The Language of Time
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Panel Discussion
Start Date
25-9-2014 2:00 PM
Description
What happens when Language and Time, two of the defining essentialities of human existence butt up against one another? Well, when we try to talk time across cultural borders, “a failure to communicate.” In this session relevant not just to the Symposium but the University Theme “Living in a Global Community,” panelists whose native languages are Spanish and Chinese, as well as those who have studied Japanese, Hebrew and Old English, will consider not just the more obvious question of differing ways of expressing time through verb tense but perhaps even more importantly how different cultural understandings of time find themselves reflected in often almost untranslatable words, expressions and concepts. This talk should be of interest to anyone considering living and/or working in another country.
Recommended Citation
Boero, Paulo; Li, Qingjun; McEntire, Mark; Jackson, Michael; and Monteverde, Maggie, "The Language of Time" (2014). Humanities Symposium. 12.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/12
The Language of Time
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
What happens when Language and Time, two of the defining essentialities of human existence butt up against one another? Well, when we try to talk time across cultural borders, “a failure to communicate.” In this session relevant not just to the Symposium but the University Theme “Living in a Global Community,” panelists whose native languages are Spanish and Chinese, as well as those who have studied Japanese, Hebrew and Old English, will consider not just the more obvious question of differing ways of expressing time through verb tense but perhaps even more importantly how different cultural understandings of time find themselves reflected in often almost untranslatable words, expressions and concepts. This talk should be of interest to anyone considering living and/or working in another country.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Personal & Professional Growth