2004: Past activities and projects: Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication: University of Melbourne

RUMACCC Activities 2004

Visitors to RUMACCC in 2004

RUMACCC hosted a number of eminent visitors in 2004, who presented a number of interesting lectures and workshops. All visitors contributed substantially to the Centre's research sulture, sharing their ideas and providing valuable advice to staff, research assistants and PhD students.

Professor Ulrich Ammon (University of Duisburg) gave a lecture on European Union language policy and interacted with staff and students within RUMACCC.
Professor Victor Friedman (University of Chicago, visiting La Trobe University’s Research Centre for Linguistic Typology) spoke on Language planning and Status in the Republic of Macedonia and in Kosovo since 1991. This provided a good opportunity for interaction between RUMACCC and the local Macedonian-speaking community.
Professor Beat Glauser (University of Heidelberg) is currently visiting and will be at the university until March 2005. He will give a departmental seminar in February 2005.
Professor Paul Kerswill (University of Reading and University of Lancaster) gave a talk on The levelling of English in Britain: some new theoretical perspectives and discussed research projects with staff and students.
Professor Li Wei (University of Newcastle-on-Tyne) gave a talk on Lexical development of bilingual children: A longitudinal group study of French-English bilinguals and discussed research projects with staff and students.
Professor Wolfgang Lörscher (University of Leipzig) visited the Unit to discuss speech processing of bilinguals.
Professor Pieter Muysken (University of Nijmegen) gave talks on The fate of functional elements in language contact, Modelling Language Contact, Endangerment and Language Maintenance in Bolivia, as well as public lecture on Language in South America: A Rainbow Continent. He advised staff and PhD students on their research and took part in the one-day workshop in his honour (see below).
Professor Kerstin Nordenstam (University of Göteborg) gave a talk entitled Invisible girls, visible boys: Young immigrants in a Swedish high-school environment and discussed research with staff and PhD students.
Professor Mauro Tosco (University of Oriental Studies, Naples) gave a public lecture on The African Languages in a Changing World: Challenges and Opportunities and took part in numerous discussions within RUMACCC.
Dr Ghil’ad Zukerman (Churchill College, Cambridge, visiting LaTrobe University’s Research Centre for Linguistic Typology) gave a talk on Israeli: A Twentieth-Century Semito-European Hybrid Language and interacted with staff and students within RUMACCC. All visitors contributed substantially to the RUMACCC research culture, sharing their ideas and providing valuable advice to staff, research assistants, and PhD students.

Projects conducted in 2004

Dissemination of Research Findings

Conferences

Contact-Induced Change in Immigrant Languages in Australia, organised by Jovana Dimitrijevi? with the help of Sandra Kipp to coincide with Professor Pieter Muysken's visit, included 11 papers, in addition to responses by Professor Muysken. Papers were presented by staff and PhD students from the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Victorian University of Technology, providing a valuable forum for exploring language change in Australia.

