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Recent Publications

Language and Learning in the Disciplines

• Jones, A. (forthcoming). Mythic origins of moral evil: The emergence of moral consciousness in three New Guinea societies. In Michael Goddard and Deborah van Heekeren (Eds.), Knowing and Unknowing: Philosophical Considerations in Oceanic Anthropology. Sean Kingston Publishing.


• Sin, S., Reid, A., and Jones, A. (forthcoming 2012). An exploration of students' conceptions of accounting work. Accounting Education.


• Jones, A. (2011). Embedding English in the tertiary curriculum: Engaging with content through writing. In Zhongshe Lu, Weimin Zhang and Aaron Crippen (Eds.), Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning at Tertiary Level. [Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Teaching English at the Tertiary Level. Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC (October 2010).] Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University. ISBN: 978-962-367-720-2 Available online: http://mq.academia.edu/AlanJones/Papers/955159/


• Jones, A., and S. McCracken (2011). Crossing the boundary between finance and law: The collaborative problematisation of professional learning in a postgraduate classroom. In C. Candlin and S. Sarangi (eds), Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Jones, A. (2010). Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence? In A. Mahboob & N.K. Knight (Eds.), Appliable Linguistics: texts, contexts and meanings. London: Continuum.
  
  
• Jones, A. (2009). Business discourse as a site of inherent struggle. In Ahmar Mahboob & Caroline Lipovsky (Eds.), Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  
  
• Peters, P; Jones, A; Smith, A; Winchester-Seeto T; Petocz, P and Middledorp, J (2006 [appeared 2008]) TermFinder: An online dictionary for beginning university students. Journal of Applied Linguistics 3 (2): 259-288.
  
  
• Jones, A. and S. McCracken. (2007). Teaching the discourse of legal risk to finance professionals: Foundations for a linguistically scaffolded curriculum. In Robert Wilkinson and Vera Zegers (eds.). Researching Content and Language Integration in Higher Education. Nijmegen, Maastricht: Valkhof Pers & Maastricht University. Pp. 122-136.
  
  

• Sin, S., Jones, A. and Petocz, P. 2007. Evaluating a Method of Integrating Generic Skills with Accounting Content based on a Functional Theory of Meaning. In Accounting & Finance, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 143-163.

• Jones, A. 2005. Conceptual Development in Technical and Textbook Writing: A Challenge for L1 and L2 Student Readers. Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, July 2005. CD-ROM. Available from IEEE Professional Communication Society (IEEE Catalog Number: 05CH37660C)

• Jones, A., and S. Sin. 2005. Perceptions and Priorities of Two Diverse Groups of First Year Accounting Students. Australian Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, 21-50. Original paper presented at HERDSA 2002 is available online at: http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences
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• Winchester-Seeto T., Jones, A. A., Caldon, H. J., Deane, E. 2004. Finding the right words - a systematic approach to word selection for a special purpose science dictionary. In Merrett, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Scholarly Inquiry in Flexible Science Teaching and Learning Symposium. Sydney: UniServ Science.
  

• Jones, A., and S. Sin. 2004 The integration of language and content: Action research based on a theory of task design. Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 1 No. 1, 95-100.

• Jones, A., and Sin, S. 2004. Integrating language with content in first year accounting. In R. Wilkinson (ed.) Integrating Content and Language: meeting the challenge of a multilingual higher education 478-492. Maastricht: Maastricht University Press.

• Jones, A., and S. Sin. 2003. Generic Skills for Accounting: Competencies for Students and Graduates. Sydney: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education.

• Jones, A., and T. Freeman. 2003 Imitation, copying and the use of models: Report writing in an introductory physics course. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 46, No. 3, 168-184. Special Issue: Developing Language Support for Non-Native Speakers of English in Science and Engineering (guest editor Thomas Orr).

• Freeman, T., and A. Jones. 2002. Developing a Course in Report Writing Skills. In: Anna Reid, Maree Gosper and Sharon Fraser (Eds.), And Gladly Teche, Proceedings of Celebrating Teaching at Macquarie. Macquarie University: Centre for Flexible Learning.

Reviews

• Jones, A. Review: Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics, by Niko Besnier. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. In Pacific Affairs 84(4), December 2011.


• Jones, A. 2006. Review: Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck, & Torben Vestergaard (Eds.), Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten Critical Studies. In Reading in a Foreign Language, 18: 2, 140-147.http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2006/
  
  
• Jones, A. 2005. Review: Ronald Carter. Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk. London and New York, Routledge, 2004. In Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 28, 2, 87-92.
  
  
• Jones, A. 2005. Review: Susanne Tietze, Laurie Cohen and Gill Musson (2003), Understanding Organizations Through Language, and Rick Iedema (2003), Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization. In Discourse and Society, 16, 6, 884-890.

Selected Publications

Descriptive Linguistics

• Jones, A. (2008). Intention, obligation, effect: Categories of the verb in an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. Proceedings of the 35th International Systematic Functional Congress, Macquarie University, 21 - 25 July 2008.
  
  
• Jones, A. (2007). Mekeo chiefs and sorcers: Metaphor, ideology and practice. Oceania 77(3): 286-312.
  
  
• Jones, A. 1998. Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo: An Oceanic Language of Western Central Papua. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies; 1998. xx, 601 pp. (Pacific Linguistics, Series C; v. 138).
  

• Jones, A. 1996. Privately Owned Mekeo-Based Trade Languages. In Wurm, S. A., Mühlhäusler, P., & Tryon, D. T., eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter; 1996: 219-224 + Maps 26- 27.

• Jones, A. Mekeo. 1995. In: Tryon, Darrell T., Editor. Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies, Part 1: Fascicle 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; 1995: 775-780. (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; v. 10).

• Jones, A. Linking Beneficiary with Purpose in Mekeo, an Oceanic Language of Papua New Guinea. [Under review]