School of Languages & Linguistics Postgraduate Conference
In between wor(l)ds - transformation and translation
This conference was held on 25th - 26th August 2006
Guest speakers:
Professor Spike Gildea, University of Oregon
Professor Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne, School of Languages Postgraduate Conference was held from August 25 to August 26, 2006 at the Graduate Centre, 1888 building, University of Melbourne. The conference aimed to create a supportive environment for PhD and Masters students to present their research.
Contact the Organisers
Email: r.loughnane(at)pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Conference Program
Names link to abstacts [PDF]
Friday August 25th 2006
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Registration
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| 9.30 - 10.30 | Prof. Colin Nettelbeck |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning tea | ||
Session 1 |
Session 2 |
Session 3 |
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| Session Theme | Spanish / Italian | EFL | English / Sociolinguistics / Language Policy |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | “In Between Worlds : The representation of Women in Mexican Soap Operas” | “Correlation between two EFL listening tests: the IELTS and the iBT” | “Heteronyms in Australian English - reported usage and evaluations of Australianness” |
11.30 - 12.00 |
“Translating Australia: The concept of 'Australian-ness' in Tim Winton's "Dirt Music" | “Requests by Vietnamese Learners of EFL: An Investigation of the Relationship between Proficiency, Grammar, and Pragmatic Development” | “One size doesn’t fit all: Research methodologies in a language variation study of Sudanese teens” |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | “Cinematic transformations of poetic language: Pasolini’s Mamma Roma” | “The acquisition of English causatives by vietnamese learners of English” |
“Everyday Forms of Language-based Marginalization: Focus on Zimbabwe”
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| 12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch Lawn in front of Graduate 1888 building weather permitting / 7th Floor of Arts Centre, cnr Swanston & Gratton Sts, if raining |
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| Session Theme | English | Bilingualism | French / Italian |
| 1.30 - 2.00 |
“Setting Up a Framework of Spoken English Grammar” |
“Talking Tactics – Fathers’ Language Work in Bilingual Childrearing in Intermarried Families in Japan” |
“The Emergence of a Determiner System: The Case of Mauritian Creole” |
| 2.00 - 2.30 | “Englishes in the Expanding circle: variety or deficiency?” | “Pragmatic Differentiation of a Japanese-German bilingual child in Australia” | “Max O’Rell and the New Woman: A French Perspective on Anglo-Saxon Feminism” |
2.30 - 3.00 |
“Metaphor in the discussion of English as a global language in four general non-fiction texts” | “The elderly identities of bilingual Dutch-Australians” | “Sir Thomas Wyatt and Italian Petrarchism: Hypothesis of a Musical Mediation” |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| Session Theme | Discourse Analysis | Malay / French | Spanish / German |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | “NEW news OLD news: A study of spoken Australian English in news broadcast speech” | “A Study on the Translation of Metaphors in Malay Poetry into the English Language” | “Tango Lingo” |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | “ “It's showtime. You're on a dangerous path”: Intertextual Elements in Constructing Arafat in the NYT” | “The use of ‘anda’ in contemporary Indonesian printed media” | “Attitudes towards Anglicisms in modern German” |
| 4.30 - 5.00 |
'I've got you under my skin' - the ethnographer's dream re-analyzed. |
Reporting the Riots —Mediated responses to the November 2005 civil unrest in France |
“Everyday discourse in East Germany” |
| 5.00 | Conference drinks - "Deep Dish" courtyard, behind 1888 building. | ||
Saturday 26th August
Session 1 |
Session 2 |
Session 3 |
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| Session Theme | Computational Linguistics / Chinese | Semantics | 2nd Language Acquisition |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | “Models and Muggles: An Evaluation of the PASCAL Textual Entailment Challenge” |
“Possible Worlds, Events and Attributive Adjectives”
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“Cinderella’s sister - fitting Activity Theory to classroom-based assessment data” |
| 10.00 - 10.30 | “Bootstrapping Deep Lexical Acquisition for LsOTE” | “‘The thoughts we have learned:’ Coming to terms with the meaning of Doctorate.” | “Extended Processability Theory and its application to L2-Swedish” |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | “Emerson and the Chinese writing system” |
“Wittgenstein, Rules and Meaning”
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Luke Harding "Rating the intelligibility of speakers with diverse accents: implications for the selection of speakers on an academic listening test." |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Morning Tea | ||
| Session Theme | Gesture / Music | Pair Interaction | Papuan Languages |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | “A language/gesture interface: encoding static, locative relationships in verbal discourse” | “Collaboration in Second Language Listening Comprehension: Investigating Strategy Use and Development | “The Ok-Oksapmin language family” |
| 12.00 - 12.30 | “Synchrony as the Underlying Structure of Gesture: the relationship between speech sound and body movement at the micro level.” | “Investigating pair work: the role of L1 in social relations across proficiency levels” | “Women, houses, and plural objects? Homophony in the Mian gender system” |
12.30 - 1.00 |
“Sharpening your own knife: towards understanding Kam ‘big song’ lyrics” |
“What elements of ‘speaker engagement’ in paired interaction, as observed by candidates and raters, are evident in paired discourse data?”
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“Bunak: Genealogy and Geography” |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Lunch Lawn in front of Graduate 1888 building weather permitting / 7th Floor of Arts Centre, cnr Swanston & Gratton Sts, if raining |
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| Session Theme | EFL / Sociolinguistics | Australian / Etruscan | German |
| 2.00 - 2.30 | “Examining EFL curriculum through a dynamic intercultural perspective: Implications for TC integration into EFL pre-service teacher training curriculum” |
“Antipassive Clause Constructions in Yukulta” |
“Translating Australian (multi)culture: the German translation of Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi” |
| 2.30 - 3.00 | “The effects of previous partial word knowledge on vocabulary learning through listening” | “Writing Aboriginal English” | “Transformation in the nursery: a case study. Terry Pratchett in German translation” |
| 3.00 - 3.30 |
“Hierarchy on the playground: Young boys’ lexical choice as a marker of social status” |
“Etruscan: A post mortem” | “Knowledge and Form: Mathematics in the works of Hermann Broch” |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 4.00 - 5.00 | Prof. Spike Gildea |
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| 6.00pm | Official Conference Dinner (subsidised): Venue to be advised. Book your place for dinner at registration table by lunchtime Friday. | ||