International Scientific Conference "Linguistics Research and Teaching: Theoretical and Practical Issues"

Attending the workshop, on the research and management side were Professor Nguyen Van Hiep - Director of the Institute of Linguistics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences; Professor Le Quang Thiem - President of the Vietnam Linguistics Association; Professor Nguyen Van Khang - President of the Hanoi Linguistics Association; Professor Tran Ngoc Them - President of the Council for Language and Foreign Language Titles; Professor Do Viet Hung - Vice Rector of Hanoi Pedagogical University; on the side of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Associate Professor Hoang Anh Tuan - Vice Rector; on the side of the Faculty of Linguistics, Nguyen Van Chinh - Head of the Faculty of Linguistics; along with veteran educators, scientists, researchers, lecturers, and students of the Faculty.

The conference was organized with the aim of providing an opportunity for domestic and international scientists to meet, exchange research and teaching content in linguistics, and present their new research results. It also served as a good opportunity to develop cooperative relationships in research and teaching of language and culture between the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and universities in the region and around the world. The conference is a highlight marking the development of the field of Linguistics in general and the Department of Linguistics in particular.

In his opening remarks at the workshop, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan (Vice Rector of the University) emphasized the importance and attractiveness of linguistics as a science that is both academic and profoundly practical. This is demonstrated by the impressive figures of the Faculty of Linguistics, a leading unit of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. By 2015, the Faculty of Linguistics had trained over 1500 bachelors, over 400 masters, and 130 doctoral graduates in Linguistics, Vietnamese Linguistics, and the languages ​​and cultures of ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Currently, if 800-1000 students come to study short courses at the University each year, the Faculty of Linguistics contributes half – approximately 500 students. Therefore, the field of linguistics is also attractive in terms of training and serving the country's international integration requirements. The Vice Rector also extended his best wishes to all faculty members, lecturers, and students of the Faculty on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi University and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Linguistics.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan (Vice Rector of the University) delivered the opening remarks at the conference.

Following the opening remarks, the workshop held a plenary session chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Chinh and Prof. Nguyen Van Hiep with the following three presentations: "Communication of Vietnamese People Today with Social Stratification (Some General Issues and Exploratory Survey)" by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Khang – Institute of Linguistics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences), "Structure and Semantics of Proverbs in Function (Based on Short Story Data and Theory)" by Prof. Dr. Do Thi Kim Lien (Faculty of Literature - Vinh University), and "Are Word Categories Typological or Universal? (Some Approaches to Word Categories in Linguistic Geometry)" by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hong Con (Faculty of Linguistics - University of Social Sciences and Humanities).

Delegates pose for a commemorative photo after the plenary session.

Following the plenary session, the workshop continued with three subcommittees:

Subcommittee 1: “Teaching Linguistics, Vietnamese Linguistics and the Vietnamese Language” with several presentations such as: “The Importance of Discourse Analysis in Language Teaching and Learning”, “Aesthetic Descriptive Linguistics in the Teaching of Second and Foreign Languages”, “Integrating Language and Culture in Teaching Folk Literature in High Schools”, “On Designing a Vietnamese Phonetics Curriculum for Foreigners”….

Subcommittee 2: “Linguistic and Vietnamese Linguistics Issues” with several presentations such as: “Further discussion on the role of Vietnamese function words in relation to predicates in the descriptive semantic structure of sentences”, “Ferdinand de Saussure and his views on the position of native speakers”, “Differences in the center of ancient and modern Vietnamese noun phrases compared to the present”, “Decoding the implied meaning in commercial communication”…

Subcommittee 3: “Language Issues of Ethnic Groups in Vietnam and the Region” with several presentations such as: “The Benefits of Analyzing Words in the 'Mo Muong' of the Muong People in Vietnam”, “Adjectives Denoting Colors in Vietnamese, English, and Russian”, “Structuralism and the Study of Anthropological Linguistics: An Attempt to Analyze Some Cases of Animal Name Taboos in Language”, “Comparison of Vietnamese and Japanese Phonetics and the Problem of Phonetic Interference”…