Title: Japanese Language Learning and Exploration from the Perspective of Cultural Experience

Speaker: Liu Jian (Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor)

Time: 13:30-15:00, September 27, 2024 (Friday)

Venue: Room 211, Building 5, Binhai Central Campus, TUST

Warmly welcome teachers and students to attend it.

Speaker Introduction:

Liu Jian, Ph.D from Peking University, is an associate professor, MA supervisor, and head of the Department of Japanese at the School of Foreign Languages, Capital Normal University. With Japanese linguistics as her research field,she has published 2 monographs and 2 translated works, and has authored over 20 papers in domestic and international academic journals, including a study on the separability of verb stems and endings in modern Japanese and Chinese. She has also edited and contributed to over 20 textbooks such as Comprehensive Japanese and Practical Japanese (Peking University Press), and New Start Point Japanese (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press), and has presided over 2 provincial and ministerial humanities and social sciences projects, participated in 3 national humanities and social sciences projects, and presided over 8 university-level teaching and research projects and 1 horizontal project.

Lecture Content:

In the context of the rapid development of artificial intelligence, this lecture aims to explore the classic proposition of “language and culture”, addressing suchquestions as “In what aspects do human language skills still surpass machines?”“In addition to focusing on the language itself, what other dimensions should we pay attention to when learning a language?” “Since cultural exchanges between China and Japan have never ceased from ancient times to the present; what cultural factors are worth noting behind the expressions of the Chinese and Japanese languages?” “Why do we say this?”“How can we express ourselves better?” and seeks answers through the experience of Chinese and Japanese cultures. At the same time, it aims to find traces of Chinese traditional culture in modern Japanese, narrating Chinese stories within Japanese culture and establishing cultural confidence, which is also a sacred mission for contemporary foreign language professionals.