An International Conference on Brain, Language, and Communication, Kunming, 22-23 April 2024

This conference is organized on the theme of brain, language, and communication. It is motivated by the latest consensus that the interdisciplinary collaboration across the three will generate synergies to enable the sustained growth and development of communication studies and linguistic research, particularly for corpus-based approaches and neurolinguistics. This collaboration is also timely, in response to the latest development in artificial intelligence as well as the initiatives in Neuralink implant research that highlight the interaction across the three important subjects. The event brings together some of the internationally outstanding scholars in linguistics, media communication and data science on their cutting-edge research in the cross-feeding between language, communication, the understanding of the human mind and their statistical models. The conference therefore showcases some of the most recent developments in research topics, methodologies and findings in the relevant areas.

The two-day conference is held from April 22nd to April 23rd.

The conference is co-hosted by:

• School of Journalism (College of International Communication of South and Southeast Asia), Yunnan University
• Subcommittee of Journalism and Communication, the South and Southeast Asian University Network
• The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong
• In partnership with Yunnan Key Laboratory of Media Convergence

The conference was honoured to have the following distinguished guests in attendance:

• Wang Xuefei: Member of Yunnan Daily Communist Party Committee, Deputy Editor in Chief, Deputy General Editor of Yunnan Key Laboratory of Media Convergence
• Xu Yue: Director of Yunnan Daily Content Center, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Media Convergence
• Alex C. Fang: Professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Translation and director of the Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, City University of Hong Kong
• Yi-Hui Christine Huang: Head of Department of Media and Communication and Chair Professor of Communication and Media, City University of Hong Kong
• Dong Min: Professor of Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University
• Tony McEnery: Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Changjiang Chair Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Lancaster University
• Fan Minxian: Dean of School of Humanities, Central South University, Professor and PhD. Supervisor
• He Tianqi: Lecturer of School of Humanities, Central South University
• Lu Yanmin: Deputy Editor in Chief of Media Magazine
• Liao Shengqiang: Dean of School of Journalism, Yunnan University; professor of School of Journalism, Fudan University and PhD supervisor

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