Linguistics Research

Prof. Peter Mühlhäusler: Ecological Linguistics; Language and Environment; Integrational Linguistics; Language Planning; Norfolk Island language; Contact Languages; Pidgins and Creoles; Mission Linguistics; Indigenous Languages.

Dr Peter Mickan: Systemic Linguistics; Social Semiotics, Socialization and Learning in Communities of Practice, Communication in the Workplace, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Pedagogies, Literacy Practices, TESOL Curriculum Design, Language Proficiency Assessment, IELTS Assessment, Language Practices in Education, Academic Discourses, Refugee Settlement

Dr Rob Amery: Kaurna Linguistics; Australian Indigenous Languages; Indigenous Languages and Education; Indigenous Languages and Health; Language Revival; Language Planning; Mission Linguistics; Languages in Contact; Koines; Lexical Semantics and Lexicography.

Dr Peter White: The language of evaluation, literacy, student writing and academic English; corpus linguistics; journalistic discourse analysis;, political rhetoric and dvertising; discourses of growth and sustainability; cross cultural communication and translation studies, multi modality; computational linguistics; new developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics.