Linguistics - UWA Language Science Group

Homo loquens. That is not what our species is called, but it would not be an inappropriate label. For the faculty of language is perhaps our most distinctive attribute, without which human cultures and economies could not have developed, without which there could be no science and no religion. It is then not surprising that language is at least a part of the domain of so many academic disciplines: anthropology, evolutionary biology, computer science, education, linguistics, language and literary studies, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, ...

The Language Science group at UWA consists of people who come from a number of different disciplinary interests and departments but who have teaching and research interests in the area broadly defined to include cognitive, physical and social aspects of language, Language Science. Our overall goals are to bring together scholars of human language from different disciplines with the aim of promoting productive dialogue amongst them, and to build greater co-operation across the various departments and individuals concerned at UWA.

Our specific goals are:

encouraging cross-disciplinary interest in research in the various departments
extending co-operation in teaching and supervision
promoting joint research activities
promotion of existing courses in Language Science areas to students
general promotion of Language Science within UWA and externally

Activities

In pursuit of the above goals, the Language Science group is undertaking the following activities:

People

Click here for a partial list of the people involved in the UWA Language Science group, with information on their research interests and teaching in the language science area. Members are welcome to add their own information - see the page for further details.

Contact

For more information on the UWA Language Science group, contact

John Henderson
Linguistics
extn. 2870
john.henderson@uwa.edu.au