ASIALEX 2005 Singapore
WORDS iN ASIAN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

CALL FOR PAPERS

The theme of ASIALEX2005 is "Words in Asian Cultural Contexts".

The conference aims to examine the functions and representations of words, and hopes to bring together scholars of language, linguistics and literature in an interdisciplinary forum. We encourage papers that focus on a wider understanding of the word, including Asian contexts in which cultural and textual hybridity is the norm.

The following strands will be covered:

• 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. The time allotted for each paper presentation is 30 minutes (ie 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). A poster session will also be held at the conference. Details such as the size and format of poster stands will be announced later. The time slot for each symposium is 90 minutes (A symposium organiser  can decide on having 6 papers at 15 mins each or 4 to 5 papers) .

We invite abstracts (max. 250 words) for papers, posters and symposiums. All presentations should be given in English.

The closing date for abstract submission has now passed. If you have queries, please email asialex@nus.edu.sg.

Selected papers and abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.

Paper presenters are invited to submit short versions of their papers for the conference proceedings. These should be submitted as file attachments to asialex@nus.edu.sg or by post by 1 April 2005. Please download the Asialex 2005 stylesheet [ MS Word | PDF ] for further details. Contributors are strongly encouraged to make use of the Asialex 2005 template [ MS Word | PDF ].