Kerry Mullan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Mullan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullan |
| SIGNATURE | MULLAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9078-0383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
L’im/politesse en français
Cet article d’introduction présente l’ambition et la contribution de ce numéro thématique consacré aux travaux sur l’im/politesse en langue française. L’article contextualise et présente cinq études empiriques qui illustrent la vitalité du champ : l’étude historique des rapports de pouvoir entre maîtres et domestiques par Paternoster, la comparaison des compliments ordinaires et médiatiques de Claudel et Moallemi, l’étude constructionnelle de l’i…
Staystrongmelbs
Humor is widely recognized as a way to process and deal with disasters and tragic events. This is particularly the case in our digital age: political controversies, wars, natural disasters, and other crises, such as COVID-19, often lead to the rapid proliferation of creative and amusing memes as a digital response mechanism, creating a sense of community and levity and an outlet for anxiety and frustration in participatory digital cultures. While…
Community languages teachers’ funds of knowledge
Community languages (CL) schools have grown rapidly to accommodate an increasing number of learners globally. However, teacher development for CL schools remains under-researched, and a deficit view of the CL teachers continues to dominate. Contextualised in Victoria Australia, and theoretically driven by the concept of funds of knowledge, this study explores how CL teachers’ everyday life and work practices might constitute sources of knowledge …
Rééquilibrage ? A Geo-Semiotic Analysis of Noumea’s Main City Square as Case Study
The notions of rééquilibrage and destin commun are central to the Matignon and Noumea Accords, which aimed to achieve self-determination for New Caledonia. The preamble of the Noumea accord recognizes that colonization stripped the Kanak peoples of their languages, culture and identity. As a result, various programs were launched to reinstate their memory and cultural patrimony. These were predominantly established in the Province Nord, while in …
"On the "Dark Side
This study examines the use of online humour in a subversive local community Facebook group set up in 2017 by disgruntled members banned from a similar group “in opposition to [the original group’s] arbitrarily-applied rules, [its] enforced happiness, and [its] suppression of any post that isn't about giving away lemons or asking to borrow small appliances”. The dissatisfaction with the guidelines and the administration of the original Facebook g…
Cohesive Diverse Suburbs in Australia
Melbourne’s population is culturally superdiverse yet there is little focus on inclusiveness in diverse communities. This article will present a case study of Footscray, Melbourne, Australia, examining the following questions: How do government, service providers and civic organisations in Footscray work to build a more cohesive community? How does a local Facebook group work to create a more culturally cohesive community? The findings are based …
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Mastering second language humour
This small-scale study on verbal humour takes place within a larger project entitled “From perception to oral production”, which aims to identify the links between comprehension and production processes and the sources of difficulty for French learners of English. The data consist of three comparable corpora of filmed semi-structured interviews with first (L1) and second (L2) language students: French-French L1; English-English L1; and English L1…
Humour in French and Australian English initial interactions
Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)
This study undertakes a contrastive lexical-semantic analysis of a set of related verbs in English and French (English to joke and to kid , French rigoler and plaisanter ), using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. We show that the semantic and conceptual differences between French and English are greater than commonly assumed. These differences, we argue, have significant implications for humor studies: first, …
Conversational humor in French and Australian English
In this paper we focus primarily on the second dimension of the model designed for the comparative cross-cultural analysis of conversational humor outlined in (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2013. Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora. In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan & Christine Béal (eds.), Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally . 107–139. Newcastle upon Tyne: Camb…
Introduction
The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits
The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics
A good all-round French workout” or “a massive stress”
Taking French interactional style into the classroom
Humour in French and Australian English initial interactions
The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits
Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)
This study undertakes a contrastive lexical-semantic analysis of a set of related verbs in English and French (English to joke and to kid , French rigoler and plaisanter ), using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. We show that the semantic and conceptual differences between French and English are greater than commonly assumed. These differences, we argue, have significant implications for humor studies: first, …
Conversational humor in French and Australian English
