<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial"><font size="4"><br>Announcement: <font color="#38761d">Linguistics in the Pub in London (LIPIL)</font></font></b><font face="arial" size="4"><b><font color="#0b5394"> **</font>Tuesday** 6th October 2015</b></font><b style="font-family:arial"><font size="4"> - Why document endangered languages? </font></b></div></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><b>Note:<span> </span></b>New date (Tuesday!) and new location (The Percy!)</p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">LIPIL is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in London and serves as an informal forum for the discussion of languages, linguistics and related issues. We meet roughly once a month and discuss a selected theme or issue. LIPIL is coordinated by Lauren Gawne (SOAS, University of London) and is open to everyone who is interested. We're currently looking for people who might be interested in helping to organise LIPIL, or write summaries of each of the events for the <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Endangered Languages and Cultures blog</a>. Or you can Tweet on the night with the #LIPIL hashtag.</span></p><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Our October LIPIL takes place as the academic year is getting under way. We will spend the evening discussing the fundamental question of motivation in language documentation. This is an opportunity to discuss major theoretical motivations for documentation work, but also a chance for individual researchers to discuss their personal motivations for doing the type of work that they do. Whether you've spent decades working in language documentation or you're just beginning your linguistics degree, this evening will be a chance to talk about why this work is important and interesting.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Background reading:</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">There are many good Language Documentation monographs and volumes that outline reasons for language documentation, but from the personal perspective the Linguist List's <a href="http://blog.linguistlist.org/category/fund-drive/featured-linguists/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Featured Linguists</a> interviews provide a great resource. Language documentation researchers featured include </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-rachel-nordlinger/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Rachel Nordlinger</a>, <a href="http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-eric-campbell/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Eric Campbell</a>, <a href="http://blog.linguistlist.org/uncategorized/featured-linguist-monica-macaulay/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Monica MacAuley</a> and <a href="http://blog.linguistlist.org/category/fund-drive/featured-linguists/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">many others</a>. </span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">   <br></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Date:             Tuesday 6th October 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 style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Venue:           <b>New Venue! </b>Upstairs room,<span> </span><a href="http://www.the-perseverance.moonfruit.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b>The Perseverance</b></a></span><b><br></b></span></p><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;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">63 Lambs Conduit Street,<br>Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3NB<br></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: <a href="tel:020%207405%208278" value="+442074058278" target="_blank">020 7405 8278</a></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></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><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span>Contact Lauren Gawne with any questions: <a href="mailto:lg21@soas.ac.uk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">lg21@soas.ac.uk</a> <br>You can receive these announcements by signing up to the RNLD mailing list: <a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/5" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org/node/5</a> or visiting the <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2015/08/introducing-lipil-linguistics-in-the-pub-in-london/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">LIPIL Facebook page</a>.</p></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br><br><br></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">--<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr. Lauren Gawne<div>ELDP Post-Doctoral Fellow</div><div>Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG<br>United Kingdom<br></div><div><br></div><div>P: <a href="tel:020%207898%204583" value="+442078984583" target="_blank">020 7898 4583</a></div></div></div></div></div></div>