Introduction

Department of English at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore will host the 1st International Conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan (ICLAP 2015) on October 7--9, 2015. The central theme of the conference is Language Understanding and Developments in the Modern Era. The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners from across the globe, working on any aspect of language to exchange their research work and developments in the field. The program of the conference will consist of invited talks, tutorials, paper presentations and panel discussions.