I recently had another book review published in the Voice and Speech Review. In this, I look at Now You’re Talking by Trevor Cox (2018), a fascinating book that examines human speech and conversation right from the earliest biological roots to the profound impact of technological advancements on our voices today.
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Today I received word that an abstract that was submitted for the Australian Linguistic Society conference coming up in December has been accepted! The paper examines how dialect variation in Australian English is linked to social class, and the methodological issues of how to adequately define “social class” within the field of sociolinguistics.
This paper is a joint effort between myself and my colleagues at the Australian National University,
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This week I’m returning to uni–but not as a student! Excited to start as a linguistics tutor at Macquarie University. This opportunity gives me a chance to further build on my teaching skills (and dust off those areas of linguistics that may not have been thought about since undergraduate days…)
However, more importantly, it has made me think about the experience of having to stand out the front of an entire room of people and speak authoritatively on a subject. This situation will sound familiar to a range of people, especially those working in the corporate sector.
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