HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 2 Number 42

Tuesday, 31st October 2006
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 31 October 2006

Participant Spotlight

Alison Moore, Centre for Language in Social Life

Research area: Linguistics

After honours work in phonological disorders, then a period in epidemiology and public health, I've been conducting research on language and interaction in mostly medical contexts for nearly 10 years, including my phd research on shared decision making in HIV medicine. Currently I hold an ARC postdoctoral fellowship, and with A/Prof David Butt (Director, Centre for Language in Social Life, MU) and A/Prof John Cartmill (Surgery, Nepean Hospital) I'm investigating the meanings of language and other modes of behaviour in surgical team work, from the point of view of improving safety. I also hold an NHMRC project, with David Butt and Em/Prof Russell Meares, in conjunction with Caroline Henderson-Brooks and Rhondda Fahey, where we are investigating the linguistic correlates of therapeutic talk within Meares's Conversational Model of psychotherapy. Other current projects include one on the discussion of end-of-life issues in palliative care, with Kathryn Tuckwell in CLSL and Dr Josephine Clayton, a palliative care specialist at U. Syd, and her team; a project on the kinds of interaction that substitutes for and approximates direct advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals to consumers in Australia (where it is currently illegal) led by A/Prof Ian Kerridge at U. Syd; and a collaboration with the NSW Workers Compensation Commission on the discourse strategies associated with successful resolution of cases at teleconference.

Recent publications & presentations:

Moore, A. (2005) Modelling agency in HIV decision-making. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Special Edition S19:103-122.

Moore, A. and Tuckwell, K (in press) A tenorless genre? Forensic generic profiling of workers’ compensation dispute resolution discourse. Language and the Human Sciences.

Moore, A. Interpersonal meaning and bodily alignment: surgical teams in action. Paper presented to the European International Systemic Functional Linguistics Workshop, Gorizia, Italy, 20-22 July 2006.

Research interests in list format: systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis (language, gesture, kinaesthesis, image), models of agency in language, the linguistic construction of perspective, skilled joint performance, medical discourses & other professional discourses, music, incipient interest in philosophy of probability & language

Contact:
Alison Moore
Centre for Language in Social Life
Macquarie University
email: amoore@ling.mq.edu.au     www: www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/moore_alison/index.html

News

HCSNet Colloquium, School of Psychology, UWA, 27 November 2006

Dr Kristin Rosen from the University of Queensland will present a seminar entitled "Quantitative acoustic analysis of conversation produced by dysarthric and healthy speakers". Dr Rosen will discuss applications involving dysarthric speech and other communication disorders, and discuss the implications for the language sciences generally. For further information, please see: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2006/kristinrosen

SummerFest Presentations Due Now!

If you are presenting a session at this year's SummerFest we would appreciate your electronic file (slides and / or presentation) by the end of the week. If you are a Student Poster presenter you can find a template for your slides here http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest06/posters. If you are a Speed Paper presenter you can find a template for your slides here http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest06/speedpapers. Please email your slides to sfest06@hcsnet.edu.au by Friday at the latest so we can ensure we get them to the printers on time. Registration for SummerFest is closing soon so don't forget to register and if you need travel and accommodation assistance you need to complete the registration process ASAP and then our travel agent will contact you with your itinerary. Looking forward to seeing you at SummerFest '06!

Presentation Slides from Next-Generation Search Technology Workshop

Last month's Priority Area Workshop on Next-Generation Search Technology held in Melbourne brought together over 40 participants to focus on how we can improve search engine technology by integrating more knowledge about the processing and understanding of language. Our thanks to staff at the University of Melbourne for their assistance with the organisation of the workshop, and to attendees for their presentations and contributions to the discussion sessions. Abstracts and presentation slides from the workshop are available at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/nextgensearch06/abstracts

Upcoming Seminars

We list here upcoming seminars that are happening in the next month. A more complete list of seminars can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Singing Pitch Accuracy in the Male Changing Voice

Sydney, Australia
Date: 3 Nov 2006
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au

What makes a good didjeridu?

Sydney, Australia
Date: 17 Nov 2006
URL: http://marcs.uws.edu.au

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Word Accents and Tones in Sentence Perspective

Lund, Sweden
Due date: 1 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.ling.lu.se/conference/waatisp/

"Supporting Awareness in Intense Distributed Collaboration" in conjunction with OzCHI 2006

Sydney, Australia
Due date: 2 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.hxi.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=19&Itemid=36

ICLC 2007 The 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Krakow, Poland
Due date: 3 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.iclc2007.pl

Metaphors of Love and Anger: Implications for the Conceptualisation of Self

Krakow, Poland
Due date: 3 Nov 2006

Representation of Actions, States and Events in Classification Systems

Graz, Austria
Due date: 5 Nov 2006

ATALA Workshop TEXT TYPOLOGIES FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"

Paris, France
Due date: 10 Nov 2006

Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Lexica in Automated Discourse Analysis

Tübingen, Germany
Due date: 13 Nov 2006
URL: http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/mehler/ontologies/

ISGS 2007 International Society for Gesture Studies Conference 2007: Integrating Gestures

Evanston, IL, United States
Due date: 15 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.gesturestudies.com

Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Due date: 17 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/language-music.html

UNTELE The Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching

Compiegne, France
Due date: 22 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.utc.fr/~untele

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

AFLS Symposium

Norwich, United Kingdom
Date: 3 Nov 2006
to 4 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.llt.uea.ac.uk/news_events/crossculturalpragmatics.htm

BUCLD 31 Boston University Conference on Language Development 31

Boston, MA, United States
Date: 3 Nov 2006
to 5 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Data and Methodology in Language Documentation

London, United Kingdom
Date: 4 Nov 2006
to 5 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/datamethodology/

EMLAR III Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Utrecht, Netherlands
Date: 7 Nov 2006
to 9 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Frans.Adriaans/personal/emlar06.html

FOIS-2006 International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date: 9 Nov 2006
to 11 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/fois-2006.htm/

"Supporting Awareness in Intense Distributed Collaboration" in conjunction with OzCHI 2006

Sydney, Australia
Date: 21 Nov 2006
URL: http://www.hxi.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=19&Itemid=36

5th Australian CA Symposium

Albury, NSW, Australia
Date: 24 Nov 2006
to 26 Nov 2006

Summer School

University of Sydney, Australia
Date: 27 Nov 2006
to 28 Nov 2006 URL: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest06/summerschool
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