<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded rom: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruth Singer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruth.singer@gmail.com">ruth.singer@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:34 PM<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> [LINGANTH] Fwd: PhD candidate wanted for project Multilingual Conversation at Warruwi Community, northern Australia<br><br><br><br>*PhD candidate wanted **Multilingual Conversation at Warruwi Community,<br>
northern Australia*<br>
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A PhD candidate is sought to study the multilingual use of Aboriginal<br>
languages in conversational interaction in north-west Arnhem Land,<br>
Australia. Warruwi is a highly multilingual community where Mawng,<br>
Kunwinjku, Ndjebbana, English and varieties of Yolngu-matha are spoken on a<br>
daily basis. It is common for adults to marry outside of their own language<br>
group. Most adults actively control the languages of their parents, and<br>
have varying degrees of competence in several other languages (perhaps<br>
their grandparents’, spouses’ and peers’). Children typically acquire two<br>
Indigenous languages in the home, adding English to the mix when they<br>
commence school.<br>
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The aim of this project is to study how speakers use multiple languages<br>
within informal conversation at Warruwi Community. This project will<br>
document unprompted interactions in families in which spouses claim<br>
affiliation to different languages. Of particular interest are families<br>
with spouses affiliated to both western and eastern Arnhem Land languages.<br>
The successful candidate will build a corpus of annotated face-to-face<br>
conversations recorded on high-definition video. The study will use<br>
analytic methods of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics.<br>
The candidate will have considerable scope for their dissertation topic but<br>
some possible research questions might include· In what contexts do<br>
speakers consistently use a single language in a single interaction and in<br>
what contexts do they code-switch frequently?<br>
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Do children code-switch more frequently than adults?<br>
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To what extent do those who speak only Yolngu-matha varieties as their<br>
first languages use north-west Arnhem land languages in conversation, and<br>
vice versa?<br>
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Apart from the linguistic code, in what other ways do speakers design their<br>
talk for benefit of their recipients?<br>
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In multilingual conversation, how does gaze, pointing, gesture,<br>
conventionalized sign, object manipulation, etc. interact with the spoken<br>
languages in the construction of interactional moves?<br>
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The candidate will be supervised by Dr Ruth Singer, Dr Joe Blythe and a<br>
third supervisor attached to the University of Melbourne’s Research Unit<br>
for Indigenous Languages. Ruth will be able to provide support in getting<br>
started doing fieldwork at Warruwi Community and additional fieldwork funds<br>
through her DECRA.<br>
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Contact Ruth Singer <a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a> or Joe Blythe<br>
<a href="mailto:joe.blythe@unimelb.edu.au">joe.blythe@unimelb.edu.au</a> for more information<br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
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