Western Desert speech styles and verbal arts. Verbal arts are central to social interaction. In the Western Desert Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra people use special speech styles to mark particular occasions and life transitions. Led by Ngaatjatjarra linguist, researcher and educator Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, the research team aims to build on a corpus of these endangered oral traditions. Following in-depth linguistics analysis the project aims to implement strategies to revitalise these endan ....Western Desert speech styles and verbal arts. Verbal arts are central to social interaction. In the Western Desert Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaatjatjarra people use special speech styles to mark particular occasions and life transitions. Led by Ngaatjatjarra linguist, researcher and educator Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, the research team aims to build on a corpus of these endangered oral traditions. Following in-depth linguistics analysis the project aims to implement strategies to revitalise these endangered styles through dynamic contemporary applications thus reintegrating them into the language socialisation framework of youth. The project aims to assist Aboriginal people to safeguard their heritage and contribute to a wider public appreciation of Aboriginal languages and cultures.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE210100013
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$600,000.00
Summary
Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages. This project aims to build Nyingarn, an online platform of digital text versions of early Australian Indigenous language manuscripts with images of the original documents. There are over a thousand such documents that are foundational to understanding Australia's languages, and Nyingarn makes textual versions, accessions, and navigates such documents, with a means for adding more in future. Expected outcomes of this pro ....Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages. This project aims to build Nyingarn, an online platform of digital text versions of early Australian Indigenous language manuscripts with images of the original documents. There are over a thousand such documents that are foundational to understanding Australia's languages, and Nyingarn makes textual versions, accessions, and navigates such documents, with a means for adding more in future. Expected outcomes of this project are accessible sources useful for educational materials, and for understanding the local language, its history, and its relationship to other languages. Nyingarn will provide cutting-edge methods for ingesting, analysing, and presenting these historical materials, both for research and for the general public.Read moreRead less
Exploring the middle ground: new histories of cross-cultural encounters in Australian maritime and land exploration. This project seeks to reinvigorate Australian exploration history by examining it through the lens of cross-cultural encounters and relations. This will bring to the fore the experience of Aboriginal people who came into contact with explorers, as well as the experience of Aboriginal people who participated in exploration parties.
A longitudinal study of the interaction of home and school language in three Aboriginal communities. The importance of language skills cannot be underestimated, and contribute to 'a healthy start to life'. In multilingual Indigenous communities, children must negotiate the complexities of different languages used for different purposes. This project will provide detailed insights into how children manage differences between home and school language, the kinds of problems they encounter when the ....A longitudinal study of the interaction of home and school language in three Aboriginal communities. The importance of language skills cannot be underestimated, and contribute to 'a healthy start to life'. In multilingual Indigenous communities, children must negotiate the complexities of different languages used for different purposes. This project will provide detailed insights into how children manage differences between home and school language, the kinds of problems they encounter when they enter the school system, and how their languages develop over the first four crucial years of school which provide the foundation for the children's future education. Their ability to manage the language of school underpins their ability to lead successful and engaged lives as adults. Read moreRead less
Social cognition and language - the design resources of grammatical diversity. This project will (a) improve Australia's capacity to interact and communicate with other cultures (b) promote advanced training and research (including 9 doctoral students) on the languages of our region (c) carry out extensive new research on 20 languages of the Pacific region, most of which represent gravely endangered cultural traditions (d) draw on the design solutions identified in these languages to develop ....Social cognition and language - the design resources of grammatical diversity. This project will (a) improve Australia's capacity to interact and communicate with other cultures (b) promote advanced training and research (including 9 doctoral students) on the languages of our region (c) carry out extensive new research on 20 languages of the Pacific region, most of which represent gravely endangered cultural traditions (d) draw on the design solutions identified in these languages to develop models appropriate to the social cognition element of human-computer and computer-computer interfacesRead moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100198
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$600,000.00
Summary
Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - AustLit phase 4. AustLit is a comprehensive digital resource providing quality, searchable information for researchers, teachers, students and the general public in the broadly defined areas of Australian literature and print culture. This new phase of the database will support enhanced content creation and research capacity and will allow AustLit to change to a compl ....Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - AustLit phase 4. AustLit is a comprehensive digital resource providing quality, searchable information for researchers, teachers, students and the general public in the broadly defined areas of Australian literature and print culture. This new phase of the database will support enhanced content creation and research capacity and will allow AustLit to change to a completely open access platform.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE120100106
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$270,000.00
Summary
Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. AustLit is a comprehensive digital resource providing quality, searchable information for researchers, teachers, students and the general public in the broadly defined areas of Australian literature and print culture. New funding will support enhanced content creation and research capacity and the transition of AustLit to an open access platform.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE130100131
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$645,000.00
Summary
The AustLit resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures. AustLit traces the history of Australia’s engagement with the art of story by creating an innovative web-based environment where all aspects of literary history can be explored, analysed and shared. The 2013 program will broaden AustLit’s information base in areas ranging from contemporary multi-lingual publishing to publishing in the colonial era.
Malay Music and Dance from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. In the Indian Ocean Territories of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island live the oldest established Malay-Muslim communities within the Commonwealth of Australia. This project examines the history and practice of Malay music traditions through a pioneering ethnomusicological study of music and dance, examining these traditions as key factors in preserving and strengthening unique cultural identities. It also ....Malay Music and Dance from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. In the Indian Ocean Territories of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island live the oldest established Malay-Muslim communities within the Commonwealth of Australia. This project examines the history and practice of Malay music traditions through a pioneering ethnomusicological study of music and dance, examining these traditions as key factors in preserving and strengthening unique cultural identities. It also considers how Malay music culture was transplanted to these islands from the nineteenth century onwards. Planned research outputs include the first scholarly articles on these topics, public performances and lectures, a conference and a documentary film investigating the social contexts and cultural meaning of Malay music on the islands.Read moreRead less
Place and displacement in Aboriginal Australia: a Warlpiri visual cultural enquiry. At a time of social turbulence and hyper-mobility, this project examines Aboriginal people’s transforming relationships to place. From ancestral places to the nation and beyond, it analyses how Warlpiri people of central Australia have pictured themselves in the world. Spanning sixty years of dynamic visual production, this project explores relationships between modes of governance, cultures of seeing, and Warlpi ....Place and displacement in Aboriginal Australia: a Warlpiri visual cultural enquiry. At a time of social turbulence and hyper-mobility, this project examines Aboriginal people’s transforming relationships to place. From ancestral places to the nation and beyond, it analyses how Warlpiri people of central Australia have pictured themselves in the world. Spanning sixty years of dynamic visual production, this project explores relationships between modes of governance, cultures of seeing, and Warlpiri creative practices. It uniquely blends anthropology with analytic insights from visual studies and history. Utilising rich visual materials, research outputs will include innovative exhibitions and offer fresh perspectives on protracted national debates about the future of remote Aboriginal communities.Read moreRead less