Liu Juan, PhD candidate in forensic linguistics, has conducted researches in the fields of forensic discourse analysis, cognitive pragmatics, multimodality, legal translation, and corpus study ect. Her proposal in preparation for PhD dissertation falls in the scope of corpus-based legal information mining mechanism and its application. The research aims to analyze the rules of discourse information structures and identify information structure variations in order to provide theoretical foundation for the intellectualization of discourse information. Discourse information plays a totally new role in text mining and is deemed to be a turning point in the research of information intelligence. On the basis of recent-years researches on Judges’ New Information Acquisition in Court Investigation, A Pragmatic Study on Reporting Phenomenon in Courtroom Interaction, A Syntactic Analysis of Translation Strategies of DE-Structure in Legal Texts, ect., she is, in preparation for this interdisciplinary project, reading extensively on corpus and statistics studies, linguistic experimental designing, programming and cognitive studies.

She believes that we are born explorers, empty vessels, curious and fascinated by the unknown world around us. With this desire, we can create miracles.