活动预告 | Language, Time, and Change – Disciplinary and Life Lesson

讲座信息

讲题：Language, Time, and Change – Disciplinary and Life Lesson

主讲：Brian   Joseph, Distinguished University Professor

时间：2019年10月31日（周四）14:30-16:30

地点：浙江大学西溪校区人文学院咖啡吧

主讲人简介

      Brian Joseph，美国俄亥俄州立大学（Ohio State University）杰出教授，校事顾问，美国哲学学会（American Philosophical Society）院士、美国文理学会（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士，2019年美国语言学会会长。主要研究方向包括历史语言学、语言接触、希腊语、阿尔巴尼亚语、巴尔干语、梵语研究等。出版语言学著作20余部，发表论文240余篇，任Language、Diachronica等多家语言学SSCI期刊主编、副主编。

与谈人

陈玉洁（浙江大学中文系）

李旭平（浙江大学中文系）

刘莹（浙江大学外国语学院）

罗天华（浙江大学中文系）

史文磊（浙江大学中文系）

乐明（浙江大学外国语学院）

真大成（浙江大学中文系）

内容简介

   Historical linguists study the ways languages change and develop over time. While many lessons for the specific domain of language have emerged from this enterprise, one generally applicable lesson learned from historical linguistics is that change is inevitable. In this respect, language is much like life, for the inevitability of change is a hallmark of virtually all that is human. In this presentation, I start with some specifics about language change and move from there to present a general view of how time affects a variety of human institutions. Eventually, however, despite the importance of recognizing the time dimension, I argue that this importance holds only from the scientific side, and is valid really only for historical linguists, and for historians more generally; for speakers, and for individuals more generally, the only time that matters is the here and now -- any inferences that might be drawn about the passage of time are epiphenomenal in nature and do not reflect a direct awareness of the effects of the passage of time on language or other aspects of humanity.

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