Pam Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3824491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pam Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pam |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8050-5831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psilocybin mushroom stewardship
Background and AimsNetworks of so-called underground, or illegal, psilocybin mushroom practitioners are popularly known to exist, though few systematic investigations of their practices have been conducted. We sought to uncover the experiences of a hidden community of psilocybin practitioners in order to inform scientific and policy dialogues about safe and effective practices in this area.MethodsAn academic-community partnered research team used…
Negative politeness and no worries in Australian English
This paper explores how a distinctive politeness token can establish itself in a variety of world English by virtue of its pragmatics. It examines the usage of no worries as a negative politeness thanking response in a large multigenerational corpus of informal dialogues by men and women recorded at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Data from this UWA corpus reflect the steady evolution of no worries , from its indexical association with…
Epicentral effects on ‐ ed /‐ t inflectional variation in Australasian Englishes 1850–2020
This research examines the possibility of epicentral influence of AusE on NZE, focusing on morphosyntactic variation over 170 years in verb inflections ( ‐ed / ‐t ) for the past tense/participles of a set of 12 verbs including burn , learn , spell , spoil . To obtain a diachronic perspective on them in Australasian Englishes we use historical data from 19th‐ and 20th‐century corpora, and 21st‐century data from the NOW corpus of online news. Most …
The current state of research into linguistic epicentres
This special issue focuses on key issues in epicentral research. Against the background of a brief discussion of the epicentre metaphor in the world Englishes paradigm, the various regional constellations in Africa, America, Asia and Australasia relevant to the concept of linguistic epicentres are highlighted and the temporal framing of epicentral influence is discussed with regard to often‐assumed evolutionary prerequisites of potential linguist…
Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century
This anthology of research papers highlights the adaptability of English in contact with other languages, cultures and societies in diverse regional habitats. The book’s ecological perspective offers a fresh theoretical framework for analysing both outer- and inner-circle Englishes. It investigates the varieties of English spoken as a second language, by bi- or multilingual speakers in East and South Africa, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Ph…
Exploring the Ecologies of World Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
The readability of online health information for L1 and L2 Australians
The readability of online health information involves several factors in communication, including textual factors in verbal messaging and demographics relating to the readership, both of which impact on access to health information for first language (L1) and second language (L2) individuals in the Australian community. This research aims to identify the issues inherent in health texts as well as different readers’ comprehension of the informatio…
Code-switching in online academic discourse
World Englishes are the product of contact between English and other languages in multilingual habitats through the nativization phase. Yet the actual contexts of code-switching that contribute to the emerging regional variety have scarcely been described. This research focuses on code-switching among bilingual Filipino students, to illuminate this dynamic phase in varietal evolution. Using data from an online academic forum, it analyses the code…
Guest editor’s preface
This is the second issue of Lexicography featuring contemporary research on bilingual medical terminology and lexicography, continuing the special theme of Lexicography 3:2.Most of the papers were originally presented at an international symposium hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai from 7 to 8 November 2016.The research presented comes from four continents, from Canada, Asia (China), Italy and Australia, offering bilingual insights into the u…
Guest editor’s preface
Translating medical terminology and bilingual terminography
This paper examines the linguistic challenges in translating English medical terminology into Chinese, fnding appropriate translations equivalents for their individual denotations and connotations, and considering also how they take their place in terminological structures such as hyponymy in both languages. In the examples discussed, the Chinese translation equivalents are often more explicit in their reference than their English counterparts, a…
Language, terminology and the readability of online cancer information
Medical terms are a recognised problem in doctor-patient consultations. By contrast, the language difficulties of online healthcare documents are underestimated, even though patients are often encouraged to go to the internet for information. Literacy levels in the community vary, and for patients, carers and health workers with limited reading skills (including first- and second-language users of English), the language of web-based health docume…
Response to Davies and Fuchs
Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav
Usage Guides and Usage Trends in Australian and British English
This paper presents a mini-diachronic investigation into the question of whether usage guides (prescriptive or descriptive) affect the evolution of standard written English, using the notions of codification, standardization and hyperstandardization. It examines the commentaries on three variable usage items (-ise/-ize spellings, alright v. all right, and data in singular/plural agreement) in dictionaries, style manuals and usage guides published…
