Jinan University – University of Birmingham Joint Institute J-BJI TALKIII

主办单位：暨南大学伯明翰大学联合学院

时间：10:00 – 12:00, 10月11日, 2017

地点：暨南大学番禺校区图书馆负一层学术报告厅

讲座标题：The Word is your World – use it

Speaker: Dr. Terry Shortall (Terry Shortall has taught English and Applied Linguistics in England, Portugal, Brazil, Japan, and China. He has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham.He worked at the University of Birmingham for fourteen years as Programme Coordinator for Master’s Degree programmes in Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching, and Translation Studies.His main research areas are Corpus Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Linguistics.)

Abstract:Dr. Terry Shortall will first of all talks about text structure. A text is not simply a collection of sequenced paragraphs with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Instead, a text consists of hidden and sophisticated links that make important connections between the different ideas in a text, and another set of almost invisible links that join sentences and make them flow as a unit. And then he would next talk about word collocation, the way that words are attracted to each other, become friends, and stay together. Finally he will talk about culture control over word usage. The way we use our second language is heavily influenced by the culture and habits of our first language.