At the invitation of the School of Foreign Languages and Literature of Lanzhou University, Professor Zhang Xing of the School of Foreign Languages of Sun Yat sen University gave an online academic lecture for the teachers and students of our school.

Topic: A Study on the Intersubjectivization of Discourse Markers at the End of Sentences in Japanese

Speaker: Professor Zhang Xing

Host: Professor Ding Shuqin

Lecture time: 14:30-16:30, June 24, 2020 (Wednesday)

Via: Tencent Conference (Conference ID: 758 933 610, conference password: 123321)

Website: https://meeting.tencent.com/s/0yJiZM27PYeT

Welcome teachers and students to participate actively!

Content introduction:

Referring to the concept of "intersubjectivity" in philosophy, we can expand the theory of intersubjectivization proposed by Traugott (1999) and propose the expanded theory of intersubjectivization. The polysemy of multiple sentences ending discourse markers in Japanese can be well explained by using this extended intersubjectivization theory.

Brief introduction of the lecturer:

Zhang Xing, male, from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Professor and Doctoral supervisor of the School of foreign languages of Sun Yat sen University, Mainly engaged in Japanese grammar, Chinese and Japanese comparison, computational linguistics and other aspects of research, he has published more than 50 papers in Japanese Learning and Research, Foreign Language Studies, and Journal of PLA University of Foreign Language., etc. He has published one monograph, one book, eight translations and two dictionaries. He has won one national Social Science Fund project, one first-class Postdoctoral Science Fund project, and a number of military scientific research projects.