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| Australian National Dictionary Centre | |
|---|---|
| Name | Australian National Dictionary Centre |
| Type | Research centre |
| Established | 1988 |
| Location | Canberra, Australian National University |
| Director | Bruce Moore (founding director) |
Australian National Dictionary Centre The Australian National Dictionary Centre is a lexicographical research centre based at the Australian National University in Canberra, founded to document and analyse Australian English. It collaborates with national institutions such as the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the State Library of New South Wales while engaging with scholars associated with the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia and the University of Adelaide. The Centre has produced landmark works that intersect with projects at the Oxford English Dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, the Dictionary of Australian Biography, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Australian National Bibliographic Database.
The Centre was established in 1988 following initiatives by the Australian National University, the Australian Government and the Australian Bicentennial Authority to mark the bicentenary of European settlement and to respond to calls from scholars connected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australasian Association of Lexicography, and contributors to the Macquarie Dictionary. Its origins trace to the work of lexicographers and historians such as W. S. Ramson, Bruce Moore, Patricia Bauer, and the editorial traditions of the Oxford English Dictionary and projects like the Dictionary of American Regional English. Early funding involved partnerships with the National Library of Australia and state cultural bodies including the State Library of Victoria and the State Library of New South Wales, and advisory input was drawn from academics at the University of Tasmania, the Australian National University, and the University of New England.
The Centre’s mission links lexical scholarship to cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Australia, the Museum of Victoria, the Australian War Memorial, and the National Archives of Australia by documenting Australian English via corpus-building, archival research, and fieldwork. Activities include compiling citations from sources held by the National Library of Australia, the State Library of Queensland, the State Library of South Australia, and the Mitchell Library; advising publishers like Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Macmillan Publishers; and contributing expertise to projects at the Australian Research Council and the Humanities Research Centre. The Centre works with scholars who have affiliations with the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Society for the Study of English, the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, and international partners including the British Academy, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Royal Society.
Key publications include the multi-edition Australian National Dictionary project and companion works that draw on materials from the Oxford English Dictionary tradition and the Macquarie Dictionary editorial model. The Centre has produced monographs and edited volumes featuring contributors from the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, the University of New South Wales, and international scholars affiliated with Harvard University, Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and the University of California, Berkeley. Its bibliographic outputs appear in series published by Oxford University Press (Australia), Cambridge University Press, and independent Australian presses such as Melbourne University Publishing and Sydney University Press. The Centre’s pamphlets and guides are used in exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum, and the State Library of New South Wales.
Research programs address historical lexicography, regional dialects, and contact varieties involving communities documented by institutions like the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the AIATSIS, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Projects have examined lexical items recorded in colonial records from the State Records Authority of New South Wales, shipping lists in the National Archives of Australia, and vernacular usage in newspapers archived by the Trove service. Collaborative projects involved partners such as the Australian Research Council, the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and engaged fieldwork networks that included researchers from the University of Canterbury, the University of Auckland, and University of Tasmania.
The Centre conducts seminars and public lectures with guest speakers from institutions including the National Museum of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the ABC Radio National, and universities such as the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. Outreach includes workshops for school teachers coordinated with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority and teacher associations, public exhibitions at the National Library of Australia and the Museum of Sydney, and online resources used by educators at the University of New England (Australia), Monash University, and Griffith University. It participates in conferences organized by the Modern Language Association, the International Congress of Linguists, the Australian Linguistic Society, and the International Association for Lexicography.
Governance involves oversight by advisory boards drawn from institutions such as the Australian National University, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the National Library of Australia, and state libraries including the State Library of New South Wales and the State Library of Victoria. Funding sources have included grants from the Australian Research Council, partnerships with Oxford University Press (Australia), donations from foundations like the Myer Foundation, and project-specific support from the Department of Communications and the Arts (Australia), the Australia Council for the Arts, and corporate sponsorships. The Centre’s organisational arrangements align with university research centres at the Australian National University, and reporting relationships involve the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and university governance structures.
Category:Lexicography Category:Australian National University