Research Students

Name   Supervisor
Rabia Akram Language, ideology and identity politics: A CDA-based study of the educational discourse Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Bandar A Almutairi Visualising Discourse Semantics Prof James Martin
Elena Handlos Andersen Paakantji Teacher's Grammar Dr Michael Walsh
Contrastive Genre Analysis and the Realisation of Power in Vertical Discourses in English and Persian Prof James Martin
Prerna Bakshi   Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Isabelle Bennet Circumstantiation patterns in literature review sections of academic papers across a selection of disciplines Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Reuben Brown

Singing and dancing them into the grave: the role of kunborrk (a West Arnhem Land song tradition) at Kunbarlanja in

1948 and today
Assoc Prof Linda Barwick
Genevieve Campbell

The role of recordings in the preservation and maintenance of traditional improvisatory practices in Tiwi song making

Assoc Prof Linda Barwick
Yaegan John Doran Physics as a Multisemiotic Discipline Prof James Martin

Lydia Dutcher

Communication across proficiency levels: A study of interactions and language proficiency Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Cassandra Fawcett A corpus-assisted study of Chinese EFL learners' development of academic literacy Dr Monika Bednarek
Jing Hao Recontextualising field in undergraduate biology Prof James Martin
Roseli Nascimento   Prof James Martin

Harni Kartika Ningsih

Working title of thesis: Genre-based EFL programming in Indonesian multilingual classrooms

Prof James Martin
Beatriz E. Quiroz-Olivares A systemic functional description of Chilean Spanish: an axial approach to experiential and interpersonal resources Prof James Martin
Shelley Paget The phonetics of Indian English: Identifying acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Hindi English Dr Toni Borowsky

Fung Kan Cecilia Pun

Unpacking texture in academic writing: a discourse semantics perspective

Prof James Martin
Kent Ramos Grammatical Metaphor and the Intellectualisation of Tagalog Prof James Martin
Eszter Szenes Embedding Academic Literacy into Internationalized Business Curricula: The case of Australian Business Higher Education  Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Namala Tilakaratna   Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Jittimaporn Tonjumpa Locally-produced EFL Textbooks from SFL Perspective Dr Ahmar Mahboob
Rebecca Elizabeth White Emotion Conceptual Metaphors in Western Pop Song Lyrics: Lexical Semantics and the Sociocultural Implications Dr Monika Bednarek