15 posts tagged with "linguistics"

I've been interested in emotions ever since I've become aware of them. Maybe because I was unsure how to process and interpret them, in both myself and others. How do people express emotions and why do they do it so differently? Is being scared the same as fearing? Can I really understand or experience sirva vigad if the word doesn't exist in my native language?

My solution to deal with this personal struggle was to read and research about emotions. I know I know, you can't learn everything from books, especially not human feelings and interactions, but nevertheless I've discovered some fascinated learnings about emotions.

This is why in university I chose to research verbs of emotion, more specifically to investigate the semantic characteristics of Romanian verbs of emotion.

On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day (21st February), I did and exploratory analysis and data visualisation of the World Language Family Map dataset with pandas and matplotlib.

À l'occassion de la Journée internationale de la langue maternelle (21 février), j'ai écrit un essay pour attirer l'attention sur la diversité linguistique et l'importance de préserver les langues maternelles de chacun(e).

Wednesday marked the first day of the last summer month and I celebrated by presenting a poster at the 5th Linguistics Meetup Berlin-Potsdam, hosted at the Potsdam University.

Whereas last year I gave a talk about semantic dementia, this year I contributed with a poster about my ongoing Master's dissertation on Romanian psych-verbs.

Update: You can read more about the research method and data analysis of this project in this blog post.

I've just come back, tired but inspired, from the ULAB Conference** in Edinburgh**, where for three days I've learned about research projects on various linguistics topics of students from Britain mainly.

Last Saturday 18th November I attended again the Autumn Meeting of Patholinguistics in Potsdam, in a wonderful new location Am Neuen Palais. The theme of this edition was "Diagnosis and treatment of dysphonia" (also known as hoarseness), a condition of the vocal chords or the larynx which makes the voice sound breathy, strained, raspy, or lower in volume or pitch.

Today I attended the long-awaited international fair for languages and cultures ExpoLingua in Berlin. It's a must event for anyone interested in language learning and teaching, because for two days (17-18 November) it brings 150+ exhibitors (language schools, travel operators, cultural institutes, publishing houses, translators, associations) from 30+ countries and offers workshops, presentations, crash-courses in different languages, performances, and moderated panel discussions, from five categories: languages and cultures, presentations for teachers, learn & travel, tests, and career.

I am typing this post from a coffee shop around Humboldt University of Berlin, sipping the fifth coffee today and leafing through my notes from the 2nd Conference for Student Research (Forschung Vermitteln-Communicating Research).

Imagine you go for a nap, only to wake up speaking in a foreign language!

It's a hot morning on August 4th in Berlin, summer holidays are already on... But at the Institute of German Language and Linguistics of Humboldt Uni there's much ado about something: the 4th Linguistics Meetup Berlin-Potsdam!