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Department of Linguistics

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The Centre for Language in Social Life, formally established in 1994, is a designated Macquarie University Research Centre located within the Department of Linguistics. The Centre is dedicated to the study of language across many social contexts using a variety of theoretical approaches.

The Centre has a dual research orientation to

  • building descriptions of living social contexts and the discourse patterns that realise knowledge and interaction in these contexts
  • developing theoretical and methodological tools for modelling discourse that are based on extensive, accumulating information about how language functions within and between these living social contexts.

A distinctive feature of the Centre’s work is the development of computational tools for the analysis and description of natural language corpora. These tools are for both low-level pattern searching, which can be completely automated, and high-level linguistic analysis. Using these tools to study real language data is crucial to the linguistic research practised at the Centre.

The Centre contributes to the teaching programs in the Department of Linguistics and Centre staff and members teach in linguistic programs from first year to PhD supervision.

The Centre undertakes consultancy work, including the analysis of contexts of interaction and the development of materials for training manuals and communication tools. The Centre is also interested in communicating linguistic research to a general audience.

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