East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Department of Linguistics
The University of Adelaide
2012
A short essay on Korean words that have undergone phonetic adaptation and semantic change during the importation process from languages such as English and German.
The University of Adelaide
2012
A short essay on Korean words that have undergone phonetic adaptation and semantic change during the importation process from languages such as English and German.
The article offers a case study in the nature of uses of the European past in East Asia at a time when the search for the knowledge of the West was not yet motivated primarily by any sense of its civilizational, moral, or technological... more
The applicability of the Person-centered Approach to psychotherapy (i.e. PCA) toward culturally varying clients is often claimed to be limited, as it has developed based on Rogers’ ideas that are often accused of being culturally biased.... more
A photo-collage of past and present street visuals in Asia, Aestheticizing Public Space explores the domestic, regional, and global nexus of East Asian cities through their graffiti, street art, and other visual forms in public space.... more
The finished scientific poster which grew out of my initial term project proposal on how Korean usage of honorifics can point to show a unique cultural heritage and identity to the Korean people.
Japanese Traditionality and Women's Representation in Animes: Naruto Example - book version of my master thesis. // Bu çalışma yüksek lisans tezimin kitap hâline getirdiğim son versiyonudur. Kitaplaşma sürecinde içerik genişletilmiş,... more
When Wendi Deng (邓文迪 ), from China magically fell into the pan-national world of international business and married the media billionaire Rupert Murdoch, (who had abandoned Australia for the same stateless realm of five star hotels), at... more
Department of Linguistics The University of Adelaide 2012 An investigation into the challenge of writing Chinese characters and kanji for native speakers of languages using logographic scripts. Comment and constructive criticism... more
This article traces the time practices relevant to Edo-period pleasure quarter life and business in 18th and 19th century Japan, discussing two time patterns that appeared in pleasure quarter price lists at the time which allowed... more
The first attempt at spelling reform in South Korea took place in the early 1950s as the Korean War (1950–53) drew to a close. The subsequent Han’gŭl Crisis is often interpreted as an example of the authoritarianism of President Syngman... more
Probabilmente perché in Italia mancano scuole a livello universitario idonee a stimolare – come avviene per l'India, il Tibet, la Cina, il Giappone, per non citare che i paesi che più richiamano l'attenzione dei nostri orientalisti –... more
how to translate the word "sexuality" in Taiwan
Quan niệm về chữ hiếu ở mỗi nền văn hóa là khác nhau. Không chỉ thế, ngay cả trong cùng một nền văn hóa, nếu xuất phát điểm khác nhau thì cách nhìn nhận về chữ hiếu cũng khác nhau. Tham luận này nghiên cứu trường hợp chữ hiếu trong nền... more
New book in Japanese, published by Chikuma Paperbacks, aimed at a popular audience. (parents, teachers, media, critics, college students). Examines common stereotypes of Japanese education in light of a range of new international... more
This dissertation is an ethnography of intimacy as it is transacted in the political economy and commodity culture of K-pop. I view both K-pop singers and fans as intimate laborers in the affective economy of global K-pop and explore how... more
This research article briefly attempts the importance, history and contribution of “Electronic media” in general, and Radio Pakistan Gilgit in particular in promoting the local cultures, traditions and languages spoken in the... more
A guide to the language of Maldives - English-Dhivehi / Dhivehi-Engliah
Modern genetics, ecology and archaeology are combined to reconstruct the domestication and diversification of rice. Early rice cultivation followed two pathways towards domestication in India and China, with selection for domestication... more
Northeast India is the epicentre of phylogenetic diversity in the Sino-Tibetan family, with perhaps 20 independent Tibeto-Burman subgroups and as many as 300 languages spoken there. Politically, Northeast India is divided into the states... more
Extended introduction (and acknowledgements) to _Queer Korea_ (Durham: Duke University Press, Perverse Modernities Series, 2020), laying out a new field of field of study and the essays in this edited volume.
This chapter’s goal is to update the case for reconstructing the ethno-linguistic prehistory of “Tani” – a cluster of closely related ethno-linguistic groups found primarily in the mid-Eastern Himalayan region, in the modern Indian states... more
An introduction to the main languages families of southeast and east Asia: Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien, Austronesian, Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic, with an emphasis on the demographic effects of plant and animal domestications.
The previously non-discussed ancient east Asian Wanderwort araj~aran ‘interjection; barely, suddenly’ is discussed and presented in great detail, and traced throughout many languages phonologically and semantically. The root has also... more
This is the seventh addendum to my manifesto "Rapid Progress in the Genetic Classification of the World’s Languages ". It contains a list of almost 200 useful books I've collected about the world's Language families. It is obviously not... more
This thesis engages with the praxis of diasporic Sinophone biopolitics across East Asia exploring travelling imaginaries, hybrid material cultures, and articulations of embodied difference striking across geopolitical and temporal... more
CỔ HỌC ĐIỂM TÔ: NGHIÊN CỨU HÁN NÔM TỪ GÓC NHÌN CỦA CÁC NHÀ KHOA HỌC TRẺ (Nguyễn Tuấn Cường, Đỗ Thị Bích Tuyển chủ biên, Hà Nội: Nxb. Khoa học xã hội, 2020, 416 trang khổ 16x24, giá bìa 160k). Sách gồm 19 bài viết về nhiều chủ đề của 17... more