A: As for the interest of doing research, I find that I have come to like it over time. When I was at university, I started to take linguistics courses and later I became more interested in syntax. At that time, the most attractive thing for me was to find out the process of the language rules and demonstrations. After graduating from university, I started to be obsessed with appreciating the beauty in and symmetry between languages when I did my masters degree at National Tsing Hua University. Due to my desire for getting to know how the beauty of symmetry in language formed, I continued my academic career and worked on my PhD in linguistics in America.<\/p>\n
It was when I wrote my PhD thesis that I literally learned semantics. During the period of my masters, I was lucky that I met distinguished tutors who helped me learn much about syntax. Thus, when I studied in America, the course of syntax was relatively easy for me. However, \u2018logical semantics\u2019 was a course that I had never heard of before. Not until the time I wrote my PhD thesis and adopted many concepts of philosophy, logic and mathematics did I have some understanding of this field.<\/p>\n
It occurred to me that my tutor said \u2018one should be equipped with abilities so that they would know how to deal with things in society. Therefore, I came to ask Angelika Kratzer, who was a famous and distinguished semantics expert, to be my supervisor. With the help from her, I completed my PhD thesis and this led me to the career of working on logical semantics.<\/p>\n
The research of linguistics is interesting and especially in my research area I do not really rely on expensive devices. It often requires my brain, literature reviews and linguistic databases so I can enjoy writing an article or a book in an imaginary world. Without being limited by my external environment, I really enjoy working on this area.<\/p>\n
Some thoughts come to mind when I have a walk. I can finish one article within several weeks if I try to do it quickly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Seldom do people work on semantics in Taiwan. Thereby, no matter what I do, it is easy for me to be a pioneer within this area. I enjoy seeing the views which people haven\u2019t seen yet and help people follow the things I have done. It is amazing.<\/p>\n
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\uff5cEditor: Kai-Yuan Huang<\/p>\n
\uff5cArt editor: Yu-Chen Chang<\/p>\n
\uff5cTranslator: Ching-Yi (Ann) Wang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why research into linguistics
\nThat man is the soul of the universe is due to the importance of languages. Through languages, people gain knowledge, deliver culture, and over time form diverse civilizations. For the deep side of researching linguistics, the purpose of it is to explore the essence of human beings. Practically, linguistics helps people learn different languages by looking at the logic and principles of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13131,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/13131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}