In this paper we focus primarily on the second dimension of the model designed for the comparative cross-cultural analysis of conversational humor outlined in (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2013. Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora. In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan & Christine Béal (eds.), Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally . 107–139. Newcastle upon Tyne: Camb…
The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics
"On the "Dark Side
This study examines the use of online humour in a subversive local community Facebook group set up in 2017 by disgruntled members banned from a similar group “in opposition to [the original group’s] arbitrarily-applied rules, [its] enforced happiness, and [its] suppression of any post that isn't about giving away lemons or asking to borrow small appliances”. The dissatisfaction with the guidelines and the administration of the original Facebook g…
Introduction
A good all-round French workout” or “a massive stress”
Taking French interactional style into the classroom
The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics
The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits
Conversational humor in French and Australian English
In this paper we focus primarily on the second dimension of the model designed for the comparative cross-cultural analysis of conversational humor outlined in (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2013. Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora. In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan & Christine Béal (eds.), Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally . 107–139. Newcastle upon Tyne: Camb…
Introduction
Explicating verbs for “laughing with other people” in French and English (and why it matters for humour studies)
This study undertakes a contrastive lexical-semantic analysis of a set of related verbs in English and French (English to joke and to kid , French rigoler and plaisanter ), using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic analysis. We show that the semantic and conceptual differences between French and English are greater than commonly assumed. These differences, we argue, have significant implications for humor studies: first, …
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Mastering second language humour
This small-scale study on verbal humour takes place within a larger project entitled “From perception to oral production”, which aims to identify the links between comprehension and production processes and the sources of difficulty for French learners of English. The data consist of three comparable corpora of filmed semi-structured interviews with first (L1) and second (L2) language students: French-French L1; English-English L1; and English L1…
Humour in French and Australian English initial interactions
Cohesive Diverse Suburbs in Australia
Melbourne’s population is culturally superdiverse yet there is little focus on inclusiveness in diverse communities. This article will present a case study of Footscray, Melbourne, Australia, examining the following questions: How do government, service providers and civic organisations in Footscray work to build a more cohesive community? How does a local Facebook group work to create a more culturally cohesive community? The findings are based …
"On the "Dark Side
This study examines the use of online humour in a subversive local community Facebook group set up in 2017 by disgruntled members banned from a similar group “in opposition to [the original group’s] arbitrarily-applied rules, [its] enforced happiness, and [its] suppression of any post that isn't about giving away lemons or asking to borrow small appliances”. The dissatisfaction with the guidelines and the administration of the original Facebook g…
Community languages teachers’ funds of knowledge
Community languages (CL) schools have grown rapidly to accommodate an increasing number of learners globally. However, teacher development for CL schools remains under-researched, and a deficit view of the CL teachers continues to dominate. Contextualised in Victoria Australia, and theoretically driven by the concept of funds of knowledge, this study explores how CL teachers’ everyday life and work practices might constitute sources of knowledge …
Rééquilibrage ? A Geo-Semiotic Analysis of Noumea’s Main City Square as Case Study
The notions of rééquilibrage and destin commun are central to the Matignon and Noumea Accords, which aimed to achieve self-determination for New Caledonia. The preamble of the Noumea accord recognizes that colonization stripped the Kanak peoples of their languages, culture and identity. As a result, various programs were launched to reinstate their memory and cultural patrimony. These were predominantly established in the Province Nord, while in …
Staystrongmelbs
Humor is widely recognized as a way to process and deal with disasters and tragic events. This is particularly the case in our digital age: political controversies, wars, natural disasters, and other crises, such as COVID-19, often lead to the rapid proliferation of creative and amusing memes as a digital response mechanism, creating a sense of community and levity and an outlet for anxiety and frustration in participatory digital cultures. While…
L’im/politesse en français
Cet article d’introduction présente l’ambition et la contribution de ce numéro thématique consacré aux travaux sur l’im/politesse en langue française. L’article contextualise et présente cinq études empiriques qui illustrent la vitalité du champ : l’étude historique des rapports de pouvoir entre maîtres et domestiques par Paternoster, la comparaison des compliments ordinaires et médiatiques de Claudel et Moallemi, l’étude constructionnelle de l’i…
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)