Corpus Linguistics Research Group

Corpus Linguistics Research Group

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:

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).