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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170100918
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
The integration of language and society. This project aims to seek associations between social and life-style differences and language structure. All human societies show pervasive similarities and all languages share recurrent features. Viewing society and language as an integrated whole, the project will study related groups in contrasting physical and social environments in PNG, Africa, East Asia, Amazonia and Australia. Inductive generalisations about associations between societal and language parameters (e.g. varying techniques of address relating to articulated kin systems and social hierarchy) aim to provide insight into the human dynamic. Findings should benefit programmes for cultural awareness, language teaching and revitalisation and understanding of multicultural situations.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2017
End Date: 12-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $340,666.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Linguistics | Pacific Languages | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Communication Across Languages and Culture | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
