2015 News

• Jay Woodhams

  11 December 2015

  Revealing our political views in the way we talk

• Yen Dang

  10 December 2015

  PhD research recognised

• Marsden Fund grants for two linguistics academics

  9 November 2015

  Two academics from Victoria University’s School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies have received Marsden Fund grants, totalling $880,000, for leading edge research projects.

• BEdTESOL students

  10 September 2015

  Teaching experience for students in the Wairarapa. 

• Miriam Meyerhoff

  24 July 2015

  Miriam Meyerhoff receives stakhanovite award from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence “Dynamics of Language”. 

• Inaugural New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad winners announced

  16 July 2015

  A team of secondary school students from Auckland International College and Kristin School in Auckland has won the first New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington.

• Deborah Cameron, the Ian Gordon Fellow, was recently on RNZ

  14 July 2015

  Deborah Cameron, Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, is an internationally recognised expert…

• Rt Rev Dr Penelope (Penny) Jamieson

  7 June 2015

  Former linguistics lecturer the Rt Rev Dr Penelope (Penny) Jamieson honoured by Victoria as one of this year’s Distinguished Alumni

• New Zealand Sign Language Board

  7 June 2015

  Victoria academics appointed to New Zealand Sign Language Board

• Trade secrets

  29 April 2015

  Nog, noggin and dwang might sound like terms of abuse to the uninitiated but are in fact lingo in the carpentry trade, two Victoria researchers have discovered.