Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: nannanliu@hkbu.edu.hk
Phone: (+852) 3411 5379
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2660-602X
Website: http://nannan-liu.github.io
Profile
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University (2022–present)
Education
- PhD in Translation, University of Hong Kong (2020)
Thesis: The Effect of Political Conference Interpreting: Triangulating Cognitive Pragmatics, Speech Corpora, and Audience Perception - Master of Translation and Interpretation in English Interpretation, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2016)
- BA (First Class Honours) in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2014)
Honours, Awards and Grants (selected)
- Nomination for the Li Ka Shing Prize for Outstanding PhD Research, University of Hong Kong (2020)
- Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Hong Kong (2016–2020)
- Master’s Student First Level General Academic Scholarship (two-time recipient), Beijing Foreign Studies University (2014, 2015)
- Outstanding Graduate of Class 2014, Beijing Foreign Studies University (2014)
- National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme, Ministry of Education, China (2013–2014)
- Liu, N. (2022). Speaking in the first-person singular or plural: A multifactorial, speech corpus-based analysis of institutional interpreters. Interpreting, 1–35.
- Liu, N. (in press). Register shifts in political conference interpreting: A multi-dimensional analysis. In J. Pan, S. L. Halverson & J. Munday (Eds.), Translating and Interpreting Political Discourse: New Trends and Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.
- Liu, N. (2021). Multidimensional Analysis Tagger of Mandarin Chinese (Version 0.3.2).
I am interested in the sociocognition of professional conference interpreting. I approach this topic from the perspectives of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive linguistics. My research has focused on how professional, social and linguistic conventions interact with human cognition to shape the process, product and reception of interpreting. I’m a methodologist; I apply advanced statistical and experimental methods to analyse multimodal, bilingual data. A side interest of mine is creating corpus-based analytical tools, especially for Chinese varieties. All of my research projects are written in the programming languages Python and R.
Research Specialisations
- Interpreting studies
- Corpus linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Cognitive linguistics
Translation Work
Cohen, Paul A. (2021/2022). 走過兩遍的路:我的中國歷史學家之旅 (A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China). N. Liu, Trans., Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Interpreting Work (selected)
- 105th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva
- Seminar on the Reform and Governance of State-owned Enterprises in Anglophone Africa, Beijing
- Fourth International Conference on Primary School Education, Beijing
- Finland–China Forestry Cooperation Forum, Beijing
- ICT seminar ‘Czech ICT meets China’, Beijing
- Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Leaders and Trainers Project, Beijing