Language Science Luncheon
Speaker Biography
Wang Jiayu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He has been selected for the National Talent Program for Young Top-Notch Talents and the Wuhan Yellow Crane Young Talents program. His research specializes in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. He has published over fifty papers in SSCI- and A&HCI-indexed international journals as well as CSSCI-indexed journals. He serves as an anonymous reviewer for several prestigious SSCI-indexed international journals. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge Element Series in Critical Discourse Studies (Cambridge University Press) and a member of the Editorial Board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI and A&HCI indexed).
Language Science Luncheon: Time & Venue
Time: June 3, 2026 (Wednesday), 13:30–14:30
Venue: Room 103, Teaching Building No. 5
Language Science Luncheon: Title
Diffractive Reading – A New Approach to Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of Posthumanist Corpus Linguistics
Language Science Luncheon: Abstract
With the deepening of human-machine interaction, academia has begun to interpret and analyze human-machine relationships from a posthumanist perspective. This talk first systematically reviews the core concepts of posthumanist (language) philosophy and the notion of diffractive reading in corpus-based discourse analysis. Building on this, it explores how corpus linguistics research can draw on digital humanities and (critical) discourse analysis approaches to establish an assemblage-diffractive posthumanist corpus linguistics analytical framework that combines digital distant reading with linguistic close reading, and then applies this framework to relevant case studies. The research aims to broaden the horizons of corpus linguistics and provide new ideas and methods for corpus linguistics research in the era of human-machine integration.