Australian Narrative Voices and the Colloquial Element in Nineteenth Century Written Registers
This paper analyses the colloquial elements used in the narratives of three Australian writers of the later nineteenth century—Marcus Clarke, AJ Boyd and Henry Lawson—to investigate whether their narrative styles can be traced back to nineteenth century journalism. A set of four reference corpora were created out of the COOEE corpus data (its narrative and newspaper categories) for the last two quartiles of the century, and one for each of the th…
Speech Styles and Spoken Interaction in the Australian National Corpus
This special issue of the Australian Journal of Linguistics brings together a set of freshly researched studies of spoken Australian English, which have in common their use of data from the Austral
Time Line for the English Language and Australian English
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Terminology and terminography for architecture and building construction
Teaching terminology is a strategic response to the European Educational Convergence guidelines, taken by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It is vested in a new course “ English Terminology for Architecture and Building Construction ” offered in the “Master of Techniques and Systems of Construction”. The course is interdisciplinary, integrating material from the various sciences involved in architectural practice and exploring it through the…
Celebrating Tom's century – 100 issues of English Today
On the occasion of the 100th issue of English Today , scholars from around the world were invited to send their thoughts. Excerpts from messages received up to September 6th, 2009 are presented here
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
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A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus mark-up as the means of identification
Backchannels are a linguistic phenomenon that remains poorly defined. Borrowing of terminology and a reliance on axiomatic definitions has resulted in a diverse nomenclature and an indeterminate inventory of forms. Further, research concentration on backchannels produced in northern hemisphere English has led to the assumption of a common repertoire across all varieties, without supporting empirical investigation. This investigation analysed tran…
Usage 1
Pam Peters of Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, provides the second part of a two-part concluding review of a project which is an important contribution to the creation of her prospective international English style guide (to be published by Cambridge University Press)
Gemini
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Orthography and identity
PAM PETERS of Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, provides the first part of a two-part general concluding review of the Langscape Project, a major contribution to the creation of her prospective world English style guide (to be published by Cambridge University Press)
To capitalize or not to capitalize
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A note on the universal base hypothesis
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A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus mark-up as the means of identification
Backchannels are a linguistic phenomenon that remains poorly defined. Borrowing of terminology and a reliance on axiomatic definitions has resulted in a diverse nomenclature and an indeterminate inventory of forms. Further, research concentration on backchannels produced in northern hemisphere English has led to the assumption of a common repertoire across all varieties, without supporting empirical investigation. This investigation analysed tran…
Response to Davies and Fuchs
Commentary to: Davies, Mark, and Robert Fuchs. 2015. "Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE)". English World-Wide 36:1–28 (This issue). DOI:10.1075/eww.36.1.01dav
New configurations
(1989). New configurations: The balance of British and American English features in Australian and Canadian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 135-147
Language, terminology and the readability of online cancer information
Medical terms are a recognised problem in doctor-patient consultations. By contrast, the language difficulties of online healthcare documents are underestimated, even though patients are often encouraged to go to the internet for information. Literacy levels in the community vary, and for patients, carers and health workers with limited reading skills (including first- and second-language users of English), the language of web-based health docume…
The Survival of the Subjunctive
The status of the subjunctive is examined in this Australian study of its manifestations in subordinate clauses: in mandative constructions as well as those expressing purpose, condition, concession and the counterfactual. Data from the Australian ACE corpus (1986) is compared with (a) those from the American Brown corpus and the British LOB corpus (both 1961); and with (b) findings from an Australian elicitation survey of 1993. Both the diachron…
Usage Guides and Usage Trends in Australian and British English
This paper presents a mini-diachronic investigation into the question of whether usage guides (prescriptive or descriptive) affect the evolution of standard written English, using the notions of codification, standardization and hyperstandardization. It examines the commentaries on three variable usage items (-ise/-ize spellings, alright v. all right, and data in singular/plural agreement) in dictionaries, style manuals and usage guides published…
Australian Narrative Voices and the Colloquial Element in Nineteenth Century Written Registers
