<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial"><font size="4">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the pub Tuesday 19th May 2015 - Literacy in the field</font></b><span></span><br></div><span></span></div><span><font color="#000000" face="arial"><br></font></span><span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i>Literacy in the field: how do the communities we work with use vernacular literacy?</i></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">In 2011, Felix Ameka (Leiden U) led a great discussion of whether we need literacy at all for language documentation. Given how it ultimately enforces standardization where there may not have been any before, he asked whether we can perhaps just bypass literacy and use audiovisual recordings as our documentation product. However, some communities already engage in literacy in the language that we are documenting (Kral 2015). In addition, most linguists find we need to develop our own literacy in the target language for research purposes.  And communities often expect linguists to produce artefacts such as dictionaries. This LIP will touch on a range of questions that literacy raises for linguists such as:</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><ol><li style="margin-left:15px">How if at all, do the communities we work with participate in literacy activities in the language which is the target of the language documentation project ?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">How can outputs of language documentation designed for the community bypass vernacular literacy? These are useful for communities who are not literate in the target language and have no great desire to be.<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Why do we make dictionaries and how do the we work with communities use them?</li></ol><div>Background readings:</div></div></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="line-height:1.35;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Kral, Inge. 2015. Pedagogy or practice? Indigenous youth and language maintenance in out of school settings. ICLDC 2015, Hawai'i', online proceedings: (audio file)<br></span><a href="http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/25386" target="_blank" style="line-height:1.35;font-size:12.8000001907349px">http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/25386</a><span style="line-height:1.35;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:13.8240003585815px"><br></span><span style="line-height:1.35;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Guérin, Valérie. 2008. Writing an Endangered Language. LD&C journal: (text: pdf file)<br></span><a href="http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1804" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1804<br></a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Felix Ameka's talk on literacy and language documentation at La Trobe University: (audio file)</span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/linguistic-diversity-in-globalised/id588549143?mt=10" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/linguistic-diversity-in-globalised/id588549143?mt=10</a></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="line-height:1.35;padding-left:2em"><span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Pedagogy%20or%20practice%3F%20Indigenous%20youth%20and%20language%20maintenance%20in%20out%20of%20school%20settings&rft.aufirst=Inge&rft.aulast=Kral&rft.au=Inge%20Kral&rft.date=2015-03-12"></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="line-height:1.35;padding-left:2em"><span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Writing%20an%20Endangered%20Language&rft.aufirst=Val%C3%A9rie&rft.aulast=Gu%C3%A9rin&rft.au=Val%C3%A9rie%20Gu%C3%A9rin&rft.date=2008-06&rft.issn=1934-5275&rft.language=en-US"></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="line-height:1.35;padding-left:2em"><span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Natqgu%20Literacy%3A%20Capturing%20Three%20Domains%20for%20Written%20Language%20Use&rft.aufirst=Brenda%20H.&rft.aulast=Boerger&rft.au=Brenda%20H.%20Boerger&rft.date=2007-12-17&rft.issn=1934-5275&rft.language=en-US"></span></div></div></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Date:             Tuesday 19th May 2015</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="font-family:arial">Time:             6:00 - 8:00 pm</span><br></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Venue:           Upstairs room, Prince Alfred Hotel</span><br><span><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial">191 Grattan St, Carlton</span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial">(corner of Bouverie St)</span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial">ph (03) 9347-3033</span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></span></span><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial">Food and drinks available at the venue</span><br></span><font face="arial"><br></font></span><span style="font-family:arial">LIP</span><span style="font-family:arial"> is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in
</span><span style="font-family:arial">Melbourne</span><span style="font-family:arial"> and is coordinated by Ruth Singer (</span><span style="font-family:arial">Melbourne</span><span style="font-family:arial"> Uni), Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Schlossberg, Alan Ray, Giordana Santosuosso and Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)<br><br></span>Contact Ruth Singer (University of <span>Melbourne</span>) with any questions: <a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>You can receive these announcements by signing up to the RNLD mailing list: <a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/5" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org/node/5</a> <br><div><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr Ruth Singer<br>DECRA Postdoctoral Fellow<br>Linguistics Program and Research Unit for Indigenous Language<br>School of Languages and Linguistics<br>Faculty of Arts<br>University of Melbourne 3010<br>Tel. +61 3 90353774<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><a href="http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/" target="_blank">http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/</a></div></div>
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