Faculty of Arts School of Languages & Linguistics

Research Seminars Program - Languages and Linguistics

Research Seminars Program for the School of Languages and Linguistics.

Seminar announcements are sent regularly by the School of Languages and Linguistics. If you would like to be added to our list please email Sally Jones with your details.

Presenter Title Time/Location
Uwe Kretch
The University of Melbourne

A comparative grammar of Aslian languages

Abstract - Kretch (pdf, 204kb)

Friday 22 August 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne Note: Date changed from 15 Aug.

Dr Andrea Bandhauer
The University of Sydney

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Text und Körper in Performanz: Elfriede Jelineks "Die Klavierspielerin" in Michael Hanekes Film.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 22 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Craig McArthur, Andrea Rizzi and Matthew Absalom
The University of Melbourne
Veni, wiki, wiz: simple editing and authoring of multimedia materials for second language teaching and learning Monday 25 August 2008, 12.10pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Ana Maria Ducasse
The University of Melbourne

Interaction in paired oral proficiency assessment in Spanish

PhD completion talk

Abstract - Ducasse (pdf, 184kb)

Friday 29 August 2008, 3.15pm.
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Margaret Dahlström
The University of Melbourne

Norman Macgeorge Scholarship Report

Swedish Bicultural Fiction: exploring cultural anxieties and expressing cultural resistance.

Norman Macgeorge Scholarship Report

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 29 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Michael Clyne (University of Melbourne)
Dr Susanne DöpkeRUMACCC, The University of Melbourne
Raising Children in More Than One Language A seminar for parents, grandparents, caregivers and professionals working with children. Sunday 31 August 2008, 12.45 to 5pm,The Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne
Helene Chenut
University of California, Irvine
Youth Culture and Language in Contemporary France: French, Beur and Verlan in the Suburbs Monday 1 September 2008, 12.10pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Karin Moses
The University of Melbourne

Do dinosaurs hug in the Kimberley? -- the use of questions by Aboriginal caregivers and children at Yakanarra

PhD completion talk

Abstract - Moses (pdf, 187kb)

Friday 5 September 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Samantha Disbray
The University of Melbourne

More than one way to catch a frog: Children’s discourse in a language contact setting

PhD Completion talk

Abstract - Disbray (pdf, 195kb)

Friday 5 September 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Horst Dippel Topic TBA Friday 5 September 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Research Postgraduate Students
Linguistics & Applied Linguistics
The University of Melbourne

LAL Research Postgrads speed paper session

This session is designed for LAL research postgraduate students to get together and discuss their research. Each student is asked to come with a four minute (4 slide) speed paper outlining some aspect of their research. Much discussion will follow, as will more general discussion as to future postgrad-oriented plans and activities.

Friday 12 September 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

HCSNet Human Communication Disorders Priority Area - Workshop on Narrative and Communication Disorders.


For further information, contact Associate Professor Lesley Stirling
lesleyfs@unimelb.edu.au

or Dr Susan Douglas sdouglas@unimelb.edu.au.
 

The aim of the workshop is to bring together Australian and international researchers with an interest in narrative and communication disorders. The workshop will address developmental and acquired disorders of both child and adult language and perspectives from neurotypical populations; it will consider topics in theory, methodology and analysis. The intention is to take a truly interdisciplinary approach, involving speakers and participants from a range of areas covered by the broad domain of cognitive science, and to generate fruitful leads and directions for further research.

Thus we expect that researchers from linguistics, psychology, speech pathology, psychiatry, computer science, cognitive neuroscience and other areas will find the workshop of interest. Interested researchers are invited to submit 200-250 word abstracts for paper or poster presentations by 2nd June 2008.

Further details are available on the workshop website at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2008/ncdworkshop

Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September 2008
The University of Melbourne
Dr Andrea Rizzi
The University of Melbourne
Translating the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) Monday 15 September 2008, 1.10pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Anne Freadman
The University of Melbourne
Jürgen Habermas and the problem of ‘genre Friday 19 September 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

A/Prof Kate Rigby
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Confronting Catastrophe: Heinrich von Kleist and the Hermeneutics of Disaster.

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 19 September 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
A/Prof Janet Fletcher
The University of Melbourne

Place assimilation and consonant coarticulation in Australian languages

Abstract - Fletcher (pdf, 173kb)

Friday 10 October 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

A/Prof Gerhard Fischer
The University of New South Wales

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Schreiben ex patria: W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identität

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 10 October 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Evan Kidd
La Trobe University & The University of Manchester

Object relatives made easy: rethinking the syntactic complexity of embedded clauses.

Abstract - Kidd (pdf, 185kb)

Friday 17 October 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Robert Savage
Monash University

Ape-Theater. Primal Scenes in the Classical German Bildungsroman

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 17 October 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Rhiannyn Geeson
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Peeling the Onion: Analysing Hyperculturality in the German translations of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb)

Friday 24 October 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Jean Mulder
The University of Melbourne

Oral Performance and Rhetorical Structure in Sm’algyax

Abstract - Mulder (pdf, 266kb)

Friday 31 October 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne Note: Date changed from 8 Aug.
Jenny Green
University of Melbourne

Topic TBA

PhD completion talk

Friday 14 November 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Celeste Rodriguez Louro
University of Melbourne

Uses and functions of the Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish.

PhD completion talk

Friday 14 November 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Seminars previously held in 2008

Seminars held in 2007

Seminars held in 2006

 

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