北外伊莎白讲堂
BFSU Isabel Forum Series
Forum on Pacific Studies
全球化对汤加文化的影响
讲座时间：2023年4月27日下午16:00-17:30
讲座地点：腾讯会议：712506204
演讲人：梅莱奈伊特·塔乌莫艾富拉乌
讲座人信息：
梅莱奈伊特·塔乌莫艾富拉乌，北京外国语大学英语学院汤加语外教，新西兰奥克兰大学太平洋研究高级讲师，精通汤加语（母语）和英语（第二语言），研究领域为语言学、词典编纂学，翻译和太平洋研究。获得威尔士大学（北威尔士大学学院，班戈）英语作为第二语言/外语硕士学位，南太平洋大学苏瓦分校英语和历史学士学位及教育证书，奥克兰大学翻译专业研究硕士学位，奥克兰大学语言学博士学位，她是第一位在奥克兰大学获得博士学位的太平洋女性。
讲座介绍：
本次讲座的主题是全球化对汤加文化的影响。全球化的影响包括汤加社会结构的变化:一个新的受过教育的汤加精英阶层登上了历史舞台。而这正是由于全球化给汤加人民带来了汤加语和英语的识字率，包括社交媒体在内的新技术和新思想也进入了这个国家，改变了人们的生活方式。本次讲座将讨论全球化给汤加带来的民主、教育、英语读写能力和海外移民等问题，同时也将讨论汤加人衣食住行及健康和价值体系等方面的变化，以及汤加语言和文化的衰亡。
北外伊莎白讲堂
BFSU Isabel Forum Series
Forum on Pacific Studies
Changes in Tongan culture owing to globalisation
Speaker: Melenaite Taumoefolau
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Date: 27 April, 2023 (Thursday)
Venue: Tencent Meeting: 712506204
Abstract:
This lecture is about the effects of globalisation on Tongan culture. Effects of globalisation include a change in the structure of Tongan society: the introduction of a new elite class of educated Tongans. This happened because globalisation brought literacy in Tongan and in English, new technologies including social media, and new ideas entered the country, changing the ways people live. I will discuss the coming into the country of things like democracy, education, literacy in English, and migration overseas. I will also discuss changes in food, dress, means of transport, health, and the value system of the Tongans, as well as the decline and loss of Tongan language and culture.
About the speaker:
Melenaite Taumoefolau is a foreign expert on Tongan language in Beijing Foreign Studies University and senior lecturer on Pacific Studies in the University of Auckland. She is proficient in Tongan (mother tongue) and English (second language), and specialises in linguistics, lexicography (dictionary-making), translation and Pacific Studies. She got an MA in English as a Second/Foreign Language from the University of Wales (University College of North Wales, Bangor) and a BA in English and History, plus a Concurrent Certificate of Education from the University of the South Pacific, Suva. She got a Master of Professional Studies (first class honours) in Translation, and she received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Auckland, which makes her the first Pacific woman to get a PhD in the University of Auckland.
