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Prof

Lesley Stirling

Head - School Of Languages And Linguistics
Languages And Linguistics
Grammar and discourse
Major approaches in linguistics & cognitive science
social sciences
linguistics
language & linguistics
communication
psychology
narrative
science & technology
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Lesley Stirling

 
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Dialogue structure and prosody
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The book in which Lesley's 2002 chapter Stirling & Huddleston ‘Deixis and anaphora’ appeared, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, was awarded the 7th bi-annual Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society of America in 2003

Projects

Displaying the 6 most recent projects by Lesley Stirling.

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WHAT IS DISTINCTIVE ABOUT AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CONVERSATIONAL STYLE?

This project aims to re-examine claims that Aboriginal Australians conduct conversations in different ways to Anglo-Australians. It will inv..

2018 - 2022
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“How was your day?”: Home conversations about their school day in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

2015 - 2020
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Talking about Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets

Place descriptions are a common way for people to describe a location, but no current tools are smart enough to understand them. Emergency c..

2011 - 2015
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Talking about Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets

Place descriptions are a common way for people to describe a location, but no current tools are smart enough to understand them. Emergency c..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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TAMEAL - THE INTERRELATION OF TENSE ASPECT & MODALITY WITH EVIDENTIALITY IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES - NON-LEAD

Completed
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Autism and written narrative: discourse analysis and the characterisation of higher level language disorder phenotypes

This work contributes to the national research priority goal 'A healthy start to life', in advancing our understanding of the language disor..

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Project Types

4

Research Grant

2

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Lesley Stirling.

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Positioning Selves in Narrative Accounts of Military Trauma

Brenda Laskey, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2020  |  Applied Linguistics

Linguistic and narrative strategies employed in two dyadic interviews of male veterans of the war in Afghanistan were analysed and..

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The dress: Theme and self-presentation in online Australian wedding planning fora

Brenda Laskey, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2020  |  Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

This investigation of the discourse of Australian women in the ‘new media’ context of online special interest advice fora contribu..

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The dress: Theme and self-presentation in online Australian wedding planning fora

Brenda Laskey, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONVERGENCE-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

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

Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2018  |  Research on Language and Social Interaction

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The past is a foreign country: disputed memories and telling rights in co-narrated refugee stories

Andrew Tanner, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2017  |  Text and Talk

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The preposition at from a spatial language, cognition, and information systems perspective

Maria Vasardani, Lesley Stirling, Stephan Winter

Journal article  |  2017  |  Semantics and Pragmantics

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Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’: common ground and what makes a story

L Stirling, J Green

Journal article  |  2016  |  Narrative Inquiry

When the Australian writer Richard Flanagan accepted the 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction, he said that “As a species it is story..

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"What the hell was in that wine?" Entitlement to launch and develop stories within a multiparty context

Tania Strahan, Lesley Stirling

Journal article  |  2016  |  Narrative Inquiry

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Introduction

L STIRLING, S Douglas

Book Chapter  |  2015

At the heart of this volume is the recognition that children's engagement with play and story are intrinsically and intricately li..

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The intersection of pretense and storytelling in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

S Douglas, L Stirling

Book Chapter  |  2015

At the heart of this volume is the recognition that children's engagement with play and story are intrinsically and intricately li..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Linguistics
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Geomatic Engineering
Computer Software and Services
Language Studies
Cognitive Science
Health and Support Services
Public Health and Health Services
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1996

Australian Academy of the Humanities Crawford Medal -The most prestigious award for early career Humanities Researchers

Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Head - School Of Languages And Linguistics

Languages And Linguistics

Education

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

The University of Edinburgh

Bachelor of Arts

The University of Queensland

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