19.2518, Confs: General Linguistics/Malaysia

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Subject: 19.2518, Confs: General Linguistics/Malaysia

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Date: 13-Aug-2008
From: Fuzirah Hashim < fuzirah at yahoo.com >
Subject: Language and Culture

 

	
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From: Fuzirah Hashim [fuzirah at yahoo.com]
Subject: Language and Culture
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Language and Culture 

Date: 05-May-2009 - 06-May-2009 
Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia 
Contact: Thang Siew Ming 
Contact Email: thang at ukm.my 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

SoLLs.INTEC.09 International Conference is a conference organised by the School
of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. 

Theme: Language and Culture: Creating and Fostering Global Communities
Date: 5th May- 6th May, 2009
Venue: Palm Garden Hotel, IOI Resort, Putrajaya, Malaysia 

Objectives: 
- To bring together local and international scholars, educators, applied
linguists, researchers, literary and ELT professionals to explore, examine and
understand issues related to language and culture in creating and fostering
global communities
- To address the connection between language and culture within and between
communities
- To describe and examine development of identities and relationships in diverse
second language contexts and knowledge-sharing within and between communities in
practice
- To explicate how technology links culturally diverse communities
- To provide a platform for the discussion and debate of issues in the areas of
language, linguistics and literature

A website will be up shortly; in the meantime, all prospective attendees should
contact Siew Ming Thang at thang at ukm.my.







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