International Conference Researching Language, Culture, and Society
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Moving through the 21st Century, we encounter a lot of transformations in language, culture, and society, resulting in deep impacts on people and their communities. A great number of new inventions and technologies are introduced to people around the world. The ways they live, communicate, learn, and practice also change according to the exposure to those new things. For scholars in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences, it is essential to understand those transformations and at the same time promote the understanding and knowledge about the root and heritage of the society, as the new concepts and phenomena have to co-exist with the root and the heritage. Therefore, one of our major responsibilities has to do with the promotion of research, especially on language, culture, and society which are cores of Humanities and Social Sciences. The body of knowledge derived from research will immensely foster self-understanding and understanding of the relation between language, culture, society, and people in the 21st Century. The International Conference on Researching Language, Culture, and Society will serve as a channel through which these agenda are transmitted from scholars to scholars and from scholars to the community.