Sex and Gender in European Languages
Lecture
Gender is a grammatical category in most European languages, to be more precise, in the Indo-European languages. Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are not IE languages and do not have gender while English has lost this grammatical category. Gender of animate nouns is assumed to coincide with sex, but…
Cartooning the Crisis: Antiquity, History and Myth Re-Imagined
Lecture
For much of the world’s media, the collapsing ruins of an ancient temple have become an all too convenient metaphor for the crumbling state of the Greek economy. In the International Press, political cartooning and media imagery have evoked diverse representations of Greek antiquity and mythology:…
The Item/System Problem
Lecture
Ever since Darwin's earliest remarks on the uncanny similarity between language change and natural history in biology, there has been a persistent conceptual unclarity in evolutionary approaches to cultural change. This unclarity concerns the units of analysis. In some cases the unit is said to be…
Occitan, a living, hidden language of France
Lecture
In this talk, I will touch upon three or four issues in relation to the Occitan language of southern France: the place of Occitan among the Romance languages and the location of its speakers in French territory; a short history of this language since the Middle Ages up to its dialectal breaking up…
Pre-PhD-submission Seminar: Dingkun Wang
Lecture
Dingkun Wang, Ph.D. candindate in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, will be delivering his pre-submission paper. His topic is: Chinese subtitling of English-language films: a descriptive study. All are welcome. No RSVP required.
Workshop - finding and understanding historical sources in Australia and the Pacific
Conference
As anthropologists, historians and linguists are aware, historical documents, or unpublished sources, can contain important information on aspects of Pacific Islander and Australian Aboriginal cultures. Over three days, this workshop will explore the historical archives and the research techniques…
Language Teaching Forum
Conference
The ANU Language Teaching Forum (LTF) aims to provide a discussion platform for language teachers and researchers across ANU colleges. Its main objective is to enhance the exchange of research and new approaches in language education. The forum is open to interested people from outside the…