Keynote Speakers

Edgar W. Schneider

Edgar W. Schneider is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is a globally renowned sociolinguist and World Englishes scholar, known best for his "Dynamic Model" (Postcolonial English, CUP 2007). He has published many books and articles and lectured on all continents, including many keynote lectures.

James N. Stanford

James N. Stanford is Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. His research involves quantitative, fieldwork-driven approaches to understanding linguistic variation and change. Projects include collaborative research on small Indigenous languages, such as Sui of China, as well as large-scale studies of New England English. He is co-editor of the journal Language Variation and Change (Cambridge), and he co-edited Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages (2009, Benjamins) and Language Regard (2018, Cambridge). He wrote New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology (2019, Oxford). He serves on the NWAV-Asia/Pacific international steering committee.

Mie Hiramoto

Mie Hiramoto (she/they) is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, specializing in sociocultural linguistics. Her research focuses on language, gender and sexuality, contact linguistics, and media discourse. She is also a Principal Investigator of the Corpus of Singapore English Messages (CoSEM).

Pavadee Saisuwan

Pavadee Saisuwan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and a member of the Center of Excellence in Southeast Asian Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research focuses on language variation, linguistic landscape and the intersections of language, gender and sexuality.