Bio
I received my PhD in English linguistics from Uppsala University in December 2013. My main research interests are in English for academic purposes, applied corpus linguistics, and second language writing. My current research focuses on rhetorical structure and evaluative resources in different disciplinary genres as well as secondary school students’ engagement with Extramural English and its impact on L2 writing development.
Over the years, I have taught courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including writing for academic and professional purposes, second language learning and teaching, and corpus linguistics. I have been working at Karlstad University since 2020.
Selected publications
Wang, Y. 2025. Examining promotional strategies and trends in successful grant application abstracts in humanities: Moves and appraisal resources. English for Specific Purposes, 78, 70–84.
Wang, Y. 2025. “Guided by science”: A keyword analysis of government ministers’ and scientists’ stance in the UK government’s COVID-19 press briefings. Text & Talk, 45(3). DOI: 10.1515/text-2023-0100.
Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Larsson, T. 2024. Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: A corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing. Corpora 19 (1), 17–30.
Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang Y., Eickhoff, S. A., & Sundqvist, P. 2023. Exploring the effects of target-language extramural activities on students’ written production. Journal of Second Language Writing, 62, 101062.
Wang, Y., & Chan, N. C. L. 2023. Formulaic language in university seminars: A comparison of EAP textbook coverage and authentic language use in ELF settings. In M. Walková (ed.). Linguistic Approaches in English for Academic Purposes: Expanding the Discourse, 11–33. Bloomsbury.
Soler, J., & Wang, Y. 2023. Predatory publishers’ spam emails as a symptom of the multiple vulnerabilities in academia. In P. Habibie & I. Fazel (eds.), Predatory practices in scholarly publication and knowledge sharing: Causes and implications for scholarship, 19–38. Routledge.
Wang, Y., & Soler, J. 2023. Clausal and phrasal complexity in research articles published in predatory and top-ranking journals: A case study of two journals in political science. Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies 17(1): 65-84.
Wang, Y. 2022. Emergency risk communication: a STM analysis of the UK government’s COVID-19 press briefings. Nordic Journal of English Studies 21(2): 226-251.
Wang, Y., & Kataari, H. 2021. ‘Let’s say’: Phraseological patterns of say in academic ELF communication. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 54, 101046.
Wang, Y., & Soler, J. 2021. Investigating predatory publishing in political science: a corpus linguistics approach. Applied Corpus Linguistics 1(1): 1-15.
Wang, Y. 2021. Formulaic sequences with ideational functions in L1 novice and expert academic writing. In Aleksandar Trklja & Łukasz Grabowski (eds.), Formulaic Language: Theories and Methods, pp. 113-137. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Wang, Y. 2020. Methodological challenges in identifying formulaicity in spoken academic ELF communication. In Kumiko Murata (ed.), ELF Research and Approaches to Data and Analyses: Theoretical and methodological Concerns, pp. 143-157. Oxon: Routledge.
Soler, J., & Wang, Y. 2019. Linguistic differences between well-established and predatory journals: A keyword analysis of two journals in political science. Learned Publishing 32: 259-269.
Wang, Y. 2019. A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20(1): 20-50.
Wang, Y. 2019. A functional analysis of text-oriented formulaic expressions in written academic discourse: Multiword sequences vs. single words. English for Specific Purposes 54: 50-61.
Wang, Y. 2018. Formulaic sequences signalling discourse organisation in ELF university lectures: A disciplinary perspective. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 7(2): 355–376.
Wang, Y. 2018. Interpersonal formulaic sequences and cross-disciplinary differences in ELF academic lectures. In Kumiko Murata, Tomo Ishikawa & Mayu Konakahara (eds.), Waseda Working Papers in ELF, Vol. 7, 49-64. Waseda: Wasedaa ELF Research Group.
Wang, Y. 2018. As Hill seems to suggest: Variability in formulaic sequences with interpersonal functions in L1 novice and expert academic writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 33: 12–23.
Wang, Y. 2017. Lexical bundles in spoken academic ELF: Genre and disciplinary variation. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22(2): 187-211.
Wang, Y. 2017. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983. In Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia & Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics), 97-116. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Wang, Y. 2016. The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A Contrastive Learner-Corpus Study of Delexical Verb + Noun Collocations (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Volume 77). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.