Linguistics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Sundanese TRANSITIVITY: a first step into the description
Published 2021-07-05This is a dissertation submitted as partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Applied Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney. It focuses on the ...Open AccessThesis -
The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects
Published 2021-03-18The various dialects of Alemannic, a set of German dialects spoken in South-Western Germany, North-Eastern France, and Switzerland, are spoken by, in general, a decreasing number of people in these regions. However, the ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
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