Faculty oF humanities and social sciences 2013 - Victoria University ...

New Zealand Dictionary Centre (NZDC)
For more than 60 years, Victoria has been the major centre
for lexicography in New Zealand. A number of distinguished
lexicographers, many of them former students of Professor Ian
Gordon, have been graduates of Victoria and have contributed
to works of English lexicography, including the supplements
to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Australian National
Dictionary. In particular, the NZDC builds on the pioneering
scholarship of Dr Harry Orsman, whose research on New
Zealand English spanned more than 40 years and culminated
in 1997 in the publication of his award-winning Dictionary
of New Zealand English, the most comprehensive and
fully documented dictionary of New Zealandisms based
on historical principles. In 2005, the New Zealand Oxford
Dictionary, prepared at the Centre over several years, won
the reference section of the Montana Book Awards. Since that
time, lexicographers Dr Dianne Bardsley and Tony Deverson
have compiled a range of dictionaries and thesauruses for
schools and for trade, in partnership with Oxford University
Press. Former Director Emeritus Professor Graeme Kennedy is a
Senior Fellow at the Centre.
Every three years, two PhD research fellowships in New Zealand
English are offered at the Centre. The NZDC was established
at a time of significant advances in the technology to support
lexicography and the Centre makes use of large collections of
spoken and written New Zealand English in electronic corpora
to further its research aims and to provide terms and citations
for its database of New Zealand English terms.
www.victoria.ac.nz/nzdc
Conferences
The Independent Learning Association Conference
(ILA 2012)
The ILA Conference is being held in Wellington from 30
August–2 September 2012. We have a fabulous lineup
of keynote speakers and a large number of local and
international speakers have submitted abstracts. LALS has
a strong presence on the committee for the conference,
including Peter Gu, Averil Coxhead, David Crabbe and Irina
Elgort. Other members of the committee are from the
Language Learning Centre, CPIT and UNITEC. Join us for this
fabulous opportunity to explore independent learning.
More information can be found on the ILA website at
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/ila2012/22977
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