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From the Linguistics Postgraduate Office

The 2005 Division Postgraduate Research Festival is scheduled to be held December 8-10. For those of you who are not familiar with this event, the festival is an opportunity for research students to showcase their work to others in the Department, and to get feedback on their research in a friendly and collaborative environment. Last year's festival received extremely positive feedback from participants and staff alike.

Presentation at the Festival is compulsory for full-time on-campus students (part-time candidates may elect to present every other year). The Divisional Research Committee determined that it will also be compulsory for distance mode research students to produce a poster for display at the festival commencing this year.

The Festival Committee is looking for volunteers. If you are available to assist with this important activity, please let us know via email.

Robyn Guilmette & Lorraine Whybrow, Linguistics Postgraduate Office, Tel: 61-2-9850 7102 Fax: 61-2-9850 9352

Linguistics Department Research Seminars

For more information about the 2005 Linguistics Research Seminar Series, please refer to the Seminar web page http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/research/researchseminars.htm

Two Speaking and Listening Workshops for Linguistics Postgraduate Students

Linguistics postgraduate students are advised that there are some places available in the final two speaking and listening workshops which form part of the Writing and Communication Skills Program. These workshops will be held after the mid-semester break.

You can attend Workshop One on Monday 2 May between 2 pm and 4 pm in W5C 312 OR on Thursday 5 May between 2 pm and 4 pm in W5A 201. This workshop will focus on strategies for learning English as a second/foreign language, and on aspects of English pronunciation.

You can attend Workshop Two on Monday 9 May between 2 pm and 4 pm in W5C 312 OR on Thursday 13 May between 2 pm and 4 pm in W5A 201. This workshop will focus on the prosodic apsects of English, and will look at communication strategies and issues of cultural context.

If you have not already enrolled in this program and would like to join either of these two workshops, please contact Tessa Green on (02) 9850-6875 or email tgreen@ling.mq.edu.au

From the NCELTR Resource Centre

News from Multilingual Matters

Academic publisher Multilingual Matters has decided to allow open access to a large proportion of its backlist of journals. A searchable archive of all issues up to and including 2003 that are available online has been set up. This announcement comes amidst increasing interest and, in some cases, concern surrounding access to scientific information, and a growing realisation that the current publishing model has traditionally excluded some academics due to high subscription fees. This open access arrangement means anyone searching on the Internet via a search engine will be able to access whole papers, rather than simply abstracts.

The archive includes: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism; Evaluation and Research in Education; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Language Awareness; Language Culture and Curriculum; Language and Education; Perspectives: Studies in Translatology.

The archive can be found at http://www.multilingual-matters.net

Information about resources may be found at our website http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/resources Our email address is rescentr@nceltr.mq.edu.au and phone number 9850 9653.

From the Macquarie Library

The journal Applied Linguistics is now available online in full text from 1980-1995, 1999-current via Macquarie University Library.

If you have any enquiries relating to linguistics and library resources please feel free to contact Maureen Kattau, Academic Outreach Librarian, Linguistics and Psychology, Macquarie University Library e-Learning & Information Services Division Ph: (61 2) 9850 6521, Email: mkattau@library.mq.edu.au

NCELTR research workshops and seminars

Those of you conducting research in the TESOL and Applied Linguistics areas may be interested in these research workshops run by NCELTR. For details, please contact Julian Edge on (61 2) 9850 9979 or email: Julian.Edge@mq.edu.au

NCELTR Seminar

Open to all professionals and students of TESOL, Applied Linguistics, Education and related areas. Held: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m (followed by drinks), Building E3B Room 315-6, Macquarie University, RSVP: Becky Robertson, Tel: 9850 7959 PGCert@nceltr.mq.edu.au

Systemic Functional Linguistics Seminars (Sydney University)

Four presentations from Macquarie University staff will take place in April and May at Sydney University as part of the Systemic Functional Lingustics Seminar Series. Venue - the Mills Building Room 148, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. All welcome.

April
15 Professor Christian Matthiessen
22 Professor Christian Matthiessen

May
6 Dr. Annabelle Lukin
20 Dr. Stephen Moore

Call for Book Proposals: IMPACT - Studies in Language and Society

IMPACT publishes monographs, collective volumes, and textbooks on topics in sociolinguistics. The scope of the series is broad, with special emphasis on areas such as language planning and language policies; language conflict and language death; language standards and language change; dialectology; diglossia; discourse studies; language and social identity (gender, ethnicity, class, ideology); and history and methods of sociolinguistics.

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. Authors are invited to submit book proposals to the new General Editor Dr Ana Deumert (ana.deumert@arts.monsh.edu.au) or Kees Vaes at John Benjamins Publishing Company (kees.vaes@benjamins.nl).

