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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in Australian print news: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis
Published 2021-08-23This thesis investigates the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in mainstream Australian newspapers. It combines approaches from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine ...Open AccessThesis -
Are onshore pathway students prepared for effective university participation? A case study of an international postgraduate cohort
Published 2014-01-01As English language (EL) proficiency becomes a key issue for Australian universities, EL entry levels and the pathways preparing international students for university are also rising in importance. Crucially, according to ...Open AccessArticle -
Author Profiling for English and Arabic Emails
Published 2008-01-01This paper reports on some aspects of a research project aimed at automating the analysis of texts for the purpose of author profiling and identification. The Text Attribution Tool (TAT) was developed for the purpose of ...Open AccessArticle -
Children's Silences in Mareeba Aboriginal English
Published 2009-11-01This thesis examines the role of silence in conversations between teacher’s aides and 5-6 year old Indigenous Australian children at school. Recent studies of conversation among adult Aboriginal Australians have observed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Climate change advocates and deniers? Triangulating methods to investigate the language of left- and right-leaning Twitter users
Published 2023-01-19This thesis examines left- and right- leaning users on Australian Twitter in an effort to understand the language use of the different parties to online climate change discourse. The data are taken from Australian Twitter ...Open AccessThesis -
Cyclic syllabification and a first cycle rule of vowel-rounding in some dialects of Australian English
Published 1980-03-01A discussion of the realisation of /l/ in Australian English, and of the quality of back vowels preceding the /l/, especially in Cultivated Adelaide English. A technical solution making use of cyclic syllabification is ...Open AccessOther -
The diachronic evolution of directional constructions in Mandarin
Published 2006-01-01This thesis investigates the diachronic evolution of directional constructions found in Mandarin and other modern varieties of Chinese. What I call directional constructions are usually called 'directional complements' ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A dictionary of Ngardi
Published 2011-01-01This dictionary was compiled by Lee Cataldi 2004. This version of the dictionary was completed in 2011. Copyright is held by the Ngardi elders - Mungkirna Napaljarri as of printing. Requests for any further use of contents ...Open AccessPublisher version -
Emotional labor in webcare and beyond: A linguistic framework and case study
Published 2022This article presents a novel framework for examining how emotional labor is performed linguistically. Bringing together Arlie Hochschild's pioneering sociological work and insights from the linguistic literature on emotion, ...Article -
Gender and codemixing in Hong Kong
Published 2006-01-01This paper investigates the relationship of gender and codemixing behaviour in Hong Kong. Data were obtained through the use of a questionnaire and a language diary experiment from 10 young women and 10 young men who had ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments
Published 2020-01-01Getting others to do things is a central part of social interaction in any human society. Language is our main tool for this purpose. In this book, we show that sequences of interaction in which one person’s behaviour ...Book -
The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu
Published 2010-01-14Whitesands is an under-described language of southern Vanuatu, and this thesis presents Whitesands-specific data based on primary in-situ field research. The thesis addresses the distinction of noun and verb word classes ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Holding the (wo)man”: a corpus analysis of patriarchal discourses and appraisal of AFLW players in the Herald Sun newspaper
Published 2019-01-01Open AccessThesis -
How Warumungu people express new concepts
Published 1985-01-01This article describes strategies used by Warumungu speakers to create new words and ways of expressing new concepts, in the context of multilingual society in which speakers of Indigenous Australian languages view language ...Open AccessArticle -
Ideophones and depictive constructions: Towards an explanation of functional overlap
Published 2023-07-05This thesis attempts to account for the functional overlap that exists between ideophones and depictive secondary predicates. Discussions of depictives are largely absent from the functional and typological literature, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Intimacy, Power and Pleasure: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Online Personal-ads for Casual Sex
Published 2015-05-12This thesis explores the linguistic construction of sexual identities in online personal-ads for male-male casual sex. Specifically, it will investigate how POSTERS of Craigslist advertisements for casual sex construct ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics
Published 2010-01-01Physics is arguably the most fundamental of the sciences, yet many students disengage with it at a very early level. This thesis lays the groundwork to understanding why this is the case by using Systemic Functional theory ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Language of Clinical Empathy
Published 2012-01-01This Honours thesis examines the language of clinical empathy in an attempt to broaden understanding of what constitutes effective communication in medicine. Linguistic theories of appraisal, affiliation and intonation are ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Let's Talk about Sex Education: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Advice Column Discourses
Published 2018-01-01This thesis examines sex education discourses in magazines in an attempt to understand how language helps uphold and/or challenge attitudes in sex education. Specifically, it investigates the advice columns of Dolly, an ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Loanword Adaptation: A study of some Australian Aboriginal Languages
Published 2009-08-10This thesis is a case study of some aspects of the adaptation of English words in several Australian Aboriginal languages, including Martu Wangka, Gamilaraay and Warlpiri. I frame my analysis within Smith’s (to appear) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours