Status: Open access<br> The Comprehensive Database Platform of Discourse on Major-Country Diplomacy with Distinctive Chinese Features, developed by the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications of Shanghai International Studies University, comprises four sections: corpus, literature library, terminology database, and research achievements.

At the time of writing, it had become common to find trending social media hashtags where users were expressing their feelings about current social and political issues through a range of symbolic gestures, such as striking

This study examined the longitudinal development of syntactic complexity with a large-scale corpus of EFL (English as a foreign language) compositions written by the same group of 1081 intermediate Chinese university students over a time span of four consecutive semesters in two academic years.

This study examined the syntactic complexity in adapted extracurricular reading texts at five difficulty levels based on five machine learning algorithms.

The United Nations ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals to address a range of global issues related to the future of the planet and human well-being.

Written in a clear and accessible manner with current social media examples throughout, the book provides a step-by-step overview of a range of qualitative methods. These are presented in clear ways to show how to analyze many different types of social media content, including language and visual content such as memes, gifs, photographs, and film clips.