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
Language & cognition
- Shell nouns and construal
- Grammatical metaphor
- Transitivity process
- Language and spatiotemporal imaginaries
Language & society
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnography
- Language and morality
- Language ideologies
- Language planning
- Sociolinguistics
Language & education
- Childhood bilingualism
- Computer assisted language learning
- Language acquisition
- Second language acquisition
- Online processing of complex grammatical features in late English-Chinese bilinguals
Linguistic variation
- Dialogue act analysis
- Disciplinary variations
- Register/genre variations
- Speech-writing variations
- Syntactic complexity
- Shell-content complex
- Coordinated constructions
- Subordinated constructions
