Dr Diana Eades
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Asian Studies) (ANU), PhD (Queensland)
Contact
| Email: | Diana.Eades@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G11 |
| Phone: | 02 6775 1178 (or +61 2 6775 1178 overseas) |
Dr Diana Eades specialises in critical sociolinguistics, language in the legal process, and intercultural communication, particularly involving Australian Aboriginal people who speak varieties of English. She has more than 25 years experience in research, teaching and practical applications of her scholarly work.
Her previous positions include lecturer and senior lecturer at UNE, and and associate professor at the University of Hawai‘i. Diana has an extensive publications list, which includes the 2008 book Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control, the 1992 lawyers’ handbook Aboriginal English and the Law and the 1995 edited book Language in Evidence.
She has provided expert evidence (for example in the Condren and Kina cases) and her work is cited as the authority on Aboriginal English in the legal system in government reports, judicial decisions, and legal publications.
She has been President, Vice-President and Secretary of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, and Vice-President of the Australian Linguistics Society. She is co-editor of The International Journal of Speech Language and the Law and is on the Editorial Board of Applied Linguistics. She was appointed by the Chief Justice of Hawai‘i to the state Supreme Court Committee on Equality and Access to the Courts (1999-2002, 2002-2005).
Dr Eades is a popular speaker to a diverse range of professional groups interested in intercultural communication with Aboriginal people. While this includes educational, health and welfare groups, her work is of particular interest to the legal profession. Since October 2007 her invited presentations list includes the annual conference of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (October 2007), the South Australian judiciary December (2007), the annual conference of the Migration and Refugee Review Tribunals (February 2008) and the annual conferences of magistrates in Queensland (May 2008), New South Wales (July 2008) and Western Australia (November 2008).
Selected Publications
Books
Eades, Diana. 2008. Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Eades, Diana 1992. Aboriginal English and the Law: Communicating with Aboriginal English Speaking Clients: A Handbook for Legal Practitioners. Brisbane: Queensland Law Society.
Eades, Diana 1976. The Dharawal and Dhurga Languages of the New South Wales South Coast. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
Edited Volumes
Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.) 2007. Linguistic Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Eades, Diana and Jacques Arends 2004 (eds.) Special section: Language analysis and determination of nationality. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 11(2).
Eades, Diana, Michael Cooke and Sandra Hale (eds.) 1999. Legal Interpreting. Special Issue of Forensic Linguistics 6(1).
Eades, Diana (ed.) 1995. Language in Evidence: Issues Confronting Aboriginal and Multicultural Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries
Eades, Diana 2007. Aboriginal English in the criminal justice system. In Leitner, Gerhard and Ian Malcolm (eds.), The Habitat of Australia’s Aboriginal Languages: Past, Present, and Future. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 299-326.
Eades, Diana 2007. Understanding Aboriginal silence in legal contexts. In Kotthoff, Helga and Helen Spencer-Oatey (eds.), Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 285-301.
Eades, Diana 2006. Interviewing and examining vulnerable witnesses. In Brown, Keith (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd Ed. Vol 5. Elsevier: Oxford, 772-778.
Eades, Diana 2006. Lexical struggle in court: Aboriginal Australians vs the state. Journal of Sociolinguistics 10(2): 153-181.
Eades, Diana 2005. Applied linguistics and language analysis in asylum seeker cases. Applied Linguistics 26(4): 503-526. Eades,
Diana 2004. Beyond difference and domination?: Intercultural communication in legal contexts. In Paulston, Christina and Scott Kiesling (eds.), Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 304-316.
Eades, Diana 2004. Understanding Aboriginal English in the legal system: A critical sociolinguistics approach. Applied Linguistics 25(4): 491-512.
Eades, Diana and Jacques Arends 2004. Using language analysis in the determination of national origin of asylum seekers: An introduction. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 11(2): 179-199.
Eades, Diana 2003. The participation of second language and second dialect speakers in the legal system. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 23: 113-133.
Eades, Diana, Helen Fraser, Jeff Siegel, Tim McNamara and Brett Baker 2003. Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: A preliminary report. Language Policy 2(2): 179-199.
