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Appliable Linguistics Seminar (5)
[Seminar on Language Science and System Science (71)]

Time: 16:00, 17 Dec 2014

Venue: #313, School of Foreign Languages

Speaker: Lai Liangtao

Abstract: This paper explores the disciplinarity of educational linguistics in terms of its origination, goals and objects, theoretic foundations, knowledge structure as well as the controversy about its disciplinary identity. It shows that educational linguistics originates from a combination of language and education, takes the interaction between language and education as its object of study, aims at creating a language-based theory of education, and features multi-dimensional research perspectives. The knowledge structure of educational linguistics at present stage is generally segmental and is in need of an in-depth theoretical system. As an intersection between linguistics and education, educational linguistics is still at its primary stage of development, characterized by a blending rather than an integration of linguistic and educational elements. We should better integrate resources from a greater variety of disciplines and lay a more solid theoretical foundation for its evolution into a mature discipline.

Keywords: educational linguistics; disciplinarity; evolution

Title: The Disciplinarity of Educational Linguistics

Speaker: Guo Fei

Title: Construction of the Judge's Identity in Court Trials

Abstract: Based on genre theory and negotiation system of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper analyzes the exchange structures and discusses how the judge establishes his identity through these resources. Trial discourse is a dynamic process between speakers in the courtroom. In order to realize the justice of jurisdiction, judges establish themselves as “Executant” and “Organizer” from the perspective of procedural justice, as “Investigator” and “listener” from the perspective of substantial justice.

Keywords: Trial discourses; Identity construct; Negotiation system