Eve Chen

Dr. Eve Chen is a Lecturer at the School of Culture, History & Language, The Australian National University. Her research focuses on language and cultural conceptualizations, sociolinguistics, and Chinese diaspora studies. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Monash University and is actively involved in empirical and interdisciplinary research on language in sociocultural contexts.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, Monash University

Research Interests:

• Language and cultural contexts
• Cognitive sociolinguistics and translanguaging
• Chinese diaspora language dynamics
• Interdisciplinary empirical research methodologies

Research Contributions: Dr. Chen explores cultural linguistics through studies on Cantonese idioms, food symbolism, and language diversity in the Sinophone world. Her work bridges sociolinguistic theory with empirical practices, including collaborative projects on song translation and food translation reception.

Advising & Grants: Registered to supervise research students. Current project: Past in the present: Reconceptualizing traditions in contemporary China (2023-2024).

Labs/Teams: Engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations across cultural linguistics and Chinese studies.