The University of Western Australia

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with The University of Western Australia*

Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli

Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] 2024. | edited volume

Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2021)

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann & Isabel O'Keeffe

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Cognition, 27:1] 2021. | special issue

Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch

Edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp. | edited volume

The Whorf Theory Complex: A critical reconstruction

AuthorPenny Lee

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | History of linguistics

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 81] 1996. xix, 324 pp. | course book

Zanker, Andreas T. 2026 Metaphors for crisis in Polybius’ cycle of constitutions and mixed constitution

Keywords: Polybius | cycle of constitutions | mixed constitution | conceptual metaphor | crisis

In: Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context, Leonardis, Irene (ed.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] pp. 20–39

Brown, Josh 2026 Never ask, never apologise: Politeness strategies in Italian merchant letters between London, Milan, Florence, 1397–1401

Keywords: epistolary discourse | Genoa | London | merchants | mitigation | negotiation | politeness strategies | Renaissance | requests | Tuscany

Journal of Historical Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article | open access

Fraiese, Lucia, Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Matt Hunt Gardner & Glenys Dale Collard 2026 “We was goin’ kangaroo shooting”: Was/were variation in Australian Aboriginal English

Keywords: sociolinguistic variation | social meaning | identity | Aboriginal English | grammatical variation | ethnography

English World-Wide | Online First Publication, 34 pp. | article | open access

Ludewig, Alexandra 2025 Review of Translation Studies and China. Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts edited by Haiping Yan, Haina Jin & Paul Gladston (2024)

Babel | Online First Publication, 4 pp. | book review | open access

Clews, Madeleine 2025 From quacker to quokka : A historical sociolinguistic study of phonological variation in the colony of Western Australia

Keywords: Australian English | post-colonial English | historical sociolinguistics | texts from below | ego-documents | third-wave | dialect formation

English World-Wide 46:2 pp. 154–185 | article | open access

Oakley, Grace, Carly Steele, Christine Robinson, Toni Dobinson, Sender Dovchin & Wendy Cumming-Potvin 2025 Towards a playworld translanguaging approach in early childhood education

Keywords: translanguaging | pedagogical translanguaging | play-based learning | playworlds | preschool | early childhood

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 48:3 pp. 891–911 | article

Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli 2024  Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367]

Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli 2024 Editors’ introduction

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] pp. 1–7

Brown, Josh 2024 Lingua francas as evidence of standard language ideology in historical perspective

Keywords: lingua francas | standardisation | language history | French | Mediterranean Lingua Franca

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article

Strambi, Antonella, Anna Gadd, Ann Luzeckyj, Antonia Rubino & Javier Díaz Martínez 2023 Flourishing in Spanish: A pilot implementation of a wellbeing-supportive approach to L2 teaching and learning

Keywords: L2 Spanish | L2 Italian | positive psychology | transition pedagogy

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:2 pp. 196–218 | article

Brown, Connor & Maïa Ponsonnet 2023 Event plurality and the verbal suffix ‑(a)bad in Australian Kriol

Keywords: Kriol | Kriol varieties | pluractionality | semantics | aspect | creoles

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:1 pp. 187–218 | article

Su, Heng, Peyman G. P. Sabet & Grace Q. Zhang 2023 Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names

Keywords: given names | personal names | first names | Chinese names | ideological names | socio-onomastics

Pragmatics and Society 15:4 pp. 501–531 | article

Jaccomard, Hélène 2023 Teaching the art of “judicious” translators’ interventions

Keywords: translation education | translator interventions | translator preface | invisibility | student-centered pedagogy

Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:2 pp. 212–233 | article

Fløgstad, Guro Nore & Celeste Rodríguez Louro 2021 Gauging expansion in synchrony: The periphrastic perfect in nineteen century Rioplatense Spanish

Keywords: Argentinian Spanish | aspect | diachrony | grammaticalization | perfect meaning | source determination | tense

In: The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum & Marc Fryd (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] pp. 241–258

Ritz, Marie-Eve & Sophie Richard 2021 The functions of the auxiliary ‘have’ in Australian English vivid narratives

Keywords: present perfect | Australian English | semantic change | grammaticalisation | narrative tense | subject-auxiliary ellipsis | non-standard past | discourse marking | intersubjectivity

In: The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect, Eide, Kristin Melum & Marc Fryd (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 217] pp. 461–478

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste, Sophie L. R. Richard & Sana Bharadwaj 2020 Another story: Be like across discourse types

Keywords: be like | quotation | discourse type | narrative | language variation and change | Australian English

English World-Wide 41:3 pp. 325–351 | article

Crouch, Sophie 2020 Voice and bare verbs in Colloquial Minangkabau

Keywords: Minangkabau | voice | bare verbs | Sundic-type voice system | Indonesian-type voice system

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 213–252

Ponsonnet, Maïa & Kitty-Jean Laginha 2021 The role of the body in descriptions of emotions: A typology of the Australian continent

Keywords: figurative language | metaphors | metonymies | body parts | emotions | linguistic typology | Australian languages

Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 pp. 20–82 | article

Ponsonnet, Maïa & Marine Vuillermet 2018 Introduction: Morphology and emotions: A preliminary typology

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 1–16 | introduction

Ponsonnet, Maïa 2018 Lexical semantics in language shift: Comparing emotion lexica in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol (northern Australia)

