Friday 22 July

NSM in theory and practice

Saturday 23 July

Minimal English and other extensions and applications of NSM

8.30

Coffee and Warm-up

Coffee and Warm-up

9.00–10.30

-Cliff Goddard (Griffith): "So much from so little?” The theory of semantic molecules

Respondent: Zhengdao Ye (ANU)

 Discussion

-Anna Wierzbicka (ANU): “What Christians believe”: Religion and Minimal English

Respondent: Jean Harkins (U. Newcastle)

Discussion

10.30–11.00

Coffee

Coffee

11.00–12.30

-Jock Wong (National University of Singapore): “Respecting other people’s boundaries”: a quintessentially Anglo cultural value

Respondent: Hilary Chappell (EHESS, Paris)

Anna Wierzbicka (ANU):  Translatability and global understanding

Respondent: Dominie Dessaix

Forum Session (short talks and discussion)

-Carol Priestley (U. Wollongong):  NSM for Learning Development

-Ray Kelly (U. Newcastle): An Aboriginal language perspective

-William Maley (ANU):  Minimal English in diplomacy?

-Bert Peeters (Griffith/ANU): Narrative Medicine and Minimal English

-Cliff Goddard (Griffith): NSM and language technology.

Lunch (12.30–1.30pm)

Lunch (1.00pm)

1.30–3.00

-Rachel Thompson (Griffith): Cultural scripts for some Ghanaian ways of speaking

-Lauren Sadow (ANU): Australian cultural scripts:  Perspectives and modifications for an ESL context

-Gian Marco Farese (ANU):  “Sorry boss”: an unrecognised category of English terms of address

3.00-3.30

Discussion