Modularity from the bilingual perspective: Crosslinguistic influence, feature reassembly and functional convergence
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Presented as part of the Linguistics, Languages & Cultures Seminar Series In this talk, I will focus on some of the major findings and contributions that the study of bilingualism in Spanish and agglutinative languages such as Quechua and mixed null subject languages such as Shipibo has brought…
Dreaming of a National Aboriginal Gallery: Australian Chick Lit in Transnational Space
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Manhattan Dreaming and Paris Dreaming, two of Anita Heiss’ chick lit novels, emphasise a slightly altered history of Australia: Old Parliament House is repurposed as the National Aboriginal Gallery, an energetic and dynamic space dedicated to…
The Offline Revolution?! - Using ePubs for content delivery
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Teaching Forum Teaching on-line has certainly revolutionised content delivery, opening up many wonderful possibilities. It enables course conveners to be more flexible, expand their student bases, increase enrolments and bring delight to Deans and Directors. Online…
SLLL Research Presentation Day
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All staff and students are welcome to attend the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics Research Presentation Day. The day will include two PhD completion seminars, a Masters of Applied Linguistics completion Seminar, a pre-conference presentation, and short presentations by students…
On scholarly subjectivity and the possibility of a poetics there
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Georges Canguilhem, while examining the doctorate that would later be published as The History of Madness, saw fit to label Michel Foucault as ‘poet.’ But what particular stylistic features of Foucault’s writing might such a nomination refer…
Polysynthetic Sociolinguistics: The language and culture of Murrinh Patha youth
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Come and celebrate John Mansfield's pre-thesis submission seminar. In this seminar I present a summary of my PhD research investigating the life and language of kardu kigay – young Aboriginal men in the town of Wadeye, northern Australia. I describe first my ethnographic observations on how kigay…
Morgan's Australian Descendants: Fison and Howitt Abandon Kinship and Save Their Skins
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Lorimer Fison had made a great breakthrough in kinship studies around 1870 when he recognized the system in the part of Fiji where he was working as having an essential identity with that of South India (Dravidian) but…