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Publications

Rieschild, V .R. (forthcoming) Arabic ya^cni: issues of semantic, pragmatic, and indexical translation equivalence.

Rieschild, V.R. 2008. Review Article. Wierzbicka, Anna. 2006. English: meaning and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 352 pp. Intercultural Pragmatics 5-1, 75–82.

Rieschild, V.R. 2007. Influences of Language Proficiency, Bilingual Socialization, and Urban Youth Identities on Producing Different Arabic-English Voices in Australia Novitas Royal 1(1): 34 – 52.

Rieschild, V.R. 2006 ‘Emphatic Repetition in Spoken Arabic’ In Ilana Mushin (ed), Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 1-23 pp. Available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/274

Rieschild, V.R 2003. Words between Languages and Culture. Australian Style Volume 11.1.

Rieschild, V.R. 2003 Origami in a hurricane: current challenges to linguistic research. Australian Journal of Linguistics

Rieschild, VR 1999 Using affect to effect in Lebanese-Arabic and Australian-English pre-school interactions Australian Review of Applied Linguistics22 (1):97-120.

Rieschild, VR 1998 Lebanese Arabic Reverse Role Vocatives Anthropological Linguistics40(4):617-42

Rieschild VR 1997 Lebanese-Arabic discourse: Adult interaction with young childrenUnpublished PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra Australia

Rieschild, V 1994 Yes, Kylie, Echidnas are almost wombats: Adult Responses to young children's answers in two languages: Lebanese-Arabic and English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics17 (1):104-124

selected Conference Presentations

Rieschild, V.R. and O. Almalki .2010.  Indirect Speech Acts and Arabic Religious Formulae 4th International Conference Intercultural Pragmatics, Madrid, Spain.

Rieschild, V.R. 2009 Sociolinguistic Overview of Arabic  AWAAL September 11-13th University of Queensland, Australia.

Rieschild, V.R and J. Tent. 2008. Bilinguality, gender, and religion as influences on Arabic-Heritage Australian youths’ attitudes to their ambient languages and cultures. Sociolinguistic Symposium: Micro and Macro Connections, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Rieschild, V.R and J. Tent. 2008. Bilinguality, gender, and religion as influences on Arabic-Heritage Australian youths’ attitudes to their ambient languages and cultures. Sociolinguistic Symposium: Micro and Macro Connections, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Rieschild, V.R. September 2005 Semantics of medieval Arabic terms for subordinates Australex Conference. University of Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Rieschild, V.R. 2004 Repetition in Arabic Conference of the Linguistic Society of Australia, University of Sydney, Australia

Rieschild, V.R. 2000 Syncrony of talk and gesture in Lebanese Arabic interaction7th Annual Sociolinguistics Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Rieschild, V.R. July 2000 Sports commentating and audience design7 th Annual Sociolinguistics Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand.