Lesley Stirling

Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Date: 31-12-2021

DOI: 10.1075/GEST.20035.DEA

Abstract: It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages and that the lackadaisical points produced by North American English speakers is an outcome of relative frame being dominant in English. We test this claim by comparing locational pointing in contexts of place reference in conversations conducted in two Australian Aboriginal languages, Murrinhpatha and Gija, and in Australian English spoken by non-Aboriginal residents of a small town in north Western Australia. Pointing behaviour is remarkably similar across the three groups and all participants display a capacity to point accurately regardless of linguistic frame of reference options. We suggest that these speakers’ intimate knowledge of the surrounding countryside better explains their capacity to accurately point to distant locations.

On the road again: Displaying knowledge of place in multiparty conversations in the remote Australian outback

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.PRAGMA.2021.10.026

Tools of Engagement: Selecting a Next Speaker in Australian Aboriginal Multiparty Conversations

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2018

DOI: 10.1080/08351813.2018.1449441

How people describe their place: Identifying predominant types of place descriptions

Publisher: ACM

Date: 06-11-2012

DOI: 10.1145/2442952.2442959

Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Date: 31-12-2016

DOI: 10.1075/NI.26.2.01STI

Abstract: When the Australian writer Richard Flanagan accepted the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, he said that “As a species it is story that distinguishes us”. While the prize was given for a literary work written in English, Australia and the surrounding regions are replete with a rich ersity of oral traditions, and with stories remembered and told over countless generations and in many languages. In this article we consider both the universality and the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic ersity of various forms of narrative. We explore the question of what a linguistic typology of narrative might look like, and survey some of the literature relevant to this issue. Most specifically, we ask whether some observed differences in narrative style, structure, or delivery could derive from social features of the communities which produce them: their social density, informational homogeneity, and the high degree of common ground they share.

Towards an interactional grammar of interjections: Expressing compassion in four Australian languages

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-04-2023

DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2244442

Zooming In–Zooming Out Hierarchies in Place Descriptions

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date: 2013

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34203-5_19

Analyzing communication in genetic consultations—A systematic review

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1016/J.PEC.2014.09.017

Abstract: To systematically review studies that have analyzed communication within medical consultations involving genetic specialists and report on their findings and design. Drawing from PRISMA and appropriate guidelines for reviewing qualitative research, a systematic search of seven databases was conducted, followed by selection of studies for inclusion based on a set of criteria. Three authors conducted data extraction and narrative synthesis. Twenty-two studies were identified and were heterogeneous in setting, design, and methods, with many including limited descriptions of health professionals involved. Despite this variability, studies generally pursued the following three main objectives: searching for structural patterns within consultations, investigating communication and genetic counseling concepts, and linking process with input- and outcome-measures. Structural patterns identified included clinician dialog dominating consultations, and talk being mostly biomedical. Counseling and communication concepts investigated were: risk communication, the negotiation of power and knowledge, and adherence to genetic counseling ideals. Attempts to link consultation data to input- or outcome-measures were often unsuccessful. More interdisciplinary research, grounded in appropriate theoretical frameworks, is needed to explore inherent complexities in this setting. Findings from this review can be used to guide the design of future research into the process of genetic consultations.

Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Australian Languages: Foreword

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2012

DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2012.662888

Granularity of locations referred to by place descriptions

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 09-2013

DOI: 10.1016/J.COMPENVURBSYS.2013.03.005

Spatial interpretations of preposition at

Publisher: ACM

Date: 06-11-2012

DOI: 10.1145/2442952.2442961

About you: Empathy, objectivity and authority

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2011

DOI: 10.1016/J.PRAGMA.2010.12.002

The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.PRAGMA.2022.01.006

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100200199

Start Date: 05-2011

End Date: 09-2015

Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180100515

Start Date: 04-2018

End Date: 10-2024

Amount: $453,790.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0662936

Start Date: 2006

End Date: 12-2009

Amount: $170,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council