How??
Where do I begin?!
First day back at uni and my head is ALREADY exploding!!!
How to get through 12-point overload??!
*sigh*
And to make matters worse... I thought of the best idea for my honours thesis - with a little help from a PhD student I met in Brisbane. I came back and talked to Dr. Julie Bradshaw about it... and she really like the idea too... and then... my parents are not liking the idea!
I have assured them about three times already that I know what I am doing, they are trying to convince me that I am simply going to ruin my work by recording them?!
Where else can I get a pure tri-lingual code-switching environment than at my own dinner table??!
My parents haven't learned each others' languages, and that makes our dinner-conversations ideal for the study of code-switching and language contact.
I don't get it. My supervisor thinks it's a great idea, I think it's a great idea... but my parents still insist that they know more about the field of linguistics than the linguists??
I'm very confused and failing to understand the rationale behind such an explicit denial when all my life my parents have been so supportive academically :(
I guess that means I won't get to see my parents next April, either, cos I'm going to have to working on my thesis then, and if I'm not using my own resources, I'll have to be here in Melbourne studying something else... so much for that idea.
First day back at uni and my head is ALREADY exploding!!!
How to get through 12-point overload??!
*sigh*
And to make matters worse... I thought of the best idea for my honours thesis - with a little help from a PhD student I met in Brisbane. I came back and talked to Dr. Julie Bradshaw about it... and she really like the idea too... and then... my parents are not liking the idea!
I have assured them about three times already that I know what I am doing, they are trying to convince me that I am simply going to ruin my work by recording them?!
Where else can I get a pure tri-lingual code-switching environment than at my own dinner table??!
My parents haven't learned each others' languages, and that makes our dinner-conversations ideal for the study of code-switching and language contact.
I don't get it. My supervisor thinks it's a great idea, I think it's a great idea... but my parents still insist that they know more about the field of linguistics than the linguists??
I'm very confused and failing to understand the rationale behind such an explicit denial when all my life my parents have been so supportive academically :(
I guess that means I won't get to see my parents next April, either, cos I'm going to have to working on my thesis then, and if I'm not using my own resources, I'll have to be here in Melbourne studying something else... so much for that idea.