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We are very pleased to publish the e-Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies (ICLLS 2019). The Conference aims to promote studies in language and linguistics. It serves as an international forum for researchers, scholars, educators, practitioners, postgraduate students and experts in relevant fields to exchange ideas, research results and good practices. It will also provide an opportunity for building academic networks and for exploring possibilities of research collaboration between institutions at both regional and international levels. 

 

ICLLS 2019 addresses a diversity of key issues in linguistics and language studies. Papers cover the following areas: 

 

1.    Bilingualism and Multilingualism
2.    Cognitive Linguistics
3.    Corpus Linguistics
4.    Forensic Linguistics
5.    Discourse Analysis
6.    ICT in Language Education
7.    Intercultural Communication
8.    First Language Acquisition
9.    Second / Foreign Language Acquisition
10.    Language Assessment
11.    Language, Culture and Society
12.    Language Pedagogy
13.    Language Policy
14.    Phonetics and Phonology
15.    Psycholinguistics
16.    Semantics and Pragmatics
17.    Syntax and Morphology
18.    Translation and Interpreting
19.    World Englishes

 

We would like to thank all authors for their contributions. We are also very grateful to members of the Programme Committee of ICLLS 2019 for their diligent work in reviewing all submissions. 

Editors 
Emily Ge, Patrick Lee, K C Li, Catherine Wong 
June 2019