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
Teaching sustainability in Higher Education language courses: language teachers’ practices, attitudes and justifications (2026)
Language Learning in Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
« Il est assez facile pour moi d’écrire un texte »: la fluidité chez les scripteurs multilingues au niveau universitaire (2026)
Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Kvänska – ett språk med osäker framtid och nytt hopp (2026)
Språkbruk
(E1 Popularised article)
Gatekeeping and gate-opening: Ethical and reflexive research with LESLLA stakeholders: A response to “Why should I care? Research ethics in the field of adult L2 literacy”. (2026)
Dutch journal of applied linguistics
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)