Lin Ling Associate Professor
Department：Center for Corpora and Intercultural Studies
Tutor：Master Supervisor
Email：kathyll@sjtu.edu.cn
Educational Background & Work Experience
Kathy Ling Lin is a lecturer at the Research Centre for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her Ph.D. from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2015) and worked at the Centre for Corpus Research, Birmingham University for her postdoctoral research (Dec. 2017-Dec. 2018).
Her primary research focus is on grammar, genre and discourse in academic and professional contexts, using corpus and genre approaches. Kathy would welcome contacts from prospective postgraduates and collaborators in the above areas of interests.
Teaching and Research
Areas of Expertise: English for Academic Purposes (EAP), corpus linguistics, genre analysis, specialized discourse study, lexical semantics, phraseology and professional communication.
Her publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Asian ESP Journal, and Iberica, among others. She received the Richard Pemberton Award from the Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics. Currently, she is the principal investigator for several projects on academic discourse analysis, respectively supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (Project no.: 18CYY054), the Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program of Shanghai (Project no.: 2017EYY007), and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (Project no.: 15CG10).
Selected Publications：
Lin, L., Mwinlaaru, I. N. & Tay, D. (2019). Approaches to Specialized Genres. Routledge.
Lin, L. (2019). Perspectives on the Introductory Phase of Empirical Research Articles: A Study of Rhetorical Structure and Citation Use. Springer.
Lin, L. (2019). Macro-structural development of empirical research articles in Applied Linguistics and Civil Engineering (1980-2010): Textual evidence and insider perspectives. In L. Lin, I. N. Mwinlaaru, & D. Tay (Eds.), Approaches to specialized genres: In memory of Stephen Evans. Routledge
Lin, L. & Xin, S. (2019). Citation functions in the opening phase of research articles: A corpus-based comparative study. In Bingjun Yang (Ed.) Frontiers in corpora and intercultural studies. Springer.
Lin, L. (2018). “English for academic purposes: Approaches and implications”. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 34, 110–115.
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