About
Dr Toni Borowsky-
Dr Borowsky has research interests which include: Theoretical Phonology especially issues of lexical phonology in Optimality Theory; The formalization of phonological variation in OT; Articulatory phonetics; Language acquisition; Working with Peter Avery at York University, Toronto on Reversing Games and Luo.
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Professor William Foley-
Professor William Foley has quite a wide range of interests. He has worked in syntactic theory from a lexicalist approach and the role of semantics in syntax and have published extensively on this topic (Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar, Cambridge, 1984).
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Dr Ahmar Mahboob-
Dr Ahmar Mahboob has worked in the areas of language policy development, pidgin and creole languages, NNEST studies, English language acquisition, English language teaching and teacher education, World Englishes, pragmatics, and issues surrounding minority languages in South Asia. Dr Mahboob is the Past President of Indiana TESOL and the current Chair of the NNEST Caucus in TESOL International.
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Professor James Martin-
Professor James Martin’s research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. Professor Martin was elected a fellow the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003.
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Dr Jane Simpson-
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Dr Michele Zappavigna-
Dr Michele Zappavigna's research interests include: Systemic theory; Functional grammar; Development of technology to support discourse analysis; Corpus linguistics; Discourse analysis in the area of restorative justice; Systemic visualisation (visualising linguistic analyses).
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Associate Professor Linda Barwick-
Associate Professor Barwick is a music researcher and a great believer in cross-disciplinary and collaborative research. She is Director of PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Culturs, a research facility specialising in preservation and access to Australian researchers' field recordings of endangered languages and cultures of the Asia Pacific region.
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Dr Alice Caffarel-
Dr Caffarel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French Studies where she has been teaching French and linguistics since 2006. She specializes in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), a theory of language as meaning potential, and has developed a Systemic Functional Grammar of French which has been applied to the teaching of French, Discourse analysis and Stylistics at the University of Sydney.
Linguistics
Summary
Linguistics studies the full range of aspects of human language. It investigates the phonetics, grammar and semantics or individual languages, but through this seeks to uncover the features common to all human languages, the ‘linguistic universals.
Supervisor(s)
Dr Toni Borowsky, Professor William Foley, Dr Ahmar Mahboob, Professor James Martin, Dr Jane Simpson, Dr Michele Zappavigna, Associate Professor Linda Barwick, Dr Alice Caffarel
Research Location
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
Research students in linguistics study in a range of areas, from describing languages, carrying out research into theories of language (formal and functional), going on field-work, applying linguistic skills to areas such as translation, education, discourse analysis and intercultural communication. There's the opportunity for cross-disciplinary work - students can have supervisory teams with members from many of the language departments. Linguistics occupies a privileged position in the field of humanities and social sciences in that it touches on many of the central issues that concern a number of disciplines. Because language is concerned with communication between humans, it is relevant for the social sciences like anthropology and sociology; but because it is the central instrument for thinking and other cognitive tasks, it is also important to psychologists. Problems of language also loom large in fields like philosophy and literary criticism. Finally linguistics has many practical applications in fields like language teaching, general education, and computer science. The department holds a weekly research seminar. In addition, students are encouraged to take part in the reading groups and master-classes offered at Sydney and at other universities in the area. Staff are keen to support research students, with a structured programme of study as well as assisting in finding field locations and funding for fieldwork.
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Keywords
human language, liguistic theories, phonetics, semantics, applied linguistics, field linguistics, Discourse analysis, phonology, syntactic theories, language and thought, systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, grammar.
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 474
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