AUSTRALEX 2023
MPARNTWE ALICE SPRINGS
Wednesday 16th August to Friday 18th August 2023
PROGRAM (Final 12th August)
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WEDNESDAY 16th August USING DICTIONARIES Lecture Theatre, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs Campus Higher Education Building | |
8:00-8:30 |
Registration Acknowledgement of Country Welcome and all about Australex |
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8:30- 9:30 |
Keynote Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann Lexicography in the service of Revivalistics |
9:30-10:00 |
OVERVIEW SESSION An overview of recent publications 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages Arrernte Angkentye online, Arrerntele Atantheme phonics Contributions from dictionary teams. What’s new in making dictionaries. New projects in the Northern Territory. |
10:00-10:30 |
Morning break Launch of Gavan Breen’s The Grammar of Arandic Kinship Terminology |
10:30-11:00 |
Terminology in legal and governance settings, vocabularies and wordlists |
11:00-11:30 |
Lindsey Stevenson Lexicographical legitimisation in écriture inclusive debates |
11:30-12:00 |
Stéfany Thierry Indigenous Languages of Australia loanwords in Standard Australian English |
12:00-1:00 |
LUNCH |
1:30-2:00 |
Brendan Kavanagh Language Lab: A Comprehensive Tool for Language Learning and Documentation |
2:00-2:30 |
Carmel O’Shannessy, Vanessa Davis, Jessie Bartlett, Alice Nelson Little Kids Learning Languages |
2:30-3:00 |
Afternoon tea Launch: Western Arrarnta Online Dictionary |
3:30-4:00 |
Terminologies, glossaries PANEL DISCUSSION |
4:00 |
Overview and summing up |
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Thursday 17th August MAKING DICTIONARIES | |
8:30 |
Welcome |
8:40-9:30 |
Keynote: Ken Hansen AM Important Features for Aboriginal Language Dictionaries |
10:00 |
State Funeral for Dr. Margaret Kemarre Turner OAM will be held the Alice Springs Telegraph Station |
1:00-2:00 |
LUNCH |
2:00-2:30 |
Michael Walsh The lexicon of cooking in Aboriginal Australia |
2:30-3:30 |
Ian McQuay Fieldworks Language Explorer |
3:30-4:00 |
Afternoon tea |
4:00 |
Summing up and future events Discussion of publication to come from Australex 2023 AUSTRALEX Business meeting |
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Friday 18th August | |
EXCURSION | |
Getting to Charles Darwin University Higher Education Building
- By car – enter CDU beside childcare centre on Grevillea drive, follow the driveway to the end. There is parking in front of the building and in the Desert Lantern carpark opposite.
- Walking or by bike – enter through the front entrance of CDU, past the library and info shop, through breezeway to Desert Lantern, cross the carpark to Higher Ed building.
AUSTRALEX 2021: “Dictionaries, Law and Lore”
WHEN: Wednesday 1 September & Thursday 2 September 2021
WHERE: Online
Papers may address a wide range of areas associated with lexicography including law and policy; contact linguistics; culture, lore, language and identity; e-lexicography; endangered languages; learners’ dictionaries; lexicology; music and language; onomastics; oral traditions and language; phraseology; paremiology; Revival Linguistics; social empowerment through language; specialist dictionaries; and terminology.
AUSTRALEX 2019
Lexicography and Dictionaries in the Public Sphere — was held on 3 & 4 September 2019 at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Presentations from the Conference are now available on the Publications page.
Analysing Words as a Social Enterprise: Celebrating 40 Years of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration on Lexicography
This double blind peer reviewed online collection of papers originally presented at the AustraLex 2015 conference is now available on the Publications page.
Intersections between oral narratives, traditions, lexicography and new media
held 28 and 29 August 2017, at University of the South Pacific, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
The final program is available here.
Endangered Words, Signs of Revival
Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Julia Miller & Jasmin Morley (eds), 2014, AustraLex, ISBN 978-0-646-92900-2 now available.