{"id":5848,"date":"2016-10-28T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/?post_type=conference&p=5848"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:18:38","slug":"the-16th-china-international-conference-of-contemporary-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"conference","link":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/conference\/the-16th-china-international-conference-of-contemporary-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"The 16th China International Conference of Contemporary Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 28\/10\/2016 – 30\/10\/2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funded by Faculty of Arts, Prof Gladys Tang, Prof Felix Sze and a team of researchers and sign interpreters of CSLDS attended The 16th China International Conference of Contemporary Linguistics\uff08\u7b2c\u5341\u516d\u5c46\u4e2d\u570b\u7576\u4ee3\u8a9e\u8a00\u5b78\u570b\u969b\u7814\u8a0e\u6703\uff09 in Shanghai, China. The conference set a specific forum for sign linguistics, which was the first time in history among linguistic conferences in Mainland China. CSLDS was the cooperating organizer of the Sign Language Forum. We arranged two teams of sign interpreters for keynote speeches and the Sign Language Forum on 29-30 October: HKSL to Mandarin\/English and CSL to Mandarin\/English. This was also the first time that a linguistic conference in Mainland China is provided with sign interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the keynote speakers of the conference, Prof Gladys Tang gave a presentation: Functions of Sign Language Classifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Sign Language Forum, the invited speaker, Prof Onno Crasborn of Radbound University, the Netherlands, gave a talk on sign language documentation: Sign Language Corpora as Linguistic Tools. Prof Felix Sze, two Research Postgraduate students, one junior research assistant, three Deaf and one hearing undergraduate students conducted seven presentations related to their research projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Comparing the basic constituent orders of Hong Kong Sign Language, JakSL and Siri Lanka Sign Language \u2013 Prof Felix Sze<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Strategies of Reflexivization in Hong Kong Sign Language \u2013 Miss Li Jia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Doubling in Japanese Sign Language \u2013 Mr Eita Endo<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Wh-cleft in Hong Kong Sign Language \u2013 Miss Gan Linghui<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Reduplication in Hong Kong Sign Language \u2013 Mr Chu Kwan Ngai Kenny<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Role-Shifting in Jakarta Sign Language: Head, Eye and Body Movement in Constructed Actions \u2013 Miss Laura Lesmana Wijaya<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Non-manual markers associated with pronouns-the interaction between linguistics and non-linguistics element in HKSL storytelling \u2013 Mr Wong Yiu Leung Aaron and Miss Yu Sze Mei Jamie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Our researchers had a good discussion with other presenters from around China and other countries. Many of the participants of the conference also expressed their appreciation of the sign interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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