Co-sponsored by Bio-linguistics and Cognitive Linguistic Studies, two international academic journals, the third International Bio-linguistics Conference was held in USST in early December. More than 100 experts from China, the United States, Germany and other countries gathered together to discuss such frontier bio-linguistic issues as co-speech gestures used by aphasic patients, aphasia after car accidents, and language disorders of autistic children.
Istvan Kecskes, President of the American Pragmatics Association and professor of New York State University Albany, Chen Zhongmin, doctoral advisor of the Chinese Department and part-time professor of AI Science and Technology Research Institute of Fudan University, Wei Dongjie, associate chief physician of China Rehabilitation Research Center, and professor Du Shihong of Southwest University, gave four keynote speeches under the titles of “The Effect of Salience on Shaping Speaker’s Utterance”, “The Interactive Mechanism of Speech Pronunciation and Perception”, “The Rehabilitation of Language Barriers”, and “Reflections on the Core Questions in Bio-linguistics from the Perspective of Whitehead’s Process Philosophy” respectively, displaying the latest progress and trends in bio-linguistics at home and abroad.
In the parallel sessions, scholars presented their dissertation on and discussed such themes as “Bio-linguistics: Topics and Methods”, “natural language processing and cognitive study”, “working memory and language learning”, and “Exploring Aphasia and language development”.
Participants at the conference made their bio-linguistic investigations from multiple perspectives and paradigms to explore new horizons in the field. Providing a broad platform for Chinese and foreign scholars to share their latest academic development frontier thinking, the conference boosts immensely the innovation and development of China’s bio-linguistic research.
