Institute for Theoretical Linguistics

The Institute for Theoretical Linguistics was established in 2006 and brings together over 20 academics and over 30 postgraduate research students. The Institute is committed to carrying out extensive research into language use.

Since its establishment over 17 years ago, the Institute has branched out in many different directions and specialises in the following areas of linguistic enquiry:

Syntax

Semantics

Pragmatics

Sociolinguistics

Lexicology

Construction Grammar

Corpus-based language enquiry

Discourse analysis

Health communication

Professional communication &interpretation

Stylistics

Interfaces of language and literature

Comparative and Contrastive studies between English & Chinese

Comparative and Contrastive studies between Japanese & Chinese

Comparative and Contrastive studies between Russian & Chinese