This review attempts to examine the current trends in corpus stylistics in China. It is conducted on corpus stylistics articles in five Chinese journals, from 2008 to 2021. These 42 articles are sorted out by the publishing journals, years, research aspects and research methods. Results show that the research depth so far is not as deep, thus there should be more studies in the next few years; the research aspects are not completely covered, with pragmatic stylistics being on top; the research method is heading from non-empirical to quantitative, and then to qualitative.

Ruozhu Peng. Corpus Stylistics in China: Progress, Problems and Prospect. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2022), Vol. 4, Issue 5: 81-89. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2022.040515.

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