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Symposium on Language and Diversity
Message 1: Symposium on Language and Diversity
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Date: 21-Feb-2009
From: Ying Ying Tan <yytanntu.edu.sg>
Subject: Symposium on Language and Diversity
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Symposium on Language and Diversity
Date: 05-Mar-2009 - 06-Mar-2009
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Contact: Joey Kek
Contact Email: sitinurntu.edu.sg
Meeting URL: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/language/default.aspx.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The newly-formed Language Cluster of the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences and the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University is proud to
announce a two-day symposium on the theme of Language and Diversity. The
papers presented at the conference will be of the following strands:
1) Language, Cognition and Diversity
2) Globalisation, Culture and Diversity
3) Language Endangerment: Diversity under Threat
4) Managing Diversity in Pedagogy
Professor James Matisoff will give the plenary lecture. Other keynote speakers
include Peter Auer, Kingsley Bolton, Li Wei, Joseph Lo Bianco, Luke Kang
Kwong, Anne Pauwels, Tan Li-Hai and Lionel Wee.
Language and Diversity Symposium
5th & 6th March 2009
Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC)
Organized by the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)
Programme
Day 1 (5th March 09)
0845
Welcome and Opening Address
Luke Kang Kwong
0900
Singapore Voices Sound Installation: A Collaborative Project between
the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, the School of Art,
Design
and Media and the NTU Art and Heritage Museum
PerMagnus Lindborg
0915
Plenary
"The Mother of all Morphemes: Augmentatives and Diminutives in Areal and
Universal Perspective "
James Matisoff
1015
Tea Break
1045
Keynote
"Creativity, Criticality and Codeswitching: Multilingual Practices of British
Chinese Children"
Li Wei
1130
Language Endangerment: Diversity under Threat
"The Current Situation of the Aslian (Peninsular Mon-Khmer) Languages"
Geoffrey Benjamin
"Language, Culture and Identity of Malay Speakers in Singapore"
Ng Bee Chin and Catherine Wan
"Religion and Language Shift: The Malay Community in Singapore"
Francesco Cavallaro and Stefan Serwe
1300
Lunch
1430
Keynote
"Language Recovery, Global English, People Movement"
Joseph Lo Bianco
1515
Keynote
"Diversity and Language Rights: Understanding the Implications of
Unavoidability and Hybridity"
Lionel Wee
1600
Tea Break
1630
Globalisation, Culture and Diversity
"Diversity in Accent Perception: A Cross-generational Study of Ethnic
Accent Perception in Singapore"
Tan Ying Ying
"Discursive Management of Sociolinguistic Diversity: Korean
Monolingualism as an Ideological Construct"
Joseph Park
"The Commodification of Language in Transnational Labor Migration"
Beatriz Lorente
Language and Diversity Symposium
5th & 6th March 2009
Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC)
Organized by the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS)
Day 2 (6th March 09)
0900
Keynote
"Identity or Conversational Structure? Two Competing Approaches to Bilingual
Talk and an Attempt at a Synthesis"
Peter Auer
0945
Keynote
"Singlish vs. Anglonese: Bilingualism in Singapore and Hong Kong"
Luke Kang Kwong
1030
Tea Break
1100
Keynote
"The Different Brain Networks Involved in Reading Chinese and English"
Tan Li-Hai
1145
Language, Cognition and Diversity
"L2 in the Bilingual Brain"
Tomasina Oh
"What is the Correlation between Parents and Children's Language
Competence in Bilinguals?"
Helena Gao
"Social Influences on the Expression of the Silent Bared-teeth Display
in Macaques"
Michael Gumert
1315
Lunch
1445
Keynote
"Asian Englishes and High-level Proficiency in Second Language Use"
Kingsley Bolton
1530
Keynote
"Does Foreign Language Learning Enhance Multilingualism and Linguistic
Diversity in the Era of Globalisation?"
Anne Pauwels
1615
Tea Break
1645
Managing Diversity in Pedagogy
"The Place of Cantonese in Hong Kong Education from a Linguist's Point
of View"
Robert Bauer
"Recognizing Diversity and Difference: Challenges for English Language
Education"
Rani Rubdy
1745
Closing Address
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