时间：2014年12月12日（周五）13:30
地点：虹口校区5号楼602室
主讲人：Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) (titular)
Oriental Scholar, Shanghai International Studies University
Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages, The University of Adelaide, Australia
内容提要：
This lecture will explore the characteristics of critical (Jewish) thinking and the making of original ideas. It will provide examples of Hegelian (actually Fichte''s) thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectic, which can explain the development of, for example, music or linguistic theories. The lecture will champion an ''on the one hand'' – ''on the other hand'' (Jewish) way of thinking, as opposed to a Black & White (B&W), Right & Wrong mindset. It will demonstrate how a dichotomous B&W approach results in cross-cultural miscommunication. Examples will be given of how Chinese misunderstand British English by failing to recognize Double Language, in which the actual and literal meanings of the statement diverge. The lecture will also argue the advantages of a trans-disciplinary approach as a way of generating new, hybrid theories. It will also characterize what constitutes a good academic thesis.
Brief Bio:
Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil, Oxford; PhD, Cambridge, titular; MA Tel Aviv, summa cum laude) is Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor and Oriental Scholar at Shanghai International Studies University, and Visiting Professorial Scientist at the Department of Molecular Genetics of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is the author of the revolutionary bestseller Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli – A Beautiful Language; Am Oved, 2008), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), three chapters of the Israeli Tingo (Keren, 2011). He is the editor of Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (2012), Jewish Language Contact (2014), a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and the co-editor of Endangered Words, Signs of Revival (2014). He is currently establishing ‘Revivalistics’, a new trans-disciplinary field of enquiry, and has 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 AIATSIS and the Foundation for Endangered Languages. He was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in 2007–2011 and Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge in 2000-2004. He has taught inter alia at the University of Queensland, University of Cambridge and National University of Singapore, and has been a Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT), Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; and Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo.
