PhD and MA Student Profiles - Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
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Students on this page:
- Wendy Allen
- Meredith Bartlett
- Guy Edwards
- Averil Grieve
- Susy Macqueen
- Felicity Meakins
- Ruth Singer
- Ngoc Ton
Wendy Allen
Discourse analysis of an Australian federal election campaign
Supervisor: Associate Professor Lesley Stirling
Current course: PhD
Email: w.allen@pgrad.unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Political discourse
- pragmatics
- discursive construction, and
- representation of identity
Publications:
- Allen, W. (forthconimg) Australian Political Discourse, ALS Conference, University of Queensland, 7th-9th July 2006.
Meredith Bartlett
The language use of bilingual deaf adults using Australian sign language and Australian English.
Supervisor: Professor Michael Clyne and Professor Gillian Wigglesworth
Current course: PhD
Email: bartperk01@optusnet.com.auResearch interests:
- Sign linguistics
- sign language/spoken language bilingualism
Publications:
- Bartlett, M. & colleague (2003), Invest in Auslan. Access: The National Disability Issues Journal, Melbourne: DEAC Inc.
- Bartlett, M. (2004), Another View of Minority Languages: Australian Sign Language (Auslan). in Nelde, E. (ed) Plurilingua - Mehrsprachigkeit, Minderheiten und Sprachwandel: Multilingualism, Minoritis and Language Change.
- Bartlett, M & Leane, S. (2004), Raising Deaf Children Bilingually in Australia. RUMACCC, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Guy Edwards
Stance and meaning-making in conversation
Supervisor: Dr Barbara Kelly
Current course: Masters of Arts (thesis)
Email: gedwards@ unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Discourse analysis
- language and identity
- stance-taking, and
- membership categorisation analysis
Averil Grieve
'That was probably heaps big movie actually": The acquisition of phatic markers in a study abroad context
Supervisors: Dr Carsten Roever and Professor Gillian Wigglesworth
Current course: PhD
Email: a.grieve@pgrad.unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Cross-cultural communication
- Second language acquisition
- German-English bilingualism
Susy Macqueen
Collocational development in second language writing
Supervisor: Professor Gillian Wigglesworth
Current course: PhD
Email: susym@ unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Collocation
- second language learning
- sociocultural theory, and
- critical discourse analysis
Felicity Meakins
Case marking in contact: The shift in the structure and function of the case morphology of an Australian mixed language
Supervisor: Dr Rachel Nordlinger, Professor Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson (University of Sydney) and Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS)
Current course: PhD
Email: fhm@ unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Contact linguistics
- Australian languages
- morphology
- discourse, and
- pragmatics
Publications:
- Meakins, F. and O'Shannessy, C. (2005) Posessing Variation: Inalienability and age-related factors in the posessive constructions of two Australian mixed languages. Language Contact, Hybrids and New Varieties: Emergent Posessive Constructions (Special volume of) Monash University Linguistic Papers 4 (1/2)
- McConvell, P. and Meakins, F. (2005) Gurindji Kriol: A Mixed Language Emerges from Code Switching. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25.1
- Meakins, F. (1999) The Subject of Howard's Desire: Passive Sentences and Political Intention. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 2.5 (website)
- Meakins, F. (1998) Knockin' on Heaven's Door: The Conceptual Movement of the Dead. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 1.4 (website)
- Meakins, F. (1998) They will be the Death of Diana: Memory and Media. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 1.2 (website)
Links:
- Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project
- DOBES Jaminjungan-Eastern Ngumpin Language Documentation Project
Ruth Singer
Agreement in Mawng
Supervisor: Professor Nick Evans and Dr Rachel Nordlinger
Current course: PhD
Email: r.singer@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.student.unimelb.edu.au/rjsingerResearch interests:
- Description of Australian languages
- typology
- information structure, and
- intonation
For Publications and other information please see Ruth's personal website.
Ngoc Ton
Requests by Vietnamese learners of EFL: An investigation of the relationship between proficiency, grammar, and pragmatic development
Supervisor:Professor Gillian Wigglesworth
Current course: PhD
Email: n.ton1@pgrad.unimelb.edu.auResearch interests:
- Pragmatics, and
- Cross-cultural communication
Publications:
- (2002) Making Adjustments to Assessment. Teacher's Edition 8
- (2001) Correcting Students' Writings: Case Studies. Teacher's Edition 6