Professor Jeff Siegel
Adjunct Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (C'nell), MA (Hawaii), Dip Hindi (Delhi), PhD (ANU)
Contact
| Email: | jsiegel@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 175 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3203 (or +61 2 6773 3203 overseas) |
Prof Siegel has more than 25 years of teaching experience in linguistics and English as a second language. His main research interests are in language contact, especially in pidgin and creole languages and varieties of Hindi in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also done research on the use of such languages in formal education. In this connection, he has worked on the Melanesian Literacy Project and conducted a large project on Vernacular Education in the South Pacific. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.
Areas of Teaching
Areas for postgraduate supervision include:
- language contact and contact-induced language change (pidgin, creole, new dialects)
- language and education
- descriptive or sociolinguistic studies of particular languages in Oceania or South Asia.
Books
Siegel, J. 2010. Second Dialect Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Siegel, J. 2008. The emergence of pidgin and creole languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Siegel, J. 2003. (with Kent Sakoda) Pidgin grammar: An introduction to the creole language of Hawai‘i. Honolulu: Bess Press.
Siegel, J. 1996. Vernacular education in the South Pacific, Canberra, Australian Agency for International Development. Crowley, T., J. Lynch, J. Siegel and J. Piau. 1995. The design of language: An introduction to descriptive linguistics. Auckland: Longman Paul. (xv+471 pages)
Siegel, J. 1988. Language contact in a plantation environment: a sociolinguistic history of Fiji. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (xiv + 305 pages)
Siegel, J. 1982. Traditional bridges of Papua New Guinea. (Traditional Technology Series No.1). Lae, PNG: Appropriate Technology Development Institute. (137 pages)
Siegel, J. 1977. Say it in Fiji Hindi. Sydney: Pacific Publications. (55 pages)
Edited Volumes
Siegel, J., J. Lynch and D. Eades (eds.) 2007. Language description, history and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Siegel, J. 2001 (ed., with Terry Crowley). Studies in creole linguistics in memory of Chris Corne 1942 – 1999. (Te Reo 44). Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand.
Siegel, J. 2000. Processes of language contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific. Montreal: Fides. (xi + 326 pages)
Siegel, J. 1993. 'Koines and koineization'. (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 99). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (150 pages)
Siegel, J. 1992. Pidgins, creoles and nonstandard dialects in education. (Occasional Papers 12). Melbourne: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. (102 pages)
Siegel, J. 1988. (with Richard K. Barz) Language transplanted: the development of Overseas Hindi. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz (xi + 283 pages)
Book Chapters / Encyclopaedia Entries
Siegel, J. 2011. Substrate reinforcement and the retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin features in modern contact varieties In Claire Lefebvre (ed.), Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins., 531-556.
Siegel, J. 2010. Pidgins and creoles. In Nancy H. Hornberger and Sandra McKay (eds,), Sociolinguistics and Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 232-262.
Siegel, J. 2010 [in press]. Pidgins and creoles. In Robert B. Kaplan (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press. 382-397.
Siegel, J. 2010. Contact languages of the Pacific. In Raymond Hickey (ed), The Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford: Blackwell, 814-836.
Siegel, J. 2009. Language contact and second language acquisition. In William C. Ritchie and Tej K Bhatia (eds), The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Bingley: Emerald, 569-589.
Siegel, J. 2009. Linguistic and educational aspects of Tok Pisin. In Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds), The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 512-525.
Siegel, J. 2008. Pidgins/Creoles and Second Language Acquisition. In J.V. Singler and S. Kouwenberg (eds), The handbook of pidgin and creole studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 189-218.
Siegel, J. 2008. In praise of the Cafeteria Principle: Language mixing in Hawai‘i Creole. In Susanne Michaelis (ed), Roots of creole structures: weighing the contributions of substrates and superstrates. AmsterdamPhiladelphia: John Benjamins, 59-82.
Siegel, J. 2007. Literacy in pidgin and creole languages. In Anthony J. Liddicoat (ed), Language planning and policy: Issues in language planning and literacy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 143-163.
