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Associate Professor Trevor Johnston
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Formal name: Trevor Johnston Position: Associate Professor Personal Title: Associate Professor Qualifications: B.A. (Hons) University of NSW, Ph.D. University of Sydney, D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) Macquarie University Telephone: +61 2 9850 8067 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 Email: Send an email Location: C5A 526 Web Pages: Selected Publications |
ProfileTrevor Johnston has worked in the area of signed languages linguistics since 1984. He also worked with the deaf community to achieve the recognition of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as a community language in the early 1980s. He was the author of the first dictionary of a signed language that used systematically the principle of sequencing signs according to language internal principles (1989). His doctoral dissertation on Auslan was completed in the same year. He has made significant public and academic contributions in the field of sign linguistics, language policy, and the professional development of teachers of the deaf and teachers of signed languages, both in Australia and overseas. In addition to publishing additional revised and specialist dictionaries of Auslan (in book and CD-ROM formats) in recent years, he has also conducted research in the area of sign bilingual education, evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of this approach in the education of deaf children. Some of his current research projects include a study of sociolinguistic variation in Auslan, and the creation of an Auslan corpus for archival and research purposes. (The project is funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.) Research interests |
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