Experimental field work with the Karaja language: investigating deixis, coreference and recursion
Seminar
Presented by Marcus Maia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series Syntax is a mental process. Corpora studies can analyze the products of this process to allow preliminary inferences about grammar. However, corpus building in itself is not enough to…
Language rights for indigenous and tribal peoples
Lecture
Round table presented by the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, ANU and the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) Indigenous languages across the world continue to have a minoritized status despite efforts from indigenous communities, regional and in some…
Shards of Testimony: Digital Witnessing to Refugee Lives in Detention
Lecture
Presented by Rosanne Kennedy as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper explores two contemporary case studies of digital witnessing based on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the Australian offshore border protection regime. First, The Messenger, a podcast from…
Audiovisual perception of L2 vowels
Seminar
Presented by Dr Solène Inceoglu (ANU) as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series Face-to-face interaction often involves the simultaneous perception of the speaker’s voice and facial cues (e.g., lip movements) making speech perception a multimodal experience (Rosenblum, 2005). Whether second…
Day of the Portuguese Language Celebration
Activity
Dr Kate Mitchell (Head of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics) and Dr Elisabeth Mayer (Director ANCLAS) together with HE the Ambassadors Abel Guterres — Timor-Leste Paulo Cunha-Alves — Portugal Manuel Innocencio de Lacerda Santos Jr. — Brazil have the honour…
The Forgotten Spinozist: Romain Rolland, Gilles Deleuze, and the Figure of Christ
Lecture
Presented by Ash Collins as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series To this day, the thinking of Spinoza still serves as a powerful tool for those seeking to negotiate the nexus between theological transcendence and the immanence of worldly existence. This paper explores the thought of one of…
Fieldwork methods: cross-cultural differences among indigenous communities in Peru
Lecture
Presented as part of the CoEDL-ANU Linguistics Seminar Series Conducting research across indigenous communities with cross cultural differences presents various challenges at a personal and methodological level. In this talk we will share our previous experiences working with Quechua, and Ashaninka…