{"id":1124,"date":"2022-04-08T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:25:23","slug":"congratulations-dr-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/congratulations-dr-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Dr. Difei (Lynn) Zhang, who defended her dissertation (&#8220;Flipping those pages, swiping that screen: a corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register&#8221;) today!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her dissertation Dr. Zhang investigated the linguistic features of online news as a unique register as well as the development, production and consumption of news in general. Her main research questions were:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RQ 1.<\/strong> What are the linguistic features of online news, and what do they inform us about linguistic research on online news?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>What are some of the unique syntactic patterns of online news articles?<\/li>\r\n<li>What is its relationship with printed\/spoken news?<\/li>\r\n<li>How does online news as a new register challenge the traditional spoken\/written dichotomy?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RQ 2.<\/strong> What impact does online news have on the development, consumption and production of news writing in general?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>News consumption: how have people\u2019s habits of consuming news changed\/shifted in recent years?<\/li>\r\n<li>News production: how have the guidelines\/procedures for producing\/writing\/editing news articles changed\/shifted in recent years?<\/li>\r\n<li>Does online news as a dominate sub-register contribute to this change\/shift? If so, in what ways?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-1125\" src=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM-834x1024.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM-834x1024.png 834w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM-768x943.png 768w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM-1251x1536.png 1251w, https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-10.04.11-PM.png 1658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<figcaption>Dr. Difei (Lynn) Zhang<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Difei (Lynn) Zhang, who defended her dissertation (&#8220;Flipping those pages, swiping that screen: a corpus-based analysis of the digital transformation of the news register&#8221;) today! In her dissertation Dr. Zhang investigated the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11,12],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gradstudents","category-research","category-teaching","tag-gradstudents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dept.english.wisc.edu\/awanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}