My Curriculum Vitae can be downloaded here (我的履历可以在这里下载).
Welcome to any visitors who have chanced upon my website! My name is Lee Jiang, and I am a Ph.D. student of the Linguistics department at the University of Toronto. I was born in Shanghai, China, but have lived in the Greater Toronto Area since I was five years old. My experiences as a member of the diaspora, as someone who is Chinese in some ways yet also Canadian in others, have deeply informed my research strengths and interests. That is, given a world on which Asia is becoming an increasingly prominent feature, my marginality has led me to seek mastery in confronting questions regarding power. This interest is not only between North and South informed by my personal experiences, but also other forms of inequality discursively linked with questions of norms and belonging. May all who have seen this paragraph be my comrades or critics—both necessary roles—in these vital endeavours!
欢迎来到我的网页！我的名字是蒋立。多伦多大学语言学在读博士。我出生在中国上海，五岁移民到加拿大多伦多，一瞬间，成了一个华人和加拿大人。加拿大华人社会 的体验，让我常常思考，今天世界经济，政治，文化的格局变化，作为加拿大亚裔的我，可以贡献什么？ 感谢边缘地位这个契机，跨东西两方，系南北之间，看时空变幻，使我可以去理解语言与权力，以及语言与不平等之间的关系。进而探究所有关于语言规范与语言数字社群的问题。 希望每一个读到这里的你们，可以成为我志同道合的同路人，或评论家！
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West Lake, Hangzhou (西湖，杭州)
As explained above, the questions which I wish to answer are principally related to language and power, whether in terms of raciolinguistics or intersecting fields such as language and gender/sexuality or linguistic ableism. For example, my PhD thesis is an ethnography of a local community of practice with both racial and sexuality issues being part of the (meta)linguistic output of the community in question. Thus, my primary field of research is qualitative sociolinguistics, in which my preferred theoretical framework is critical discourse analysis, especially the dialectical- relational approach. However, since my Bachelor's and Master's degrees were both also received at UofT, I have a secondary research interest in quantitative sociolinguistics, specifically in the variationist school, with a qualitative-quantitative overlap in third-wave variationist concepts such as indexicality. Finally, my tertiary research interests are in historical linguistics—which is how I became interested in the field in high school—and language revitalisation, owing to my linguistic background as a heritage speaker of Wu Chinese. However, my purpose in these fields is to use social-scientific concepts such as language ideologies surrounding change and purism to supplement the more common linguistic structure-oriented research projects.
我想解答的问题始终都在审视着语言和权力，特别是种族,性别上的语言健全主义。我的博士论文就是关于当地的特定社群中的种族及性别的话语问题。 我常常用自己擅长的批判论述分析（特别是辩证-关联分析法）去拓展质性社会语言学研究。 多伦多大学以定量社会语言研究而闻名。本硕博都就读多伦多大学的我，在社会语言学研究中，也运用了大量的量化研究，以及质性量化混合研究，比如索引符号概念的第三波变异理论。 历史语言学也是我的心头好，它是我在高中时接触到的最早关于语言学的内容。那个时候，因为是吴语的传承者，我被语言复兴学深深吸引，从此坚定了语言学研究的脚步。 现在我更偏向于用社会研究的概念（如语言意识形态）来拓展历史语言学和语言复兴学的研究。
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Mogao Caverns, Dunhuang (莫高窟，敦煌)
I have used R in quantitative sociolinguistics and Python for work on corpora. I made this website from scratch with HTML on the FOSS hosting provider Codeberg. Finally, I speak a wide variety of languages:
在定量社会语言学和的研究和语料库语言学研究里，使用R和Python。 体会到了自由开源软件的重要性，常用的还有HTML以及托管服务Codeberg。多元社会背景下成长的我会多种语言:
When I am not doing research, I like to read and write, with poetry being my favourite literary form. I also like to listen to and sing choral or folk music in the tenor range, with a related pursuit being the translation of texts to preserve their metre. Another hobby of mine is creating alternate history scenarios, of which currently I have five. Finally, my favourite pastime is playing role-playing video games.
在不做研究的时候，我喜欢阅读，写小文，欣赏诗词，与三五好友谈论哲学思想。我也喜欢合唱音乐和民歌(男高音)。我创造过五个架空历史场景。和你一样，我最喜欢的活动就是玩角色扮演电游啦。
lee DOT(点) jiang AT(花a/圈a) mail DOT(点) utoronto DOT(点) ca
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Huaqing Pool, Xi'an (华清池，西安)
“萧瑟秋风今又是，换了人间。”
"Endlessly the autumn wind murmurs, yet humanity has changed!"