Lead Researchers

Sophia Burnett holds a PhD in Language Sciences from AGORA research centre, CY Cergy Paris University, and is a post-doctoral teaching and research fellow at l'Université de Lorraine Laboratoire IDEA--UR2338.  Her linguistic anthropology research focuses on written discourse analysis, social semiotics, and cognitive linguistics

Lian Chen 陈恋  is PhD in Language Sciences from the Lexiques, Textes, Discourses, Dictionaries laboratory – Jean Pruvost center (LT2D), CY Cergy Paris University.

Her research focuses on contrastive linguistics in French and Chinese, in the fields of lexicology, linguistics of corpus, phraseology, and digital lexicography. 

Geng Yundong 耿云冬 is an Associate Professor at School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Agricultural University, P. R. China. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Nanjing University in March, 2015. His recent research focuses on bilingual lexicography, media-converged lexicography, knowledge translation studies.

Danh-Thành DO-HURINVILLE is a university professor of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), a member of the ELLIADD laboratory (UR 4661), and the Société de Linguistique de Paris. His research areas include (i) Categories and Categorization; (ii) Text and Translation; (iii) Phraseology and Brachylogy. He has published numerous articles on French and Vietnamese linguistics in international journals and co-edited several books and special issues of journals. He is the author of two monographs: Temps, aspect et modalité en vietnamien. Étude comparative avec le français (2009, L’Harmattan) and Étude des temps verbaux dans la presse française contemporaine (2015, National University of Hanoi Press). Besides these scientific publications, he has translated a collection of short stories from Vietnamese to French L’appel du sao (2006, Hoi Nha Van) and a novel, À l’origine (Nguyên Binh Phuong, 2014, Riveneuve), and translated the novel Le pain de l'étranger by Henri Troyat from French to Vietnamese (2024).

Huy Linh DAO is a doctor in Language Sciences and currently Associate Professor of Vietnamese Linguistics at the National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations (INALCO). He is a statutory member of the Center for Linguistic Research on East Asia (CRLAO – UMR 8563 – CNRS/EHESS/INALCO), which he has directed since 2023. His research work, which is located in the field of theoretical and descriptive syntax, and its interfaces with the lexicon, semantics and discourse, aim to develop a formal grammar of contemporary Vietnamese.

Dana Di Pardo Léon-Henri is an Associate Professor in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) and a member of the ELLIADD laboratory (UR 4661).

Her research focuses on the pedagogy and didactics of language teaching, the development of professional, lifelong, and metacognitive skills in higher education, evaluation and assessment methods, language policies, and the integration and use of artificial intelligence in foreign language teaching.