Chinese Studies Seminar Series - Seminars with Professor GU Yueguo
Sebastian Fedden
1.
2016 CHINESE STUDIES DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES | The living sound, pragmatic force and emotion: Analytic framework for anatomizing Spoken Chinese
18 August, 2016
4:00-5:30pm
When a real-life speaker says something, the living sound streams are accompanied with thoughts, emotions as well as body behavior (i.e., embodiment). The four are correlated in many ways, one of which is called the STFE Integrity Principle. This talk elaborates the Principle, and discusses its major variations or flouting cases in the metalanguage of Gricean pragmatics.
The bulk of the talk will be on a special corpus for studying Chinese prosody and emotion. The use of Praat for speech analysis will be demonstrated.
Link: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/chinese/about/events/index.shtml?id=8865
2.
2016 CHINESE STUDIES DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES | Multimodal Corpus Linguistics and Human Concern
22 August, 2016
4:00-5:00pm
Jointly organised with the Cluster of Language, Literature, Culture and Education (LLCE), China Study Centre.
Humans (as well as animals) interact with the world through touching, hearing, seeing, smelling, and so on. These inborn modalities make human interactions naturally multimodal. The term multimodal corpus is a sampled collection of naturally occurring human multimodal behavior. Multimodal corpus linguistics (MCL) is a theory and practice of studies based on such multimodal corpus.
This talk outlines a theoretical framework of MCL, conveniently called the Experiencer-Experiencing-Experience Model (i.e., the EEE Model). The neonate, i.e., the experiencer, the moment it is born, starts experiencing the world multimodally, giving rise to multimodal experiences. The lifelong ever-growing multimodal experiences are modeled in the big data formula of the (dimensional) self {…{ }…}. That is, the neonate experiencer, over its lifespan, will develop many selves such as the sensorimotor intelligent self {…}, the linguistic self {…}, the learning self {…}, the working self {…}, … the aging self {…}, etc. The purpose of compiling a multimodal corpus, among other things, is to study each self {…} empirically.
The talk will demonstrate how the foresaid selves are studied using the multimodal corpora the speaker has compiled over the last 25 years. The term human concern included in the title of the talk stresses that MCL is dedicated to human issues such as birth, development, illness, and aging (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease).
Link: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/chinese/about/events/index.shtml?id=8866
Dr Sebastian Fedden | Lecturer in Linguistics
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