Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, which is not just artifact whose use is to be taught, but a uniquely human trait whose study draws as well as increasingly impinges on cognition, the humanities, and the sciences.
We focus on the use of cognitive linguisitics approach and corpus linguistics methods to investigate linguistics manifestations.
As in a multilingual society, we adopt a cross-linguistics approach to research into issues related to language learning and acquisition.
The use of Cantonese in Hong Kong Society and schools since the post-war period is unique among Chinese Society.
A seminar titled "晚清民初的粵語聖經：翻譯簡史和網上資料庫" was presented by Dr Kataoka Shin from the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. This seminar was organised by The Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Studies and Christian Faith and Development Centre. Lord Wilson Heritage Trust sponsored the seminar.
A workshop titled "Corpus Processing, Analyses, and Applications" was conducted by Prof Gao Zhao-Ming from National Taiwan University.
May
2021The School of 2021 carries the theme "Cantonese Studies in the Digital Age". We are now living in the Information Age with a lot of data surrounding us. We need to apply appropriate methods to collect, process, interpret, and represent these data. Digital technologies play a significant role in this regard. In this two-day event, speakers of the School will introduce some up-to-date Cantonese studies involving digital technologies, such as corpus-based research, online tools and resources for Cantonese studies, and digital processing of Cantonese corpus data.
July
2021The jointly held TeLLT & CoLLT 2021 conference aim to bring together academics from around the world to report on their various research work related to technology-enhanced language learning and teaching (TeLLT), and corpus-based language learning and teaching (CoLLT).
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