Educational Background & Work Experience

Dr. Kathy Ling LIN is an Associate Professor of applied linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, 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 (2017-2018).

Her primary research focus is on grammar, genre, and discourse in academic and professional contexts, using corpus and genre approaches. Her publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Lingua, Critical Arts, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes, among others. She received the Richard Pemberton Award from the Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics and the 2017 Best Paper Award from Shanghai International Studies Association. Her books include Perspectives on the Introductory Phase of Empirical Research Articles: A Study of Rhetorical Structure and Citation Use (Springer, 2020); Approaches to Specialized Genres (Routledge, 2021; edited with Isaac N. Mwinlaaru and Dennis Tay). Kathy would welcome contacts from prospective postgraduates and collaborators in the above areas of interests.

Teaching and Research

I. Projects (selected)

• 2018- present A local grammar approach to academic genres. The National Social Science Fund of China. (Project no.: 18CYY054). Principal Investigator.
• 2019-2021 Part-of-Speech Grams in academic discourse: A corpus-based study. Shanghai Pujiang Program. (Project no.: 2019PJC067). Principal Investigator.
• 2017-2022 The use of concgrams in research articles: A multidimensional study. Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Fund (Project no.: 2017EYY007). Principal Investigator.
• 2016-2019  The structural evolution of and lexico-grammatical features in the introductory phase of empirical research articles: A multi-dimensional analysis. "Chen Guang" project supported by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (Project no.: 15CG10). Principal Investigator.
• 2015-2018  The rhetorical structure of and citation use in empirical research articles: A corpus-based study. Departmental Research Grant. (Project no.: AF1400020). Principal Investigator.

II. Publications (selected)

1. Lin, L. and Liu, M. (2021). Towards a Part-of-Speech (PoS) gram approach to academic writing: A case study of research introductions in different disciplines. Lingua, 254(2), 1-18. (SSCI & AHCI)
2. Liu, M. and Lin, L. (2021). “One Country, Two Systems”: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the politics of recontextualization in British, American and Chinese Newspapers. Critical Arts, 35(3), 1-18. (SSCI & AHCI) 
3. Lin, L., Mwinlaaru, I. N. & Tay, D. (2021). Approaches to Specialized Genres. Routledge.
4. Lin, L. (2021). Review of “Corpus approaches to discourse: A critical review”. Applied Linguistics, 42(1), 198-202. (SSCI & AHCI)
5. Lin, L. (2020). Perspectives on the Introductory Phase of Empirical Research Articles: A Study of Rhetorical Structure and Citation Use. Springer.
6. Lin, L. & Sui X. (2020). Citation functions in the opening phase of research articles: A corpus-based comparative study. In B. Yang & W. Li (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to grammar, media and health discourses, pp. 233-250. Springer.
7. Lin, L. (2020). 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, pp. 60-83. Routledge.
8. Lin, L. (2018). Review of “English for academic purposes: Approaches and implications”. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 34, 110–114. (SSCI & AHCI)
9. Lin, L. (2017). The use of reporting verbs in the introductory phase of research articles: A pedagogically-motivated study. In W. Feng, P. Lin, & D. Tay (Eds.), Rethinking ELT in higher education (pp. 56-76). Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press. Contributed to a volume edited by PolyU ENGL staff
10. Lin, L. (2014). Variability in the rhetorical structure of research article introductions: The case of civil engineering. Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 27(2), 405-432. ISSN 0213-2028 (SSCI & AHCI)
11. Lin, L. (2014). Innovations in structuring article introductions: The case of applied linguistics. Ibérica, 28(2), 129-154. (SSCI, AHCI)
12. Lin, L. (2013). The use of reporting verbs in mechanical engineering articles: A cross-generic study. The Asian ESP Journal, 9(2), 75-98.
13. Lin, L. & Evans, S. (2012). Structural patterns in empirical research articles: A cross-disciplinary study. English for Specific Purposes, 31(3), 150-160. (SSCI, Q1)  
14. Lin, L. (2009). Reflections on Catford’s Theory of Translation Shift. Journal of Language and Literature Studies, 5, 74-76, 82.
15. Bao, G. & Lin, L. (2008). The Transfer of L1 Reading Ability to L2 Reading. Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, 15(3), 30-35.

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