<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Hi all,</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you're in Melbourne on Wednesday, 11 April, come along to Linguistics in Pub. This month Lee Murray from Monash has got a great topic for us on new directions in Australian sociolinguistics.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong><a href="http://www.rnld.org/MLIP_April11_2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Where to now for Australian English sociolinguistics?</a></strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><em>Discussion led by</em>: Lee Murray</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">After a relatively slow start over the mid-to-late 20th century, Australian English sociolinguists have been making up for lost time.  We are rapidly building our knowledge of sociolinguistic variation in AusE, particularly in quantitative studies of sociophonetic variation (e.g. by Cox and colleagues at Macquarie, Loakes and colleagues at Melbourne, Travis and colleagues at ANU) and in syntactic and discourse-pragmatic variation (e.g. Rodriguez Louro and colleagues at UWA).</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">With the development of a solid knowledge base of quantitative variation in AusE, we have also begun to study social meanings of AusE variation and how these manifest in social interaction (e.g. Murray, Willoughby, Manns and colleagues at Monash, Penry Williams at La Trobe).  We also have a growing body of research into language contact situations involving AusE and other Australian languages, particularly in remote areas of Australia.</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">So, with the field of AusE sociolinguistics as it currently stands:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin-left:15px">Which social groups should we consider studying? </li><li style="margin-left:15px">Which language/discourse variables should we consider studying?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Which contexts of use should we consider studying?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Are there language contact situations specific to Melbourne/Victoria that we could be studying?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Does the Australian/Victorian context present any specific challenges for our research?</li></ul><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">What’s next?</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Date</strong>:      Wednesday, 11 April, 2018</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Time</strong>:       6:00 - 8:00 pm</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Venue</strong>:     Function room</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">              <strong>Naughton’s Parkville Hotel</strong></p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Address: </strong>43 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong>Phone:  </strong> (03) 9347 2255</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.9em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing: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