講座專家：Dr Alex Chengyu Fang, Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong

時間：2019年12月3日（星期二）下午4點至5點半

地點：如心樓806  

講座内容：

Corpus linguistics, as an empirical view on and approach to language, has a strong Anglo-American origin, much of which has been rather implicit. While the American approach has a prevalent focus on the written language necessitated by the need of language education, the British tradition has been fundamentally rooted in speech. This talk will primarily describe the British tradition and aim to present a chronological perspective on the evolution of this discipline. In particular, it will attempt to re-construct a path of progression in the light of the London School of Linguistics, which has accorded paramount importance to structure and meaning, as well as lexis, based on investigations in authentic spoken utterances. Through several milestone corpora, the talk will attempt to relate the importance of speech to current-day, contemporaneous requirements on linguistic research.  

主講人簡介：

Alex Fang received his PhD in linguistics from University College London. He was deputy director of Survey of English Usage, University College London, assisting Professor Sidney Greenbaum with the grammatical annotation of the ICE-GB corpus. He is now based at City University of Hong Kong, lecturing on corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics and stylistics. He has published widely on corpus-based linguistic studies, including Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features published by Springer in 2015. He is an expert member representing China in International Organization for Standardization in the area of language resources and co-authored the 2012 ISO standard for dialogue act annotation. He is also an expert member in the China National Technical Committee on Terminology and Language Resources for Standardization.