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