Academic Staff
- HHB807, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 3400 3653
- ming1.liu@polyu.edu.hk
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LIU Ming is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research interests cover corpus-assisted discourse studies, critical discourse studies, intercultural communication, corporate communication.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Linguistics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Academic and Professional Experience
- 10/2020 – Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - 03/2019 – 09/2020
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - 02/2020 – 02/2020
Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University - 08/2014 – 02/2019
Assistant Professor, School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University
Teaching Areas
- Sociolinguistics
- Discourse Analysis
- Communication
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Lin, L., & Liu, M. (2021). Towards a Part-of-Speech (PoS) gram approach to academic writing: A case study of research introductions in different disciplines. Lingua, 254, 103052. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103052
- Liu, M. (2024). Towards a ‘synergy’ of text mining and critical discourse analysis: a corpus-assisted discourse study of imagining China in Hong Kong political discourse. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(2), 625-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae010
- Liu, M., & Chen, Y. (2023). Blessing or curse? Recontextualizing ‘996’ in China's overwork debate. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2289448
- Liu, M., & Li, J. (2025). When science communication meets politics: A corpus-assisted discourse study of the Congressional hearing on TikTok. Discourse & Society, 37(1), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265251335034
- Liu, M., & Lu, Y. (2024). Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal. Pragmatics And Society, 15(3), 471-494. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21063.liu
- Liu, M., & Ma, J. (2022). The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations A corpus-assisted discourse study [Article]. Journal Of Language And Politics, 21(1), 37-59. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21019.liu
- Liu, M., Wang, G., & Zhao, R. (2025). "Double Bind" with a twist: A corpus-assisted discourse study of gender performances of male and female entrepreneurs on Twitter (now X). Plos One, 20(8), e0331400. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331400
- General Research Fund of RGC of Hong Kong (#15614223)
Title: The politics of recontextualizing the Hong Kong Basic Law in news media: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Duration: January 2023-December 2025 - National Social Science Fund Project of China (# 17CYY065)
Title: A corpus-assisted discourse study of press representations of Hong Kong
Duration: June 2017-Dec. 2020 - MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (# 16YJC740046)
Title: A corpus-assisted discourse study of Western media’s representations of Tibet
Duration: June 2016-June 2019
- 12/2023 - Present
Associate Editor, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (A&HCI, SSCI-indexed, Q1) -
01/2024 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Discourse & Society (SSCI-indexed, Q1) - 01/2023 - Present
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Language and Politics (A&HCI, SSCI-indexed, Q1)
- 07/2025 - Present
Vice President, The China Association for Ecolinguistics - 05/2023 - 04/2027
Executive Committee Member, The China Association of Pragmatics - 05/2025 - Present
Executive Committee Member, The Association for International Communication of Chinese Culture
- 2023/2024
Dean’s Award for Research Excellence
