时间：5 December 2014, 1:30pm,SISU Hongkou

地点：虹口校区5号楼602

主讲人：Professor Ghil‘adZuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) (titular)

Oriental Scholar, ShanghaiInternationalStudiesUniversity

Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Abstract:

This fascinating and multifaceted double lecture series will analyse themoral, aesthetic, epistemological, psychological and economic benefits oflanguage diversity. With coca-colonization and homogenization there will bemore and more groups added to the forlorn club of the lost-heritage peoples.Language revival, the most extreme case of language PLANNING and POLICY, willbecome increasingly relevant as people seek to recover their cultural autonomy,empower their spiritual and intellectual sovereignty, and improve theirwellbeing and mental health. There is an urgent need to offer perspicaciouscomparative insights, for example from the HEBREW revival, which is so far themost successful known linguistic reclamation. The lecture will introduceREVIVALISTICS, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry, and explore currentattempts to reclaim Australian ABORIGINAL anguages such as Barngarla. It willprovide examples from many other languages such as Maori (New Zealand), Hawai'i(USA) and Sanskrit (India).

Relevant links:http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/september/1409493600/anna-goldsworthy/voices-land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZPjdNaLCho

http://vimeo.com/channels/357807/44019045

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/linguafranca/2012-10-20/4320276

Brief Bio:

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil, Oxford; PhD, Cambridge, titular; MATel Aviv, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages atthe University of Adelaide, Australia. He is also Distinguished VisitingProfessor and Oriental Scholar at ShanghaiInternationalStudiesUniversity, and VisitingProfessorial Scientist at the Department of Molecular Genetics of the WeizmannInstitute of Science. He is the author of the revolutionary bestseller IsraelitSafa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact andLexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), three chaptersof the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011). He is the editor of Burning Issues inAfro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a specialissue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and theco-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014). He is currentlyestablishing ‘Revivalistics’, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry, andhas launched, with the Barngarla Aboriginal communities of Port Lincoln,Whyalla and Port Augusta, the reclamation of the Barngarla language of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.Professor Zuckermann is President of AustraLex and elected member of AIATSISand the Foundation for Endangered Languages. He was an Australian ResearchCouncil (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011 and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at ChurchillCollege,Cambridge in2000-2004. He has taught inter alia at the University of Queensland, Universityof Cambridge and National University of Singapore, and has been a ResearchFellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, VillaSerbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem; Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT),Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University; Harry Ransom HumanitiesResearch Center, University of Texas at Austin; and Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo,National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo.

Further particulars:

http://www.zuckermann.org/

http://adelaide.academia.edu/zuckermann/

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ghilad.zuckermann

http://www.facebook.com/ProfessorZuckermann