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RUMACCC Activities 2005

Visitors to RUMACCC in 2005

• Prof. Beat Glauser (University of Heidelberg). Beat gave a talk to the Dept of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics titled, Contract advertisements and multi-word pre-modifiers in the English-speaking world.
• Assoc. Prof Zeynep Johnson Beykont (Indpendent Researcher, Turkey)
• Prof. Guus Extra (Tilburg University)
• Dr Jane Warren (University of Melbourne)
• Dr Jo Winter (University of Western Australia)
• Prof. Anne Pauwels (Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Western Australia). Both Jo and Anne gave a seminar to a very appreciative group of post-graduates during their stay.
• Assoc. Prof. Gisela Håkansson (Lund University, Sweden)
• Assoc. Prof. Ulla Börenstam (University of Uppsala). During her stay, Ulla gave an interdepartmental talk titled, Interscandanavian comprehension from different angles.
• Assoc. Prof. Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland).

All visitors contributed substantially to the Centre's research sulture, sharing their ideas and providing valuable advice to staff, research assistants and PhD students.

Projects conducted in 2005

• Community languages in early 21st Century Australia
• Address in some Western European Languages
• Raising Children in More than one language / Raising Deaf Children in more than one language
• Victorian Government LOTE reports
• Symposium for Professor Michael Clyne
• Thesis Completions

Dissemination of Research Findings

Books

• Belo, M. C.A, J. Bowden, J. Hajek, N. Himmelmann and A.V. Tilman. 2005 (eds). Glosáurio Waima'a Casidio. Baucau: Publicações Matebian.
• Clyne, M. 2005 Australia's Language Potential. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Clyne, M. 2005a. Eliniko stin Avstralia. In R.Tsokalidou and M.Paparousi (eds), Themata taftotitas stin ellinki diaspora: Glossa kai logotehnia. Metehmio, Athens.
• Clyne, M. 2005b. Language Policy (pp. 402-3); Language dempgraphy and use (pp.403). in Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne. Cambridge University Press. Melbourne.
• Clyne, M. 1005c. Sharing Community Languages - utopian dreams or realistic vision?. In P. Bruthiaux et al (ed), Directions in Applied Linguistics. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, 42-55.
• Clyne, M. 2005d. Sprachdemographie und Sprachpolitik in Australien: Das wechselhafte Schicksal von Einwnderspersprachen. IMIS-Betráge 26, 11-28.
• Clyne, M. 2005e. 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 4. 173-196.
• Clyne, M. and Kipp, S. 2005a. On the Somali Language in Australia. Migration Action. 27,19-22.
• Clyne, M. and Kipp, S. 2005b. Expressing Filipino identity in Melbourne. In E. van Leewen (ed.), Festschrift fur Heinrich Kelz. Narr, Tübingen.
• Hajek, J. 2005. Timor Lorosae: Language Situation. In K.Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., London, Elsevier. P.718.
• Håkansson, G. & Norrby, C. 2005. Grammar and pragmatics - Swedish as a foreign language. In Foster-Cohen, S. (eds.). EUROSLA Yearbook. Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. Vol. 5 2005. Benjamins. 137-161.
• Håkansson, G. & Norrby, C. 2005. Flicka - dricka eller tjej? Ordassociationer hos andraspråksinlärare. In: Byrman, G., Einarsson, J., Hammarbäck, S., Lindgren, M. & Stille, P. (red) Svenskans beskrivning 27. Förhandlingar vid Tjugosjunde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning. Växjö University Press. 125-134.
• Håkansson, G. & Norrby, C. (in press). Svenska i och utanför Sverige - spelar miljön någon roll för andraspråksinlärning? Nordens språk som andraspråk.
• Lee-Wong, S. 2005. Raising awareness of hedging in Chinese business letters: linguistic symbol of precision or politeness. Linguistics Insights: Asian Discourses (eds) Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini & Maurizio Goth. Peter Lang.
• Lee-Wong, S. & Shu, L. 2005. A study of Singaporeans perceptions of sexual harassment from a cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 35 No 4. pp.699-717.
• Norrby, C. 2005. Du, ni, titel eller förnamn? Språkbruk 2/2005. 5–10.
• Slaughter, Y. 2005. Public perceptions of Asian languages in Australia. In May, S., Franken, M., & Barnard, R. (eds.), LED2003: Refereed Conference Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Education and Diversity. Hamilton: Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato.

