Spoken Discourse Research Studio

03/23/2023

CLASSES OFFERED FALL 2023 & WINTER 2024

03/05/2023

There will be a few practice talks next week! Please join us.

Tuesday, March 7 (3 pm; in person in the lab):
Shifting Semantics of Grandmother in Digital Japanese-Korean Comfort Women Discourses
by Kerry Sluchinski

Wednesday, March 8 (1 pm on Zoom):
Trying to Capture Japanese Grammar in Conversation
by Yoshi Ono
email [email protected] if you want to join us

03/25/2022

CLASSES OFFERED FALL 2022 & WINTER 2023

12/27/2021

[December 2021 Miyako fieldwork]

Sunny, warm, and blue!

12/19/2021

[Master of Arts degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta]

The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta is accepting applicants for their Master's graduate program. Students can choose to focus on any of the following areas:

Chinese Linguistics/Pedagogy

Chinese Literature

Chinese Art History

Japanese/Ryukyuan Linguistics

Japanese Literature

Japanese Art History

Japanese Religions

East Asian Buddhism

East Asian Music

Korean Literature

Taiwanese Film

Please also note that we provide good funding opportunities, usually in the form of teaching or research assistantships. Our tuition/fees are also very reasonable.

The deadline to apply to the graduate program for Fall 2022 entry is 15 January 2022.

For more information visit https://www.ualberta.ca/east-asian-studies/graduate-program

or contact:

Yoshi Ono [email protected] (for Japanese/Ryukyuan linguistics)

Dr. David Quinter [email protected] (for other areas)

The University of Alberta, its buildings, labs, and research stations are primarily located on the traditional territory of Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, and Ojibway/Saulteaux/Anishinaabe nations; lands that are now known as part of Treaties 6, 7, and 8 and homeland of the M...

10/14/2021

October 9, 2021

Kerry Sluchinski just presented at the 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. https://sites.google.com/view/jkconf29/home?authuser=0

[Program] https://sites.google.com/view/jkconf29/program/oral-presentations?authuser=0

The 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK29) is jointly hosted by Nagoya University and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). In view of the continuing spread of COVID-19, the conference will be held as a virtual "real-time" conference from October 9 to

07/09/2021

A number of U of A people attended the 17th International Pragmatics Conference.

It would have been nicer if we had actually gotten to go to Winterthur, Switzerland. Oh, well….

For further info:
https://event.ipra2021.exordo.com/

05/03/2021

Join the 1st year linguistic students presenting at the 2021 Graduate Colloquium!

Date: May 4 (Tue) 6:00 – 8:00 PM (MST)

Zoom registration link: https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuduCgrjwsE9Du_W8zRxjdZSJjOmCheXts

04/22/2021

Just published!

Usage-based and Typological Approaches to Linguistic Units
edited by Tsuyoshi Ono, Ritva Laury and Ryoko Suzuki
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/bct.114

For further info:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14hotKE4bRbkgNnTdPQ9n_Qe-HsyJNrKx/view?usp=sharing

The chapters in this volume focus on how we might understand the concept of ‘unit’ in human languages. It is an analytical notion that has been widely adopted by linguists of various theoretical and applied orientations but has recently been critically examined by both typologically oriented and...

01/07/2021

CLASS OFFERED WINTER 2021
EASIA 316: Language and Society in Japan

12/12/2020

Just published!

Fixed expressions: Building language structure and social action edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono

For further info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AZrI0y0WYbUFFpuBXi38DXLHBwviYoV/view

https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.315

This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking seriously the need to account for their structural aspects.

11/03/2020

We are pleased to welcome our two new grad students, Keisuke Harada and Xinlei Yang.

We wish them the best of luck in their program!