Jing Jing:  Mismatched priorities and approaches in China-EU Relations Revealed from a Corpus-driven Discourse Analysis of Their Official Discourse (1994-2019)

Event date: 
Friday 15 November

15th November, 15:10-16:30, Room G13, Lister Learning and Teaching Building

 

Speaker:             Jing Jing (University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures)

Title:                   Mismatched priorities and approaches in China-EU Relations Revealed from a Corpus-driven Discourse Analysis of Their Official Discourse (1994-2019)

https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/events/language-in-context-seminar-2019-11-15   

 

My research examines the challenges in contemporary China-EU relations through engaging with machine-readable corpora consisting of official discourse in China-EU relations from 1994 to 2019.

The aim and contribution of this research is twofold. First, it explores the possibilities of integrating corpus-driven discourse analysis with constructivist analysis in China-EU studies. Secondly, through this integrated methodology, the research highlights the long-standing factors which influenced the relationship as well as the way they interact with each other in China-EU relations.

In this talk, I will share my experience of:

  • the strengths and limitations of combining corpus-linguistics analysis and qualitative analysis in international relations
  • methods linking different levels of language, including lexical and semantic features, to traditional international relations approaches