8th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography 2013

You are cordially invited to the 8th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, which will be held in the beautiful island of Bali, on 20-22 August 2013.

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University. The proceedings will be printed and published by Airlangga University Press.

The conference will look at the features and roles of lexicography and dictionaries in the information age.

The participants will include lexicographers, linguists, translators, lecturers, teachers, and students who are interested in lexicography and dictionaries.

Special sessions for software developers and publishers interested in presenting their products are also available.

Call for Papers

There are three streams for this ASIALEX 8th International Conference:

Parallel sessions
Software demonstrations
Publishers' presentations

The theme for the parallel papers is: Lexicography and Dictionaries in the Information Age. The topics of the papers include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Evolution of dictionaries into multiple information sources
Lexicography as an interdisciplinary research field
Development of online and mobile dictionaries
Features of pocket electronic dictionaries
Printed dictionaries in the information age
Dictionaries for minority languages
Advances in dictionary user surveys
Dictionaries as language learning resources

For submitting an abstract for the parallel sessions, please download the following form: Abstract proposal form

Software developers and publishers interested in presenting their products are invited to download the following form: Publisher and software proposal form

For further information, please contact Dr. Deny Kwary, deny@kwary.net.

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