KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

(1) Prof. Michael Hoey (University of Liverpool, UK)

Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool. His major publications include Signalling in Discourse (1979), On the Surface of Discourse (1983/91), Patterns of Lexis in Text (1991), which was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh English- Speaking Union Prize for the best book on Applied Linguistics in 1991, the edited collection, Data Description Discourse (1993) and Textual Interaction (2001). His most recent book is Lexical Priming (2005), which was nominated for the BAAL book prize, 2006.

He is Chief Adviser on the Macmillan English Dictionary and the Macmillan Essential Dictionary, and the author of the foreword to the Macmillan English Dictionary. His administrative roles include that of Chair of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance’s English Committee. He is also a keen supporter of CAMRA and is currently editing a Real Ale Guide for Southport & District. He is going to talk about ‘How Students Underestimate the Importance of Words and the Value of Corpus-based Dictionaries’ in Asialex 2009.

(2) Emeritus Professor Pam Peters (Macquarie University, Australia)

Emeritus Professor Pam Peters’ work with the Dictionary Research Centre and Style Council Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney has made her one of the country’s leading authorities on Australian style. Her major publications on writing and usage issues are the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage (2007) and the Cambridge Guide to English Usage (2004). She recently coedited an anthology of corpus-based studies in Australian and New Zealand lexicogrammar, to be published in July 2009 by John Benjamins, Amsterdam. At Macquarie University's new Centre for Language Sciences, she currently leads the TermFinder project in pedagogical terminography, creating termbanks to assist second-language students in understanding the terminology of their university disciplines, such as accounting, biology, geology, statistics. Online termbanks can support students in many more ways than the traditional glossary, and research on these will be discussed as she explores the topic of ‘Terminography in university education: online, bilingualized, multimodal’ at Asialex 2009.

(3) Prof. Theraphan L-thongkum, Ph.D. (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

Prof. Theraphan Luangthongkum is a professor in linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. She received her PhD. in Phonetics from University of Edinburgh, UK (1977). She was the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. She received many awards such as distinguished professor award of the year 2006 from the Eakin Laugesen Memorial Fund and outstanding research award of the year 2007 from the Thailand Research Fund (TRF). Her topic for Asialex 2009 is ‘Multilingual Dictionaries for Linguistic and Educational Purposes’.

(4) Prof. Suwilai Premsrirat (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Suwilai Premsrirat is a professor in Linguistics at Mahidol Unversity, Thailand. She received her Ph.D in Linguistics from Monash University, Australia. She received the best researcher awards from National Research Council of Thailand in 2006 and CIPL (Comite International Permanent des Linguistes) for The Endangered Languages in 2008. She has been researching and writing on ethnic minority languages in Thailand and mainland SEA since 1975 specializing in Austroasiatic languages. Her major publication includes a Thesaurus and Dictionary Series of Khmu in SEA. The Ethnolinguistic Mapping of Thailand is an important work conducted by Professor Suwilai and her research team during 1990-2000. She was the founder of the Resource Center for Revitalization and Maintenance of Endangered Languages (in 2001). At the moment she has been involved with 11 ethnolinguist group working on language revitalization program at different stages. She will give a talk about ‘Dictionaries of Endangered Languages in Thailand’ in ASIALEX 2009 conference.

(5)Prof. Gregory James (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Gregory James is a professor in Linguistics and the Director of the Language Centre at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He is an expert in Tamil lexicography. He has been researching and writing many books in Lexicography. His major publication with R.R.K. Hartmann is Dictionary of Lexicography. His topic for the forthcoming ASIALEX will be “Dictionaries in Education, Education in Dictionaries”.