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RUMACCC Activities 2006

Visitors to RUMACCC in 2006

• David Bradley (LaTrobe University)
• Werner Kallmeyer (University of Mannheim)
• Leigh Oakes (University of London)
• Claudia Riehl (University of Cologne)
• Guus Extra (Tilburg University)

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

Projects conducted in 2006

• 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
• Federal Government reports
• Other reports
• Joint seminar; RUMACCC and CERC
• Thesis completions

Dissemination of Research Findings

Books

• Clyne, M. and S. Kipp. Tiles in a Multilingual Mosaic: Macedonian, Somali and Filipino in Melbourne. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• Kipp, S and Norrby, C. (eds.). Community Languages in Practice in Australia. Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) vol. 180.
• Norrby, C. and Warren, J. (eds.). Address in World Perspective. Special Issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL). 29(2).

Journal Articles / Book Chapters

• Clyne, M. The Dutch language in Australia – Some comparisons with other community languages. In N. Peters (ed.), Dutch Down Under 1606-2006. Sydney: CCH Wolters Kluwer, 338-49.

• Clyne, M. Some exploratory comments relating sociolinguistic typology to language shift. In (ed.) J. Fuller and L. Thornburg (eds.), Studies in Contact Linguistics. Frankfurt: Lang, 207-230.

• Clyne, M. 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. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 107-128.

• Clyne, M.  Some thoughts on pragmatics, sociolinguistic variation and intercultural communication. Intercultural Pragmatics 3, 95-105.

• Clyne, M. The social responsibility and impact of the linguist/applied linguist in Australia. In Keith Allan (ed), Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/als/

• Clyne, M. Wedge politics through words of exclusion. Idiom 42 (3), 34-38.

• Clyne, M. Let imams preach in their own languages. The Melbourne Anglican Nr. 443, 24.

• Clyne, M., H-L. Kretzenbacher, C. Norrby and D. Schüpbach. Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10, 287-319.

• Clyne, M. and S. Kipp. Australia’s community languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 180, 7-21.

• Clyne, M. and S. Kipp. Trends and Shifts in Community Language Use in Australia, 1986-1996. In D. Cunningham, D.E. Ingram & K. Sumbuk (eds.) Language Diversity in the Pacific. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 137-161.

• Fitzgerald, M. and R. Debski, Internet use in Polish by the Polish minority in Melbourne: Implications for maintenance and teaching. Language Learning and Technology 10 (1), pp. 87-109.

• 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, 122-131.

• Kipp, S. A community from a historical perspective – homogeneity and variation. In S. Kipp and C. Norrby (eds.) Community Languages in practice in Australia, Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 180: 55-69.

• Kipp, S. Reconstructing the social networks of a nineteenth century Sprachinsel. In Nina Berend and Elisabeth Knipf-Komlõsi (eds) Sprachinselwelten – The World of Language islands. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 109-126.

• Kipp, S. and C. Norrby 2006. Introduction. In S. Kipp and C. Norrby (eds.) Community Languages in practice in Australia, Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 180: 3-6.

• Kretzenbacher, L., M. Clyne and D. Schüpbach. Pronominal address in German: Rules, anarchy and embarrassment potential. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Norrby, C. Variation in Swedish address practices. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Norrby, C. and J. Warren. Address in world perspective. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Nyblom, H. The use of address pronouns among Finnish and Finland-Swedish students. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Schüpbach, D. "It's something that's just faded away": how a Melbourne family of Swiss-German background makes sense of language shift, In S. Kipp and C. Norrby (eds.) Community Languages in practice in Australia, Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL), 180: 89-104.

• Søndergaard, B. and Norrby, C. Language maintenance and shift in the Danish community in Melbourne. In S. Kipp and C. Norrby (eds.) Community Languages in practice in Australia, Special issue of International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 180: 105–121.

• Warren, J. Address pronouns in French: Variation within and outside the workplace. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Weissenböck, M. Pronouns of address in Western Ukrainian: Between tradition and modernity. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Address in World Perspective. Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) 29 (2).

• Williams-van Klinken, C. and J. Hajek. Patterns of address in Tetun Dili, East Timor. In C. Norrby and J. Warren (eds.) Patterns of Address Worldwide. Special number of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 29 (2): 21.1-21.18.

• Woods, Anya. 2006. The role of language in some ethnic churches in Melbourne”. In Omoniyi, Tope and J. A. Fishman (eds.), Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 197–212.

In Press

Journal articles / book chapters

• Clyne, M. From bilingual to linguist. In Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), Translating Lives. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
• Clyne, M. and S. Fernandez. Community language learning in Australia. In N. Hornberger (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Language and Education. Berlin: Springer.
• Fernandez, S. and M. Clyne. Tamil in Melbourne. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
• Slaughter, Y. The rise and fall of Indonesian in the Australian education system: Implications for language policy and planning. Asian Studies Review.
• Slaughter, Y. and J. Hajek. Community languages and LOTE provision in Victorian primary schools: Mix or match? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL).

Submitted

Journal articles / book chapters

• Hughson, J. Le ‘tu’ et le ‘vous’: etude sociolinguistique dans la banlieue parisienne. Submitted to B. Peeters (ed.), Tu ou vous? L’embarras du choix.
• Schüpbach, D., J. Hajek, J. Warren, M. Clyne, H-L. Kretzenbacher, C. Norrby. A cross-linguistic comparison of address pronoun use in four European languages: Intralingual and interlinguistic dimensions, in ALS 2006 conference proceedings.
• Warren, J. Tu et vous à Paris et à Toulouse: une recherche en cours. Submitted to B. Peeters (ed.), Tu ou vous? L’embarras du choix.

