Public Lecture: Sand, Song, Sign and Language - Narrative Traditions from the Central Desert
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 17 August 2015
- Time:
- 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Room:
- Terrace Room
- UQ Location:
- Sir Llew Edwards Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/whats-on/events/article/?id=public-lecture-by-jennifer-green-sand-song-sign-and-language-narrative-traditions-from-the-central-desert-uq-17-august-2015
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Felicity Meakins
- Phone:
- 53114
- Email:
- events@languags-cultures.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Languages and Cultures
Event Description
- Full Description:
- The task of visualising language depends very much on what we imagine language to be. If the starting point is that 'language' encompasses more than just speech or words and includes various types of visible bodily action then the challenges of modelling the temporal dynamics of communication multiply. The purposes for visualising language, the theoretical assumptions made and the tools employed are similarly diverse. This lecture draws on examples of sand stories from Central Australia, a traditional form of Indigenous narrative in which storytellers incorporate speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing.
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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