<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>Wednesday</u> 20</span><span style="font-size:11.1111px">th</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> July 2016</span></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Topic</i>: The challenge that language variation poses to language description<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Leading the dicussion: </i><a href="http://mpi-survey3.shh.mpg.de/gil/">David Gil</a> </span>(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">This discussion will take as its starting point the challenges of working with varieties of Malay and Indonesian, both as objects of investigation in their own right, and as contact varieties providing access to over 800 other languages in the region. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">Some of the issues that may come up in the discussion include:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• The role of the standard varieties and the effects of prescriptivism.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• Parameters of variation in Malay/Indonesian varieties: geographical, social, ethnic. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• How to delimit varieties of Malay/Indonesian; how to name them.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• How to describe very closely related varieties of the same language.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• Special registers: metered verse, ludlings, social media, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• The influence of regional languages on Malay/Indonesian, and of Malay/Indonesian on regional languages<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">• Elicitation, experimentation, naturalistic speech — the blind men groping at the elephant.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span class="im" style="font-size:12.8px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">Although starting with a discussion of Malay/Indonesian, the discussion should also be relevant to researchers working on other major contact languages such as English, Tok Pisin, Chinese and any language which has variation (i.e. any language!).</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 20th July</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></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>
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9347 7299</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></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, 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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</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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><br clear="all"><div><br></div><br></div>