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Discipline of Linguistics
School of Humanities
Napier Building Level 7
Room 722
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 8 8313 1044
Fax: +61 8 8313 4341
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Seminars

At these seminars visiting academics report on research, students present research in progress, and staff provide support for students undertaking their dissertation. The seminars are also a good opportunity to discuss ideas and engage with other students.


Linguistics Research Seminar 2012


Convener: Prof Ghil'ad Zuckermann

SEMESTER ONE EVERY TUESDAY AT 2PM,                      
LIGERTWOOD (LAW BUILDING) 423

SEMESTER TWO EVERY MONDAY AT 1PM,
NAPIER LG23, 23 JULY - 10 SEPTEMBER

SEMESTER TWO EVERY MONDAY AT 1PM,
NAPIER LG23, 8 OCTOBER - 22 OCTOBER

28 February Introducing Ourselves
6 March Sally Collyns, Adelaide
From Istanbul to Adelaide - Reflections on a Career in English Language Teaching
13 March Professor Michael Katz, University of Haifa, Israel
Cognitive Impact of Grammatical Gender in the Israeli Language
20 March (A) Handoyo Puji Widodo, Adelaide
     Developing English Materials for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Purposes: A
     Blended Principled Framework;   
(B) Jasmin Morley, Adelaide 
     The Importance of ‘Esoteric' Functions of Language in Human Society
27 March Dr Amy Perfors, Psychology, Adelaide
Computational Models of Language Acquisition: What Can They Tell Us?
17 April

(A) Dr Tim Curnow, UniSA
     Language education in Australian schools: Commonwealth policy versus state-level implementation;
(B) Napatsinee Vichaidit, Adelaide
     The Discourse of Thai Police Officers and Foreign Tourists in Thailand

24 April (A) James McElvenny, University of Sydney
     Scientists or engineers? Academic linguists and the international language movement, 1879-1951;
(B) Jodie Martin, Adelaide
     Being jazz in student writing
 1 May Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University 
Warlpiri Nicknaming - A Sociolinguistic Perspective
 8 May Dr Rob Amery, Adelaide
Taking to the Airwaves: A Strategy for Language Revival
 15 May (A) Aiyoub Pineh, Adelaide
     Exploring the Impact of Genre-Based Pedagogy in Developing Grammatical Metaphor in Students'
      Writing;
(B) Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Adelaide
     Cross-cultural Setting of Language Teaching in a Saudi Arabian Context.
 22 May Professor Peter Sutton, South Australian Museum
Giving Away Language: Praxis vs Ideology in the Loss of Linguistic Diversity
 29 May Nicola Fanning, Flinders University
Speech Pathology
  5 June Revd Dr Matthew Anstey, Principal, St Barnabas' Theological College, Adelaide
Narratives in Biblical Hebrew: Grammatical indicators of plot

Please contact Professor Zuckermann if you would like to give a presentation/lecture.
University of Adelaide
Prof Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Discipline of Linguistics
Tel: 08 8313 5247
Mob: 0423 901 808


Some past presentations

  • Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Israeli, Hebrew and Semitic Morphology (15 August 2011).
  • Prof Eija Ventola (Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki): Tourism Linguistics
  • Dr Karmila Mokoginta: Intercultural Analysis of Indonesian and Australian Students' Nonverbal Behaviour
  • Nayia Cominos: Academic literacy in undergraduate linguistics students
  • Dr Rob Amery: Language Reclamation - Kaurna Case Study
  • Celine Chu: Pedagogic discourse in guided reading genres
  • Hiromi Teramoto: Sociolinguistic representation of identity in first and second language
  • Johanna Motteram: "Tone" and language test rating scale descriptors