Linguistics - Anne Pauwels

Professor Anne Pauwels
Licentiate Germanic Philologic (Antwerp), MA, PhD (Monash)
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of Linguistics

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (M200)
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, WA 6009

Telephone +61 8 6488 3871
Fax +61 8 6488 1059
Email

Research Interests

My research interests and expertise draw upon two areas of sociolinguistics:

Languages in contact and linguistic diversity
Language and gender

I am interested in supervising graduate research in the following areas: Bilingualism, Contact Sociolinguistics, Gender-Inclusive Language, Language Maintenance, Language Policy, Languages in Higher Education, Migration and Language.

Research Grants (2001- present)

Innovative approaches to provision of languages other than English in Australian Higher Education. Chair, DASSH] Collaborative & Structural Reform Grant [DEST] 2006-2008 ($780,000)

The spread of gender-inclusive language reform in Outer-Circle Englishes: English in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2003-2005 ($143,000)

Publications (2001 onwards)

Books
M Hellinger & Pauwels A, (eds) (2007) Linguistic Diversity and Language Change: Handbooks of Applied Linguistics. Volume 9. Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter.

Pauwels, A, Winter, J. & Lo Bianco J. (eds) (2007) Maintaining Minority Languages in Transnational Contexts. London: Palgrave.

Carr, J & Pauwels, A (2006) Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages. London: Palgrave.

Chapters in Books
Pauwels, A. (2007a) Maintaining a language other than English through higher education in Australia. In Pauwels. A. et al (eds): 107-123.

Pauwels, A. (2007b) Managing and maintaining minority languages in the eral of globalization: Challenges for Europe and Australia. In Pauwels. A. et al (eds).: 1-12

Winter, J & Pauwels A (2007) Language maintenance and the second generation: Policies and practices. In Pauwels A et al (eds): 180-200.

Pauwels, A. (2006) Australia and New Zealand. In P. Trudgill (ed.) Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter.

Winter, J & Pauwels, A (2005) Feminist linguistic activism in the 21st century: A view across the English-speaking world. In Kevin McCafferty, Tove Bull and Kristin Killie (eds.) Contexts: Historical, Social, Linguistic. Studies Linguistic Studies in Celebration of Toril Swan. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 107-127.

Pauwels, A. (2004a) Language maintenance. In. A. Davies & C. Elder (eds) Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Blackwell, 719-737.

Pauwels, A. (2004b) Strengthening scholarship in language study in higher education. In G.Wigglesworth (ed.) Marking Our Difference: Languages in Higher Education in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: School of Languages and Linguistics, 9-21.

Pauwels, A. (2003) Linguistic sexism and feminist activism. In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (eds) The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 550-70.

Pauwels, A. (2001) Spreading the feminist word? A sociolinguistic study of feminist language change in Australian English: The case of the new courtesy title ‘Ms’. In M. Hellinger & H. Bussmann (eds) Gender across languages. International perspectives of language variation and change. Volume 1. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 137-51.

Refereed Journal Articles
Pauwels, A. & Winter, J. (2006) Gender inclusivity or Grammar rules OK?: Linguistic presecriptivism vs linguistic discrimination in the classroom. Language and Education 20:2: 128-140.

Winter, J. & Pauwels, A. (2006a) Language maintenance in friendships: Second Generation German, Greek and Vietnamese migrants. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 180: 123-139.

Winter, J. & Pauwels, A. (2006b) Men staying at home looking after their children: Masculinities and gender inclusive language reform. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 16,1: 16-36.

Winter, J. & Pauwels, A. (2006c) ‘Trajectories of Agency’ and discursive identities in education: A critical site in feminist language planning. Current Issues in Language Planning 7, 1&2: 171-188.

Pauwels, A. (2005) Maintaining the community language in Australia: the role of and challenges for families. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8 (2): 124-131.

Winter, J. & A. Pauwels (2005a) Gender in the construction and transmission of ethnolinguistic identities and language maintenance in immigrant Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25.1:153-168.

Pauwels, A. & J. Winter (2005) Education and gender-inclusive language practices in English: Evidence from Singapore. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching 15,1: 1-23.

Pauwels, A. & Winter, J. (2004a) Gender-inclusive Language Reform in Educational Writing in Singapore and the Philippines: A Corpus-based Study. Journal of Asian Englishes 7.1: 4-21.

Pauwels, A. & Winter, J. (2004b) Generic pronouns and gender-inclusive language reform in the English of Singapore and the Philippines. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27.2. 50-72.

Winter, J & A. Pauwels (2003) Mapping Trajectories of change - women's and men's practices and experiences of feminist linguistic reform in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26,1:19-37.

Pauwels, A. (2002) Languages in the university sector at the start of the third millennium. Babel 37, 2: 16-20, 38.

Pauwels, A. (2001) Non-sexist language reform and generic pronouns in Australian English. English World Wide 22/1: 105-19.

Pauwels, A. & Wrightson-Turcotte, K. (2001) Pronoun choice and feminist language change in the Australian Media. Australian Journal of Communication 28 (1) : 69-82.

Winter, J. & Pauwels, A. (2001) Gender and language contact research. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 20/6: 508-22.

Refereed Conference Papers
Winter, J. & Pauwels, A. (2006) The personing of neutral inclusivity: Tracing the spread of person compounds in occupational naming. In K. Allan (ed.) Proceedings of the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http:www.als.asn.au

Pauwels, A. & Winter, J. (2001) A critical examination of the use of interviews in the study of immigrant language research in Australia. Refereed conference proceedings.