Wellsprings Forum Dialogue 2016
The Wellsprings Forum dialogue will feature sociolinguists Peter Trudgill and James Stanford. They will be held at ANU during the mornings of the first week of February (1-5), and will include public lectures, commentary and discussion on the theme: ‘What is different about the sociolinguistics of small-scale communities’.
| 1st Feb | Peter Trudgill | Complexity in small languages: what is the evidence? (Commentary by Ruth Singer) |
| 2nd Feb | James Stanford | Sociolinguistics of Sui clans and other communities of descent (Commentary by Murray Garde) |
| 3rd Feb | Peter Trudgill | Complexity in small languages: how can we account for it (Commentary by Patrick McConvell) |
| 4th Feb | James Stanford | Investigating language variation and change in small communities (Commentary by Eri Kashima) |
| 5th Feb | Peter Trudgill | Synthesis and discussion (Round Table Commentary by Respondents, followed by open discussion) |
Open to all – but please register with Bianca.Hennessy@anu.edu.au by January 22nd 2016 for planning and catering purposes.
For abstracts, please see our extended program here.
Location
ARC Centre for the Dynamics of Language Change
Speakers
- Peter Trudgill
- James Stanford