[RNLD] Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Wednesday 20th July 2016

[Ruth Singer]

*Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Wednesday 20th July 2016*



*Topic*: The challenge that language variation poses to language description



*Leading the dicussion: *David Gil <http://mpi-survey3.shh.mpg.de/gil/> (Max
Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)


This discussion will take as its starting point the challenges of working
with varieties of Malay and Indonesian, both as objects of investigation in
their own right, and as contact varieties providing access to over 800
other languages in the region.


Some of the issues that may come up in the discussion include:

• The role of the standard varieties and the effects of prescriptivism.

• Parameters of variation in Malay/Indonesian varieties: geographical,
social, ethnic.

• How to delimit varieties of Malay/Indonesian; how to name them.

• How to describe very closely related varieties of the same language.

• Special registers: metered verse, ludlings, social media, etc.

• The influence of regional languages on Malay/Indonesian, and of
Malay/Indonesian on regional languages

• Elicitation, experimentation, naturalistic speech — the blind men groping
at the elephant.


Although starting with a discussion of Malay/Indonesian, the discussion
should also be relevant to researchers working on other major contact
languages such as English, Tok Pisin, Chinese and any language which has
variation (i.e. any language!).



Date:      Wednesday 20th July

Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:     Function room (upstairs)

              *University hotel*

*Address: *272 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053

*Phone:   *(03) 9347 7299

                http://www.unihotel.com.au/ (menu available online)


LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in
Melbourne and is coordinated by the MLIP committee: Ruth Singer, Stefan
Schnell (Melbourne Uni) and Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Schlossberg, Alan
Ray, Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)



Contact Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) with any questions:
*rsinger at unimelb.edu.au
<rsinger at unimelb.edu.au>*
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-- 
Dr Ruth Singer
DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow
Linguistics Program and Research Unit for Indigenous Language
School of Languages and Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
University of Melbourne 3010
Tel. +61 3 90353774
http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/academic-staff/ruth-singer
http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
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