牛津大学创建新的语言学学院

 

牛津创建新的语言学学院 

牛津大学将在2008年8月1日创建一个新的学院，即语言学、哲学与语音学学院。该学院在2008年6月6日星期五，Aditi Lahiri教授（牛津大学语言学教授兼萨默维尔学院研究员）的就职演说中被宣告，在就职演说中，她讨论的是大脑中语言的不对称性。

语言学是就语言的各方面所进行的研究，哲学关注的是语言的历史研究，语音学是对人类言说的物理声音的研究。牛津拥有大批该领域的专家，然而这是他们首次被聚集在同一个学院之中。

学院将由致力于投身语言学的职员所构成，并将得到来自相关学院（如古典语言和现代语言）的其他学界人士的支持——他们拥有语言学的专业知识。除了“现代语言和语言学”中既存的课程以外，计划与其他学院发展出联合的学士学位。

语言学、哲学和语音学学院的设立反映了不断变化的语言学实践及其研究日益增长的跨学科性质。学院成员将横跨语言学和神经系统科学进行工作，并与经验心理学系合作。

Aditi Lahiri教授指出：“我非常高兴在一个如此令人激动的时刻成为新学院的一部分。它将会是一个独特的机构——结合了一般语言学、比较哲学以及语音学，涵括了来自不同学部的诸位成员。尽管这是一部新的篇章的开端，然而它也是对牛津在语言学、哲学和语音学研究方面的一种长期而有成效的传统的延续。新学院在很大程度上要归功于很多学界同仁不懈的努力，特别是John Coleman博士——语言学与哲学委员会的前任主席。”

“该领域诸位杰出的学者已经在牛津大学修满课程，并且新学院计划维持颇具成效的跨学科研究——包括从古至今的语言研究并扩展至认知科学、计算技术以及经验心理学诸领域。”

牛津大学人文学部的部长，Sally Shuttleworth教授指出：“我非常高兴新学院的创立。牛津在语言学领域具有悠久的历史，新学院的创建将有助于使这一领域中我们所有杰出的努力都凝结在一起。”

新学院最终将搬进位于Radcliffe天文台中的价值18000万镑的人文学新区。

 

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Oxford launches new linguistics faculty

 

09 Jun 08

 

 Professor Aditi Lahiri delivering her inaugural lecture Oxford University will be creating a new faculty with the launch of its Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics Faculty on 1 August 2008.

The new faculty was announced on Friday 6 June 2008 at the inaugural lecture of Professor Aditi Lahiri (Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Somerville College), where she discussed language asymmetries in the brain.

 

Linguistics is the study of language in all its aspects; philology considers the historical study of language; and phonetics is the study of the physical sounds of human speech. Oxford has a wealth of existing expertise in the field but this is the first time it will all be brought together in one faculty.

 

The faculty will be made up of a core of dedicated linguistics staff, with support from other academics in related faculties, such as classics and modern languages, who have linguistics expertise. There are plans to develop joint undergraduate degrees with other faculties, in addition to the existing courses in Modern Languages and Linguistics.

 

The set-up of the Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Faculty reflects the changing practice of linguistics as well as the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of its research. Members of the faculty will  be working across linguistics and neuroscience, and collaborating with members of the Experimental Psychology Department.

 

Professor Lahiri said: ‘I am delighted to be part of the new faculty at such an exciting time. It will be a unique institution, combining general linguistics, comparative philology and phonetics, embracing members from various departments. Although this is the beginning of a new chapter, it is also a continuation of a long and successful tradition of the study of linguistics, philology and phonetics at Oxford. The new faculty owes much to the untiring efforts of many colleagues, in particular Dr John Coleman, the former Chair of the Committee of Linguistics and Philology.

 

‘Eminent scholars in the field have passed through this University, and the new faculty plans to maintain cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, including language study from ancient to modern, as well as extending to the fields of cognitive science, computing, and experimental psychology.’

 

 

The Head of Oxford University’s Humanities Division, Professor Sally Shuttleworth, said: 'I am delighted that the new faculty is being launched. Oxford has a long history in the field of linguistics and the creation of the new faculty will help bring together all our excellent work in this area.'

 

The new faculty will eventually move into the £180 million humanities development in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter.

 

地址：http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080609.html