Exploring variation in Australian English: A perceptual approach
Seminar
Presented by Sydney Kingstone as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar Series Abstract: This thesis looks at folk perceptions and reported usage of regional variation in Australian English. Australian English is a variety of English that has been regarded as having very limited forms of regional…
Reviving the Author
Seminar
Literary Studies Seminar presented by Imogen Mathew, Thomas Nulley-Valdes and Will Peyton The question of authorial intent looms large over literary studies. The influence of post-structuralist thought from Derrida to Barthes and the new criticism attempted to challenge the primacy of the author’s…
Literary Studies Seminar
Seminar
Save the date for this week's Thursday Lunchtime Seminar presented by Imogen Mathew, Thomas Nulley-Valdes and Will Peyton Check back here soon for more information. All are welcome; bring your lunch.
Language in Health Care Forum
Conference
The forum offers an opportunity for researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to discuss how collaborative, multidisciplinary language-focused research can help address problems in contemporary health care. Internationally, language-focused research is increasingly contributing to the…
Climbing Mount Helicon: The development of Aesop’s speech
Seminar
Presented by the ANU Centre for Classical Studies Aesop is renowned as the originator of fables. Yet, in the Life of Aesop, an outrageously entertaining comic biography from the 1st-2nd centuries AD, Aesop begins life as a mute. Speech is gifted to Aesop as a reward for piety by the goddess Isis…
Moving Women: How the Touring Actress Changed Shakespeare
Seminar
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series by Kate Flaherty Gail Marshall contends that the Victorian-era actress was chiefly valued for her statuesque qualities – her stately stillness and blank beauty that linked her to classical culture, and exonerated her from the charge of artful…
Addressing God in European Languages: Different Meanings, Different Cultural Attitudes
Lecture
A Distinguished Public Lecture presented by the ANU Centre for European Studies Speakers of different European languages tend to address God in different ways – and consequently, they relate to God in different ways. For example, addressing God in German as “Herr” is different from addressing…