Research Areas
Broadly speaking, the Halliday Centre specialises in corpus linguistics, language education, natural language processing, sociolinguistics and translation studies. Some of the more specific areas are listed below.
Linguistics
- Shell nouns and construal
- Grammatical metaphor
- Transitivity process
- Language and spatiotemporal imaginaries
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnography
- Language and morality
- Language ideologies
- Language planning
- Sociolinguistics
- Childhood bilingualism
- Computer assisted language learning
- Language acquisition
- Second language acquisition
- Online processing of complex grammatical features in late English-Chinese bilinguals
- Dialogue act analysis
- Disciplinary variations
- Register/genre variations
- Speech-writing variations
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Syntactic complexity
- Shell-content complex
- Coordinated constructions
- Subordinated constructions
Translation
- Cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West
- Transmission of Chinese book and material culture in the West
- History of translation of scientific and technological knowledge
- Translation universals
Natural Language Processing
- Terminology recognition
- Terminology management
- Terminology translation
- Syntactic parsing
- Word-class tagging
- Appraisal analysis
- Dialogue act recognition
- Logical semantic relation annotation
- Theme-Rheme annotation
- Transitivity process annotation
- The HCLS Tagger