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The Fourth ASIALEX
International Congress
Singapore
1-3 June 2005
It is
our great pleasure to host the Fourth ASIALEX International Congress at the
National University of Singapore (NUS). ASIALEX2005 is one of the year-long
academic events celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the NUS and is organized by the Department of English Language
and Literature, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research
Institute.
The major objective of Asialex, the Asian
Association for Lexicography, is to foster scholarly and professional
activities in the field of lexicography in Asia,
and ASIALEX2005 aims to bring together scholars of language, linguistics and
literature in an interdisciplinary forum. With the theme of Words
in Asian Cultural Contexts, this
three-day conference of aims to examine the functions and
representations of words, with Asia as its focus, and has strands with related perspectives in sociolinguistics and language
pedagogy, information and communications technology, and literary, cultural
and postcolonial studies.
The papers capture a focus on
how words assume distinctive shapes and meanings in different cultural
contexts. Particularly in Asia, where cultures and ethnicities commonly converge
and give rise to cultural and textual hybridity, the wider study of
words and language can enhance cross-cultural communication and lead to
better understanding of its peoples.
The plenary speakers at the conference
are Charles Fillmore (University of California), Reinhard Hartmann (University of Exeter) and Zhang Yihua (Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies). Featured speakers include Gwyneth Fox
(Macmillan Publishing), Gregory James (Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology), Ismail Talib (National University of Singapore), Yukio Tono (Meikai University) and Lily Wong Fillmore (University of California). There will also be a
pre-conference tutorial, Using Corpora, by Adam Kilgariff (Lexicography MasterClass).
We are pleased to welcome
also all participants from the related associations: Euralex, Afrilex and Australex. To our visitors, we
hope you will enjoy the hospitality of the local residents as well as the
sights and sounds of Singapore.
Anne Pakir
ASIALEX President (2003-2005)
http://asialex.nus.edu.sg
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