Keywords: creole | lexical resemblance | lexical typology | substrate influence

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1 p. 92 | article

Ponsonnet, Maïa 2018 A preliminary typology of emotional connotations in morphological diminutives and augmentatives

Keywords: evaluative morphology | diminutive | augmentative | expressivity | emotions

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 17–50 | article

Blood, Rosalind 2018 “When you speak to a police officer and (call them) du”: Examining the impact of short-term study abroad on Australian students’ awareness of address forms in German

Keywords: pragmatic competence | German address forms | language socialization | short-term study abroad | language learning

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 3:1 pp. 117–143 | article

Caruso, Marinella & Josh Brown 2018 Continuity in foreign language education in Australia: The Language Bonus plan

Keywords: language policy | Language Bonus | incentives | motivations | participation in languages education | enrolment trends | foreign language learning

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:3 pp. 280–310 | article

Lister, Casey J. & Nicolas Fay 2017 How to create a human communication system: A theoretical model

Keywords: alignment | feedback | gesture | vocalization | interaction | icon | symbol | index | signs | language origin | language evolution

Interaction Studies 18:3 pp. 314–329 | article

Fozdar, Farida 2017 No borders: Australians talking beyond the nation

Keywords: nation | cosmopolitan | post-national | no borders | nationalism | critical discourse analysis

Journal of Language and Politics 16:3 pp. 367–387 | article

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste 2016 Review of Quotatives: New Trends and Sociolinguistic Implications by Isabelle Buchstaller (2014)

English World-Wide 37:1 pp. 103–108 | book review

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste 2016 Indefinite past reference and the Present Perfect in Argentinian Spanish

Studies in Language 40:3 pp. 622–647 | article

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste 2015 The evolution of epistemic marking in West Australian English

In: Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] pp. 205–220

Hollier, Lauren P., Murray T. Maybery & Andrew J.O. Whitehouse 2014 Chapter 10. Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism: Is fetal testosterone the linking mechanism?

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] pp. 245–272

Taylor, Lauren J., Murray T. Maybery & Andrew J.O. Whitehouse 2014 Chapter 4. Do autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment have a shared aetiology?: A review of the evidence

In: Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne & Jon Brock (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] p. 75

Mailhammer, Robert & Elena Smirnova 2013 Incipient Grammaticalisation: Sources of passive constructions in Old High German and Old English

In: Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka & Ilse Wischer (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 138] pp. 41–70

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste 2013 Quotatives down under: Be like in cross-generational Australian English speech

Keywords: be like | quotatives | Australian English | Perth

English World-Wide 34:1 pp. 48–76 | article

Garrod, Simon, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker & Nik Swoboda 2012 Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols?

In: Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno & Simon Garrod (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 45] pp. 33–50

Garrod, Simon, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker & Nik Swoboda 2010 Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols?

Interaction Studies 11:1 pp. 33–50 | article

Lee, Penny 2009 Benjamin Lee Whorf

In: Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] pp. 256–272

Miceli, Luisa 2008 15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 211–219

Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans, Grace Koch & Luisa Miceli 2008 Introduction

In: Morphology and Language History: In honour of Harold Koch, Bowern, Claire, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] pp. 1–11

Winter, Joanne & Anne Pauwels 2007  Missing me and Msing the other: Courtesy titles for women in Englishes

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:1 pp. 8.1–8.17 | article | open access

Dench, Alan 2008 Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia

In: Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. & Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] pp. 223–237

Pauwels, Anne 2006 Review of Edwards, V. (2004) Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:1 pp. 8.1–8.3 | book review | open access

Caruso, Marinella 2004 Attrition in the verb system of Italian in Australia

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 18:1 p. 9 | article

Kinder, John J. 2004 Auxiliary verbs, dictionaries and the late evolution of the Italian language

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 18:1 pp. 115–132 | article

Pauwels, Anne & Joanne Winter 2004 Generic pronouns and gender-inclusive language reform in the English of Singapore and the Philippines

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:2 pp. 50–62 | article

Winter, Joanne & Anne Pauwels 2003 Mapping trajectories of change – women’s and men’s practices and experiences of feminist linguistic reform in Australia

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26:1 pp. 19–37 | article

Sharifian, Farzad & Ian G. Malcolm 2004 The pragmatic marker like in English teen talk: Australian Aboriginal usage

Pragmatics & Cognition 11:2 pp. 327–344 | article

Kaldor, Susan & Judith Rochecouste 2002 General academic writing and discipline specific academic writing

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 pp. 29–47 | article

Davies, Rosalind Lawe 2000 Organisers in expository text

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:1 pp. 109–122 | article

Kinder, John J. 1987 Code switching and social integration in bilingual conversation

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 4:1 pp. 37–51 | article

Pratt, Chris 1984 The referential communication game

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:1 pp. 169–178 | article

Campbell, Robin N. & Robert Grieve 1982 Royal investigations of the origin of language

Historiographia Linguistica 9:1/2 pp. 43–74 | article

Ayuningtyas, Lidya Pawestri (Self-)censorship of sex-related language in translated young adult novels from English into Indonesian depicting sexual assault

Keywords: censorship | self-censorship | young adult novels | sex-related language | Indonesia

Babel | Online First Publication, 22 pp. | article | open access

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.