20.555, Confs: General Linguistics/Singapore

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Date: 21-Feb-2009
From: Ying Ying Tan < yytan at ntu.edu.sg >
Subject: Symposium on Language and Diversity

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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:28:55
From: Ying Ying Tan [yytan at ntu.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: sitinur at ntu.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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