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 linguistics, language learning and teaching, natural language processing, politics, literature, business and law.
We have organised some relevant research seminars given by both internal and external speakers in the field. Previous seminars we have organised include:
| Speaker | Title |
| Professor Elena Semino (Lancaster University) | Applying Corpus Linguistics to health(care) communication |
| Dr Dimitris Kitis (XJTLU) | What does ‘gentrification’ means? 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 |
We have also organised many talks in a wide variety of linguistics areas, such as:
| Speaker | Title |
| Dr Lihe Huang (Tongji University) |
What can we do to affect ageing as language educators: the role of bilingualism in later life |
| Dr Yi Zhang & Luoxiangyu Zhang (XJTLU) | “Do not approach men. You will be miserable” – Misandry memes in Chinese microblogging |
| Dr Hong Liu (XJTLU) & Dr Chaouch-Orozco (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) | Psycholinguistics series talk 1: Using language switching paradigm to investigate bilingual language control |
| Dr Luchang Wang (XJTLU) | Psycholinguistics series talk 2: Using psychological behavioural experiments to investigate infant language acquisition |
| Dr Dawei Wei (XJTLU) | Psycholinguistics series talk 3: Your brain knows better than you do: Reading in the brain |
| Professor Danijela Trenkic (York University) |
Pursuing university education in a foreign language: How difficult could it be? |
| Dr Rining Wei (XJTLU) | The Spread of English in China: Evidence from big-data surveys |
For more information about our Corpus Linguistic research group and department research seminars, please contact Dr Tanjun Liu (tanjun.liu@xjtlu.edu.cn).
