Monthly Roundup: March to April 2023
May 04, 2023
Past Events
- March 3 鈥 The department, in collaboration with UBC, invited Jeremy Calder from the University of Colorado Boulder to speak at the LinguisticsNOW Colloquium on "What researching understudied populations can illuminate about social meaning."
- March 8 鈥 Yifang Yuan successfully defended her PhD proposal on "Asking questions in context: An elicitation study of questions in Mandarin Chinese conversation."
- March 9 鈥 PhD student Dasha Gluhareva competed at the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Dasha won first place on her thesis, "Dynamic Self鈥揳nd Other鈥揂ssessment of Second Language Speech"!
- March 18-21 鈥 Prof. Suzanne K. Hilgendorf and PhD candidate Tasnim Abedalqader presented their papers at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference held in Portland, Oregon. Prof. Hilgendorf's paper was on "Transnational Media and the Spread of English".
- March 24 鈥 Grad student Helen Zhang defended her MA thesis on "Creating an Online Hul鈥檘鈥檜mi鈥檔um鈥 Dictionary for Teachers and Learners."
- March 30 鈥 The department invited Nathan Sanders from the University of Toronto to speak at the Linguistics Colloquium on "Teaching linguistics with equity, diversity, and inclusion." The event was followed by a workshop on educational games in linguistics teaching. Here's a recap of the lecture, written by PhD student Danica Reid.
- April 13 鈥 Seven students from the undergraduate and graduate programs presented at the Spring 2023 Student Poster Session. Find the full list of student presenters and their presentations here.
- April 21 鈥 Ashley Farris-Trimble spoke at UVic鈥檚 Linguistics Circle Colloquium series on "What you don't know doesn't hurt you: The acquisition of phonological opacity."
Publications
- Jack Grieve, an MA Linguistics alumnus, has published a book through Cambridge University Press titled The Language of Fake News.
- Post-doctoral fellow Andrew Cheng published an article on The Conversation, titled 鈥溾楨verything Everywhere All at Once鈥 and other Oscars 2023 films show a trend towards linguistic realism in Hollywood.鈥
Congratulations
- Post-doctoral fellow Andrew Cheng has accepted an offer from the University of Hawai`i at M膩noa as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics! He will begin his new role in the Fall 2023 semester.