The Department of Linguistics and Translation takes a systematic approach to the study of language from a number of different perspectives with a broad range of methodologies. Research foci and expertise cover (1) Empirical and Experimental Linguistics, including computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, neurolinguistics, and psycholinguistics; (2) General Linguistics, including formal linguistics, e.g. semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics (and their interfaces), functional linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and text linguistics; (3) Pedagogical Linguistics, including applied linguistics, second language learning and teaching, linguistics-based pedagogy to language teaching, contrastive linguistics of English and Chinese, and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages; (4) Translation and Interpretation, including translation and interpretation studies, translation theories, computer-aided translation, machine translation and terminology.