25 Aug 2004

4th Asialex Conference, Singapore 2005
Department of English Language and Literature (ELL) and The Asia Research Institute (ARI), The National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Supplied Note: "The Fourth Asialex conference, themed 'Words in Asian cultural contexts', will be held on June 1 - June 3 2005 in Singapore, organised by the National University of Singapore, and held at the M hotel.
The conference theme will be 'Words in Asian Cultural Contexts'. The examination of the functions and representations of words in Asia and of Asia in words aims to bring together linguistic and literary scholars of Asia in an interdisciplinary forum. [... The] conference plans to focus on the following related perspectives: * lexicology and lexicography; * sociolinguistics and language pedagogy; * information and communications technology; * literary, cultural and postcolonial studies.
We invite presentations for this conference which may take the form of papers, posters or symposiums. [...] We invite abstracts (max. 250 words) for papers, posters and symposiums. All presentations should be given in English. Submission deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2004. Further information, including on-line registration and submission of abstracts, can be found at: [the URL below]. - md."
Self-description: "The major objective of ASIALEX [est. Mar 1997 - ed.] is to foster scholarly and professional activities in the field of lexicography in Asia. The first international conference of ASIALEX was held at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou (Canton) in 1999. Subsequent conferences took place at Yonsei University in Seoul in 2001 and at Meikai University in Tokyo in 2003."
URL http://asialex.nus.edu.sg/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract)
Link reported by: Mark Donohue, forwarded by h-seasia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
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