The 23nd Stage of Academic Salon was Held By Contrastive Analysis and Translation Academic Innovation Team VS Contrastive Analysis and Applied Research Institute
The 23nd Stage ofAcademic Salon was Held By Contrastive Analysis and Translation AcademicInnovation Team VS Contrastive Analysis and Applied Research Institute
Challenges and innovationexploration of contrastive study
Lecturer: Professor Gao Wencheng of CFL ofUniversity of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Time: April 21(Tuesday) 13:30 - 15:30pm
Place:Room 311 in foreign languagebuilding
Contents :
Western ideas about contrastive linguistics canbe traced back to the first half of the 19th century, represented by German language philosopherHumboldt (Humboldt), while as a discipline, the contrastive linguistics is taken shape in the 20thcentury. In Europe, contrastivelinguistics is originated from the famous Danish linguistYe Sibai (Jespersen), and in the UnitedStates , from the famous human linguists wolff (Whorf). Many scholars regard thepublication of Cross-Cultural Linguistics (Lado, 1957) by American linguist Lado as a sign of the birth of contrastive linguistics. InChina, since the speech, Through the Contrastive Study of Grammar, given by Mr Lv Shuxiang in Beijing Language Institute in 1977, contrastivelinguistics research in China has developed rapidly and achieved fruitful results including highquality monographs, academic papers, collected papers, etc. Besides, the level of research involves the micro, meso and macro with various perspectives, and all of these can offer significant guidancefor the contrastiveresearch and applied research. However, when seen from the present development of the western linguistics as a whole, the contrastive study of China faces severe challenges, with its relative backwardness in thefollowing five aspects: the theoretical basis, research methods, crosslanguage corpus verification, description and sublimation of theory, and application and promotion of the results.Therefore, there is a great need for Chinesecontrastive study researchers to digest the latest research achievements of western linguistics,combine closely with the Chinese, and conduct tremendous innovative research in contrastivestudy at all levels. Innovative exploration can start from the current challenges, and base on such cutting edge linguistics theory as typological linguistics,cognitive linguistics and so on; adopt research methods by combining qualitative andquantitative; carry out alarge-scale cross-language verification on the basis of corpus (BNC, CCL); attach equal importance to the descriptionlanguage facts and sublimation of theory; extend the application and promotion of theresults of contrastivestudy, etc. Finally, taking "the cognitive contrastresearch in English and Chinese existential sentence" as a supportive case studies, the detailed discussion got some different, interesting, and revealed discoveries under the research paradigm of cognitive linguistics, and cross-language verification on the basis of corpus.
BriefIntroduction to the Lecturer:
Gao Wencheng , male,Ph.D., CFL of University of Shanghai forScience and Technology , Master Tutor. Graduated form Shanghai International Studies University with doctorate degree majoring in Englishlanguage and literature. From 2012-02 to 2013-02, as visiting scholars of Department ofLinguistics, Georgetown University, and as astudent of the international famous cognitive linguists Andrea Tyler, professor engaged in the study of cognitiveLinguistics.Currently, he is a member of theLinguistic Society of America, the open access journal’s editor and proofreader of the United States Modern Linguistics, the Canadian journal editor of Literature and Language Research, and the special invited proofreader of NU IDEASN of Nagoya university in Japan, possesses lifetime membership of Chinese and Western Language Philosophy Research Board. His main researchdirection: cognitive linguistics, contrastive study, applied linguistics,language philosophy, etc. He had longengaged in the teaching and scientific research of linguistics, successively published nearly 30 papers in such core journals in foreign studies and otherjournals as the Journal of Foreign Languages, Audio-Visual Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching, Journal of Sichuan Foreign Fanguages Institute , Foreign Chinese, Journal of Xi 'an International Studies University, Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, published one academic monographof the cognitive contrast research in English andChinese existential sentence and other 9 works; successively participated in andcompleted two items in the major scientific research projects andthe national education scientific planning project respectively assigned by the Ministry of Education, presided over to complete one item in scientific research innovation projects for the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and one item in the key course construction project for Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and at the same time completed the fieldhumanities focus and other kinds of more than 10 scientific research projects. Currently, he is involved in the 2013 major scientific planning of the State Language Commission in "the 12th Five-Year Plan" --- "Primary and Secondary School and University Students' Foreign Language Ability and the Evaluation System of Research inChina" (one ZDJ125-4). He has won various kinds of awards,mainly including the Excellent Scientific Research Achievement (second prize), Master's Degree Thesis Direction, Outstanding Undergraduate Course Graduation Thesis Direction (provincial 1st prize, ), the Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition(second prize), Teaching Excellence Award and so on.
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