International Workshop: “‘Special Genres’ in and around Indonesia”

*This event has already been held.

This workshop will be about exploring the creativity and diversity of oral and ‘oral-like’ genres in and around Indonesia – focusing on (but not limited to) the playful and creative sides of language use in the archipelago.

Some ideas include riddles, word-games and ludlings, secret languages, text messaging and Facebook chat (Bahasa Alay), jargons, ideophones, proverbs, ritual speech, poetry and songs.

Date/Time

17 February 2013 (Sun.) — 15 December 2013 (Tue.)

Venue

Room 303, 3F, ILCAA, TUFS

Admission

Free

Jointly Organized by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy)
ILCAA Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities”

Speakers

• Anthony JUKES (ILCAA Joint Researcher, CRLD, La Trobe University)
• Antonia SORIENTE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
• Aone van ENGELENHOVEN (Leiden University)
• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
• David GIL (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
• David NATHAN (SOAS, University of London)
• Dede OETOMO (GAYa NUSANTARA)
• Dwi Noverini DJENAR (The University of Sydney)
• Howard MANNS (Monash University)
• Hiroaki KITANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aichi University of Education)
• John BOWDEN (Jakarta Field Station, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
• Katubi (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
• Masahiko NOSE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shiga University)
• Meili FANG (Ochanomizu University)
• Mika OKUSHIMA (Tenri University)
• Michael C EWING (The University of Melbourne)
• Mike PANGILINAN (Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts Region III)
• Nikolaus P. HIMMELMANN (University of Cologne)
• Pascal COUDERC (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
• Peter AUSTIN (SOAS, University of London)
• Rik De BUSSER (National Chengchi University)
• Sonja RIESBERG (University of Cologne)
• Tessa YUDITHA (Jakarta Field Station, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
• Yanti (Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)
• Yoshimi MIYAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Akita University)

Coordinators

• Anthony JUKES (ILCAA Joint Researcher, CRLD, La Trobe University)
• Antonia SORIENTE Antonia SORIENTE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
• Atsuko UTSUMI (Meisei Universit)

Program

• TIMETABLE
• ABSTRACTS/ HANDOUTS

TIMETABLE

ABSTRACTS/ HANDOUTS

• David GIL (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
  “Word Structure in Malayic Languages of Sumatra: Evidence from Special Registers”
• John BOWDEN (Jakarta Field Station, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
  “Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes”
• Pascal COUDERC (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
  “Kandan, a traditional oral genre of the Uut Danum of West Kalimantan”
• Meili FANG (Ochanomizu University) and David NATHAN (SOAS, University of London)
  “Divining Siraya: Sources of language and authority in documentation and revitalisation”
• Rik De BUSSER (National Chengchi University)
  “The influence of Christianity on the Bunun language: A prelilminary overview”
• Aone van ENGELENHOVEN (Leiden University)
  “Hide and Seek in the Deer’s Trap: Language Concealment and Linguistic Camouflage in Timor Leste”
• Obing KATUBI (LIPI) (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
  “Lego-lego of Alor people in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia: The Expression of Ancestor’s Experience and Language Maintenance”
• Mike PANGILINAN (Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts Region III) and Hiroaki KITANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aichi University of Education)
  “Metaphors in Kapampangan”
• Tessa YUDITHA (Jakarta Field Station, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
  “Indonesian Metaphorical Conceptualizations of ANGER, LOVE and HATE: An Overview”
• Yoshimi MIYAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Akita University)
  “Kerata basa : Javanese folk etymology”
• Nikolaus P. HIMMELMANN and Sonja RIESBERG (University of Cologne)
  “Some observations on special speech styles in Tomini-Tolitoli languages”
• Antonia SORIENTE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
  “Endangered oral literature genres in Punan Tubu (East Kalimantan)”
• Masahiko NOSE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shiga University)
  “Omission of object verbal markers in Amele: Difference in data between Haia and Huar dialects”
• Dwi Noverini DJENAR (The University of Sydney)
  “Multiple languages and heteroglossia in Indonesian adolescent fiction”
• Michael C. EWING (The University of Melbourne)
  “A framing device across mode and genre: Indonesian youth language in conversation and print”
• Howard MANNS (Monash University)
  “Gaul, conversation and youth genre(s) in Java”
• Anthony JUKES (ILCAA Joint Researcher, CRLD, La Trobe University)
  “Bahasa Alay on the Periphery: Facebook and Manado Malay”
• Dédé OETOMO (GAYa NUSANTARA)
  “Bahasa Binan: The Languages of Indonesia’s Gay Men and Transgender Women and People Related to Them”
• Yanti*, Timothy MCKINNON^, Heri MUDRA+, Peter COLE°and Gabriella HERMON° (*Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia; ^Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; +Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Sungai Penuh; °University of Delaware)
  “The Story of Jarupanta: A traditional Kerinci kunaung”
• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
  “Peribahasa, or ‘proverbs’, in Sumbawa”
• Mika OKUSHIMA (Tenri University)
  “Buddhist-Hinduist terms into oral histories of Kayanic peoples in East Kalimantan, Indonesia”
• Peter AUSTIN (SOAS, University of London)
  “Documenting endangered literary genres in Sasak, eastern Indonesia”