<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>Announcement: Linguistics in the Pub May 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Topic: Models of community engagement in language documentation<br>
<br></div>At <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc/2013" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ICLDC4</a> in Hawaii a couple of months ago there were a number of papers that addressed the relationship linguists have with the communities they work with, and how we can collaborate with these communities. <a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26090" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Laura Robinson</a> presented data from a survey that showed collaborative efforts were more likely to occur in Australian and North American contexts, while <a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26126" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Joseph Brooks</a> showed a very different cultural model of working with linguists held by the Hua of PNG. Presentations about projects in Japan (<a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26125" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Toshihide Nakayama and Tsuyoshi Ono</a>) and Nepal (<a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/26080" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Lauren Gawne and Barbara Kelly</a>) showed that not all communities have the kinds of structures or levels of interest to necessarily support the kind of community-engagement projects that are currently seen as a desirable component of language documentation projects. <br>
<br></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This month at LIP we want to talk about the ways in which we build community engagement into language documentation projects, and the relative success of different models in different locations. Is community engagement necessary to language documentation projects, and how do we measure the success of such endeavours?</span><div>
<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm<br>Venue: Upstairs room, Prince Alfred Hotel,<br><br>191 Grattan St, Carlton<br>(corner of Bouverie St)<br>
ph (03) 9347-3033<br><br>NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE ; back to usual venue after a stint at Naughtons late last year<br><br>Food and drinks available at the venue</div><div><br></div><div>LIP is organised by Ruth Singer and Lauren Gawne (University of Melbourne)<br>
<br>Contact Ruth Singer if you have any questions <a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
<br>LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in Melbourne. All are welcome. Those in other parts of Australia and the world who can't make it to the Melbourne LIPs are encouraged to organise a local gathering to discuss this topic and support language activities in your area.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Ruth Singer<br>ARC Research Fellow<br>Linguistics Program<br>School of Languages and Linguistics<br>
Faculty of Arts<br>University of Melbourne 3010<br>Tel. <a href="tel:%2B61%203%2090353774" value="+61390353774" target="_blank">+61 3 90353774</a><br><a href="http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/academic-staff/ruth-singer" target="_blank">http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/academic-staff/ruth-singer</a><br clear="all">
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