26.5474, Confs: Text/Corpus Ling/Hong Kong

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Subject: 26.5474, Confs: Text/Corpus Ling/Hong Kong

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:44:40
From: Andy Chin [hkseattle at gmail.com]
Subject: Online Panel Discussion Forum at CoLTA 2015

 
Online Panel Discussion Forum at CoLTA 2015 

Date: 18-Dec-2015 - 18-Dec-2015 
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Contact: Andy Chin 
Contact Email: colta2015 at ied.edu.hk 
Meeting URL: http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/colta2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

A 90-minute Online Panel Discussion Forum on: When World Englishes Meet World Chineses

Conference on Corpus Linguistics and Technology Advancement (CoLTA) 2015, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, December 16-18

As one of the highlights of the CoLTA 2015 conference hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the finale session will feature a panel discussion led by the four plenary speakers:

Huang Chu-Ren (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)
Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia)
Tao Hongyin (University of California, Los Angeles, US) 
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham, UK)

In view of wider interests in the topic When World Englishes Meet World Chineses among colleagues and students across a diverse range of related fields, this session will be made accessible online via streamline broadcast. Details are as follows:

Date: 18 December 2015 (Friday)
Time: 1500 – 1630 (GMT +8)
Link:	http://www.ied.edu.hk/colta2015/video.html
Moderator: Prof. David C.S. LI

Rundown (tentative): 
1. Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick: How might the two languages, Chinese and English, influence each other as they become spoken by more and more English-Chinese bilinguals?
2. Prof. Huang Chu-Ren: Is the ontological structure of Chinese (orthography) uniquely suited for the semantic turn of the web?
3. Prof. Tao Hongyin: Globalization of Chinese: Teaching and learning Chinese from a US perspective
4. Discussant: Prof. Paul Thompson
5. Open forum discussion 

Inquiry: colta2015 at ied.edu.hk
Conference website: http://corpus.ied.edu.hk/colta2015/ 






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