Xinmei Sun

PhD student

Current Research

My PhD project examines the impartiality of parliamentary research services provided to MPs and their staff in the UK. Focusing on the briefing reports produced by parliamentary libraries, I employ cognitive and corpus approaches in developing an efficient and empirically sound measurement for impartiality, with the aim of mitigating biases in policymaking.

Selected Publications

Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19
Sun, X., Chałupnik, M. 30/09/2022 In: Discourse and Society. 33, 5, p. 650-670. 21 p.
Journal article

Smoke, Switch, Quit: A corpus-assisted investigation of tobacco industry and health bodies’ language around tobacco use
Fitzpatrick, I., Sun, X. 18/07/2024
Poster

Impartiality and stance: A frame-semantic corpus study of UK parliamentary briefings on immigration
Oral presentation

CADAAD 2026: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Analysing stance in parliamentary briefings through semantic frames: The case of immigration briefings
Oral presentation

8th Corpora & Discourse International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Stance-making under conditions of institutional impartiality: A frame-semantic study of UK parliamentary immigration briefings
Oral presentation

Critical Policy Discourse Analysis International Conference 2026
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Reliability and applicability of frame-semantic parsing for corpus approaches to discourse analysis
Oral presentation

4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Critical Discourse Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Corpus Linguistics 2025
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Linguistics consultant
Consultancy

Information, Communication and Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review

7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Evidence for effects of metaphor extendedness and position in discourse: from conceptual accessibility to extent of metaphorical framing of political issues after reading
Oral presentation

16th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience