[ANU Pacific.Institute] Public lecture on Nov 27 by visiting Solomon Islands linguist Alpheaus Zobule on 'Studying the vernacular in the vernacular by the vernacular speakers'

[Alan Rumsey]

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PUBLIC LECTURE

Studying the vernacular in the vernacular by the vernacular speakers: The case of the Kulu Language Institute In The Solomon Islands

Date: 6:30 - 8pm, Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Venue: Copland Lecture Theatre, Building #25a, 25 Kingsley St, Australian National University

Speaker: Dr Alpheaus Graham Zobule, Founder and Executive Director of the Kulu Language Institute and Islands Bible Ministries

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It was either by necessity or accident or by both that a vernacular literacy program was started way back in the late 1990s among the Luqa speakers of the Western Province in the Solomon Islands. When a young man of the Luqa language, who had just graduated with a Masters Degree majoring in Bible and Linguistics, came up with the idea of translating the Bible into his vernacular, the Luqa speakers were no doubt thrilled about the possibility of having a very important but foreign book written in their own language.

For the young man and the other speakers of the vernacular, the goal of translating a foreign book into the familiar vernacular is so that they could understand it. However, achieving that goal seemed remote and the hope of reading the book in their own vernacular seemed unrealisable when it became obvious that most vernacular speakers themselves could not intelligibly read the first book, the Gospel of Mark, even when it was translated and published in their own language. Read more…<http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media/events/article/?id=lecture-studying-the-vernacular-in-the-vernacular-by-the-vernacular-speakers-27-november>

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