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…
Single other language items in bilingual speech: how do we know what we know? A corpus-based study of Vietnamese kin terms in English discourse
Seminar
ANU Linguistics Seminar presented by Li Nguyen This paper demonstrates a systematic approach to tackle the ongoing question of how to determine whether single other-language items in bilingual discourse function as borrowings, that is, are incorporated into the host language, or whether they retain…
Electronic glossing of key texts: Scaffolding disciplinary reading for multilingual students in higher education
Seminar
Presented by ANU Linguistics At South African universities, where English is the dominant language of instruction and academic publishing, many institutional operating plans or language policies call for responsiveness, in teaching arrangements, to the linguistic diversity of students. The…
Effective communication in hospitals: applying discourse analysis to improve clinical handover interactions
Lecture
Effective communication in hospitals: applying discourse analysis to improve clinical handover interactions. Clinical handover – the transfer between clinicians of responsibility and accountability for patients and their care – is a pivotal, high-risk communicative event in hospital practice.…
Mood marking and modality in Anindilyakwa
Seminar
ANU Linguistics Seminar presented by James Bednall Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia are well-known for their morphological complexity, particularly with respect to complex verb structures that use both prefixes and suffixes on finite verb stems to express person, tense, aspect and…