[Lexicog] CALL FOR PAPERS: Australex 2013 - Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival; 25-27 July 2013; University of Adelaide, Australia

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AUSTRALEX <http://www.australex.org/> 
Australasian Association for Lexicography  

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Australex 2013: Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival

The University of Adelaide, Australia

Organizers: Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann and Dr Julia Miller

WHEN:  Thursday-Saturday 25-27 July 2013

WHERE: The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide City Centre,
Australia

Webpage: http://www.australex.org/

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 1 December 2012

Notification of Acceptance: 1 February 2013

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Luise Hercus, Australian National University: A Fifty Year Perspective on
Endangered Words and Revival: A Golden Jubilee?

Professor Christopher Hutton, The University of Hong Kong: Reclaiming
Socio-Cultural Memory: Creating a Reference Dictionary of Hong Kong
Cantonese Slogans and Quotations.

Focus Speakers:

Professor Peter Mühlhäusler, The University of Adelaide: Producing a
Dictionary for an Unfocused Language: The Case of Pitkern and Norf’k. 

Dr Michael Walsh, The University of Sydney: Endangered Words in the Archive:
The Rio Tinto / Mitchell Library Project.

Australex 2013 will feature scholarly and emotional celebrations, marking
for example Dr Luise Hercus’s 50-year work on Aboriginal languages and
Professor Peter Mühlhäusler’s 20-year scholarship at the University of
Adelaide. On Saturday 27 July 2013 we shall explore the beauty of the
Adelaide Hills. 

Call for Papers

The theme for Australex 2013 is ‘Endangered Words, and Signs of Revival’.
Papers may address a wide range of areas associated with lexicography,
lexicology, endangered languages, Revival Linguistics, contact linguistics,
social empowerment through language, and words, culture and identity. Topics
may include dictionaries in Indigenous, minority and other endangered
communities, dialectal lexicons, the educational and cultural roles of
dictionaries, talknological dictionaries, dictionaries and Native Tongue
Title, lexical engineering, and language policy and lexicography. Papers can
address controversies such as the ‘Give us authenticity or give us death’
argument and the descriptive/prescriptive debate. Other topics may include
learners’ dictionaries, specialist dictionaries, phraseology, proverbs,
onomastics and terminology. All welcome.

If you would like to propose a panel or submit a paper or a poster, would
you please email an abstract of no more than 400 words in a Word document to
julia.miller at adelaide.edu.au by 1 December 2012. Abstracts may include up to
5 references. Notification of acceptance will be sent out BY 1 February
2013.

Up to two student bursaries are available to assist full-time students from
Australia and New Zealand to attend the conference and present a paper.

Please see http://www.australex.org/bursary.htm for further details.

Yours respectfully,

Ghil'ad

Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann
D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) (titular), M.A. (Tel Aviv) (summa cum
laude)

Chair of Linguistics / Endangered Languages

School of Humanities
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide SA 5005
Australia

ghilad.zuckermann at adelaide.edu.au

Office: +61 8 8313 5247 
Mobile: +61 423 901 808 

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http://www.facebook.com/ProfessorZuckermann

Author of Revival Linguistics, Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Author of Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language), Am Oved, 
2008 http://www.zuckermann.org/israelit.html

Author of Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew, 
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 http://www.zuckermann.org/enrichment.html

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