NienEn Bonnie Liu

PhD Linguistics & English Language

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Biography

CV

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Qualifications

M.A. in Linguistics, National Taiwan University (2020)

B.A. in Information Management, Chang Gung University (2016)

Undergraduate teaching

Tutoring

PPLS Skill Centre (Honours, 2025)

Sociolinguistics (Honours, 2025)

Discourse Analysis (Honours, 2024, 2025)

Linguistics and English Language 1A (Pre-Honours, 2022, 2023, 2024 (Marking Only))

Linguistics and English Language 1B (Pre-Honours, 2023)

 

 

Postgraduate teaching

Workshops

Quantitative Methods for Linguistics and English Language (Honours and Postgraduate, 2025)

ELAN workshops, Introduction to Multimodality (Postgraduate, 2023, 2024)

Research summary

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Multimodality
  • New Media Study

Current research interests

My PhD project investigates how Taiwanese educational YouTubers adopt multimodal semiotic resources, i.e., discourse particles, prosody, and co-speech gestures, to perform digital professionalism. My data comprises monologic teaching clips from Taiwanese English- and science-teaching YouTubers. I am particularly interested in how these creators negotiate their dual roles as educators and influencers through their multimodal performances. To address the issue, I adopt multimodal discourse analysis from a social semiotic approach, integrating both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Past research interests

Language and Gender, Lexical Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory
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