Breaking Boundaries and Exploring New Frontiers in Linguistics! LSPIC 2023 opens in MSU-IIT

The Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) and the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) together with the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) host the three-day International Conference on Linguistics, featuring renowned local and international scholars. With the theme ‘Decentering, Decolonizing, and Deconstructing Languages in New Paradigms and Discourses’, the conference delves into language analysis, changes, application, and research.

Day one featured a Keynote Presentation from David Eberhard, the General Editor of Ethnologue, who emphasized the power of Community Agency in the future of Minority Languages.

Dr. Konrwipa Poonpon from Khon Kaen University followed with an enlightening Plenary Presentation on the contribution of Corpus Linguistics in assessing academic writings.

Attendees then enjoyed a Poster Presentation. Attendees watched video presentations of selected research work from the other presenters. Aside from watching, attendees were also permitted to throw questions and clarifications to the presenters. Subsequent to the Plenary Hall Session, Attendees went to either Concurrent Sessions A, B, or C, all of which are Parallel Paper Presentations.

The International Conference opened today, 27 April, and will to the 29th of April 2023.

About the Author

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Reggy Bartido

Reggy H. Bartido is a Senior BA (Sociology) undergraduate student at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT). Currently, Mr. Bartido is the Editor-in-Chief of CASSayuran - the Official Student Publication of the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) of MSU-IIT. Mr. Bartido's undergraduate thesis centres around Environmental Sociology studies and Sustainable Development. Additionally, he is keenly interested in Youth Studies and Political Sociology, where he continues exploring new insights and perspectives. Likewise, Mr. Bartido was a participant of the Ateneo School of Government and participate PH sponsored training on Campus Media: Media Ethics and Democracy in Action held at Ateneo De Manila University, last November 2022. The training was attended by 30 campus journalists over the country. Mr. Bartido was also given a participant status at the SAPA Mindanao Workshop for Journalism last February 2023 during the FEMSUSCO Meet.

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