Language and Identity Series Session 4: “Translingual Words: Is Sushi a Japanese Word or an English Word?”
| Date(s) | Thursday, 11 November 2021 (available from 17:00 JST) |
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| Language | English (with Japanese simultaneous interpretation) |
| Abstract |
This talk aims to re-evaluate the lives of English words, where making and using words in the English language has become an increasingly dynamic, interactive, and case-by-case process in which ordinary people take a leading role. The lives of many words in the modern era resemble our own lives; just like our own complex and interwoven identities and life trajectories, so too do the lives of words in the English language reflect a complex and dynamic trajectory. In this talk, Dr. Jieun KIAER introduces her book Translingual Words (Routledge 2019) and the sunflower model to explain lexical innovations in English. |
| Program |
Speaker: Jieun KIAER (Young Bin Min-KF Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics, University of Oxford)
Commentator: Maria TELEGINA (Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College)
Moderator: HOSOKAWA Naoko (Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College) |
| Organized by | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo |
| Contact | tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
