<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b style="font-family:Arial">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 17th May 2016</b><br></p>
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<i>Topic</i>: <i>Promoting linguistic tools and data to other disciplines</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i>Leading the discussion</i>: Howie Manns, Monash University<br>Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither language nor culture (at least in the humanities sense) get much mention in the Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). While ‘innovation’ as a concept once sat firmly within the humanities, it has long since shifted in the public mindset to business. With this in mind, we discuss innovative ways to respond to NISA and new ways to promote linguistics to other disciplines. Howie will lead this discussion with reference to his work with Indonesian Studies and the School of Social Sciences at Monash (SoSS). <br>At the request of the national Australia-Indonesia Centre, Howie recently worked with SoSS colleagues to develop text analysis software to monitor Australian-Indonesian relations. The results of this work have informed significant revisions to Indonesian Studies and lectures to students of Asian Studies and Global Studies. These revisions and lectures have exposed students to linguistic data and tools and the value of such tools beyond the field of linguistics. This discussion will centre around lessons learned from engagement with other disciplines, including a dialogue around what works, what doesn’t, and, in the end, whether such engagement is worthwhile. This discussion also makes reference to technology and commerce as key themes of the NISA, and we brainstorm and discuss potential opportunities offered within these domains for linguists. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Discussion questions include:<br><ul><li>What, if anything, does the NISA mean to linguistics? Can or should we think innovatively about how the NISA can mean something to linguistics?<br></li><li>In considering the relevance of the NISA, what are the pros and cons of engagement with other disciplines?<br></li><li>What kinds of issues does one encounter in doing cross-disciplinary research/teaching, especially when this work sits more firmly in the other discipline, rather than linguistics?<br></li><li>What aspects of linguistics are most interesting to students and researchers of other disciplines?</li><li>How can linguists best approach other disciplines and sell the value of linguistics?</li><li>How does the administrative process at universities facilitate or complicate cross-disciplinary endeavours?</li></ul><br><i>Background Reading:</i><br>Clyne, Michael (2007). Are we making a difference? On the social responsibility and impact of the linguist/Applied Linguist in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30(1), 03.1-03.14.<br>National Innovation & Science Agenda (2016). National Innovation and Science Agenda Report. Access: <a href="http://www.innovation.gov.au/page/national-innovation-and-science-agenda-report">http://www.innovation.gov.au/page/national-innovation-and-science-agenda-report</a><br>Woods, Charlotte (2007). Researching and developing interdisciplinary teaching: towards a conceptual framework for classroom communication. Higher Education, 54(6), 853- 866.<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Date: Tuesday 17th May</span></p><span>
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Venue: Function room (upstairs)</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" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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