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NUS linguists make breakthrough discovery on detecting early linguistic signs of dementia by studying the natural speech of seniors

A study led by linguists from the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies (ELTS) at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has found that early linguistic signs of dementia can be detected through the study of the natural speech of senior Singaporeans.

Conserving her heritage language

Dr Nala Lee shares about her work in preserving the language of Baba Malay, how language relates to community and culture, and what the layperson can do to help preserve other heritage languages.

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Embrace Healthy Ageing

The research identifies the early signs of ageing and studies ways to reduce adverse health conditions stemming from ageing diseases.

Featuring Associate Professor Victor Yu, Faculty of Science and Professor Bao Zhiming, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, both from NUS’ College of Humanities and Sciences.

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The systematic study of human language from different perspectives: English Language and Linguistics gives students the opportunity to investigate linguistic phenomena in multicultural and international contexts.

The Department offers a wide array of modules for students to enhance their analytical skills: linguistic patterning, the contextual-based development of language in different cultures and institutions, and even how this field interacts with others such as semiotics, literature and popular culture. Our students are critical and creative thinkers who are able to express themselves in speech and writing with clarity, precision and elegance.

The study of English Literature is the study of life’s possibilities. Through the alluring, imaginative worlds of writers like Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee, learn to see the world with a broad, flexible, critical and creative mind.

We embrace the diversity of literature here at NUS. Our students have the opportunity to study the main periods of British and American literature as well as world literature such as South Asian and Southeast Asian literature. There is flexibility in adopting generic or topic approaches with subjects such as film, visual media, critical theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary issues like literature and ecology. Students are trained to read literature using aesthetic, historical, political or theoretical approaches.

The study of theatre and performance will engage your creative and critical mind. At NUS Theatre and Performance Studies, we believe that the study of theatre: its practices, its operations and its impact on society can equip you with transferrable critical thinking, resource organisation and public call-and-response skills.

Courses offered by the Department share a common commitment to understanding how theatre is made and the contexts in which it has significance for its communities. Students have the opportunity to study a wide range of cultures, histories, movements and ideas: everything from pre-modern Asian theatres to current cinematic and digital practices.

 

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June 22, 2020

Eminent NUS historian Professor Wang Gungwu receives prestigious Tang Prize

The 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology has been awarded to Professor Wang Gungwu, University Professor at NUS Arts and Social Sciences and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Chinese diaspora. Announced on 20 June 2020 by the Tang Prize Foundation, this prestigious award was conferred on Prof Wang in recognition of his trailblazing and dissecting insights on the history of the Chinese world order, overseas Chinese, and Chinese migratory experience.

April 15, 2020

NUS awards Edwin Thumboo Prize 2020 to four Pre-University Students for Outstanding Literary Work

The Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be awarding the Edwin Thumboo …

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January 16, 2020

North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference 2019 Undergraduate Research Event

  A mid-term overseas excursion involving almost sixty hours of travel can be no mere flight of fancy. From 17 to 19 October 2019, I was …

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