pam.peters@ling.mq.edu.au

Username: pam.peters@ling.mq.edu.au

Participant details

	Network Member	Pam Peters
	Organisation/Institution	Macquarie University
	Department/Centre	Linguistics Department
	Lab	Centre for Language Sciences
	Website	http://www.ling.mq.edu.au
	Research area	Linguistics lexicology
	Research keywords

Research Interests

Pam Peters is an Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, after being on the Linguistics staff for 33 years. She led the compilation of sample corpora of Australian English as it is written and spoken, used online and in talkback radio. She has been on the ABC’s Standing Committee on Spoken English for the last 12 years, and has published several books on Australian and international English usage, most recently the "Cambridge Guide to English Usage" (2004) and the "Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage" (2007). She was an active member of the editorial committee of Macquarie Dictionary (1986-2006), and now leads the TermFinder project, an online dictionary consisting of multiple "termbanks" which detail the terminology of individual disciplines: biology, statistics, geology and accountancy. Further termbanks are planned, along with the bilingualization of existing termbanks, i.e. adding translation equivalents of the headwords in languages other than English, starting with Chinese.