UMCE professor addresses conference in China

EDMUNDSTON, New Brunswick — Samira Belyazid, a linguistics professor at the University of Moncton, Edmundston Campus (UMCE), gave a presentation at an international conference held Jan. 11-13, 2019, in Xiangtan, China, by the Institute of Hunan science and technology, Zhengzhou University (China) and Shonbuk National University (South Korea).

The symposium focused on “Language, Culture and Chinese Characters in the 21st Century.”

Belyazid’s presentation was entitled: The Chinese-French bilingual dictionary: challenge and possible solutions. This communication is part of a bilingual lexicography research project on which Belyazid is working with her colleague, Ms. Shuyan Wang, researcher at lexicography Research Center of the University of Foreign Studies in Guangdong, China.