Optimal Categorisation: the origin and nature of gender from a psycholinguistic perspective

Impact

Stakeholder Meetings

Dr. Mike Franjieh (Universoty of Surrey) and Dr. Anne-Laure Dotte (University of New Caledonia) met with language stakeholders from the Iaai and Nêlêmwa cultural offices (Aire Coutoumères) and the Kanak Languages Academy(Académie langues Kanak) during both fieldtrips in July and October 2019 and 2022. We received permission to work with speakers of the languages and discussed potential literacy material development.

stakeholder meeting in New Caledonia

 

Dr. Mike Franjieh, met up with two of our stakeholders in Vanuatu in July 2018, before the commencement of the project. Prof. Robert Early (University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu) and Helen Tamtam (Curriculum Development Unit, Vanuatu) have worked for many years in vernacular literacy development in Vanuatu. They are ensuring that our community outputs are relevant and usable by the teachers of the different vernacular languages.

 

Pictured from left to right, Prof. Robert Early, Dr. Mike Franjieh, Helen Tamtam

Impact Meetings

Franjieh, Michael, Greville G. Corbett and Alexandra Grandison. 11 November 2020. How language shapes thought: Categorisation in the South Pacific. Webinar at the ESRC Festival of Social Science. See it on youtube

Franjieh, Michael. 22 September 2019. Public Engagement Lecture: Language endangerment and language transmission. Lewo Speech Community, Epi Island, Vanuatu

Lewo speakers at the community workshop discussing endangerd languages and language transmission

Project members

Prof. Greville G Corbett
Dr. Alexandra Grandison
Dr. Mike Franjieh

Consultants:
Dr. Isabelle Bril (Paris, CNRS)
Dr. Anne-Laure Dotte (New Caledonia)
Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiss (Cologne)
Prof. Sebastian Fedden (Paris, Sorbonne) 
Dr. Eleanor Ridge (Massey University)

Stakeholders:
Prof. Robert Early (Vanuatu, USP)
Helen Tamtam (Vanuatu, CDU)
Albert Sio (New Caledonia)

 

Period of award:

1 September 2018 - 31 August 2023

Funder

ESRC

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