The second
NWAV-Asia Pacific conference was held in Tokyo this August, providing a venue for sociolinguists working on Asian and Pacific languages to share their work. Jack Chambers was an invited speaker with a fascinating lecture about
Takesi Sibata, a Japanese linguist who foreshadowed much that was "discovered" later in western sociolinguistics. Jack is pictured here with three of the conference organizers, Yoshiyuki Asahi, Shobha Satyanath, and Miriam Meyerhoff, at the ceremonial breaking of the sake cask to open the conference banquet.
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| NWAV-AP 2 conference organizers with Jack |
Naomi Nagy presented a synthesis of recent work on Heritage Cantonese that was conducted by Nina Aghdasi, Tiffany Chung, Derek Denis, Alex Motut, Mario So Gao, and Josephine Tong at NWAV-AP. Naomi then went on to her first visit to Hong Kong where she met many linguists interested in the current work on Toronto Heritage Cantonese. She's pictured below with U of T student Josephine Tong, and with her host Katherine Chen of Hong Kong University.
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| Naomi & Josephine on Victoria Peak |
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| Naomi & Katherine in the middle of the huge subway system |
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