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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

An evening of paper-cutting

Carleton was pleased to welcome dynamic and captivating Kami-Kiri artist Mr. Hayashiya Imamaru to Richcraft Hall last night for an evening of freehand paper-cutting co-sponsored by the School of Linguistics & Language Studies and the Embassy of Japan. After greetings from Embassy Second Secretary Mr. Yuki Ochiai, School Director Dr. David... More

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Carleton welcomes Professor Surkhi

Carleton University and the Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) are pleased to welcome Iranian Kurd scholar Rahim Surkhi as part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network. Professor Surkhi is the second scholar that we have hosted since becoming part of the network in 2014 and he will be with us for a year.... More

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Can the Japanese language contribute to world peace?

More than 150 people turned out to hear linguist and author Dr. Takehiro Kanaya speak about interconnectedness of language and culture in an event at Carleton University co-hosted by the School of Linguistics & Language Studies and the Embassy of... More

Friday, September 22, 2017

PhD candidate Saira Fitzgerald successfully defends

Congratulations to PhD candidate Saira Fitzgerald on the recent successful defence of her doctoral dissertation. Fitzgerald, whose thesis “Blackboard/Whiteboard: The discursive construction of the International Baccalaureate in Canada” explores how the International Baccalaureate program is thought about and talked about in Canada, was also... More

Friday, September 22, 2017

Kurdish Language Autumn School

Earlier this month, ALDS professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, in collaboration with colleagues from Germany and Sweden, offered a week long Kurdish language course, the Kurdish Language Autumn School, at the University of Bamberg in... More

Friday, September 22, 2017

Multimodal in New Zealand

PhD candidate Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget is on the ground in New Zealand and ready to begin three-months of practical experience and specialized training with the Multimodal Research Centre (MRC) at Auckland University of Technology. Recipient of a SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship and Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, Chloë will be... More

Monday, July 24, 2017

Carleton students experience China

Sprott School of Business students visit China.  Click here to learn more about their... More

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Understanding Welsh to Standardize Inuktut

* Inuktut is the term adopted by ITK in 2015 to encompass all Inuit dialects spoken in Canada. (story begins on page 59) For the past several years, Kumiko Murasugi, Associate Professor of Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS) and the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS), has been providing linguistic... More

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Learn Hungarian at Carleton! (Fall 2017 & Winter 2018)

Hungary has a rich and fascinating history, culture, literature, which can be better understood and appreciated, if one speaks Hungarian. The richness of the language makes translation of literary works challenging, or in certain cases almost impossible. Hungary has been undergoing numerous changes in the last 30 years and it is a goldmine for... More

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Hungarian and Kurdish added

Interested in studying one of these languages?  We have just added Fall/Winter courses in both as part of our Languages Less Commonly Taught category. Click here to learn... More

Monday, June 5, 2017

“Murderers, moonwalkers and markets”, PhD candidate published

Congratulations to ALDS doctoral candidate Saira Fitzgerald on the publication of her article "Murderers, moonwalkers and markets: A corpus based critical discourse analysis of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian newspapers” in the upcoming edition of the CADAAD Journal.  An advance copy of the article has been posted... More

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Marie-Odile Junker’s award-winning work celebrated

Carleton University Linguistics Prof. Marie-Odile Junker loves helping to preserve Indigenous languages and the incredible stories they have to tell about Canada’s... More

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