Voices of Regional Australia workshop

Voices of Regional Australia workshop
Language variation and change in non-urban settings: Honing the conceptual and methodological toolkit

In this one-week seminar series, we delve into issues relevant to the contemporary sociolinguistic study of dialectal variation. We invite local and international experts to give seminars on geographic diffusion of dialects and dialect change; the role of place attachment in shaping linguistic patterns; working with stories around natural disasters as data; and Australian English in urban and regional contexts.

Seminars are open to all who are interested. We welcome the opportunity to engage in broader discussion about the issues raised, to share wider perspectives and experiences of contemporary sociolinguistic research, to explore working with data collected from natural disaster contexts, and to think about how the conceptual and methodological tools for the study of language variation and change can be applied in
the Australian context.

Seminars will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9.30-11.15am, including morning tea. They will be in-person only, except for Tuesday’s seminar.
Schedule below and see full program and abstracts attached below. Please register for the session(s) you wish to attend here.

This seminar series is offered by “Voices of Regional Australia”, an ARC Discovery Project (DP230100464) led by Catherine Travis, Ksenia Gnevsheva and Gerry Docherty, and is organised by Katherine Revius.

Contact Katherine.Revius@anu.edu.au

MON 18 Nov	TUE 19 Nov	WED	THU 21 Nov	FRI 22 Nov
Conducting sociolinguistics in regional Australia	Australian English	—	Working in disaster contexts	Perspectives on modern dialectology
Catherine Travis, Ksenia Gnevsheva, Gerry Docherty “Voices of Regional Australia: The Linguistic Patterning of Local Attachment”	Felicity Cox (hybrid) “Broadening the focus: Sources of variation in Australian English phonetics and phonology”		Lynn Clark, Paul Millar “The QuakeBox Corpus: uses and applications”	Dave Britain “The geographical diffusion of (linguistic) innovations: maps, models, and real people”
10:45-11:15 Morning Tea (catered)

See full program for further details.

This event is originally published on the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics website.

Voices of Regional Australia workshop