Advisory Board: Peter Auer, University of Freiburg, Jan Blommaert, Ghent University, Annick De Houwer, University of Antwerp, J. Joseph Errington, Yale University, Anna Maria Escobar, University of Illinois at Urbana, Guus Extra, Tilburg University, Marlis Hellinger, University of Frankfurt am Main, Elizabeth Lanza, University of Oslo, William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Peter H. Nelde, Catholic University Brussels, Peter L. Patrick, University of Essex, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, University of the West of England, Victor Webb, University of Pretoria.

The Grant Institute Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop held at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. The Scientia Gallery, 1 & 2 30 May - 1 June 2005 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

The Grant Institute's Grants 101 Course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.

Participants will become competent program planning and proposal writing professionals after successful completion of the Grants 101 course. In three active and informative days, students will be exposed to the art of successful grant writing practices, and led on a journey that ends with a masterful grant proposal.

At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as part of a strategic grant acquisition effort.

Registration - $997.00 USD tuition includes all materials and certificates. Each student will receive: *The Grant Institute Certificate in Professional Grant writing, *The Grant Institute's Guide to Successful Grant Writing, *A to Z Grant Writing, *The Grant Institute Grant Writer's Workbook with sample proposals, forms, and outlines

Registration methods 1) On-Line -Visit www.thegrantinstitute.com and click on the Registration area. Fill out the online registration form completely. We'll send your confirmation by e-mail. 2) By Phone - Call 0011 - 1 (213) 817-5308 to register by phone. Our friendly Program Coordinators will be happy to assist you and answer your questions. 3) By E-mail - Send an e-mail with your name, organization, and basic contact information to info@thegrantinstitute.com and we will reserve your slot and send your Confirmation Packet.

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

New Publications

From Routledge (Taylor and Francis) - http://www.routledge.com/ -

From Equinox Publishing Ltd - http://www.equinoxpub.com/

Analysing Casual Conversation, Series Title: Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics. 2005. Suzanne Eggins, University of New South Wales, Diana Slade, University of Technology, Sydney.

Analysing Casual Conversation, first published in 1997 by Cassell and re-issued now in paperback by Equinox, develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversation in English. Working through authentic examples of casual conversations involving participants differing in age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured activity and plays a critical role in the social construction of reality. Drawing on insights from sociology, linguistics and critical semiotics, the book equips readers with the analytic skills to describe the layers of structure and critical interpretive frameworks to explain the 'social work' that goes on through chat. http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=13692

From Mouton De Gruyter - http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Free online journals

Research students may be interested in Lingusitics journals from Springer. Springer has a "free trial" where a range of online journals are freely available. You should also be encouraged to contact them with ideas for monographs which may lead to publication opportunities.. For more information go to http://www.springeronline.com/ and follow the links to Linguistics journals.

Call for papers - Erlbaum journal

The Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has the new Erlbaum journal - "Pedagogies: An International Journal" on their website. Those who are interested can refer to: http://www.crpp.nie.edu.sg/portal/Journals/Pedagogies/

Scholarships and awards

2006 General Sir John Monash Awards.

Applications close on 31st August 2005. Application forms are now available on our Website at http://www.monashawards.org.

The Awards are Australia's prestigious equivalent to the Rhodes scholarship and the American Fulbright programme. The Awards offer up to $150,000 over three years for postgraduate studies (PHD, DPhil or professional Masters Degree) at the best universities overseas. Only eight Awards are made each year to Australian citizens adjudged to have outstanding academic achievement, community consciousness and service and leadership potential of their field and the community. The Foundation expects Award Winners to make a significant contribution to the future development of Australia. There is no restriction on the age of applicants or the fields of study. The average age of Past Winners is 26 and they have come from universities across Australia including from the fields of:Science; Engineering; Law; Economics; Social Studies; Health; Arts; and Music.

Summer course scholarships

The Turkish Government offers Summer Course Scholarships for Turkish Language and Culture to Australian students who are interested in Turkish culture and language. The scholarships are granted in the 2005-2006 academic year. The scholarships will start on 1 July 2005 and end on 31 August 2005. All the information about scholarships conditions,application and selection, qualifications and documents that are required can be found in the application, which is accessible through http://www.turkishembassy.org.au/genel/annoucements.htm#EducationScholarships

Higher education scholarships

The Turkish Government offers Higher Education Scholarship to Australian students who are interested in studying at a Turkish University. The scholarships are granted in the 2005-2006 academic year. The scholarships commence on 1 October 2005. Applications for this scholarship close on 30 June 2005. More information and application forms are available on the Turkish Embassy website, http://www.turkishembassy.org.au/genel/annoucements.htm#EducationScholarships

Applications for both these scholarships are to be submitted directly to the Turkish Embassy. The Embassy's address is: The Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, 60 Mugga Way, Red Hill ACT 2603, Tel: (02) 6295 0227, 6295 0228, Fax: (02) 6239 6592 Email turkembs@bigpond.net.au