Publications

Bartlett, M. 2004. Another view of minority languages: Australian Sign language (Auslan)" pp1-7 in Nelde, P.H. Nelde (ed) 2004, Multilingualism, Minorities and Language Change, St Augustin: Asgard Verlag.
Bartlett, M. and Leane, S. 2004. Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia. RUMACCCC.
Clyne, M. 2004. Stirbt die deutsche Sprache in Australien aus? In H.Heinze and C. Weller (eds.), Die Lektüre der Welt: Zur Theorie, Soziologie und Praxis kultureller Praxis. Frankfurt; Lang, 63-68.
Clyne, M. 2004. Trapped in a monolingual mindset? Prime Focus 37, 40-42. (Reprinted in Principal Matters 59, 18-20.)
Clyne, M., S. Fernandez and F. Grey. 2004. Languages spoken in the community, languages taken at school – a comparative dimension. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27, 1-27.
Clyne, M., and F. Grey. 2004. Community language media and Australia’s changing language demography. People and Place 12, 24-34.
Clyne, M., T. Isaakidis, I. Liem and C. Rossi Hunt, Developing and sharing community languages through secondary school programs. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7, 255-278.
Clyne, M., Kretzenbacher, L., Norrby C & Warren, J. 2004. Address in Some Western European Languages. Moskovsky, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Clyne, M., Kretzenbacher, L. and Schüpbach, D. 2004. "Der größte Schritt, den man manchmal tun könnte": Zur Anrede im Deutschen im internationalen Vergleich. Sprachreport 4/2004.
Clyne, M., C. Rossi Hunt and T. Isaakidis. 2004. Learning a Community language as a Third Language. International Journal of Multilingualism.1, 33-52.
Hajek, J. & N. Nicholas. 2004. The Rise & Fall of Modern Greek in Australia's Universities: What can a Quantitative Analysis Tell Us?, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 3: 197-211.
Huang, D.L.J. 2004. Language choice and language use in emails. In P. Nelde (ed.), Multilingualism, minorities and language change, pp.49-58. St. Augustin: Asgard.
Huang, D.L.J. 2004. Switching between Chinese and English in emails. MPLAL 4(1):13-22.
Norrby, C. 2004/1996. Samtalsanalys. (2nd edition). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Norrby, C. & Håkansson, G. 2004. ‘Kan jag hjälpa dig med något?’ Om tilltal i en servicesituation. Språk & Stil 13. 5–34.
Parkinson, A. and J. Hajek. 2004. Lei, Tu and Voi: Keeping it all in the Family. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 18: 99-114.
Woods, A. 2004. Medium or Message: Language and Faith in Ethnic Churches. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

In press

Clyne, M. Pluricentric languages. In U. Ammon, K.Mattheier and P. Trudgill (eds.), Sociolinguistics. 2. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Clyne, M. The history of language contact research. In U. Ammon, K.Mattheier and P. Trudgill (eds.), Sociolinguistics. 2. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Clyne, M. Empowerment through community languages – does it work? In M. Pütz, J.A.Fishman and M. Neff (eds.), Along the Road to Power? Explorations of the Empowerment of the Language. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
Clyne, M. Greek in Australia. In R. Tsokalidou and P. Paparousi (eds.), Themata Thetaftotitas stin elliniki duiaspora. Athens.
Clyne, M. Sharing community languages – utopian dream of realistic vision? In P. Bruthiaux (ed), Directions in Applied Linguistics. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon.
Clyne, M. Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift. In a festschrift. Lang, Frankfurt.
Clyne, M. Sprachdemographie und Sprachpolitik in Australien: Das wechselhafte Schicksal von Einwanderersprachen. IMIS-Beträge
Clyne, M. Towards an agenda for developing multilingual communication within a community base. In J. House and J. Rehbein (eds.), Multilingual Communication. Benjamins, Amsterdam.
Clyne, M. The use of exclusionary language to manipulate opinion – John Howard, asylum seekers and the re-emergence of political incorrectness in Australia. Journal of Language and Politics 5 (2)
Clyne, M., F. Grey and S. Kipp, Matching policy with language demography. Language Policy.
Debski, R. (forthcoming, 2004). The Internet in support of community languages: Web sites created by Poles living abroad. Information Technology, Education and Society 5 (1).
Håkansson, G, Norrby, C. & Bruzaeus, L. Svenska i och utanför Sverige. Grammatiska och pragmatiska mönster i inlärarspråket. Proceedings of Nordens språk som andraspråk (Nordand), Lund.
Lee-Wong, S. 'Raising awareness of hedging in Chinese business letters: linguistic symbol of precision or politeness?' Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
Norrby, Catrin. Du eller ni? In Språkvård 4/2004.
Norrby, C., Debski, R & Nicholas, N. Saving Small Languages – Swedish Goes Online. Submitted to: proceedings of the Marking Our Difference conference, Melbourne, Oct. 2003.
Shu, L. & Lee-Wong, S. 'A study on Singaporeans' perception of sexual harassment from a cross-cultural perspective' Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Slaughter, Y. Public perceptions of Asian languages in Australia. Language, Education and Diversity Conference Proceedings. Hamilton, New Zealand Nov. 2004.

