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Email

lesleyfs@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor
School of Languages and Linguistics
Education
PhD
The University of Edinburgh
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0002-3730-6463

Prof Lesley Stirling

Professor
School of Languages and Linguistics

74 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Making of Multi-Unit Turns
    DOI: 10.1075/slsi.38
  • 2025

    Book

    The Making of Multi-Unit Turns, A spring-loaded door
    DOI: 10.1075/slsi.38
  • 2025

    Journal article

    “Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money: An Australian study
    DOI: 10.1075/jlp.24112.dac
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    A satellite view of spatial points in conversation
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003424888-12
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Towards an interactional grammar of interjections: Expressing compassion in four Australian languages
    DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2244442
  • 2023

    Journal article

    A conversation analytic approach to schizophrenic interaction: methodological reflections on disruptions of the common-sense world
    DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1223186
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    What Is Distinctive About Australian Aboriginal Conversational Style?
Lesley Stirling

Latest 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

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    The epistemics of social relations in Murrinhpatha, Garrwa and Jaru conversations
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.01.006
  • 2022

    Journal article

    On the road again: Displaying knowledge of place in multiparty conversations in the remote Australian outback
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.026
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations
    DOI: 10.1075/gest.20035.dea
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Using a geospatial approach to document and analyse locational points in face-to-face conversation

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2015

    Research Contracts

    “How Was Your Day?”: Home Conversations About Their School Day in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • 2011

    Research Grant

    Talking About Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets
  • 2011

    Research Grant

    Talking About Place - Tapping Human Knowledge to Enrich National Spatial Data Sets
  • Research Contracts

    Tameal - The Interrelation of Tense Aspect & Modality With Evidentiality in Australian Aboriginal Languages - Non-Lead

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