【直播】Languages Don't Change, People Change Languages

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报告题目

Languages Don't Change, People Change Languages

报告人（单位）

Kersti Börjars

报告时间

2022年1月21日(周五)19:00

主办方

吉林大学牛津大学前沿学术讲坛

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报告人介绍

Professor Kersti Börjars is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oxford, as well as a Master of St Catherine’s College. She has degrees from Uppsala University, the University of Leiden (Doctorandus), and a PhD from the University of Manchester. She was the President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2005 until 2011. Professor Börjars is currently a member of the RAE 2008 panel 58 for linguistics, Chair of sub-panel 28 ‘Modern languages and linguistics’ of REF2014, and is the editor of the Journal of Linguistics. Since January 2017, she is also Professor II in Nordic Languages at The University of Oslo. Her research interests are in language change; why and how it happens. Professor Börjars has worked on Germanic languages, especially the Scandinavian ones, but has also looked at change over time from a broader perspective. She is also interested in how models of grammar can help us understand change, and in this respect, she works particularly within Lexical-Functional Grammar.

报告摘要

One of the few strong generalisations we can make about language is that if a language is used, it will change. If a person who understands the English spoken now looks at a document written in English, say, 1000 years ago, they will not understand much. They may not even recognise it as English. Still there has been no day in the intervening period when speakers could not understand the language used the day before, or even a year or ten earlier. We will look at some examples of language change and try to understand a little better how and why it happens.

主持人介绍

Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor in applied linguistics in the School of Foreign Language Education at Jilin University, China and gained his PhD at the University of Hong Kong. He has been researching and teaching in disciplinary discourse, academic writing and corpus studies, and has published 40 articles on the above topics in most major SSCI-indexed journals in applied linguistics, including Applied Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, Discourse Studies and International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, etc. He is subject editor of Linguistics section of Social Sciences and Humanities Open (Elsevier) and on the editorial board of Journal of English for Academic Purposes and the Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics. His recent books include Metadiscursive Nouns: Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing (Routledge, 2022), Academic Discourse and Global Publishing: Disciplinary Persuasion in Changing Times (Routledge, 2019, with Ken Hyland) and Corpora and English for Academic Purposes (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2019). He is winner of John Sinclair Bursary by ICAME and Fawzia Braine Memorial Award by Hong Kong Association of Applied Linguistics, both of which were awarded for the excellence of his research papers. 

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