Biography 个人简介
Dr. Muhammad Afzaal joined the institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, China after gaining his PhD at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and extensive research fellow experience at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and seven years teaching experience at Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan. His PhD research includes a corpus-based analysis of discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative . He received the Yang Yong research award from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's graduate school in China. Afzaal’s research interests include topics in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, translation studies, and, more particularly the merging of language sciences with NLP and big data.Research interestsCorpus linguistics and discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)Language use in media discourseLanguage and big dataLanguage and politicsTranslation studies Note: Currently, I am working on the representation of China’s BRI in texts published in the last decade by using deep learning and sentiment analysis. If anyone interested, he/she can contact me.