The State Scholarships Foundation ( É.Ê.Õ.) of Greece

IDP Education Australia would like to inform you of the following scholarship opportunity. As applications for this scholarship close in mid-May, your prompt distribution to appropriate candidates would be appreciated. The State Scholarships Foundation ( É.Ê.Õ.) of Greece announces that it will offer up to forty (40) scholarships for nationals (foreigners or of Greek origin) from Western Europe, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan for postgraduate, postdoctoral Greek history and language studies in Greece beginning in the academic year 2005-2006. For further information and application forms, please refer to http://www.iky.gr/scholarships/allodapoi/default.htm. This information will also be available on the IDP website at www.idp.com/scholarships.

Positions Vacant

Division of Lingusitics and Psychology, Macquarie University - Chair and Head of Division of Linguistics and Psychology
Ref. 16009

Executive Dean With An Entrepreneurial And Innovative View. Leading Australian University. Research-Intensive Faculty With International Profile. The University: Macquarie University, in North Ryde, Sydney is Australia's Innovative University and promotes strong links between research and teaching. It has been successful in gaining recognition of its research strength through the award of grants, national research centres and networks, and four Federation Fellowships. In teaching, the University offers programs of study leading to the traditional degrees of Bachelor, Master and Doctor, as well as numerous degrees named to indicate the area of specialization. The University develops and maintains strong international links for research and for teaching programs. Visit http://www.mq.edu.au for further information.

The Role: The Division of Linguistics and Psychology is the second largest of nine divisions at the University, comprising the Departments of Linguistics and of Psychology and two internationally recognised research centres; the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science and the National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research. It has c. 3,000 EFTSU and c. 300 Higher Degree Research Students. Innovative clinical and offshore programs are offered by both Departments and the Division has collaborative links within the University. Reporting to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), the appointee will be accountable, during an initial five-year term, for the development in the Division of its research profile, international and industry links, innovation in teaching and learning, entrepreneurial projects, and for management of its resources. The essence of the role is to identify the strategies for academic growth, which build on current strengths, and lead the implementation of these in a collaborative and collegial manner.

Selection Criteria: These are available on the website of the University (http://www.pers.mq.edu.au/ads/2005/Apr/16009sc.html) and include evidence of an outstanding academic record and research profile in a discipline of relevance to the Division, as well as of the ability to lead the staff in the achievement of Divisional and University strategic goals.

To Express Interest: Contact Rod Stockell at HigherEd Appointments, the executive search firm advising the University, by emailing search@HigherEd-Appointments.com.au or telephoning 0412 186 971 for further information. Applications, including a full CV, nomination of four referees, and covering letter addressing the selection criteria, should be received by email by 29 April 2005.

Lecturer in TESOL (2 positions) - Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia.

The Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney is seeking to appoint two Lecturers in the area of TESOL. Successful applicants will contribute to teaching in the Faculty's TESOL teacher education programs, and be active researchers in the area of TESOL. The positions will also require supervision of students undertaking practice teaching in schools, the supervision of research students and the coordination of units of study in degree and diploma programs. The positions will involve short periods of teaching overseas. Applicants are advised to familiarise themselves with the Faculty's organisation and programs by reviewing material on its homepage, located at http://www.edsw.usyd.edu.au

The successful applicant must have demonstrated successful teaching experience in the area of TESOL; a PhD relevant to the area of TESOL; knowledge of current theory and practice in the area of TESOL; record of refereed publications; and a clear research trajectory in the area of TESOL. Demonstrated success in teaching on TESOL teacher education programs, experience in the flexible delivery of TESOL teacher education programs and experience in applying for competitive grants are desirable.

The positions are full time continuing, subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation and/or confirmation period for new appointees. Membership of a University approved superannuation scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees. Enquiries about these position can be directed in the first instance to Ms Cecilia Rigor-Aguilar: c.rigor@edfac.usyd.edu.au Further enquiries can be directed to Associate Professor David Evans e-mail: d.evans@edfac.usyd.edu.au

Remuneration package: $A75,136 - $A89,223 p.a. (which includes a base salary Lecturer Level B $A63,491 - $A75,395 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation). Closing: 12 May 2005. Reference No: B15/005852

Teaching positions - The Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney

The Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, is seeking expressions of interest (CV, 2 referees and a preliminary course outline) for teaching one or both of the following two units, which we hope to be able to have taught in second semester 2005. Their description is given below. Please send expressions of interest, including CV, names and contact details for 2 referees and a preliminary course outline, to: Professor William Foley William.Foley@arts.usyd.edu.au, Linguistics F12, University of Sydney NSW 2006, phone +61 2 9351 4569, fax: +61 2 9351 7572.