Conference presentations and lectures

Meredith Bartlett

September	"Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia" at the Deafness Expo, Melbourne Town Hall, with Sandra Leane
November	"Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia” at the Australian Association of the Deaf Conference, Adelaide, with Sandra Leane.

 

Michael Clyne

January	Tamil Language and multiple identity. Australian Tamil Christian national conference
April	Developing language potential – Centre for Intercultural Studies and Multicultural Education, University of Adelaide
May	Tamil language maintenance. Tamil Anglican youth conference Language, religion and social justice - Victorian Council of Churches conference Bilingual education achievements at Bayswater South – 25th anniversary of Bilingual Education Primary School bilingual program Wedge politics through words of exclusion. Annual conference of Victorian Association of Teachers of English. Pluricentric languages, Monash University
June	Australian language policy. Free University of Berlin. Issues in German language policy. Free University of Berlin. The development of language potential (in German). Occasional address for the Day of Diversity, University of Hamburg (followed by panel) Variation and change in and between address in German, French and Swedish (in German) – Universities of Hamburg, Munich and Leipzig Language and integration (contribution to panel), Free University of Berlin
July	(with Catrin Norrby) Address in pluricentric languages. Sociolinguistics Symposium, Limerick.
August	Variations in forms of address in some languages of Europe, Monash University
September	The value of bilingual education. At a celebration of bilingual programs, Victorian Dept. of Education and Training Address in some European languages. University of Queensland Does Germany need a conscious cohesive language policy? (Keynote in German at conference of same title) Bonn
October	Australia’s language policy. University of Heidelberg Australian research on multilingualism / and responses to papers. LOTE workshop on multilingualism and second language acquisition. University of Utrecht. Variation and change in address in some European languages. University of Groningen.
November	Multilingual society with a monolingual mindset. Australian Academy of Humanities conference (The Gift of the Gab). Melbourne

 

Robert Debski

February	O wielojezyczności i internecie (On multilingualism and the Internet). An inaugural lecture to the John Paul II Polish Saturday School, Sunshine.
July	Internet Exchanges in Ethnic Schools, presented at the Victorian Ethnic Schools Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne.
August	Internet Exchanges in Ethnic Schools, Information session for ethnic schools teachers organized by the Ethnic Schools Association of Victoria, 24 August 2006.
September	Internet Exchanges in Ethnic Schools, Information session for ethnic schools teachers organized by the Ethnic Schools Association of South Australia.
October / November	A series of 6 workshops entitled How to Enjoy the Internet in the Ethnic Family conducted at the Polish Sports and Recreation Centre in Albion.

John Hajek

March	On understanding LOTE provision – from all angles. LOTE day in Geelong area.
July	A cross-linguistic comparision of address pronoun use in four European languages: intracultural and intercultural dimensions (with D. Schupbach, M. Clyne, L. Kretzenbacher, C. Norrby, J. Warren), ALS conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
September	European Multilingualism today: the figures speak for themselves. European Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Today International Workshop, University of Melbourne.
December	When best practice documentation isn't necessarily the best thing to do: dealing with capacity limits in a developing country. Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork: from creation to archive, University of Sydney (with J. Bowden).

Jo-Anne Hughson

July	Address pronouns in a language contact situation: varieties of Spanish in Australia, Address Workshop, Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Limerick, Ireland. Address in Spanish in an Australian Context, ALS conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

 

Sandra Kipp

July	Dynamics of identity for bilingual speakers, for the VCE English Language Enrichment Days, at the University of Melbourne.
August	Migration, language use and identity: German in Melbourne, Australia, since the Second World War, conference paper given at Diaspora Experiences: German-speaking Immigrants and their Descendants, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 27th August 2006.

 

Brigitte Lambert

July	Presentation of thesis findings/research, Heidelberg University, Germany.

 

Doris Schüpbach

July

A cross-linguistic comparision of address pronoun use in four European languages: intracultural and intercultural dimensions (with J. Hajek, M. Clyne, L. Kretzenbacher, C. Norrby, J. Warren), ALS conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane. Community languages, bilingualism and language contact: trends in Australian research, ALAA conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Media presentations

Michael Clyne

Radio

ABC - Lingua Franca program on ‘Australia’s Language Potential’ and a few interviews on bilingualism. SBS Radio – several interviews on bilingualism and languages of the world. 3AW, 6PR – interviews on bilingualism Deutsche Welle – What Germany can learn from Australia on language, The need for a German language policy.

Newspapers / Magazines

Mind your languages. Melbourne’s Child, April 2006, 26-27, Sydney’s Child, April 2006, 36-37. (Also Adelaide's, Canberra's, Brisbane's and Perth's Child.) Attributed core values to languages - obituary for George Smolicz. The Age 4th December 2006. Cronulla Beach and the language of exclusion. The Melbourne Anglican Nr. 434, 14. Does it matter what words we use in prayer? The Melbourne Anglican Nr. 436, 18. Asylum seekers – victims of ‘weasel words’. The Melbourne Anglican Nr. 437, 17. Time to replace labeling with dialogue. The Melbourne Anglican Nr. 440, 19. Reviews of Australia's Language Potential have appeared this year in the following non-academic publications: The Education Age, Curriculum Leadership, Australian Book Review, Australian Mosaic, Babel, Sunshine Coast LOTE News, Geelong schools Newsletter, ACSSO Newsletter, Australian Newsletter for Bilingual Families.

 

Catrin Norrby

Radio	SBS radio (Swedish Programme) - RUMACCC Address Project.
Newspapers / Magazines	My Planet magazine (publication from the Scandinavian-Australian Friendship association, based in Sydney). Interviewed for the article Speaking in tongues for their issue on communication (No. 2, August 2006).

 

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