Bininj Gunwok Lexicography Project. This project will make a contribution to Aboriginal language maintenance and documentation via lexicography. Only about 20 of the original 200 or so Aboriginal languages remain viable. Bininj Gunwok is one of these languages. Very few dictionaries exist for Australian languages and for those languages such as Bininj Gunwok which linguists class as 'non-Pama-Nyungan', only a handful of dictionaries are available. The resulting Bininj Gunwok dictionary and cultu ....Bininj Gunwok Lexicography Project. This project will make a contribution to Aboriginal language maintenance and documentation via lexicography. Only about 20 of the original 200 or so Aboriginal languages remain viable. Bininj Gunwok is one of these languages. Very few dictionaries exist for Australian languages and for those languages such as Bininj Gunwok which linguists class as 'non-Pama-Nyungan', only a handful of dictionaries are available. The resulting Bininj Gunwok dictionary and cultural encyclopaedia will have applications for education, Aboriginal health, community development, land management and environmental science in Kakadu National Park and western Arnhem Land as well as applications for cross-cultural communication.Read moreRead less
Medical Signbank: sign language planning and development in interpreter-mediated medical and mental health care delivery for deaf Australians. This collaboration between academic linguists, interpreter service providers, health care providers, sign language interpreters, and the Deaf community will improve the recent initiatives to give deaf people equity in their access to health care services. For the first time, deaf people are able to access medical services early and effectively, improving ....Medical Signbank: sign language planning and development in interpreter-mediated medical and mental health care delivery for deaf Australians. This collaboration between academic linguists, interpreter service providers, health care providers, sign language interpreters, and the Deaf community will improve the recent initiatives to give deaf people equity in their access to health care services. For the first time, deaf people are able to access medical services early and effectively, improving treatment outcomes and, importantly, preventing conditions occurring in the first place or allowing early intervention before they become much more serious and costly to the individual and the community. This project will therefore be of national benefit, as all stakeholders from all over Australia will be able to access the Medical Signbank resource.Read moreRead less