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We are very pleased to publish the e-Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies (ICLLS 2018). The Conference aims to promote studies in language and linguistics. It serves as an international forum for researchers, scholars, educators, practitioners, postgraduate students and experts in relevant fields to exchange ideas, research results and good practices. It also provides an opportunity for building academic networks and for exploring possibilities of research collaboration between institutions at both regional and international levels. 

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ICLLS 2018 addresses a diversity of key issues in linguistics and language studies. Its papers cover the following areas: 

1. Cognitive Linguistics 
2. Corpus Linguistics 
3. Discourse Analysis 
4. Language Acquisition 
5. Language Assessment 
6. Language, Culture and Society 
7. Language Pedagogy 
8. Phonetics and Phonology 
9. Semantics and Pragmatics 
10. Syntax and Morphology 
11. Translation and Interpreting 

 

We would like to thank all authors for their contributions. We are also very grateful to members of the Programme Committee of ICLLS 2018 for their diligent work in reviewing all submissions. 

 

Editors 
Patrick Lee, Kat Leung, K C Li, Sharon Wong 
June 2018