Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses Systemic Functional and Other Perspectives

Dr. Bingjun Yang is a tenured Full Professor at SJTU. His research articles have appeared in such journals as Language Sciences (2004), Australian Journal of Linguistics (2014, 2015, 2018), Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (2015), Lingua (2018), and Social Semiotics (2019). His recent academic books include the co-authored Language Policy: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach (Routledge, 2017) and Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-based Study (Springer, 2015). His research interests include systemic functional grammar, translation studies and corpus-based linguistic studies. 

Wen Li is a Ph.D. candidate in English Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose research interests include systemic functional linguistics, language of science, and corpus linguistics. His research articles and book reviews appeared in Social Semiotics (2019), Foreign Language Education (2018), and Foreign Language and Literature (2016).