Yanni obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from the Beijing Normal University; an MA in Discourse Studies from Lancaster University; and is now a PhD candidate in Language and Communication at King's College London.

Research interests

• incorporating NLP techniques such as machining learning and LLM into corpus-assisted discourse studies
• investigation of large-scale textual and multimodal Chinese social media discourses

Thesis

Thesis title: A corpus-assisted discourse study of representations of 底层diceng in Chinese social media

Abstract: Yanni's PhD project employs LLM-empowered machine learning techniques to investigate media representations of the socially disadvantaged groups (or底层diceng in Chinese) on Chinese social media.

Principal supervisor: Kieran O'Halloran
Secondary supervisor: Clyde Ancarno

Pure research profile

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