Korea has produced many outstanding individuals over its long history. However, it is hard to find three historically significant figures who shared the same father and mother. In this talk, Dr. Baker will discuss three men who did. Chŏng Yagyong, better known as Tasan, was one of the most prolific and creative thinkers in all Korean […]
Should you try to turn that paper you wrote for graduate seminar into a journal article? If so, how? What additional work do you need to do to create an article manuscript—and how much? Whose advice should you request during the revision process? To which journal should you send the completed draft? What should you […]
Although Cantonese has an estimated eighty million speakers, many Cantonese-speaking parents are concerned both about the future of the language and the transmission of their linguistic and cultural heritage to the next generation. The future of Cantonese depends on its acquisition by children who will necessarily be bilingual, if not trilingual. We will discuss the […]
What, if anything, is special about bilingual children’s Cantonese? When we observe the Cantonese of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English, we find that they produce some ‘non-target’ forms. For example, children produce dative sentences with the order “give-recipient-object”, as in (1), which differs from the distinctive order (“give-object-recipient”) of adult Cantonese: (1) 耶穌俾我錢呀 Je4sou1 bei2 […]
What, if anything, is special about bilingual children’s Cantonese? When we observe the Cantonese of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English, we find that they produce some ‘non-target’ forms. For example, children produce dative sentences with the order “give-recipient-object”, as in (1), which differs from the distinctive order (“give-object-recipient”) of adult Cantonese: (1) 耶穌俾我錢呀 Je4sou1 bei2 […]
Join UBC’s Dr. Christina Laffin, associate professor of Japanese literature, for a conversation with Kanako Nishi and book translator Allison Markin Powell to discuss what the translation of Nishi’s bestselling novel, Sakura, means in the context of the rising popularity of Japanese fiction among English readers. Following their discussion, the audience will be treated to […]
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