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Department of Linguistics

Dr Jan Tent

Jan Tent

Formal name: Jan Tent

Position: Senior Lecturer, Co-ordinator, Postgraduate Programs in Applied Linguistics, Deputy Head of Department

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BA (Hons) Dip. Ed. Macq., PhD. Otago.

Telephone: +61 2 9850 9659

Fax: +61 2 9850 9199

Email: Jan.tent@ling.mq.edu.au

Location: C5A 528

Web Pages: Selected Publications

Profile

Jan joined the Linguistics Department as a full-time lecturer in January 2002. However, he has had a long-standing association with the department dating back to 1972. He was an honorary associate from 1997 to 2001. From 1991 to 1998, he was a senior lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of the South Pacific (Suva , Fiji). During this time, he conducted a large scale language use and attitude survey which formed part of his PhD, and was lucky enough to travel extensively throughout the South Pacific as part of his teaching duties. From 1977 to 1990, Jan lectured at Sydney University in Linguistics and English language in the English Department, the graduate Diploma in TEFL and the Linguistics Department.

He is currently Director of Linguistics Higher Degree Research; convenor of LING905 (Research Methods for Language Study), LING934 (Dissertation Part A), LING935 (Dissertation Part B), LING914 (Lexicography), TRAN825 (Bilingual Lexicography), and co-convenor of LING317 (Corpus Linguistics). Jan is also the Chair of the Faculty of Human Sciences Standards & Quality Committee, and the University Postgraduate Study Patterns Committee.

Other professional contributions include: Director of the Australian National Placenames Survey; Secretary & Public Officer of Placenames Australia; member of the Advisory Board of Lexikos; member of the Technical & Scientific Subcommittee of the Geographical Names Boardof NSW; member of the Committee for the Geographical Names of Australasia.

Research interests

  • Descriptive and general linguistics
  • Varieties of English
  • Fiji English
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language use and attitudes
  • Language variation and change
  • Historical linguistics
  • Lexicography
  • Toponymy

 

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