Lesley Stirling
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lesley Stirling is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935
Titles
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’
Edited by Lesley Stirling, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 26:2 (2016) v, 308 pp.
2025 “Serial rorters or mere mortals?”
This article examines the acceptability of female government leaders to members of the public through online reader comments to newspapers, focusing on the differing appraisal of male and female leaders’ relationship to money/finance. We examined 20,000 reader comments to two national Australian… read more
2021 Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations Gesture 20:3, pp. 417–452 | Article
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… read more
2016 Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’: Common ground and what makes a story Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’, Stirling, Lesley, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas (eds.), pp. 173–192 | Article
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 diversity of… read more
2016 “What the hell was in that wine?”: Entitlement to launch and develop stories within a multiparty context Narrative in ‘societies of intimates’, Stirling, Lesley, Jennifer Green, Tania Strahan and Susan Douglas (eds.), pp. 430–480 | Article
We consider a corpus of conversational narratives which arise in the complex, multiparty setting of pre- and post-game stretching sessions of a women’s elite basketball team. Our focus is on the characteristics of story openings within this corpus, and we consider how stories are launched; how… read more
2014 Chapter 8. The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A review of methodologies and findings Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne and Jon Brock (eds.), pp. 171–216 | Article
The construction and communication of narratives is a fundamental and distinctive aspect of our human experience. Investigation of narrative language has been used extensively in studying the impairments in language, communication and cognitive functioning associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders… read more
2008 "Double reference" in Kala Lagaw Ya narratives Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages, Mushin, Ilana and Brett Baker (eds.), pp. 167–202 | Article
The label “double reference” is introduced to describe clauses which incorporate reference to the same participant in the same grammatical function via use of two distinct nominal expressions. This paper investigates the discourse-referential function of double reference in narratives in Kala Lagaw… read more
2007 7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf: Spontaneous written narratives by a child with autism Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 133–171 | Article
1999 Isolated if-clauses in Australian English The Clause in English: In honour of Rodney Huddleston, Collins, Peter and David Lee (eds.), pp. 273–294 | Article
1996 Metonymy and Anaphora Coherence and Anaphora, De Mulder, Walter and Liliane Tasmowski (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article
Abstract. The starting point for this paper is the observation that a substantial majority of 'indirect' examples of anaphora in a corpus of naturally occurring discourse involve relations which would independently be categorised as 'metonymica'. Data presented from this corpus indicate that such… read more