Kathy Ling Lin is a lecturer at the Research Centre for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, 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 (Dec. 2017-Dec. 2018).<br>    Her primary research focus is on grammar, genre and discourse in academic and professional contexts, using corpus and genre approaches. Kathy would welcome contacts from prospective postgraduates and collaborators in the above areas of interests.<br>    2017-18  英国伯明翰大学 语料库研究中心 博士后<br>    2016      上海市“晨光学者”人才计划入选者<br>    2015-    上海交通大学外国语学院语料库与跨文化研究中心成员<br>    Areas of Expertise: English for Academic Purposes (EAP), corpus linguistics, genre analysis, specialized discourse study, lexical semantics, phraseology and professional communication.<br>    Her publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Asian ESP Journal, and Iberica, among others. She received the Richard Pemberton Award from the Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics. Currently, she is the principal investigator for several projects on academic discourse analysis, respectively supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (Project no.: 18CYY054), the Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program of Shanghai (Project no.: 2017EYY007), and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Education Development Foundation (Project no.: 15CG10).