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Eric Friginal

Eric Friginal

Eric Friginal is professor and head of the Department of English and Communication and director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He specialises in applied corpus linguistics, quantitative research, language policy and planning, technology and language teaching, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, discipline-specific writing, and the analysis of spoken professional discourse in the workplace. His recent publications include The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis (2021), co-edited with Jack Hardy and English in Global Aviation: Context, Research, and Pedagogy, with Elizabeth Mathews and Jennifer Roberts (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Applied Corpus Linguistics (ACORP) Journal published by Elsevier.
Eric Friginal is professor and head of the Department of English and Communication and director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He specialises in applied corpus linguistics, quantitative research, language policy and planning, technology and language teaching, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, discipline-specific writing, and the analysis of spoken professional discourse in the workplace. His recent publications include The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis (2021), co-edited with Jack Hardy and English in Global Aviation: Context, Research, and Pedagogy, with Elizabeth Mathews and Jennifer Roberts (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Applied Corpus Linguistics (ACORP) Journal published by Elsevier.
Languages Spoken:
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