Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie University

03/01/2016

Read my new column at The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/we-swear-by-it-but-were-hardly-world-leaders-in-getting-to-grips-with-the-f-word-49676

The taboo meaning of the f-word is not nearly as common as the use of the word as an “emphatic intensifier”, or in the various idioms.

01/12/2015

Read my review of the Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe:
https://theconversation.com/confused-much-you-need-the-thing-explainer-complicated-stuff-in-simple-words-51397

In his new book, Randall Munroe of xkcd fame takes the principles of clear communication to what feels like their furthest extent, but there's a place for dense grammar in our theories and ideas.

15/07/2015

My latest blogpost

http://www.thepolicyspace.com.au/2015/14/33-australian-federal-budget-speeches-and-why-you-should-care-about-them

The Policy Space

14/05/2015

My new column at The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/three-missing-letters-say-it-all-about-hockeys-budget-pitch-41494

A budget speech that fails to discuss basic measures of how the economy going is revealing in itself. Joe Hockey is the first treasurer since at least 1981 not to mention GDP.

06/05/2015

My new column at The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/how-a-phd-in-linguistics-prepared-me-for-motherhood-39499

There's nothing like raising an infant to help galvanise one of the greatest debates in modern linguistics.

30/03/2015

My lectures for Grammar and Meaning: the experiential function (part 2). Free for reuse on Prezi:
http://prezi.com/pnrjgvwyfh_5/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Part 2 of the experiential functional

30/03/2015

What kinds of questions can you ask of a corpus? My slides for

https://prezi.com/w7l8jj6e2txp/what-kinds-of-questions-can-you-ask-of-a-corpus/

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22/03/2015

My lecture slides for week five on the experiential function: how we construe experience. Free for re-use on Prezi:
http://prezi.com/ouwz6ftbupxr/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

17/03/2015

My lectures slides for week four on the logical function: how we combine clauses together. Free for re-use on Prezi:

16/03/2015

My lectures slides for Week 4 Language, Culture and Communication on Linguistics in the Era of Big Data http://prezi.com/vg575ip24_yf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

10/03/2015

My slides for week 3 Grammar and Meaning on 'what is a clause?':
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20/01/2015

An interdisciplinary panel coming up, all Ling research students welcome, check it out.

Professor Sakkie Pretorius, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, will open this event. As our DVC research, Professor Pretorius has handed down a new Strategic Research Framework 2015-2024, a framework which includes the need to provide students with a ‘transformational’ research experience, including…