Eades, Diana 2003. “I don’t think the lawyers were communicating with me”: Misunderstanding cultural differences in communicative style. Emory Law Journal 52: 1109-1134.
Eades, Diana 2001. Discourse analysis and the law. In Mesthrie, Rajend (ed.), Concise Encyclopaedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 231-3.
Eades, Diana 2002. Evidence given in unequivocal terms: Gaining consent of Aboriginal young people in court. In Cotterill, Janet (ed.), Language in the Legal Process. London: Palgrave, 161-196.
Eades, Diana 2003. The politics of misunderstanding in the legal process: Aboriginal English in Queensland. In House, Juliane, Gabriele Kasper and Steven Ross (eds.), Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk. London: Longman. 196-223.
Eades, Diana 2000. “I don’t think it’s an answer to the question”: Silencing Aboriginal witnesses in court. Language in Society 29 (2): 161-196.
Eades, Diana 1997. The acceptance of linguistic evidence about indigenous Australians. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1997 (1): 15-27.
Eades, Diana 1996. Legal recognition of cultural differences in communication: The case of Robyn Kina. Language and Communication 16(3): 215-227.
Eades, Diana 1996. Verbatim courtroom transcripts and discourse analysis. In Kniffka, Hannes (ed.) Recent Developments in Forensic Linguistics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 241-254.
Eades, Diana 1996. Aboriginal English, In Wurm, S. A, P Muhlhausler, and D.T, Tryon, (eds.), Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Volume 11: 1: 133-141.
Eades, Diana 1995. Aboriginal English on Trial: The case for Stuart and Condren. In Eades, Diana (ed.), Language in Evidence: Issues Confronting Aboriginal and Multicultural Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 147-174.
Eades, Diana 1994. Aboriginal English in court. The Judicial Review 1 (4): 367-378.
Eades, Diana 1994. A case of communicative clash: Aboriginal English and the legal system. In Gibbons, John (ed.), Language and the Law. London: Longman, 234-64.
Eades, Diana 1994. Forensic linguistics in Australia: An overview. Forensic Linguistics 1(2): 113-132.
Eades, Diana 1994. Aboriginal English (p13-14) and Sociolinguistics (p1003-4). In Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Eades, Diana 1993. Communicating with Aboriginal clients. Law Society Journal 31 (5): 41.
Eades, Diana 1993. The case for Condren: Aboriginal English, pragmatics and the law. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (2): 141-162.
Eades, Diana 1993. Language and the law: White Australia vs Nancy. In Walsh, Michael and Colin Yallop (eds.), Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 181-190.
Eades, Diana 1991. Communicative strategies in Aboriginal English. In Romaine, Suzanne (ed.), Language in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 84-93.
Eades, Diana 1990. Language and the law: An Australian Introduction. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10: 89-100.
Eades, Diana 1988. They don't speak an Aboriginal language, or do they?. In Keen, Ian (ed.), Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in Settled Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 97-117.
Eades, Diana 1988. Sociolinguistic evidence in court. Australian Journal of Communication 14: 22-33.
Eades, Diana 1984. Misunderstanding Aboriginal English: The role of socio-cultural context. In McKay, Graham and Bruce Sommer (eds.), Applications of Linguistics to Australian Aboriginal Contexts. Melbourne: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 24-33.
Eades, Diana 1982. “You gotta know how to talk...”: Ethnography of information seeking in Southeast Queensland Aboriginal Society. Australian Journal of Linguistics (2)1: 61-82. Reprinted in Pride, J. B. (ed.), Cross-cultural Encounters: Communication and Mis-communication. 1985. Melbourne: River Seine Publications, 91-109.
Eades, Diana 1979. Gumbaynggir. In Dixon, R.M.W. and B.J.Blake (eds.), Handbook of Australian Languages Vol 1. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 242-361.
Eades, Diana 1977. Gumbaynggir relative clauses and possessive phrases re-examined. Oceanic Linguistics XVI(2): 179-192.
Eades, Diana 1977. Gumbaynggir (in Topic A: The Derivational Affix "having"). In Dixon, R.M.W. (ed.), Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 238-242.