New and on-going research projects
| Prof. Eric Friginal | I specialize in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, quantitative discourse analysis, intercultural communication, language policy and planning, technology (including Generative AI) and language education, study abroad and international education, and research methods in applied linguistics. I have been exploring real-world recorded and transcribed texts (i.e., corpora) from domains such as outsourced customer service call centers, healthcare, tourism and hospitality, global aviation, international maritime industry, and talk in multi-cultural and multimodal workplaces. Some of my current projects include:
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| Prof. Louise Cummings | My research interests are in pragmatics, clinical linguistics, communication disorders, and health communication. I can supervise students who want to work in the area of language and communication disorders (particularly pragmatic disorders). I can also supervise projects in health communication such as how experts and lay people reason about public health problems. Below are some of the topics I am working on:
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My research interests are in corpus linguistics, linguistic landscape, (multimodal) discourse analysis, and professional communication. I can supervise students who want to work in the area corpus-based discourse analysis. I can also supervise projects in the areas of linguistic landscape or professional communication. Below are some of the topics I am working on:
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| Dr Phoebe Lin |
My research interests include vocabulary learning, speech prosody, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, computer-assisted language learning, and machine learning. I can supervise students interested in the areas of vocabulary learning and speech prosody, particularly from psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic perspectives. Below are some of my recent projects:
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