Research Seminar Series 2024
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2024 SCHEDULE
Note: Seminars usually take place on Friday afternoons from 4pm to 5pm, unless otherwise noted, and will be presented both on campus and online wherever possible. The on-campus venue is the Delbridge Room (Room 558) in 12 Second Way. The Zoom link is always https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88546604589?pwd=cFVqbmdCb2hvT04yRTliN1B6VVJtUT09
Password: 798325
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(Organisers: Adam Smith, Ashleigh Jones)
| Date | Speaker | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb-23 | Samantha Rarrick (Griffith University) | Eyeblinks, prosody, and mobilizing sign language documentation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| April-5* | James McElvenny (Universität Siegen) | Linguistic relativity and translation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 3-May | Rod Gardner (University of Queensland) | How to subvert the turn-taking rules of conversation (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 10-May** | Charles Chang (Boston University) | Examining language knowledge through the multilingual repertoire (Abstract) | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 24-May | Camilla Di Biase-Dyson | Colour, emotion and the universality/relativity debate. A perspective from languages of the Ancient Near East (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 7-June** | Lucie Ménard (Université du Québec à Montréal) | Multisensory integration in speech production and perception: the case of French-speaking children and adults (Abstract) | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 14-June* | Sari Pietikäinen (University of Jyväskylä) | Connecting discursive and material elements in the heating Arctic: A critical assemblage analysis (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 21-June* | Marco Santello (University of Turin) | On decoupling migrants' individual resourcefulness and communicate success: questions from the field (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 5-July* | Liesa Rühlmann (Bielefeld University) | Linguistic racism and speaker positionality in Germany’s schools (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 12-July* | Book Launch (5pm) | Life in a new language | T1 Lecture Theatre, 10 Hadenfeld Avenue |
| 30-July (Tuesday 4pm) | Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz) | From the Grimms’ fairy tales to Star Wars: How linguistics investigates the language of popular culture with corpora (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 9-August | Joe Blythe | The primordial centre of everything (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 16-August | Shiwei Fu | Characterisation in Literary Translation: A Systemic Functional Approach to the English Translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 30-August** | Mark Johnson | Large Language Models and the Changing Face of Computational Linguistics (Abstract) | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 6-September | Lauren Reed | A pragmatic typological survey of backchannelling in sociolinguistically diverse sign languages (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 13-September | Caroline de Dear | Content-question words in Gija conversations (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 20-September | Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg) | Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 4-October | Richard Savery | Robotic Musicianship (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 9-October# | Ioannis Galantomos (University of Thessaly) | Cognitive Linguistics Approaches to Teaching Languages in Global Contexts (Abstract) | 3pm, 25WW C120+121 |
| 11-October** | Raphaël Millière | A Philosophical Introduction to LLMs (Abstract) | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
| 25-October | Anastasia Pattemore (University of Groningen) | The multilingual turn in studies on learning from subtitled audiovisual input (Abstract) | 12SW, 558/Zoom |
| 15-November** | Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt University) | Beauty Lies in the Ear of the Beholder: Phonaesthetics of Constructed Languages in a Multilingual Perspective (Abstract) | AHH 3.610/Zoom |
*co-hosted with Language on the Move
**co-hosted with CLaS
# hosted by MCCALL (RSVP to patricia.koromvokis@mq.edu.au)