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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Theatre: History and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays: October 4\, 11\, 25\, November 1\, 8; Fridays: October 6\, 13\, 27\, November 3\, 10
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SUMMARY:What’s behind variation with (A) LOT (OF)? A view from World Englishes
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marianne Hundt – English Department\, University of Zurich (https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/Subsites/Personal/mhundt.html) \nAbstract\nIn English\, lot is used in the complex quantifier a lot of (as in a lot of fun) and as a degree adverb (e.g. a lot more helpful\, a lot better). Both constructions show variation in contact varieties of English\, either in the way that elements from the construction are absent (as in (1) and (2))\, or in extended uses to novel contexts\, as in the use of the degree adverb with difficult in (3). \n\n(1) it's also fun but ø lot of influence eh? (ICE-Fiji\, S1A-079)\n(2) There’s a lot ø nice place you can to (ICE-HK\, S1A-094)\n(3) It looks a lot difficult now and we have to rely on Newcastle and Sunderland to lose games. (THE TIMES OF INDIA\, 7th May 2016)\n\nIn this talk\, using data from fieldwork and corpora\, I take local uses of a lot of constructions in varieties of Indian English as my starting point. The focus will be on the process of grammatical nativization in World Englishes. I will show that notions like ‘contact’ and ‘transfer’ sometimes provide only a partial view of the process. Instead\, taking a look at evidence from a broad range of Englishes (standard and non-standard) may provide us with a better understanding of local(?) uses of a global language. \n ||  \nBiography\nMarianne Hundt is Professor of English Linguistics at Zürich University. Her research interests range from grammatical change in contemporary and late Modern English to varieties of English as a first and second language (New Zealand\, British and American English; English in Fiji and South Asia) and language in the Indian Diaspora. She is the author of English Mediopassive Constructions (Rodopi\, 2007) and New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction? (Benjamins\, 1998) and co-author of Change in Contemporary English. A Grammatical Study (CUP\, 2009). She has edited various monographs\, and since 2013 has been co-editor of English World-Wide.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/whats-behind-variation-with-a-lot-of-a-view-from-world-englishes/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:“Cousin\, I am too young”: Age and Royalty in Shakespeare’s Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rudolph Glitz – Faculty of Humanities\, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/l/r.w.h.glitz/r.w.h.glitz.html) \nAbstract\nShakespeare’s second history tetralogy has long been recognised as centring round Prince Hal’s legendary coming of age. In the two parts of Henry IV\, after all\, Shakespeare repeatedly stages the prince’s surprising reformation from dissolute youngster to resolute adult ruler of the realm. The social and specifically age-political dimension of this reformation\, however\, has not been traced in much detail by scholars and neither have the various invocations of early modern age roles that prepare the ground for it in the first play of the Henriad. I aim to demonstrate that already the royal protagonist of Richard II is not only denounced as a mere ‘landlord of the realm’ by his opponents\, but also presented as woefully immature compared to his rival Bolingbroke. After briefly sketching my larger point about the Henriad as a whole\, this lecture will focus predominantly on Richard’s age-related shortcomings and thereby draw attention to Shakespeare’s keen awareness of contemporary age politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nRudolph Glitz is a Universitair Docent in English Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Amsterdam\, whose staff he joined after taking his graduate degrees at Cambridge (MPhil in European Literature) and Oxford (MSt and DPhil in English Literature) and teaching British Studies at Harlaxton College\, the British Campus of the University of Evansville. His monograph Writing the Victorians: The Early Twentieth-Century Family Saga was published in 2009 with the Universitaetsverlag Winter (Heidelberg). He has published articles on an eclectic range of topics\, including the Computer Game Civilization and contemporary Science Fiction media. Over the last few years\, however\, he has been preoccupied with a long-term research project on age-group and generation conflicts in literature – ranging from Shakespeare to the present day – of which the findings presented in this lecture form a part.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/cousin-i-am-too-young-age-and-royalty-in-shakespeares-richard-ii/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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