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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub <u>Wednesday
</u>23<sup>rd</sup> March 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">**********First MLIP for the year ***********</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Our current venue is: UNIVERSITY HOTEL and will remain so until further notice</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">We will be holding LIP on Tuesdays <i>AND</i> Wednesdays
this year</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Elena Mihas </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">(James
Cook University/U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) will be leading the discussion, she
works on Arawak languages of Peru in Amazonia.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Topic: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Guiding
language consultants’ individual projects: Negotiating organizational issues in
the field</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Last year we held a session of MLIP titled ‘</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Supporting community researchers in the field</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">’ which was about models of community engagement
where local people at the research fieldsite receive training in linguistic
fieldwork techniques and carry out some of the work. One of the background
readings for that session was Mihas (2012). In that paper she shares her
experiences of subcontracting native speakers. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Field
linguists based at universities are not always able to spend that much time in
the field. However, if local people in the community are interested in doing
language work, this is a way of scaling-up or greatly increasing the amount of
work that gets done. Employing local people can provide useful employment and
training in what are often very disadvantaged communities. In addition, better
understanding of the research enables local people to have more input into how
research is carried out. And this closer collaboration also improves linguistic
analyses (Czaykowska-Higgins 2009, Rice 2011). It is possible at many sites, to
set up a system whereby local researchers work independently between visits by
linguists. Digital communication can help with this, as support can be provided
via email and payments for work can be processed online. However even in less
developed areas, local researchers can do work independently with just a tape
recorder, batteries and a notebook.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This session of MLIP will discuss these topics:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">What kind of projects are viable?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How to find the right people for the job?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How to retain the right people?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How to negotiate remuneration?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How to ensure good quality of the final product?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">How to deal with setbacks?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The background readings are the same as for February 2015, if you can’t
download them from the links below try <a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/376">http://www.rnld.org/node/376</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">See also Elena’s blog post on a thematic dictionary
project she worked on with local researchers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.etnolinguistica.org/doc:22"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">http://www.etnolinguistica.org/doc:22</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Czaykowska-Higgins, E. (2009) Research Models,
Community Engagement, and Linguistic Fieldwork: Reflections on Working within
Canadian Indigenous Communities. Language Documentation and Conservation, vol.
3, no. 1 (June 2009): 15-50. [</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/June2009/"><span style="color:rgb(102,125,152);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/June2009/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">].</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Good, J. 2012. ‘“Community” Collaboration in
Africa: Experiences from Northwest Cameroon’. Language Documentation and
Description 11. <a href="http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/jcgood-CommunityCollaboration.pdf"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,153)">http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/jcgood-CommunityCollaboration.pdf</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Laycock, A., D. Walker, N. Harrison and J. Brands.
2009. ‘Supporting Indigenous Researchers: A Practical Guide for
Supervisors’. <a href="https://www.lowitja.org.au/lowitja-publishing/C023"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,153)">https://www.lowitja.org.au/lowitja-publishing/C023</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Mihas, E. I. 2012. ‘Subcontracting Native Speakers
in Linguistic Fieldwork: A Case Study of the Ashéninka Perené (Arawak) Research
Community from the Peruvian Amazon’. <a href="http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4502"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,153)">http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4502</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Putt, J. 2012. Conducting Research with Indigenous
People and Communities. Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse. <a href="http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/documents/ConductingresearchwithIndigenouspeopleandcommunities.pdf"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,153)">http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/documents/ConductingresearchwithIndigenouspeopleandcommunities.pdf</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Rice, K. 2011. ‘Documentary Linguistics and Community
Relations’. <a href="http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4498"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,153)">http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4498</span></b></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Date: Wednesday 23<sup>rd</sup> March</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm<br>
Venue: Function room (upstairs)</span></p>
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<b>University hotel</b> (NOTE NEW-ish VENUE)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Address: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">272
Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Phone: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,13,171)">(03)
9347 7299</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.unihotel.com.au/">http://www.unihotel.com.au/</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> (menu available online)</span></p>
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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, Giordana Santosuosso, Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Contact Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) with
any questions: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
You can receive these announcements by signing up to the RNLD mailing
list: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/5">http://www.rnld.org/node/5</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
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