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 Matthew Swinbank with your details.

SEMESTER 2, 2009
Presenter Title Time/Location

Dr Silke Hesse,
Monash University

„Dem jubelnden Propheten“: Über Glücksvorstellungen in Else Lasker-Schülers „Peter Hille-Buch“ (in German)

Abstract - Hesse (pdf, 173kb)

Friday 31 July 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Maicol Formentelli,
Università degli Studi di Pavia

Address strategies in British and Italian academic settings

Abstract - Formentelli (pdf, 169kb)

Friday 7 August 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Prof Willem De Reuse,
University of North Texas & RCLT

Prefixing, Endangered, and Polysynthetic:  lessons from doing useful lexicography in a PEP language

Abstract - de Reuse (pdf, 180kb)

Friday 21 August 2009, 3:15
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Jana Verhoeven,
University of Melbourne

Max O'Rell and the Cross-national Debate over Manners and Morals

Abstract - Verhoeven (pdf, 171kb)

Friday 21 August 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Nick Evans
ANU

Languages of the Trans-Fly: a first field report

 

Friday 28 August 2009, 2:15pm (note new time)
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Tania E. Strahan,
NORdic Microcomparative Syntax and The University of Iceland

An antecedent-based account of reflexive binding in Insular Scandinavian

Abstract - Strahan (pdf, 233kb)

Friday 4 September 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

A/Prof Heinz Josef Kreutz,
Monash University

Diskursforschung, soziale Wirklichkeit und Fremdsprachenforschung
(in German)

Abstract - Kreutz (pdf, 174kb)

Friday 4 September 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Robyn Woodward-Kron and Dr Mary Stephens (Medical Education Unit),
University of Melbourne

Linguists working with medical educators: Adding value or speaking in tongues?

Abstract - Woodward-Kron and Stephens (pdf, 181kb)

Friday 11 September 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Prof. John de Jong,
VU University Amsterdam

Technology and automation in language testing

Abstract - DeJong (pdf, 172kb)

Wednesday 16 September 2009, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Room 605 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Leah Gerber,
Monash University

Intercultural Encounters: Markus Zusak's The Book Thief in German translation
(in English)

Abstract - Gerber (pdf, 180kb)

Friday 18 September 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Carsten Röver,
University of Melbourne

Sequential Organization of L2 Requests

Abstract - Rover (pdf, 173kb)

Friday 9 October 2009, 2:15pm (note new time)
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Leo Kretzenbacher,
University of Melbourne

Raging against Rilke: Reinhard P. Gruber’s Zweimal 100 Gedichte gegen Gedichte (‘2 times 100 poems against poems’) as a renewal of Alberto Caeiro’s/Fernando Pessoa’s anti-poetry
(in English)

Abstract - Kretzenbacher (pdf, 194kb)

Friday 16 October 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Saya Ike,
University of Melbourne

Japanese English as a variety: features and intelligibility of an emerging variety of English

Confirmation talk

Abstract - Ike (pdf, 173kb)

Friday 23 October 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Birgit Lang,
University of Melbourne

Die Erfindung des Masochismus. Zum Verhältnis von Sexualwissenschaften und Literatur
(in German)

Abstract - Lang (pdf, 181kb)

Friday 23 October 2009, 3:30 to 5:00pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

LAL Postgrads Speed paper session
(all welcome)

Friday 30 October 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Susy Macqueen,
University of Melbourne

Patterns in L2 writing

Completion talk

Abstract - Macqueen (pdf, 170kb)

Friday 13 November 2009, 3:15pm
Room 407 Babel Building, University of Melbourne

Jill Wigglesworth and Debbie Loakes,
University of Melbourne

Researching Child Language in Indigenous Australia: An ACLA2 Progress Report

Abstract - Wigglesworth and Loakes (pdf, 178kb)

Friday 20 November 2009, 3:15pm
Room 407 Babel Building, University of Melbourne

Dr Alejandra Vidal,
Universidad Nacional de Formosa (Argentina) & RCLT

Guaykuruan Languages (Chaco, Argentina): Pilagá

Abstract - Vidal (pdf, 176kb)

Tuesday 1 December 2009, 3:15pm
Room 407 Babel Building, University of Melbourne

Dr Nick Thieberger,
University of Melbourne

Time and transitivity in South Efate

Abstract - Thieberger (pdf, 176kb)

Friday 11 December 2009, 3:15pm
Room 407 Babel Building, University of Melbourne

 

SEMESTER 1, 2009
Presenter Title Time/Location
Michael Yeldham
University of Melbourne

Approaches to second language listening instruction: Investigating the ‘top-down/bottom-up debate’

PhD completion talk

Abstract - Yeldham (pdf, 184kb)

Friday 30 January 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Professor Masayoshi Shibatani
Rice University & RCLT

'Austronesian relativization: A view from the field in eastern Indonesia'

 

Abstract - Shibatani (pdf, 172kb)

Friday 20 February 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Kathryn Hill
University of Melbourne

'Classroom-based assessment & the issue of continuity between primary & secondary school languages programs'

PhD completion talk

Abstract - Hill (pdf, 169kb)

Friday 27 February 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Ainol Madziah Zubairi
International Islamic University Malaysia

English Language Proficiency Tests in Malaysia

Abstract - Zubairi (pdf, 173kb)

Friday 6 March 2009,
STARTING AT 3:30pm

Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Claudia Riehl
University of Cologne

