FRIDAY 12 JULY

sponsors: 09.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome

Session 1: Attitudes and identities (Chair: Nick Palfreyman)

10.10 Rachel McKee (Victoria University of Wellington) Motivation and innovation in indexing Māori identity in New Zealand

11.00 Linghui Eva Gan & Federico Gobbo (University of Amsterdam) Attitudes towards the official recognition of Sign Language by Hong Kong citizens

11.30 morning break

Session 2: Exploring sociolinguistic factors (Chair: Ralf Vollmann)

11.50 Hae Sung Jeon & Charles B. Chang (University of Central Lancashire, Boston University) Exploring the speaker gender effect in diachronic changes of

Korean consonants

Symposium on sociolinguistic variation 12.20 Katie Mudd, Hannah Lutzenberger, Connie de Vos, Bart de Boer, Paula Fikkert & Onno Crasborn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Radboud in signed and spoken languages of the University) The effect of sociolinguistic factors on sign variation in Kata Kolok Asia-Pacific region 12.50 lunch

Room BB013, Friday 12 – Saturday 13 July 2019 Session 3: Bilingualism (Chair: Keiko Sagara)

13.50 Lauren Reed (Australian National University) International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, ‘Culture sign is my favourite’: Bilingualism and identity in the School for Language and Global Studies, Port Moresby deaf community

University of Central Lancashire 14.20 Ulrike Zeshan (University of Central Lancashire) Deaf sign bilinguals in India: Social learning and linguistic patterns

14.50 afternoon break Session 6: Variation in languages of East Asia (Chair: Yoshiyuki Asahi)

Session 4: At the micro-level (Chair: Susanne Maria Michaelis) 11.45 Junhui Yang (University of Central Lancashire) 15.10 Yoshiyuki Asahi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Some observations on variables in the spatial grammar of Linguistics) . Role of stylistic variation in a city: evidence from a real-time study in Hokkaido Japan 12.15 Theresia Hofer (University of Bristol) Signing places in Lhasa: Etymology, description and use of 15.40 Nick Palfreyman (University of Central Lancashire) toponyms in Tibetan and Chinese Sign Languages. Variation at the micro-level: Findings from a study of four users in the Javanese city of Solo 12:45 lunch

Reflections on Day 1 (Chairs: Katie Mudd and Hannah Lutzenberger) Session 7: Multilingual contexts (Chair: Lauren Reed)

16.10 Participant comments and discussion 13:45 Ralf Vollmann and Tek Wooi Soon (University of Graz) Language variation in a environment in Malaysia Close of Day 1 16.40 14:20 Phoebe Tay [remotely] (Gallaudet University/Deaf Bible Society) Conference dinner: 19:00 The interrelation of diglossia in multilingual Singapore Society and the Singapore Deaf Community

14:50 afternoon break (and Symposium photograph) SATURDAY 13 JULY

Concluding session (Chair: Nick Palfreyman) Session 5: Languages in contact (Chair: Rachel McKee)

15:10 Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham) 10.00 Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig University & MPI-SHH, Jena) Closing reflections on sociolinguistics of spoken and signed Variation across Asian and Pacific creoles languages in the Asia-Pacific region 10.45 Keiko Sagara and Nick Palfreyman (Japanese National Museum of Ethnology & University of Central Lancashire) 15:30 Final thoughts and discussion Variation in Japanese and Taiwanese Sign Language: The impact 15:55 Words of thanks (Nick) of language contact

16:00 Close of Symposium 11.15 morning break