School of Languages and Linguistics - Research Publications
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ItemTiles In A Multilingual Mosaic. Macedonian, Filipino, and Somali in Melbourne(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2006)
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ItemAustralia's community languages1(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006-12-01)
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ItemLanguage and Human Relations Styles of Address in Contemporary Language Introduction(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2009-01-01)The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names, and others 'Mr' or 'Ms', followed by their surname. In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another, from pronouns to first names, from honorifics to titles and last names. Examples are taken from contemporary English, French, German and Swedish, using rich data from focus group research, interviews, chat groups, and participant observation.
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ItemTowards a more language-centred approach to plurilingualism(Multilingual Matters, 2003)
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ItemDynamics of Language Contact(Cambridge University Press, 2003)