Today I received word that an abstract that was submitted for the Australian Linguistic Society conference coming up in December has been accepted! The paper examines how dialect variation in Australian English is linked to social class, and the methodological issues of how to adequately define “social class” within the field of sociolinguistics.
This paper is a joint effort between myself and my colleagues at the Australian National University,
Prof Catherine Travis and Dr James Grama, as part of the Sydney Speaks project. I have been working on this long-term linguistic research project since graduating my Honours degree in 2014, examining dialectal differences in ethnic varieties of Australian English in Sydney.
Looking forward to presenting at the conference (and putting those voice skills into practice for an effective and confident presentation style!).
You can find out more about Sydney Speaks here: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/sydney-speaks/
And information about the ALS annual conference is here: https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2019/Conference2019