Confucius Day 2011 public events
September 27, 12:30pm - 2:00pmMānoa Campus, Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319), and Art Auditorium
CCS and CI-UHM presents two public talks by Deborah Fallows, linguist and writer
Date: Tuesday, September 27
Time: 12:30pm
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
Title: “Chinglish: the Language between Chinese and English. The linguistics of how we understand Chinglish & why it makes us laugh.â€
Abstract: Chinglish always hits our funnybones, but we rarely take time to sort out why. We always understand Chinglish; we get what it intends, even when it says something quite literally different. How do we do this? How does our cultural experience provide the context for guessing the meaning of what makes no sense at all? How does our mature, higher-order processing of language helps us leap to the right conclusions?
Admission is free.
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Date: Wednesday, September 28
Time: 5:00pm (followed by a reception & book signing)
Place: Art Auditorium
Title: “Think Like the Chinese Think: Understanding the Culture of Modern China Through the Lens of Languageâ€
Abstract: Using her experience as a trained linguist and a new student of Chinese, Deborah Fallows shows how simple words, phrases, or bits of the grammar of the Chinese language can become windows to understanding much of the Chinese culture—their sense of romance, humor, protocol, personal relationships, and interest in foreigners, to name a few. Why, for example, does abrupt language in Chinese actually signal a closeness between friends, rather than impolite behavior? Or why do the Chinese have such trouble saying “I love you†to the ones they love the most. Fallows provides a necessary human perspective on an emerging superpower that many in the West still struggle to comprehend.
Co-sponsor: University of Hawai‘i Bookstore
Admission is free.
Ticket Information
free
Event Sponsor
Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at UHM, Mānoa Campus
More Information
Daniel Tschudi, 956-8891, dtschudi@hawaii.edu, Deb Fallows talks (PDF)
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