On March 26, the 2016 International Symposium on the Study of Language Contact in East Asia was held at Donghua University. Over 80 experts and scholars from China, Japan and South Korea attended the symposium.
The symposium aims to explore the formation, contact and influence of East Asian Chinese characters in depth. With historical documents such as English-Chinese Dictionary, Collection of Dialectal Words as well as papers and periodicals from the mid-19th century and the early 20th century as the reference and coinages of the same period as the research object, the attendees devoted themselves into thorough discussion on word formation, semantic change, contact of languages such as dialects in translation, etc.
It is learnt that the annual International Symposium on the Study of Language Contact in East Asia is held in turn among famous universities from China, Japan and South Korea. This year it is co-hosted by the School of Foreign Languages and Modern Language Research Society within Chinese-character Cultural Circle, and meanwhile, earned strong support from the International Cultural Exchange School.
