Greetings!I am a fourth-year linguistics PhD candidate specializing in sociolinguistics and language variation at the University of Edinburgh.
I am an alumnus of National University of Singapore, where I took my Master's in Linguistics. I am also an alumnus of National Taiwan University, where I got my Bachelor's of Science (Major in Geography). |
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I am a native speaker of (Taiwan) Mandarin, and I speak conversational (Taiwanese) Hokkien and a little bit Hakka (my maternal "ethnic language"). My name is romanised with Wade-Giles system. The Chinese character of "Tsung" is 宗, my generation name (zibei), and that of "Lun" is 綸, meaning 'sophisticated'. Most of my father's family members live in California, so for some reason, I have an English name, Alan, given by my parents.
I am a grantee of Taiwan government PhD scholarship for studying linguistics abroad. My current research focuses on the agentive language use of deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) speakers in Taiwan, under supervision of Dr Lauren Hall-Lew and Dr Claire Cowie. In my doctoral project, I explore how D/HH speakers make use of spoken language resources to perform hearingness/deafness and situate themselves in the ableist world.
I have also looked at how the effect of hearing assistive devices on accent shift is not purely a mechanistic product of the machine but rather should be understood through human-machine relationship. In a broad sense, I'm interested in transdisciplinary research, especially influenced by my background in geography where human/non-human relationship is the core topic.
In addition to Taiwan Mandarin, I also worked on other languages such as Korean, Kinmenese Hokkien and Colloquial Singapore English.
Before pursuing a PhD, I was an instructor of Linguistic Analysis, promoting linguistic education at high school level.
I was raised in New Taipei, Taiwan.
I am a grantee of Taiwan government PhD scholarship for studying linguistics abroad. My current research focuses on the agentive language use of deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) speakers in Taiwan, under supervision of Dr Lauren Hall-Lew and Dr Claire Cowie. In my doctoral project, I explore how D/HH speakers make use of spoken language resources to perform hearingness/deafness and situate themselves in the ableist world.
I have also looked at how the effect of hearing assistive devices on accent shift is not purely a mechanistic product of the machine but rather should be understood through human-machine relationship. In a broad sense, I'm interested in transdisciplinary research, especially influenced by my background in geography where human/non-human relationship is the core topic.
In addition to Taiwan Mandarin, I also worked on other languages such as Korean, Kinmenese Hokkien and Colloquial Singapore English.
Before pursuing a PhD, I was an instructor of Linguistic Analysis, promoting linguistic education at high school level.
I was raised in New Taipei, Taiwan.