In Press

Books

• M. Clyne and S. Kipp, Tiles in a Multilingual Mosaic: Macedonian, Somali and Filipino in Melbourne. Pacific Linguistics, expected 2006.

Journal articles / book chapters

• Clyne, M. Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift. In (ed.) L. Thorburg and J. Fuller (eds.), Studies on Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert. Lang, Frankfurt.
• Clyne, M. The Dutch language in Australia – Some comparisons with other community languages. In N. Peters (ed.), The Dutch Down Under. CCH Kluwer, Sydney.
• Clyne, M. 2006. Empowerment through community languages – a challenge. In M. Pütz, J.A.Fishman and M. Neff (eds.), Along the Routes to Power: Exploration of the Empowerment through Language. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• Clyne, M. and S. Fernandez. 2005. Period of residence as a factor in language maintenance: Hungarian-English bilinguals in Australia. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics. Hajek, J. On the Edge of the Pacific: Indonesia and East Timor. In D. Cunningham, D. Ingram & K. Sumbuk (eds) Language Diversity in the Pacific. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Kipp, S & Norrby, C. (eds.). 2006. Community Languages in Practice in Australia. Special Issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) vol. 180.
• Norrby, C & Søndergaard, B. 2006. Language maintenance and shift in the Danish community in Melbourne. In Kipp, S & Norrby, C. (eds.) Community Languages in Practice in Australia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 2: 2006.

Conference presentations and lectures

Michael Clyne

March	Address, between typology and changing cultural values. RCLT, LaTrobe University. The value of bilingual education. Bayswater South Primary School April Hungarian in Australia. Comenius University of Brattislava
May	Research methodology for school-based research on community languages (in German) – University of Cologne German-Dutch communication patterns (in German and Dutch) - Keynote address at conference on borders of communication, Kleve
June	L. Kretzenbacher and M Clyne – Dilemmas of address in German - at ICLAVE conference, Amsterdam August Helping 21st century Australians overcome the hurdle of monolingualism – Geelong Grammar School
September	Strategies for consideration. Symposium on Promotion of the Teaching of Dutch, Victorian School of Languages. Address – Variation patterns in some Western European languages. University of Queensland. The changing fate of community languages in Australia. University of Queensland. The role of the Victorian School of Languages in a multilingual Victoria – at 70th anniversary of the VSL Are we making a difference? On the role of the linguist/applied linguist in Australia. Keynote address at conferences of Applied Linguistic Association of Australia and the Australian Linguistic Society. A comparative project on address. Address symposium, ALAA conference. L Kretzenbacher, M Clyne and D Schupbach – Pronominal address in German: rules, anarchy and embarrassment potential. Address symposium, ALAA conference.
October	Italian in Australia – where do we stand? Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
November	Words excusing exclusion – Conference on asylum seekers, Monash University December ? languages in Australia – an uncompleted research agenda. – Discourses of learning, learning of discourses conference.
December	Words that exclude people – critical thinking seminar, Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Australia’s language potential, talk to Victorian School of Languages teachers.

 

John Hajek

June	Not just Tetum - Language development in East Timor and the case of Waima'a. East Timor Studies Symposium. Victoria University. Melbourne. (with J. Bowden) Language contact and convergence in East Timor: the case of Tetun Dili. International Workshop on Grammars in Contact: a cross-linguistic perspective. La Trobe University, Melbourne.
September	Community Language or Language Awareness: Competing Agendas? (with Y. Slaughter) 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.

 

Yvette Slaughter

September

Community Language or Language Awareness: Competing Agendas? (with J. Hajek) 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.

 

Media presentations

Michael Clyne

February	Bilingualism – Bengali program, SBS Radio
March	Cognitive benefits of bilingualism – 3AW March The value of bilingualism – ABC, 774
July	Globlish, 3AW Globlish, 6PR
October	Australia’s Language Potential, SBS Radio (Worldview)
November	Bilingual education, SBS Radio Australia’s language potential, Radio National, Lingua Franca Australia’s language potential (in German), SBS, Radio German Program

 

M Clyne, C Norrby, L Kretzenbacher, J Warren

November

Address, Radio National, The Europeans

 

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