28.1266, Featured Linguist: Meet San San Hnin Tun

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1266. Wed Mar 15 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1266, Featured Linguist: Meet San San Hnin Tun

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:11:30
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Meet San San Hnin Tun

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our first featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: San San Hnin Tun! Read her story and more on our blog or on our fund
drive web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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To introduce myself, I am a Burmese Citizen (ethnically Arakanese, also known
as Rakhine now), born and raised in Myanmar, also known as Burma in English,
and did my formal schooling up to a Masters at the University of Yangon. I
currently teach Burmese
at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) in
Paris, France, after 20+ years of teaching Burmese (and French) at Cornell
University in the US. So with this multicultural/lingual experience, I should
certainly be considered as a linguist, right ? At least according to some
members of my family in Myanmar, I am a linguist, because I speak « several »
languages. ☺ If I found their reasoning rather amusing, I think it is not far
from reality, since I have always been working with languages (be it by
teaching, learning, playing with languages, etc. which require reflections on
the functions of languages …)

(...)

Read more:
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-san-san-hnin-tun/

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