Isabelle Burke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6489772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabelle Burke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Burke |
| SIGNATURE | BURKE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4828-2444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What counts as a relevant gesture in the study of multimodal event expressions
This article explores how methodological decisions about which gestures to include impact the analysis of multimodal event representation. Gestures commonly temporally align with semantically co-expressive speech. However, when we consider not single concepts but whole events the picture gets more complicated, since events are not mapped onto single lexical items but across larger stretches of spoken language. To research gesture-speech integrati…
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…
Introduction
Australia’s idiomatic expressions
What is Australian slang? Is it really slang
From a bit of processed cheese to a bit of a car accident and a little bit of “oh really” — The journey of Australian English a bit (of)
Wicked Which
This paper examines the linking relative (or connective which) in the spontaneous conversation of Australian English. Using a combination of survey and corpus data, two distinct discourse functions are identified: resumptive topic marker and focus. Survey data from 170 linguistics students at an Australian university indicate a strong preference for the resumptive topic marker function: I argue that this is due to the parallel between discourse f…
Giving a Rat's’ about Negation
This study is an overview of the Jespersen cycle in casual spoken Australian English. The phenomenon of the Jespersen cycle of negation is well known: negative polarity items (NPIs) such as French pas ‘step’ are recruited for emphasis and subsequently reanalysed as the negator, eventually triggering the old negator's omission. Recently, efforts have been made to align developments in British and American English negation with this model, such as …
Giving a Rat's’ about Negation
This study is an overview of the Jespersen cycle in casual spoken Australian English. The phenomenon of the Jespersen cycle of negation is well known: negative polarity items (NPIs) such as French pas ‘step’ are recruited for emphasis and subsequently reanalysed as the negator, eventually triggering the old negator's omission. Recently, efforts have been made to align developments in British and American English negation with this model, such as …
Wicked Which
This paper examines the linking relative (or connective which) in the spontaneous conversation of Australian English. Using a combination of survey and corpus data, two distinct discourse functions are identified: resumptive topic marker and focus. Survey data from 170 linguistics students at an Australian university indicate a strong preference for the resumptive topic marker function: I argue that this is due to the parallel between discourse f…
From a bit of processed cheese to a bit of a car accident and a little bit of “oh really” — The journey of Australian English a bit (of)
What counts as a relevant gesture in the study of multimodal event expressions
This article explores how methodological decisions about which gestures to include impact the analysis of multimodal event representation. Gestures commonly temporally align with semantically co-expressive speech. However, when we consider not single concepts but whole events the picture gets more complicated, since events are not mapped onto single lexical items but across larger stretches of spoken language. To research gesture-speech integrati…
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…
Introduction
Australia’s idiomatic expressions
What is Australian slang? Is it really slang
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)