NWAV-AP5
NWAV Asia Pacific 5, Brisbane, 1-3 February 2018
NWAV-AP5 will be held at the University of Queensland on 1-3 February 2018. An optional Masterclass with Penny Eckert on 31 January 2018 will be run in conjunction with NWAV-AP5.
The theme of NWAV-AP5 is ‘Language contact and variation’. We invite papers on variation in contact-induced change, the role of variation in language evolution, and variation in contact languages, as well as other quantitative papers on linguistic variation in languages of the Asia-Pacific region.
Plenaries
- Penny Eckert (Stanford University)
- William Croft (University of New Mexico)
- Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Carmel O’Shannessy (University of Michigan, soon to be ANU)
- Lindell Bromham (Australian National University)
Masterclass
A one day Masterclass with Penny Eckert on ‘Third Wave Sociolinguistics’ will be held on 31 January 2017 at the University of Queensland. Stay tuned for information on registration, readings and further details.
Call for papers
Please submit a one page abstract (anonymous, 12 point font, inc. references) via Easy Chair by 31 August 2017. Notification of acceptance will be 28 October 2017.
Registration
Click here to register for the conference and Masterclass (note that the UQ Payments website is slow)
Excursion
There will be an optional excursion on the afternoon of 3 February to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and return cruise on the Brisbane River.
Venue
Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), University of Queensland
Accommodation
We have reserved a number of twin share rooms at Women’s College (University of Queensland). Women’s College is near the conference venue but out of the action (BYO action!).
There are two places to eat on campus at night time:
Schonell Pizza Café which is a UQ establishment – a pizza menu that hasn’t changed in decades but good cheap pizza and cheap decent beer
Saint Lucy is more expensive but has a great atmosphere and you can watch more active types play tennis while you have a beer. Or you could play tennis.
Alternative suggested accommodation:
Rydges Southbank is a ferry ride away and near decent restaurants!
Treasury Heritage Hotel is a ferry or bus ride away and in the city
Brisbane City YHA is a cheaper alternative and a bus ride away
Chill Backpackers is also cheaper and you can reach UQ by bus
Eton House Hostel is also a backpackers but has a Brisbane flavour
You can work out your bus or ferry route to and from the University of Queensland using Translink which also has a downloadable app.
NWAV-AP Board
- Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language)
- Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University)
- Victoria Rau (National Chung Cheng University)
- Shobha Satyanath (University of Delhi)
- James Stanford (Dartmouth College)
Organisers
- Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland)
- Amanda Hamilton (University of Queensland)
Sponsors
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
- School of Languages and Cultures (University of Queensland)
- The journal of NWAV-AP is Asia Pacific Language Variation
- Associated publications are Language Ecology and the Contact Language Library
NWAV Asia Pacific is the sister conference of NWAV, focusing on the quantitative analysis of variation and change across the Asia-Pacific region, including speech communities, multilingualism, urbanization and migration, sociophonetics, style-shifting, language contact, variation in minority languages, dialect variation and change, dialect contact, variation in acquisition, language change across the lifespan, perceptual dialectology, and other related topics such as technological resources for sociolinguistic research.
