Research at the Department of Chinese

The Department of Chinese conducts research on contemporary Chinese linguistics, focusing on digital communications, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Our research explores language use in modern Sinophone societies, the intersection of language and technology, the interaction between language and cognition, and the role of language in social change.

The research activities of the department have been focusing on the following areas:

  • Chinese construction grammar
  • Digital platform-mediated communication  
  • Chinese language and gender
  • East Asian languages and human bodily experience
  • Discourses regarding emerging social phenomena
  • Chinese language learning and teaching 

Recent Publications

Introduction (2024)

Coats Steven, Laippala Veronika
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3))