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Seminars in 2008

Presenter Title Time/Location
Matilde V.R. Scaramucci
State University of Campinas, Brasil

Consequences and Validity

Abstract-Scaramucci (pdf, 176kb)

Friday 18 January 2008, 2.00pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Margaret Dahlstrom
The University of Melbourne

Swedish Bicultural Fiction: recurring themes and contrasting treatments.

Swedish PhD Confirmation talk

Thursday 7 February 2008, 11:00am
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Thi Thanh Ha Do
The University of Melbourne

The acquisition of English agreements and disagreements in a study abroad context.

Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk

Thursday 21 February 2008, 2:00pm
Room 502, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Sascha Rixon
The University of Melbourne

Humour and facilitator talk-in-interaction: An Australasian case study

Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk

Abstact-Rixon (pdf,171kb)

Friday 22 February 2008, 10:30am
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Akiko Ryumon
The University of Melbourne

Washback processes in the secondary school foreign language classroom: a case study of two Japanese classrooms

Linguistics PhD talk

Abstract-Ryumon (pdf, 180kb)

Friday 29 February 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Celeste Rodriguez Louro
The University of Melbourne

Linguistic-external forces on language change: The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish

Abstract-Rodriguez (pdf, 138kb)

Friday 7 March 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Alan Davies
University of Edinburgh

Academic Language Testing in the UK: the IELTS compromise

Abstract-Davies (pdf,176kb)

 

Friday 7 March 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Catriona Fraser
The University of Melbourne

An evaluation of intercultural communication practices amongst the Victoria Police.

Linguistics Conversion talk

Friday 14 March 2008, 11:00am
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

*Note date change
Janne Morton
The University of Melbourne

Becoming architectural: socialization into disciplinary discourse through the design studio presentation.

Linguistics PhD talk

Friday 14 March 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr. Timothy Baldwin
Computer Science, University of Melbourne

The Syntax and Semantics of Determinerless PPs in English and Dutch

Abstract-Baldwin (pdf,169kb)

Friday 14 March 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Abdul Asmari
The University of Melbourne

Integration of foreign culture in pre-service EFL teacher education: A case study of Saudi Arabia

Linguistics PhD Completion talk

Abstract-Asmari (pdf, 177kb)

Friday 4 April 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Sylvia Mackie
The University of Melbourne

The revival of the parataxis hypothesis

Linguistics PhD Completion talk

Abstract - Mackie (pdf, 180kb)

Friday 4 April 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Linguistics & Applied Linguistics - Honours
The University of Melbourne

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Mid-Year Honours Poster Session

Friday 11 April 2008, 1:00pm to 2:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Saya Ike
The University of Melbourne

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

Abstract - Ike (pdf, 178kb)

Friday 11 April 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Beth Zielinski
Forum on Accent #7

Reduced intelligibility in L2 speakers of English

3.30 - 4.30 Presentation + Question Time
4.30 - 5.00 Time to continue the conversations

Friday 11 April 2008, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Esther Jilovsky
Royal Holloway, University of London

Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar

Recreating Postmemory? Using Holocaust Sites to 'experience' the Holocaust.

Abstract-Jilovsky (pdf, 168kb)

Friday 11 April 2008, 3:30pm to 5pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Prof Tim McNamara 
(Discussant: Dr Carsten Roever)

The University of Melbourne

A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch

Abstract-McNamara (pdf, 169kb)

Friday 18 April 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Hyejeong Kim
The University of Melbourne

Evaluating aviation policy in relation to English language proficiency testing: The case of Korea.

PhD Confirmation talk

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:30am
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Meredith Bartlett
The University of Melbourne

Language Use of Bilingual Deaf Adults using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and Australian English.

Abstract - Bartlett (pdf, 171kb)

Friday 2 May 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre,
University of Melbourne

Dan Flickinger
CSLI, Stanford University

This seminar is sponsored by HCSNet.

Transparent Heads in English

Abstract - Flickinger (pdf, 176kb)

Friday 2 May 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dr Heather Benbow
The University of Melbourne

Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar

The Gentleman and the Rogue: Jewish Protagonists in Lessing's Die Juden and Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker Friday 2 May 2008, 3:30pm to 5pm
Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros
The University of Melbourne

A principled framework of help options in computer based-listening

Confirmation talk

Friday 9 May 2008,
2:00pm

Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Susan Douglas
The University of Melbourne

Verb acquisition in the language of children with autism: syntax, semantics and social cognition.

