SALALS virtual conference 2021 – Programme
Programme
Below is the latest version of the conference programme. Conference participants who have not received the Zoom session links must please email salals.conference2021@gmail.com
Conference information & Registration
Monday 20th September, 2021
| 08:15–08:30 | Workshop Opening |
| 08:30–09:30 | Welcome by SADiLaR – Prof Langa Khumalo |
| 09:30–13:00 | SADiLaR WORKSHOP 1 – REGISTER HERE Introduction to working with digital text Voyant tools Participants will gain new experience on how to analyse and read digital texts in an online environment – no prior experience required. What you can do with Voyant (https://service.sadilar.org/voyant/): Use it to learn how computers-assisted analysis works. Check out our examples that show you how to do real academic tasks with Voyant. Use it to study texts that you find on the web or texts that you have carefully edited and have on your computer. Use it to add functionality to your online collections, journals, blogs or web sites so others can see through your texts with analytical tools. Use it to add interactive evidence to your essays that you publish online. Add interactive panels right into your research essays (if they can be published online) so your readers can recapitulate your results. Regular expressions Participants will learn how to search for patterns in text using regular expressions. Knowledge gained in this session will be transferable to many different platforms and analysis systems. No prior experience needed. |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00–17:30 | SADiLaR WORKSHOP 2 – REGISTER HERE ELAN Participants will gain experience in using ELAN to annotate video and audio recordings. No prior experience needed. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The content of annotations consists of Unicode text and annotation documents are stored in an XML format (EAF) https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan |
Tuesday 21st September, 2021
| 09:00 | Day 1 Opening |
| 09:15-09:45 | Welcome |
| 09:45–10:45 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Anne Baker What you always wanted (your students) to know about sign languages |
| 10:45–11:00 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 12:30–13:30 | LUNCH |
| 15:00–15:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30–16:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Leketi Makelela Breaking the walls of colonial education: Translanguaging as a policy for schooling in the Global South |
| 16:30 | Social event |
Wednesday 22nd September, 2021
| 09:00 | Day 2 Opening |
| 09:15–09:45 | Introduction to the SADiLaR | SU Child Language development node |
| 09:45-10:45 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr Katie Alcock Language development in sub-Saharan Africa |
| 10:45–11:00 | TEA / COFFEE |
| 12:30–13:30 | LUNCH |
| 15:00–15:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30–16:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Theresa Biberauer Third Wave Generative Linguistics: an opportunity for South African linguists |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:45 | SALALS AGM |
Thursday 23 September, 2021
| 09:15 | Day 3 Opening |
| Zoom Session 5A | Zoom Session 5B | Zoom Session 5C | |
| 09:30–10:00 | The impact of interpreting research in South Africa Herculene Kotzé | Automatic Determination of Setswana Noun Classes Gabofetswe Malema, Boago Okgetheng, Moffat Motlhanka & Goaletsa Rammidi | Historical sources for Early Afrikaans 1675-1925: Small (first) steps towards developing an online historical corpus and archive for linguistic research Roné Wierenga & Wannie Carstens |
| 10:00–10:30 | Exploring challenges of translating culturally vulgar words from English to Xitsonga Mafemani Joseph Baloyi | The automation of the isiZulu noun prefix for pedagogy Mthuli Buthelezi | The Burden of Writing in African Languages Tebogo Maahlamela |
| 10:30-11:00 | The novice writer as editor: Using peer editing as part of formative feedback in academic writing in an online teaching-learning environment Elsa Meihuizen & Mariska Nel | The exploration of syntactic links: subject-verb agreement defilement in Sesotho Madira Thetso |
| 11:00–11:30 | TEA / COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30–12:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof Panos Athanasopoulos Learning to think in another language: The case of motion |
| 12:30 | Closing & Awards |
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SALALS virtual conference 2021
SALALS virtual conference 2021
21-23 September, 2021
The annual conference of the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society (SALALS), with participation by the South African Association of Language Teachers (SAALT), will be hosted in 2021 by the Department of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University with support from the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR).
The Department of General Linguistics is honoured to be the host organiser this year as it is the 50+ anniversary celebration of the founding of the department – the Department opened its doors in 1970 and has overseen the linguistic education of many undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as producing innovative research over the last 50 years.
The conference will take place over Zoom and will consist of live-streamed pre-recorded presentations, followed by live virtual discussions. There will be various parallel paper sessions and the programme will be available shortly. The pre-recorded presentations will be hosted/archived on the online platform Open Science Framework (OSF).
Keynote presentations will take place live over Zoom. A Slack workspace will be created for participants to chat before, during, and after the live sessions. Virtual social events and society AGMs will also be scheduled on the programme.
Pre-recorded presentations will be provided with English captions/subtitles, while papers related to sign language linguistics will be interpreted into/from South African Sign Language (SASL). Live discussion sessions for papers in languages other than English will be accompanied by simultaneous interpreting into English. SASL interpreting will also be provided for select keynotes and papers.
See here for the 1st call for papers.
The conference will be preceded on Monday, 20 September, 2021 by two workshops hosted by SADiLaR: (i) an introduction to working with digital text, using Voyant tools and Regular expressions, where participants will gain new experience on how to analyse and read digital texts in an online environment, with no prior experience required; and (ii) an introduction to ELAN, where participants will gain experience in using ELAN to annotate video and audio recordings, again with no prior experience required. (See here for more information.)
Registration
Registration is now open and the extended deadline for presenter registration is 6 September. Registration for non-presenting participants remains open! The conference fee for the SALALS virtual 2021 conference is as follows (this fee includes membership of SALALS for 2021):
Student rate R250 (does not apply to students with tenured, faculty jobs)
Standard rate R700
Current paid-up members of SALALS qualify for a discount of the full conference fee. You will need to upload a proof of membership as part of registration. This can be obtained from the membership secretary, Ms Nina Brink (salalsmembership@gmail.com).
Programme
The first draft programme is now available. Zoom links for keynotes and paper sessions will be sent to registered participants closer to the time.
Keynote speakers
Prof Anne Baker (Stellenbosch University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Prof Leketi Makalela (University of the Witwatersrand)
Dr Katie Alcock (Lancaster University, UK)
Prof Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, UK and Stellenbosch University)
Prof Panos Athanasopoulos (Lancaster University and Stellenbosch University)
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