Member Spotlights
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May 17, 2020Puppies versus pupa: how does stress terminology show bias in invertebrate literature?
There's probably a reason there isn't a collection jar for spiderlings at your local coffee shop. And a Living Language: Science and Society final project may have nailed why. Fourth year Land and Food Systems student Mira Macnair, studying for a degree in Applied Animal Biology, had taken a…
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April 23, 2020Rethinking dictionaries as tools for Indigenous language reclamation
Members of the Splatsin Tsm7aksaltn dictionary team record fluent speaker, Emmeline Felix. Image credit: Aaron Leon. For half a year, Mark Turin told strangers in Nepal that he was a water well. Wanting to respond to people’s greetings with ‘I am very well’, Turin, an associate professor in…
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April 17, 2020Why ‘speaking moistly’ needs to be taken seriously
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March 2, 2020How a child’s first language includes more than words
Author: Shannon Ward, University of British Columbia. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This International Mother Language Day (Feb. 21), Canadians celebrated their multilingual heritage by recognizing…
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February 25, 2020When a virus is the cause, racism is often the symptom
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February 21, 2020‘When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity’ - Celebrating International Mother Language Day
When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity. That’s according to the United Nations, which declared February 21st is International Mother Language Day in 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. Language Sciences spoke with six bi…
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January 28, 2020Questioning the belief that English is a universal common language
Is English a universal language, proficiency in which guarantees a successful career? Or is this a language myth that needs to be set right? Language Sciences member and Department of Language and Literacy Education Professor Ryuko Kubota and her research team interviewed 50 transnational…
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January 22, 2020What if you could hear new music by Satchmo? Language Sciences members are working to understand how people speak
What if you could hear new music by Louis Armstrong? Language Sciences members in the Brain2Speech group are working together to understand how people speak.
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December 18, 2019Addressing a critical shortage of teachers for D/deaf and hard of hearing students in BC
British Columbia needs qualified teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing, and a University of British Columbia program can help. Professor Janet Jamieson, a Language Sciences member and co-director of the Program in Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at UBC, explains how D…