Background

New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia Pacific (NWAV-AP) is a sister conference of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation that has been held annually in North America since the 1970s. NWAV-AP provides a platform for researchers in the quantitative-variationist tradition to present work on language variation and change in the Asia-Pacific region, a relatively underrepresented area within the field of sociolinguistics.


Following the success of its first meeting in 2011 at the University of Delhi, NWAV-AP has subsequently been held at the National Institution for Japanese Language and Linguistics (Japan), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan), University of Queensland (Australia), National University of Singapore (Singapore), and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand).


NWAV-AP is a conference associated with the journal Asia-Pacific Language Variation, published by John Benjamins.

NWAV-AP Steering Committee

Shobha Satyanath
University of Delhi, India
James N. Stanford
Dartmouth College, USA
Victoria Rau
National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
Miriam Meyerhoff
University of Oxford, UK
Yoshiyuki Asahi
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan

NWAV-AP8 Organising Committee

Co-chairs
Geraldine Kwek
Jasper Hong Sim
Mark Fifer Seilhamer

Members
Padma d/o Visayakumaran
Kiren Kaur
Chang Qizhong
Teo Shi Ling
Lim Ching-Tse Donna
Guo Libo
Radha Bai d/o Thavarajoo
Wee Yen Ting Lynette

The entire organising committee is from the English Language and Literature Department of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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