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Dr Johanna Rendle-Short

 

Research Interests:

Analysis of Discourse, Conversation Analysis, Applied Conversation Analysis, Talk-in-interaction, Embodied discourse, Discourse as it relates to Language Teaching and Learning, Cross-cultural approaches to Language Teaching and Learning, Sociolinguistics.

Current Research Projects

• analysis of the political interview
• Australian talk-back radio
• managing interaction for the communicatively impaired
• issues of gender and sexuality
• address terms

 

Awards

Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Supervision, 2003.

Books

Rendle-Short, J. (2006) The Academic Presentation: Situated Talk in Action, in Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Series. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate Publishers.

Edited Volume

Rendle-Short, J. and M. Nevile (2007) (eds.) Special Thematic Issue: Language as action: Australian Studies in Conversation Analysis. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30(3).

Selected Articles

Neville M., and J. Rendle-Short. (2007) Language as action. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30(3): 30.1-30.13. DOI:10.2104/aral0730.

Rendle-Short, J. (2007) Neutralism and Adversarial Challenges in the Political News Interview. Discourse and Communication.

Lalor, T. and J. Rendle-Short (2007) ‘That’s so gay’: A contemporary use of gay in Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics.

Rendle-Short, J. (2007) “Catherine, you’re wasting your time”: Asymmetrical use of Address Terms within the Australian Political Interview. Journal of Pragmatics.

Rendle-Short, J. (2005) Analysing other person reference terms within the Australian Political Interview. Proceedings of the International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory into Research. 15 – 18 November 2005. University of Tasmania, Australia. http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/conference/proceedings.html

Rendle-Short, J. (2005) Managing the transitions between talk and silence in the Academic Monologue. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 38/2: 179-218.

Rendle-Short, J. (2005) ‘I’ve got a paper-shuffler for a husband’: Indexing sexuality on talk-back radio. Discourse and Society 16/4: 561-578.

Rendle-Short, J. (2004) Showing structure: Using um in the academic seminar. Pragmatics 14/4: 479-498.

Rendle-Short, J. (2003 [appeared 2006]) Managing Interaction: A Conversation analytic approach to the management of interaction by an 8 year-old girl with Asperger's Syndrome. Issues in Applied Linguistics. 13/2: 161-186.

Rendle-Short, J. (2003) “So what does that show us?": Analysis of the Discourse Marker 'so' in Monologic Talk. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 26/2: 46-52.

Collins, B., Rendle-Short, J., Curnow, T.J., Liddicoat, A.J., (2001) ‘Not just a thesis: PhD study as a first step towards an academic career’, in (eds) A. Bartlett and G. Mercer, Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)elations, Peter Lang: New York.

Rendle-Short, J. (2000) Uhm, er, okay, now, let's talk about discourse markers. Postgraduate Forum, Campus Review, Vol 10/21.

Rendle-Short, J. (1999) When ‘okay’ is okay in computer science seminar talk. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 22/2: 19-33.