Mr Jijie Zou

(he/him)

BA, MA (Sheffield), PhD student (Cardiff)

Overview

I am a second-year PhD student in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. My main research interests include sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, media studies, and gender studies. I have experience in using critical discourse analysis, particularly corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and multimodal approaches. My current research uses CADS to examine how masculinities and femininities are discursively constructed and transformed on Chinese social media.

Research and Teaching Experience:

In February 2025, I worked as a Research Assistant on a project developing a multilingual toolkit for corpus linguistics. During the autumn semester of the 2025–2026 academic year, I also taught on the undergraduate module How Language Works 1 as a Graduate Tutor.