Seminars and conference (other than those given above) presentations:

Meredith Bartlett and Sandra Leane

May	Sandra and Meredith addressed a meeting for parents and staff at the Furlong Park School for Deaf Children, on Raising Deaf Children Bilingually, and what is bilingualism. 05/05/04
June	Meredith Bartlett addressed a working group of staff at Furlong Park School for Deaf Children on Bilingual Programs in Schools, and some ideas for assessment of language skills in each language. 01/06/04
September	Meredith Bartlett presented a paper at the SMYLE professional development day (Sunshine Middle Years Learning Experience) at Sunshine Secondary College. The presentation was on Definitions of Bilingualism, the Booklet 'Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia' and the Video 'Growing up with English Plus'. 13/09/04
October	Meredith Bartlett presented a paper about the booklet 'Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia' and the video 'Growing up with English Plus', at the Deafness Expo at Melbourne Town Hall. 30/10/04

Michael Clyne

April to June	Empowering through community languages – Does it work? (Keynote) LAUD conference, University of Landau Address in German: Some international comparisons: University of Bonn (in German) Language demography and language policy in Australia - The changing fate of immigrant languages in Australia: Universities of Gothenburg and Uppsala (in English), Leipzig (in German) How abuse of language is excluding asylum seekers from Australia (in English) – University of Stockholm Who owns the English language? (In English) – University of Leipzig Community languages in secondary schools– some Australian experiences (in English) – Free University of Berlin Contact-induced language change – Some comparative data from immigrant languages in Australia (In English) – University of Uppsala Critical assessment of projects presented at a workshop on second language acquisition and bilingualism, featuring talks by two staff members and five PhD students.
July	Developing children’s language potential to the fullest – (keynote) Conference of LOTE coordinators in independent schools, Melbourne
October	Fostering and transmitting multilingualism. National conference of ethnic school teachers, National conference of ethnic school teachers, Sydney
November	From bilingual to linguist, Conference Translated Lives, Curtin University. Developing children’s language potential and beating the monolingual mindset. Bilingual Families Network, Perth.
December	Recognizing and valuing multilingualism. (Keynote) VSL teachers’ conference, Melbourne.

Brigitte Lambert

August	The Risky Business of Raising Bilingual Children; Arts Faculty Colloquium 20/8/2004. Published in online journal, Anthithesis Forum, 4/11/2004 Relocation, Relationships and Language. Linguistic Dept. Workshop (Peter Muysken) 28/8/2004 Acts of Identity in the context of family language transmission; Open Book Conference University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand 31/8-1/9/2004
November	School of Languages conference; Identities in Interaction: an analysis of the identity factor in family language transmission. 14/11/2004.

Catrin Norrby

May	Swedish inside and outside Sweden (with G. Håkansson) Conference paper at Svenskans beskrivning, Växjö University, Sweden, 15 May, 2004.
June	A seminar for SWEA (Swedish Women’s Association) in Sydney on raising children bilingually, 2 June 04.
September	Swedish inside and outside Sweden (with G. Håkansson) Conference paper at EUROSLA (European conference for Second Language Acquisition) in San Sebastian 10 Sept. Swedish inside and outside Sweden (with G. Håkansson) Conference paper at OFTI (discourse and grammar) in Linköping, 24 Sept.
October	Address project workshop, Göteborg, 8-10 Oct. Seminar in Vaasa, Dept of Nordic Languages, 27 Oct. Swedish inside and outside Sweden (with G. Håkansson) Seminar in Vaasa, 28 Oct.
November	Seminar in Uppsala, Dept of Nordic Languages, 10 Nov. Address project Seminar (with Jane Warren) in Göteborg, Dept of Swedish 1 Nov.

Media presentations

Michael Clyne

March	DRS 2, German-language Swiss cultural network – Address in Europe
May	2 broadcasts on Swedish radio programs – Multilingualism in Australia and Sweden
October	3AW breakfast show – Bilingualism 774 Drive – Bilingualism 3ZZZ – Bilingualism
	Several interviews on SBS Radio. Also a number of newspaper interviews (Education Age, Neos Kosmos (one for Greek, one for English supplement), one for Mothers and Babies.

Catrin Norrby

October

Interviewed for Vasabladet (29 Oct 04) with regard to the address project.

Doris Schüpbach

January

Interviewed for SBS, 05/01/04. Worldview on ‘Language of the Swiss.’

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