from Cardiff University gave a lecture “” in Room 5A402 in the School of Foreign Studies. The lecture was chaired by Professor Huang Guowen, Dean of the School.

     In her lecture, Dr. Fontaine talked about the connotation of “Brexit”. She pointed out that instead of deriving meaning from collocation, “Brexit” has obtained its meaning from its context. Via the concordances from Nexis corpus, she noted that “Bexit” has undergone nominalization and now bears negative connotation.

(Report by Qin Jianhua  Picture by Cen Haoxian)