<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-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub – </span></b><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><b><u>Tuesday</u> 13th June 2017</b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"><span> </span></span></p><b>Are Australia’s Community Languages worth studying?</b></div><div dir="ltr"><i>Discussion led by James Walker, Professor of Linguistic Diversity, La Trobe University</i><br><br>From my outsider perspective, it seems that linguistics in Australia is mainly focused on describing and documenting the languages of Indigenous Australians, with a secondary focus on the languages of Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific and southeast Asia. While there is a relatively small but growing body of work on Australian English, little attention has been paid to the maintenance of and variation in the Community Languages (CLs) brought to Australia through immigration by non-English-speaking settlers <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:14.6667px">(with the notable exception of Michael Clyne’s work)</span>. Has there been an ideology of linguistic assimilation such that CLs do not long survive in Australia? Is the focus on Indigenous languages seen as a zero-sum game that makes studying other languages in Australia not worthwhile or valuable?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Date</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">: Tuesday 13th June 2017 [NOTE: TUESDAY!]</span></p>
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- 8:00 pm<br>
<b>Venue</b>: Function room, </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Naughton’s Parkville Hotel</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Address: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">43
Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Phone: </span></b><span></span> (03) 9347 2255</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><a href="http://parkvillehotel.com.au/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR">http://parkvil<wbr>lehotel.com.au/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (menu available online)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">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><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip: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"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">rsinger@unimelb.edu<wbr>.au</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><br>
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