This paper analyses the colloquial elements used in the narratives of three Australian writers of the later nineteenth century—Marcus Clarke, AJ Boyd and Henry Lawson—to investigate whether their narrative styles can be traced back to nineteenth century journalism. A set of four reference corpora were created out of the COOEE corpus data (its narrative and newspaper categories) for the last two quartiles of the century, and one for each of the th…
A note on the universal base hypothesis
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Render Unto Caesar
The obstetrical expression ‘caesarean section’ (also spelled with a capital C , with - e - instead of - ae - in the first syllable, and with - ian instead of - ean at the end) has always been associated with Julius Caesar. The tradition goes back to the first century AD, when Pliny explained that the name Caesar was coined on the fact that its most famous bearer had been born ‘a caeso matris ventro’ (out of his mother's cut belly)
New configurations
(1989). New configurations: The balance of British and American English features in Australian and Canadian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 135-147
In search of Australian style
A description of the nature and work of Style Council, an institution unique to Australia, and a review of usage research currently in progress
Comparative insights into comparison
Using data from the British and Australian components of the ICE corpus, this paper describes and quantifies aspects of the comparative clauses conjoined with correlative than and as. The data is compared in three ways, to show: patterns of distribution for the two constructions; their spread across different genres of speech and writing; the similarity or otherwise of their use in Britain and Australia. The data is also used to comment on theore…
Langscape
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
Langscape 3
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
The extra letter
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Langscape 4
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
Langscape 2
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
The Survival of the Subjunctive
The status of the subjunctive is examined in this Australian study of its manifestations in subordinate clauses: in mandative constructions as well as those expressing purpose, condition, concession and the counterfactual. Data from the Australian ACE corpus (1986) is compared with (a) those from the American Brown corpus and the British LOB corpus (both 1961); and with (b) findings from an Australian elicitation survey of 1993. Both the diachron…
To capitalize or not to capitalize
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Langscape 6
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
Langscape 5
LANGSCAPE is a Cambridge University Press project associated with both ‘English Today’ and a new international usage guide for the year 2000 by Pam Peters, author of the ‘Cambridge Australian English Style Guide’ (1995). Like the Australian publication, the international work will be distinctive in its use of empirical evidence from computer corpora as well as data elicited from surveys of users of English round the world. Because English is a wo…
Jots and tittles
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Differing on agreement
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Plurals of Latin loanwords
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Gemini
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Orthography and identity
PAM PETERS of Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, provides the first part of a two-part general concluding review of the Langscape Project, a major contribution to the creation of her prospective world English style guide (to be published by Cambridge University Press)
Usage 1
Pam Peters of Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, provides the second part of a two-part concluding review of a project which is an important contribution to the creation of her prospective international English style guide (to be published by Cambridge University Press)
The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
A study of backchannels in regional varieties of English, using corpus mark-up as the means of identification
Backchannels are a linguistic phenomenon that remains poorly defined. Borrowing of terminology and a reliance on axiomatic definitions has resulted in a diverse nomenclature and an indeterminate inventory of forms. Further, research concentration on backchannels produced in northern hemisphere English has led to the assumption of a common repertoire across all varieties, without supporting empirical investigation. This investigation analysed tran…
Time Line for the English Language and Australian English
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Terminology and terminography for architecture and building construction
Teaching terminology is a strategic response to the European Educational Convergence guidelines, taken by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It is vested in a new course “ English Terminology for Architecture and Building Construction ” offered in the “Master of Techniques and Systems of Construction”. The course is interdisciplinary, integrating material from the various sciences involved in architectural practice and exploring it through the…
Celebrating Tom's century – 100 issues of English Today
On the occasion of the 100th issue of English Today , scholars from around the world were invited to send their thoughts. Excerpts from messages received up to September 6th, 2009 are presented here
Linguistics (29 works) · Computer Science (24 works) · History (21 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (20 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (9 works) · Mathematics (9 works)