This teaching material is a collection of resources for Slovenian students of undergraduate program of Japanese studies at the Department of Asian Studies Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The aim of the materials is to teach students about resources and tools that are available for Japanese, and that they learn the basic know-how on usage of such kind of resources and tools to be assisted in foreign language learning and for future language research needs.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 57653090Slovenščina 2.0: empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research is an online linguistic journal, established with the intention of filling the gap between theoretical and interdisciplinary research of the Slovene language, especially research involving language technologies. This gap is also found if research of Slovene is compared, connected or applied to other languages.
C.06 Editorial board membership
Prof. Heiko Narrog invited the researcher to visit Tohoku University in Sendai and present her research at an international symposium on Japanese language and Japan studies in globalized world (Gurûbaru-ka suru sekai ni okeru nihongo nihonkenkyû). The researcher presented most relevant aspects and results of the research on collocations as well as possibilities to use collocation analysis of large-scale data as a methodology to inspect current sociolinguistic trends. The visit played an important role in further fostering interuniversity relations.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 57007458The researcher was invited by the Ambassador of Japan to attend the Japan Week event in Zagreb and have a public lecture Introduction to the study of Japanese language. Through teaching the basics of the Japanese language, the researcher offered advice and tips on learning the language, textbooks, online materials etc. to the general public.
B.04 Guest lecture
A comparative semantic study by Shimotori (2013) shows that concepts underlying dimensional adjectives in Japanese and Swedish are largely organized by the association networks consisting mostly of nouns referring to spatial extensions in three-dimensional world. Similarly, a corpus-based study by Srdanovic (2013) demonstrates semantic grouping of the nouns that collocate with dimensional adjective takai 'tall, high', covering three large domains: position (space?), quantity and quality. Both studies report on usage of dimensional adjectives in association with abstract nouns, in which case the dimensional adjectives tend to indicate figurative meaning e.g. takai kanshin 'high interest'. Some of the abstract nouns refer to various kinds of emotions, or cognitive activities, such as love, ideal and thought. The present study examines how emotions are characterised by dimensional adjectives in two different languages, Japanese and Swedish, and from two different empirical perspectives, observing association networks of native speakers and large-scale corpora.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 60068450