Linguistics: Recent submissions
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The speech of Australian adolescents: research data and recordings collected by A.G. Mitchell and Arthur Delbridge in 1959 and 1960
Published 1998This dataset contains research data and recordings of Australian English as spoken by 7736 students at 330 schools across Australia, collected 1959-1960. The recordings were made on reel-to-reel tapes and were used to ...Open AccessDataset -
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 -
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 -
‘Trump at the Gates of Democracy’: A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting on the January 6th Event in the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald
Published 2022-06-22A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting on the January 6th Event (also known as the '2021 United States Capitol attack') in the two Australian broadsheet newspapers The Australian and The Sydney Morning HeraldOpen AccessThesis -
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