Sophia Waters
PhD Student, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BLANG, BA (Hons) (New England)
Contact
Email: swaters2@une.edu.au
Room: E11 108
Phone: 02 6773 3318 (or +61-2-6773 3318 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3748 (or +61-2-6773 3748 overseas)
Research interests
lexical semantics; cultural semantics; Australian English; French language and culture; cross-cultural communication; NSM (Natural Semantic Metalanguage); pragmatics
Current Thesis Topic/Program
PhD topic 'The Cultural semantics of sociality concepts in Australian English with contrastive reference to French'
Awards and grants:
2009 BCSS Higher Degree Research Grant
2009 ALS Student Scholarship - awarded to students presenting at the ALS conference whose abstracts were of sufficient merit.
2008 Keith and Dorothy MacKay Travelling Scholarship - on the basis of academic merit, awarded to a student attending an international conference where the student is presenting a paper on their research.
2006 Frederick G White Bursary for Rural Women - awarded to women of rural backgrounds with high academic merit entering their Honours year.
2005 The Bronnie Treloar Scholarship - awarded to the best student entering BA (Hons) in French if of sufficient merit, who has the best overall record in French at UNE
2005 The University of New England Women's Association Prize - on the basis of the results of the annual examinations, this is awarded to a female student to help support her in her Honours year at UNE.
2003 The Grahame Jones Memorial Prize - awarded to a continuing student of French if of sufficient merit, who has gained the best results in a combination of post-first year French units.
ABC Interview
Selected Publications
To appear. '"It's rude to VP": The cultural semantics of rudeness'. Journal of Pragmatics (Special Issue on (Im)politeness in English edited by Michael Haugh and Klaus Schneider).
2010.' The Semantics of French discourse particles quoi and ben'. Paper presented at the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, La Trobe, Melbourne.
Conference papers:
2010. 'The Concept of politeness in Australian English'. NSM Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra.
2009. "It's rude to VP": The cultural semantics of rudeness' . 11th International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA), Melbourne.
2009. 'The Semantics of French discourse particles quoi and ben.' Australian Linguistics Society Conference (ALS), La Trobe University, Melbourne.
2009. 'Rude Australians and the mal élevés ['badly brought up'] French: The semantics of social interaction concepts from Australian English and French'. Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally (CSSC), Macquarie University, Sydney.
2008. 'Nice: A semantic and pragmatic investigation of a key cultural concept in Australian English, with contrastive reference to French'. Fifth International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC5), Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.
2008. 'Nice and rude. Anglo social keywords'. NSM Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra.
2007. 'French discourse particles quoi and ben with reference to contrasting cultural values'. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of New England, Armidale.
2006. 'Ben, voilà, quoi. Les significations et l'emploi des particules énonciatives en français parlé'. Department of French Seminar, University of New England, Armidale.
2006. 'Discourse particles quoi and ben in spoken French'. Department of Linguistics Seminar, University of New England, Armidale.