Jointly presented to you by
Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, NTU
The Association of Nanyang University Graduates

In English:
Language, Culture and Society in the IT Age
Date: 11 January, 2002 (Friday)
Time: 6.30 p.m. - 7.45 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre, School of Communication Studies, NTU
Chairman: Prof. Eddie Kuo

In Mandarin
Chinese Language and Chinese Society Culture
Date: 12 January, 2002 (Saturday)
Time: 2.30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue: Auditorium
Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Chairman: Prof. Chew Cheng Hai
(Co-organiser: Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

Language Diversity and Vocabulary Development among Chinese Communities
Date: 19 January, 2002 (Saturday)
Time: 2.30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue: Auditorium, News Centre
82 Genting Lane
Chairman: Asst Prof. Tham Wai Mun
(Joint-organiser: Lianhe Zaobao)

Admission Free. All are welcome!

Professor Benjamin K. Tsou received his secondary education in Singapore and obtained his doctorate in Linguistics from University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the City University of Hong Kong, and is currently Director of Language Information Sciences Research Center and Chair Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests focus on Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. He spearheaded the LIVAC Synchronous Corpus in 1994, which to-date, contains over 400,000 marked lexicons from representative Chinese newspapers and electronic media of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai, Macau and Singapore. This is by far the largest Chinese corpus with the widest coverage.

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