Abstract - Douglas (pdf, 186kb)

Friday 9 May 2008,
3:15pm

Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Felicity Grey
PhD candidate sociology/linguistics
The University of Melbourne

Speaking well of the Other

Abstract-Grey (pdf, 171kb)

Friday 16 May 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Prof Tim McNamara 
The University of Melbourne

REPEAT

Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar

A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch

Abstract-McNamara (pdf, 169kb)

Friday 16 May 2008, 3:30pm to 5pm
Room 501, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Kerrie Delves
The University of Melbourne

Repair in the conversation of high functioning children with autism and typically developing children.

Abstract - Delves (pdf 216kb)
Friday 23 May 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Debbie Loakes
The University of Melbourne

When celery and salary are homophones: neutralisation of prelateral /æ / and /e/ in Melbourne English

Abstract - Loakes (pdf 21kb)

Friday 23 May 2008, 3.30pm (Note new time)
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

David Blencowe
Monash University

Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar

Please note that this Seminar has been cancelled.

Mosheer Amer
The University of Melbourne

The Linguistics of Representation: The New York Times’ Discourse on the Second Palestinian Intifada

PhD Completion talk

Abstract-Amer (pdf, 193kb)

Friday 20 June 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen
The University of Melbourne

An exploratory study of the acquisition of Vietnamese as a second language by ethnic minority children in a bilingual education program in Vietnam

PhD Confirmation talk

Abstract-Nguyen (pdf, 187kb)

Friday 20 June 2008, 3.30pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Assoc Prof John Bitchener
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand

Written corrective feedback and second language development: A ten month investigation of the relationship.

Abstract-Bitchener (pdf, 175kb)

Friday 11 July 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Dr Alexander Maxwell
Victoria University, Wellington

A Historian Examines Dialectology, or, Why the Slovak Language Has Three Dialects

Abstract-Maxwell (pdf, 172kb)

Monday 14 July 2008, 1:00pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Australian Society of French Studies (ASFS)

The XVIth meeting of the Australian Society of French Studies

Call for Papers (See web page):
First call for papers on issues concerned with “The ‘Minor’ Genres: kinds of document, kinds of documentary discourse”

14th to 16th of July 2008, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Interdisciplinary Conference

Borders & Crossings / Seuils et Traverses
Tenth Anniversary Bilingual Conference

Call for Papers (see web page):
Papers are invited on a wide range of topics related to travel writing and tourism studies and encourage participants from a variety of disciplines, including cultural geography, anthropology, history, literature and the creative arts. Participants interested in publication opportunities should address the proposed theme of “Time in Travel Writing and Tourism Studies” to be explored throughout the conference.

16th to 19th July 2007, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Hoa Nguyen
The University of Melbourne

Investigating the validity of two EFL listening tests

Completion talk

Friday 18 July 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Kazumi Namiki
The University of Melbourne

The development of the pragmatics of requests in Japanese as a foreign language setting

Abstract-Namiki (pdf, 179kb)

Conversion talk

Friday 25 July 2008, 11:00am
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Maureen Saclot
The University of Melbourne

Event Structure in Tagalog: Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Abstract-Saclot (pdf, 199kb)

Friday 25 July 2008, 2.15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Oliver Bond
SOAS, London

Conditions on agreement: Feature mismatch and intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme.

Abstract-Bond (pdf, 186kb)

Friday 1 August 2008, 2:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Dale Adams
University of Melbourne

Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series - German

The Confrontation of Thought and Reality: The Role and Significance of Mathematics in the work of Robert Musil, Hermann Broch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt

PhD Completion Talk (will be given in German)

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

Friday 1 August 2008, 3:30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Miriam Butt
University of Konstanz

An Ergative/Dative Connection

Abstract - Butt (pdf, 167kb)

Friday 1 August 2008, 3:15pm
Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne
Oranna Speicher
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
The University of Nottingham

The One-Stop-Language-Shop

Abstract - Speicher (pdf, 153kb)

Monday 4 August 2008, 12.10pm
Room 509 Arts Centre,
University of Melbourne
Anne Taille
University of Melbourne

Topic TBA

PhD Confirmation talk

Monday 11 August 2008, 12.10pm
Room 509 Arts Centre,
University of Melbourne
William B. McGregor
Aarhus University, Denmark

Optional ergative case-marking systems in a typological perspective

Abstract - McGregor (pdf,172kb)

Friday 15 August 2008, 3.15pm
Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

Erik Beyersdorf
Monash University

Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008

Normalising the Abnormal-Jonathan Littell's 'Die Wohlgesinnten' and Arno Surminski's 'Die Vogelwelt von Auschwitz'.

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

Friday 15 August 2008, 3.30pm
Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne

 

 

 

 

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