A Bite of China’s Language: Food as a Gateway to Language Use

This event explores how food serves as a powerful gateway into understanding Chinese language and culture. By examining food-related terms and metaphors, participants will discover nuanced meanings, polysemous usages, and idiomatic expressions that reflect both universal experiences and culturally specific perspectives. The talk highlights innovative classroom practices using online corpora to foster learner-driven exploration and linguistic development. Yi Xu, Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, is Professor of Chinese at the University of Pittsburgh, former President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, U.S. and current Associate Editor for Chinese as a Second Language, CLTA's flagship journal. This event is open to the public.