Multilingualism and Literacy: Text Production Abilities in L1 and L2

 

Abstract - Riehl (pdf, 172kb)

Friday 13 March 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Jacqueline Dutton
University of Melbourne

Encounters with JMG Le Clézio, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature
 

Monday 16 March 2009, 6:00pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A,
University of Melbourne
Prof Claudia Riehl
University of Cologne

Text im Zweitspracherwerb - zwischen Sprachkompetenz und interkulturellem Wissen
(in German)

Abstract - Riehl1 (pdf, 171kb)

Friday 20 March 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Catherine E. Travis & Rena Torres-Cacoullos
University of New Mexico

Convergence via code-switching? Yo and I in New Mexico

Abstract - Travis (pdf, 205kb)


Friday 27 March 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Jill Vaughan
University of Melbourne

'The Irish language in Ireland and its diaspora : Motivation and social identity in minority language learning'

PhD confirmation talk

 

Friday 3 April 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Prof Jean-Marc Olivier
University of Toulouse 2 Le Mirail

'La société du Second Empire: luxe, spéculation et corruption ou productivité, inventivité et rayonnement?'
(presentation in French)

Thursday 9 April 2009, 5:30pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Wolfgang Wildgen
University of Bremen

Paul Celan. The role of compounds and other minimalist expressions in his poetry (in English)

Abstract - Wildgen (pdf, 180kb)

Power Point Presentation - Wildgen (616kb)

Thursday 23 April 2009, 5:30pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Mara Favoretto
University of Melbourne

Irony and Allegory Under Censorship during the Military Dictatorship in Argentina (1976 - 1983)
(in English)

Abstract - Favoretto (pdf, 181kb)

Friday 24 April 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 602 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Erin Moore
University of Melbourne

"Anyway, what have discourse markers got to do with, like, grammar and, you know, syntax?: A unified account of the discourse-pragmatic, syntactic and grammatical aspects of discourse markers"

PhD confirmation talk

Friday 24 April 2009, 11:00am
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Franz-Josef Deiters
Monash University

Der Anspruch der Literatur: Zur metadiskursiven Funktion des literarischen Pseudonyms
(in German)

Friday 1 May 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 602 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Katharine Parton
University of Melbourne

Social interaction, cognition and the body: examining musician behaviour in the orchestra

PhD confirmation talk

Friday 1 May 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Lara Anderson
University of Melbourne

Commercial Success or Culinary Legacy: Turn-of-the-Century Spanish Culinary Nationalization
(in English)

Abstract - Anderson (pdf, 172kb)

Friday 8 May 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 602 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Prof Renzo Bragantini
Università La Sapienza, Rome

Il Decameron tra racconto e commento
(in Italian)

Friday 8 May 2009, 5:15pm
Room 222 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

A/Prof J.P. Spicer-Escalante
Utah State University

Patriarchal Preoccupations: Deconstructing Patriarchy in the works of Lucio Vicente López, Eugenio Cambaceres, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera and Clorinda Matto de Turner

Abstract - Spicer-Escalante (pdf, 177kb)

Friday 15 May 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 602 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
David Lasagabaster
University of the Basque Country (Spain)

'On the way towards school multilingualism: Misgivings over EFL-medium instruction'

Abstract - Lasagabaster (pdf, 174kb)

Friday 22 May 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Leah Gerber
Monash University

Australian Voices in Germany: The translation of Anna Funder’s Stasiland
(in English)

Abstract - Gerber (pdf, 193kb)

Friday 22 May 2009, 3:30-5:00pm
Room 602 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
LAL Postgraduate Speed Paper Session

The purpose of this is for linguistics and applied linguistics research postgraduates to meet, get to know each other and hear a little about each other's research.

Please come along armed with a four minute (4 slide) speed paper outlining some aspect of your current research. Don't stress about this too much -- the idea is simply to present one aspect of your research in a friendly, informal atmosphere to fellow postgrads. If you really don't want to give a small speed paper, then please still come along anyway.

Friday 29 May 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
IPrA dry runs

2.15pm
Averil Grieve (University of Melbourne)
“Pragmatic marker acquisition in the study abroad context”
Abstract - Grieve (pdf, 50kb)

2.45pm
Celeste Rodríguez Louro & Chad Howe (University of Melbourne and University of Georgia, USA)
“Perfect potential: Semantic change in narrative contexts across Spanish dialects”
Abstract - Rodriguez Louro & Howe (pdf, 84kb)

3.15pm
Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)
“Serialised aspect in Murrinh-Patha”
Abstract - Nordlinger (pdf, 88kb)

3.45pm
Anna Margetts (Monash University)
“Clause combining and serialization in an Oceanic Language of Papua New Guinea”
Abstract - Margetts (pdf, 53kb)

4.15pm
Katharine Parton (University of Melbourne)
“The contextualisation of conductor gesture”
Abstract - Parton (pdf, 66kb)

4.45pm
Alice Rouse (University of Melbourne)
“Gesture, gender and simultaneous speech: A multimodal investigation”
Abstract - Rouse (pdf, 52kb)

Friday 26 June 2009, from 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Andrea Berez
University of California, Santa Barbara

Beyond Frog Stories: Speakers’ Attention to Path and Location in Ahtna Discourse

Abstract - Berez (pdf, 132kb)

Friday 24 July 2009, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Seminars held in 2008

Seminars held in 2007

Seminars held in 2006

 

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