Reserachers working on


LANGUAGE CHANGE


(alphabetical order)

Niko BESNIER
Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Administrative areas: Tuvalu, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Gender, Sexuality, Globalization, Body Theory, Food and Nutrition, Sport, Morality, Christianity, Conflict, Economic Anthropology

Christian DÖHLER (DOEHLER)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Western (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)
Keywords: Environment, Language Documentation, Language Change, Language Shift, Language Socialization, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Description, Myth, Music and Languages

Anne-Laure DOTTE
, Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596) at Université Lumière-Lyon 2, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Ouvéa, New Caledonia
Keywords: Austronesian Languages, French Overseas Territories, Language Change, Language Documentation, Language Policy, Language Shift, Linguistic Anthropology, Contact Linguistic

Marie-France DUHAMEL
Lecturer, School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education - Linguistics at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Penama (Vanuatu), Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Linguistic Description, Linguistic Typology, Language Documentation, Language Change, Sociolinguistics, Languages Of Oceania, Language Variation, Historical Linguistics, Variationist Linguistics, Languages Of Vanuatu

Lamont LINDSTROM
Professor, Anthropology at University of Tulsa, United States

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu
Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights, Indigenous Politics, Language Change, Linguistic Anthropology, Migration, Narratives, Personhood, Politics, Religion, Ritual

John Dominic LYNCH
Professor emeritus, Faculty of Arts, Law and Education at University of the South Pacific

Administrative areas: Tafea (Vanuatu), Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Contact Linguistic, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Language, Language Change, Language Documentation, Language Shift, Linguistic Reconstruction, Hitorical-Comparative Linguistics

Michael MAIN
PhD Student, School of Culture, History & Language at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Cultural Change, Development, Social Change, Violence, Weapons, Mining and its Discontents, Materiality, Language Change, Indigenous Agency, Indigenous Peoples Rights

Debra MCDOUGALL
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences at University of Melbourne, Australia

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Western (Solomon Islands)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Ethnicity, Religion, Christianity, Political Economy, History, Language Change, Gender

Bambi SCHIEFFELIN
Professor, Anthropology Department at New York University, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Christianisation, Intersubjectivity, Language Change, Language Socialization, Linguistic Anthropology, Personhood

Gunter SENFT
Professor, Language and Cognition at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Death and Bereavement, Development, Emotions, Landscape, Linguistic Anthropology, Navigation, Perception, Poetics, Ritual

Deborah VAN HEEKEREN
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Christianity, History, Language Change, Mission History, Myth, Names and Naming