Research Interests of Staff
Research Supervision Preferences of Academic Staff
The following listing shows the areas of particular interest and research specialisations of staff members in the Macquarie University Department of Linguistics, for purposes of M.A.(Hons.)/Ph.D research supervision. Persons wishing to apply for admission to research candidature in this Department may wish to direct their initial enquiry to a specific staff member about the possibility of supervision.
- Aphasic discourse
- Neurogenic language impairment
- Application of Systemic-Functional theory to communication disorders
- Treatment interactions in Speech Pathology: a socio-linguistic approach
- Functional communication in speakers with neurogenic communication disorders
- Teacher cognition
- Literacy/reading/writing
- Classroom-based research
- Language assessment
- Program evaluation
- Text linguistics: as a source of evidence in all forms of social research
- Grammar, semantics, context: links between descriptions, and forms of representation (especially networks)
- Stylistics and variation: theory and description, from genre/register to literary styles
- Language and complex systems: modelling behaviour as networks of 'choice'; intelligent systems
- History of Linguistics: e.g. from Saussure to Prague School; Rhetorical traditions
- Integrating discourse analysis, pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics and text analysis in the study of communication in healthcare, law, social services, management and organizations, involving a range of research methodologies
- Research-based and theorized studies in Applied Linguistics (in fields other than language education, for example in translation and community interpreting)
- Relationships between discursive competence and professional expertise
- Critical discourse analysis: its intellectual bases and applications in social life
- Disciplinary discourses in the academy and the professions
- Site-specific language policy, especially in multilingual and multi-cultural contexts
- Language learning and teaching processes in technology-mediated environments
- Phonetics
- Acoustic analysis
- Accent variation and change
- Australian English
- Sociophonetics
- Phonetic transcription
- Psycholinguistic studies of sentence comprehension and production
- Reading development in people with intellectual disabilities
- Written language in the medical/paramedical/pharmaceutical fields
- Technical content for a lay audience
- ESP/EAP/LSP
- Management in language teaching operations
- Discourses of Professions and Organisations
- Business Discourse
- Communicative Expertise
- Academic Literacies - English for Academic Purposes
- English for Science and Technology
- Systemic functional linguistics
- TESOL
- Ideology and language
- Discourse analysis
- Acoustic Phonetics (First and Second Language)
- Speech perception
- Auditory Processing of speech
- Speech Synthesis and Text-to-speech
- Evaluation of speech technology
- Discourse Analysis (Pragmatics; CA; CDA; SFL)
- TESOL/Applied Linguistics teacher education
- Language learning in Asian contexts
- Academic and professional English
- Language assessment
Dr Jemina Napier
- Sign language interpreting
- Application of translation and interpreting theory to practice
- Ethics of interpreting
- Signed versus spoken language discourse
- Bilingualism
- Australian English usage
- World Englishes
- Computerised databases of English texts
- Orthography and Morphology
- Linguistics as applied to writing
- Editing and Publishing
- Amplification for the hearing-impaired
- Assessment of hearing handicap
- Cochlear implants -- implications for users
- Auditory processing disorders
- Aural rehabilitation
- Epidemiology of hearing loss
- Electrophysiological assessment of hearing
- Client/audiologist interaction in the audiology clinic
- Gender and language
- Language and power
- Cross-cultural communication
- Discourse analysis
- Workplace communication
- Arabic sociolinguistics/semantics
- Linguistic virtuosity
- Anthropological linguistics
- Conversational Analysis
- Topics in languages and cultures other than English; particularly Afro-Asiatic
- Communication disorders: bilingual aphasia (sociocultural factors; approaches to asssessment and rehabilitation)
- Second language acquisition: English for Academic Purposes (individual learner differences; syllabus and materials design)
- Second language acquisition: English for Specific Purposes (English for medical/allied health professions or for biological/biomedical sciences)
- Cognitive processes in translation and interpreting
- Translation strategies
- Translation pedagogy
- First language attrition
- Translation & ideology
- Interpreting skills & analysis
- General/descriptive linguistics
- Language variation and change
- Sociolinguistics
- Language use
- Language attitudes
- World Englishes; Pacific Englishes
- Pragmatics
- Historical linguistics
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