Show me your friends, and I'll tell you if you'll speak the language.
How social networks influence our linguistic behaviour
社會關系如何影響人們的語言行為

主講人：Micha.B.Paradowski教授
講座題目：社會關系如何影響人們的語言行為
講座時間：2019年11月7日，15：30- 17：00
講座地點：文南樓204
主持人：董潔

A growing body of 21st-century research has sought to integrate methods and techniques from different fields of science in order to further our understanding of the world and the governing principles therein. A method which has been increasingly applied in addressing these cross-disciplinary questions is social network analysis (SNA), consisting in investigating social structures through the prism of graph theories.
Social networks play a vital role in the attainment of individuals. The talk will present the results of two projects applying SNA to language phenomena. One involves exploring the social spread of neologisms online; the other, the influence of peer interactions among L2learners on their language progress.
Social network analysis can provide new insights into the link between social relations, language change, and language acquisition, demonstrating for instance how social network configuration and peer interaction dynamics are stronger predictors of second language performance than individual factors, and offer a novel methodology for investigating other language phenomena.
二十一世紀的學術研究越來越注重跨學科能力。在這一潮流中，社會網絡分析越來越多地應用于社會結構的研究之中。本研究呈現兩個項目中社會網絡分析如何用于語言現象研究。其中一個項目是關于網絡新詞如何從線上走向線下，另一個項目研究語言學習者之間的互動對于語言學習的影響。社會網絡分析為我們在社會關系、語言變化、和語言習得的研究中提供了新視角。研究發現社會網絡構成以及語言學習者之間的互動，比學習者的個人因素對二語學習效果的影響更明顯。社會網絡分析也可以成為研究其它語言現象的有效方法。

主講人簡介：
Micha.B.Paradowski is an associate professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (華沙大學應用語言學研究所), a teacher and translator trainer, and a language teaching consultant for television. His interests include English as a lingua franca, second and third language acquisition research, foreign language teaching, bilingualism and bilingual education, embodied cognition, educational technology, and complexity science. He has given over 150 invited lectures, seminars and workshops in Europe, America, Africa and Asia (including several repeated visits to China),many in universities from the top of world rankings. His recent edited volumes are Teaching Languages off the Beaten Track(2014) and Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World(2015); his latest (2017) monograph appeared under the title M/Other Tongues in Language Acquisition, Instruction, and Use.
Micha.B. Paradowski是華沙大學應用語言學研究所副教授。他還是一名翻譯培訓師、電視語言教學咨詢師。他的研究興趣包括英語作為通用語、二（三）語習得、外語教學、雙語教育、具身認知、教育技術、複雜科學。他在歐洲、亞洲、美洲、非洲的頂級學府做過150多場報告，并多次訪問中國。他是Teaching Languages off the Beaten Track(2014)， Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World(2015)的主編，他的專著M/Other Tongues in Language Acquisition, Instruction, and Use于2017年出版。