I’ve just wrapped up an insightful and engaging week at the Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, held this year at Macquarie University.
I presented as part of the fourth Language Variation and Change workshop, in collaboration with my colleagues Professor Catherine Travis and James Grama at the ANU. Our paper looked at methodological approaches for constructing social classes in sociolinguistic analysis, focusing on speakers of Sydney English. Our paper was well received, and our audience (comprising some of the foremost variationist researchers and sociophoneticians in Australia and internationally!) gave helpful feedback and suggestions for moving forward–I always appreciate the constructive academic environment that is fostered by fellow members of the linguistics field.
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