1. Undergraduate: Australia's indigenous languages. Classes: (one 2 hr lecture & one 1 hr tutorial)/wk

This unit of study aims to give an overview of the languages of indigenous Australians. Of the 250 distinct Aboriginal languages spoken in 1788, most are dead or dying and just 20 languages are expected to survive another few generations. This unit of study will challenge this grim and oft-quoted statistic. We will see that new Aboriginal languages have emerged, apparently moribund languages have been gaining strength and distinctive Aboriginal ways of talking have survived. We consider why some languages have prospered while others have declined. We explore how Australian languages have responded to the challenges of non-Aboriginal settlement, in such arenas as education, land rights and health. Assessment: Essay, other written assignments.

2. Postgraduate: Pragmatic grammar of English. Classes: 2 hours per week

The semantics of verbs and verb classes include tense, aspect, and mood; participant roles, noun types and their semantics, and noun phrase structure; grammatical relations and their meanings, including subjects and objects; information structure and voice alteration, including active, passive and middle; the syntactic structure of clauses; topic and focus; speech acts and their syntactic realisations; clause combining and control; semantic and pragmatic constraints.Assessment: Assignments totalling 5,000 words

Position in teaching Japanese as a second language - Temple University Japan.

TUJ is seeking to hire a teacher of Japanese as a second language to help revamp and modernize our undergraduate Japanese language curriculum. We are looking for someone with the following qualifications: Doctorate in Japanese, Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Japanese, Second Language Education, or a closely related field; Knowledge of current SLA theory and its application to JSL teaching; Ability to create a world-class JSL program based on innovative ideas for incorporating both form- and meaning-focused instruction; Ability to work collegially with other professors of Japanese and colleagues in other fields; Experience in teaching Japanese as a second language; A record of scholarship and publication in JSL pedagogy and curriculum design; Native speaker of Japanese preferred, but others would be considered; English language ability sufficient to interact with English-speaking colleagues on a daily basis at a high level.

The position would be full-time in the College of Liberal Arts at the rank of assistant or associate professor, depending on qualifications. It could potentially include responsibility for other Asian languages in addition to Japanese.

Please refer to: Patrick Rosenkjar, Ed.D. Professor of English Education, Assistant Dean for English Language Education, Director, Academic Preparation Program Temple University Japan rosenkjar@tuj.ac.jp

Discourse Analyst / Linguist - USA

H5 Technologies, Inc http://www.h5technologies.com/. is a privately held, Draper Fisher Jurvetson http://www.dfj.com/ funded company located in San Francisco's SOMA district. H5 provides technology based document review services to government agencies, law firms and corporate counsels through both direct sales and outsourced service contracts. H5's patented technology, which replicates and automates human relevance assessments, along with our advanced linguistic analysis enables the review of massive document collections with unparalleled results. H5 has have consistently outperformed alternative approaches to document review on price, speed and above all, quality. Our Professional Services Group consults with litigants and their legal teams to devise a classification scheme and then trains our patented software engine to automatically classify documents in the collection. H5 is seeking linguists to join us for several upcoming large projects.

Primary Responsibilities
* Rapidly developing an understanding of new fields
* Reading a wide variety of documents, from email to academic articles; synthesizing large amounts of information into a coherent picture of the community that produced and used it
* Researching factual issues in complex litigation
* Interviewing subject matter experts
* Analyzing linguistic data
* Researching large corpora for linguistic patterns
* Identifying and modeling processes and relationships in a community
* Designing, building, and testing H5's unique and proprietary knowledge bases

Key Competencies
* Demonstrated understanding of role of syntax in language.
* Mastery of the English language.
* An interest in researching and modeling another community's structure and the interests, goals, and constraints that shape the actions of members of that community - experience in ethnography or anthropology a plus.
* Leadership skills, personal incentive and a demonstrated ability to initiate, develop, and successfully conclude projects.
* A sharp eye for detail, precise thinking, ability to make close, analytical judgments, and a practiced sense of order and organization.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, both autonomously and collaboratively.
* Experience in a software development environment a plus.
* Basic computer and software competency in a PC/Windows environment, including Microsoft Office application. Basic familiarity with Unix and PERL - programming skills a plus.

Minimal Qualifications
* Solid academic credentials: graduate-level coursework in linguistics preferred.
* Experience applying linguistic expertise to real language data - experience in Corpus Analysis, Text Analysis, Conversational Analysis, or Computational Linguistics a plus.

H5 Technologies fosters a culture that rewards personal excellence in the pursuit of our common goals and is extraordinarily respectful of the individual and of the creative, intellectual, and cultural diversity of our team. Our culture has allowed us to attract and retain talented individuals who are driven by a vision of the way we will transform the practice of litigation. H5 Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. To apply: Send resume and cover letter to ling-jobs@h5technologies.com

 

 

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