J.Li will defend her PhD dissertation on Thursday 4 May 2023, entitled: ’Variations in Language Use: The influence of linguistic and social factors‘.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Date
- Thursday 4 May 2023, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Summary:
One of the important characteristics of language is flexibility. On the one hand, people have different ways of conveying specific information to a particular recipient convey; when quoting previous statements, one can use either direct quotes (direct speech) or indirect quotes (indirect speech), depending on the perspective they adopt. On the other hand, people talk about the same things in different ways, depending on who they are communicating with. For example, people communicate in a more polite way with those who have more power than with those who have equal or less power. (Tamaoka, Yamaguchi, Miyaoka, & Kiyama, 2010). In this thesis, I focused on factors that contribute to decisions to communicate in different ways. To address this question to investigate, I took the use of direct and indirect speech as a starting point.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
A live stream link has been provided to the candidate.
