Kerry Sluchinski, PhD, MA, BA
Pronouns: she, her, hers
Contact
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept
- ksluchin@ualberta.ca
- Availability
- By appointment
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Pragmatics Semantics Discourse Analysis Computer Mediated Communication Deixis
Research
Pragmatics, Deixis, Identity (de-/re-/co-)Construction, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Chinese Linguistics, Korean Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Im-/Politeness, Semantic Prosody, Corpus Linguistics.
Teaching
Chinese language and linguistics; English language and linguistics; Japanese language and linguistics
Courses
CHINA 201 - Basic Chinese III
A continuation of CHINA 102. Designed to develop further basic skills in spoken and written Chinese. Prerequisite: CHINA 102.
CHINA 202 - Basic Chinese IV
A continuation of CHINA 201. Designed to develop further basic skills in spoken and written Chinese. Prerequisite: CHINA 201.
EASIA 205 - Language in Chinese Society
Topics may include language and gender, identity, dialects. Lectures in English. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 241. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and CHINA 102, or consent of Department.
EASIA 305 - Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
Sound system, basic sentence structure, writing system, and language change and variation. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 308. Prerequisites: LING 101 and CHINA 202, or consent of Department.
Scholarly Activities
Research - Classification of Languages and Dialects of China (中国的语言及方言的分类)
Started: 2023-01-01
Invited as a collaborator to the project of Dr. Juan Jiang(蒋娟) of Minnan Normal University (闽南师范大学), Dr. Xiaohua Deng (邓晓华) of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学), and Dr. Jianhua Su (苏建华) of Minnan Normal University (闽南师范大学).
Research - Common Ground in COVID-19 Conversations: A cross-linguistic study
Started: 2021-11-01
In collaboration with the research lab headed by Dr. Shoichi Iwasaki, Asian Languages and Cultures, Univ. of California, Los Angeles.
Other - Language Editor: Asian Languages and Linguistics 《亚洲语言与语言学》
Started: 2021-11-01
Language editor for Asian Languages and Linguistics 《亚洲语言与语言学》.
Asian Languages and Linguistics 《亚洲语言与语言学》Other - Section Editor: Graduate Student Journal Connections
Started: 2019-11-01
Translation and Mixed Methods Linguistics Section Editor for Graduate Student Journal Connections (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Department, University of Alberta).
Featured Publications
Jordan Gallant, Kerry Sluchinski
Discourse Processes. 2023 December; 10.1080/0163853X.2023.2255075
Kerry Sluchinski
Routledge. 2023 December;
Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, Kerry Sluchinski
Routledge. 2023 February; 10.4324/9781003227281-7
Kerry Sluchinski
Chinese Language and Discourse. 2022 July; 10.1075/cld.21008.slu
Kerry Sluchinski
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, CSLI Publications. 2022 May; 29
Kerry Sluchinski
University of Alberta (unpublished PhD dissertation). 2021 November; 10.7939/r3-gfzn-sz68
Kerry Sluchinski
Narrative Inquiry. 2021 October; 10.1075/ni.21049.slu
Kerry Sluchinski
East Asian Pragmatics. 2020 July; 5 (2):247–277 10.1558/eap.39165
Kerry Sluchinski
University of Alberta (unpublished MA thesis). 2017 March; 10.7939/R3P26QG1G
Kerry Sluchinski
Studies in translation: history and theory. 2015 August;
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