora
The Department of Applied Linguistics at XJTLU is home to The Prime Machine. Dr Stephen Jeaco, developer of this tool, runs workshops and continues to develop new software functionality. You can find the information about the software at https://theprimemachine.net/
We organised seminars and workshops each semester, such as:
Speaker
Title
Prof Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University)
The Future of English: A Corpus Linguistics Perspective
Prof Qing Ma (The Education University of Hong Kong)
Enhancing Novice Researchers’ Writing Skills with CBLP and Parallel EAP Corpora: Insights and Strategies
Professor Elena Semino (Lancaster University)
Applying Corpus Linguistics to health(care) communication
Dr Dimitris Kitis (XJTLU)
What does ‘gentrification’ mean? Collocates, metonymies and metaphors of a class-war discourse in English
Professor Jonathan Culpeper
(Lancaster University)
Linguistic impoliteness: A brief survey
Professor Christopher Hart
(Lancaster University)
Multimodal discourses of Immigration: Language, Image, Gesture
Dr Meilin Chen
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Teaching students to write academically through the use of discipline-specific materials: The use of a learner corpus in academic writing courses
For more information about our Corpus Linguistic research group, or if you would like to join the research group, please contact the group leader, Dr Tanjun Liu (tanjun.liu@xjtlu.edu.cn).
The Corpus Linguistics Research Group brings together scholars interested in the computer-aided analysis of large digital collections of text (corpora) across multiple disciplines and areas of study, such as language learning and teaching, discourse analysis, translation, natural language processing and literature.
Our first Symposium on Corpus Linguistics was hosted on 26 April 2024.

We organised seminars and workshops each semester, such as:
(Lancaster University)
(Lancaster University)
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
For more information about our Corpus Linguistic research group, or if you would like to join the research group, please contact the group leader, Dr Tanjun Liu (tanjun.liu@xjtlu.edu.cn).