26.1152, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Applied Ling, General Ling, Lang Documentation/New Zealand

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1152. Sun Mar 01 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1152, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Applied Ling, General Ling, Lang Documentation/New Zealand

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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:54:27
From: Mary Salisbury [m.c.salisbury at massey.ac.nz]
Subject: Australex 2015

Full Title: Australex 2015 

Date: 19-Nov-2015 - 21-Nov-2015
Location: Auckland, New Zealand 
Contact Person: Mary Salisbury
Meeting Email: m.c.salisbury at massey.ac.nz
Web Site: http://australex2015.massey.ac.nz 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

Australex 2015, the conference on Australasian lexicography, will be held from 19-21 November at Massey University, Albany, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. It will especially honour 40 years of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration on lexicography. Two plenary talks and panels will be devoted to celebrating significant milestones for New Zealand Māori and minority languages spoken in New Zealand: 175 years since the Treaty of Waitangi (1840-2015); 28 years since the 1987 Māori Language Act in New Zealand. Papers on minority languages spoken in New Zealand and Australasia are also especially welcome.

The theme for Australex 2015 is ‘Analysing Words as a Social Enterprise: Celebrating 40 Years of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration on Lexicography’. 

The theme may be interpreted in a broad sense encompassing community engagement in collecting and analysing words as well the task of analysis itself being a social enterprise encompassing different types of practitioners and specialists. The Helsinki Declaration on lexicography aims:  
‘to encourage co-operation among experts in the field of lexicography with the aim of defining the necessary terminological equivalents, particularly in the scientific and technical disciplines, in order to facilitate relations among scientific institutions and specialists’.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

- Professor Tai Black and Professor Patu Hohepa, ''He tao kupu e kore e taea te karo... Words  cannot be Ignored'', The Treaty in a 21st century context.
- Associate Professor  Andie Diane Palmer, University of Alberta, whose work with Salish First Nation communities has spanned lexicography, anthropology and courtroom miscommunication.  She has visited Aotearoa several times in conjunction with Te Paparahi O Te Raki hearings in Northland.  ''Our Treaties Are Signed in Smoke: How Te Tiriti o Waitangi informs our understandings of treaty relationships in Canada”.
- Verna Stutzman, International Dictionary and Lexicography Services Coordinator, SIL International, “Rapid Words Collection, a collaborative strategy for collecting words using semantic domains for minority languages and online publishing using webonary.org”. 
- Professor Ghil’ad Zuckermann, The University of Adelaide, http://www.zuckermann.org/, “Analysing Words as a Social Enterprise: Lexicography in the Service of Revivalistics. “

Call for Papers:

Papers are welcome on the role of indigenous communities in the task of analysing and defining words. 
Proposed panels include:

(a) New Zealand  Māori, Te Reo: celebrating 175 years of the Treaty of Waitangi and 28 years since the Māori Language Act in New Zealand recognised Te Reo Māori as a taonga ‘treasure’. How far have we come? What types of dictionaries and lexicons? Past, present and future?
(b) Indigenous languages, including those spoken in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific, but not limited to them. What does community engagement mean?   
(c) Cooperation between lexicographers and specialists or scientific experts in analysing words.
(d) Sleeping Beauties Awake!: Lexicography and Revivalistics
(e) The Helsinki declaration: Celebrating the outcomes at the ends of the earth.
Suggestions for additional panels welcome. Poster presentations are welcome and computer programme/phone and ipad apps will be demonstrated in a lunchtime workshop.

Website:

http://australex2015.massey.ac.nz
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/australex/
Please join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Australex

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