Linguistics in the Pub January 19th, Melbourne, Australia

[Ruth Singer]

Announcement

Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) January 2010
Organised by RNLD

LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in
Melbourne. All are welcome. Those in other parts of Australia and the
world who can't make it to the Melbourne LIPs are encouraged to
organise a local gathering to discuss this topic and support language
activities in your area.

Tuesday 19th January, 7:30 pm

The topic for this month will be: Is there really that much difference
between language documentation and language description?

No set paper will be discussed but for more background see any of these papers:
Himmelmann, N. 2006. Language documentation: what is it and what is it
good for? Essentials of language documentation, ed. by J. Gippert, N.
P. Himmelmann and U. Mosel. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-30.
Himmelmann, N. 2008. Reproduction and preservation of linguistic
knowledge: linguistics' response to language endangerment. Annual
review of  Anthropology, 39:337-50.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1998. Documentary and descriptive linguistics.
Linguistics, 36.161–195.
Woodbury, Tony. 2003. Defining documentary linguistics. In Language
documentation and description, Vol. 1, ed. Peter K. Austin, 35-51.
London: SOAS.

Location: Small function room, Recreation hotel (formerly Homestead Inn)
170 Queens parade (where intersection with Smith St is and 86 tram
turns the corner)

Food and drink available at pub.

Suggestions of discussion topics or presentations for future meetings
are welcome.

Contact Ruth Singer if you have any questions (rsinger at unimelb.edu.au)