Siegel, J. 2007. Transmission and transfer. In Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews and Lisa Lim (eds), Deconstructing creole. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 167-201.
Siegel, J. 2006. Links between SLA and creole studies: Past and present. In Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds), L2 acquisition and creole genesis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 15-49.
Siegel, J. 2006. Empowering speakers of unstandardized varieties. In Albert Weideman and Birgit Smieja (eds), Empowerment through language and education. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 21-40.
Siegel, J. 2006 Keeping creoles out of the classroom: Is it justified? In Shondel Nero (ed.), Dialects, Englishes, creoles, and education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 39-67
Siegel, J. 2006 Empowering speakers of understardized varieties. In Albert Weideman and Birgit Smieja (eds), Empowerment through languages and education. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 21-40.
Siegel, J. forthcoming Fiji pidgins and Pidgin/creole origins. In J. den Besten, M. Parkvall and P. Baker (eds), Starting from scratch. London: Battlebridge.
Siegel, J. forthcoming Pidgins/Creoles and Second Language Acquisition. In J.V. Singler and S. Kouwenberg (eds), The handbook of pidgins and creoles. Oxford: Blackwell.
Siegel, J. 2005 Tok Pisin. In Philipp Strazny (ed), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Routledge. 1114-1116
Siegel, J. 2004 (with Kent Sakoda) Hawai‘i Creole: Phonology. In Berndt Kortmann and Edgar W. Schneider (eds) with Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton, A handbook of varieties of English, Volume I: Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 729-749.
Siegel, J. 2004 (with Kent Sakoda) Hawai‘i Creole: Morphology and syntax. In Berndt Kortmann and Edgar W. Schneider (eds) with Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton, A handbook of varieties of English, Volume II: Morphology & Syntax. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 742-769.
Siegel, J. 2003 Social context. In C. Doughty and M.H. Long (eds), Handbook of second language acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell, 178-223.
Siegel, J. 2002 Pidgins and creoles. In R. Kaplan (ed.), Handbook of Applied Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 335-351.
Siegel, J. 2002 Applied creolistics in the 21st century. In G. Gilbert (ed.), Pidgin and creole linguistics in the twenty-first century. New York: Peter Lang, 7-48.
Siegel, J. 2001 Koine formation and creole genesis. In N. Smith and T. Veenstra (eds), Creolization and contact. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 175-97.
Siegel, J. 2001 Pidgins, creoles and minority dialects in education. In R. Mesthrie (ed.), Concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 747-49.
Siegel, J. 2000. Introduction: The processes of language contact. In J. Siegel (ed.), Processes of language contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific. Montreal: Fides, 1-11.
Siegel, J., B. Sandeman and C. Corne. 2000. Predicting substrate influence. In J. Siegel (ed.), Processes of language contact: Studies from Australia and the South Pacific. Montreal: Fides, 75-97.
Eades, D. and J. Siegel. 1999. Changing attitudes towards Australian Creoles and Aboriginal English. In J.R. Rickford and S. Romaine (eds), Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 265-278.
Siegel, J. 1997. Mixing, Levelling and pidgin/creole development. In A. Spears and D. Winford (eds.), The structure and status of pidgins and creoles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 111-49.
Siegel, J. 1996. The English language in the Asia Pacific region, In Atlas of the languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 241-50.
Siegel, J. 1996. The use of Melanesian Pidgin in education. In F. Mugler & J. Lynch (eds.), Pacific Languages in Education, Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies. 155-74.
Siegel, J. 1993. Pidgins and creoles in education in Australia and the southwest Pacific. In F. Byrne and J. Holms (eds), The Atlantic meets the Pacific: a global view of pidginization and creolization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 299-308.
Siegel, J. 1992. The future of Tok Pisin: another look. In T. Dutton, M. Ross and D. Tryon (eds), The language game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-110, 405-8.
Siegel, J. 1992. Teaching initial literacy in a pidgin language: a preliminary evaluation. In J.
Siegel (ed.), Pidgins, creoles and nonstandard dialects in education. (Occasional Papers 12). Melbourne: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 3545.
Siegel, J. 1992. Language change and culture change among Fiji Indians. In T. Dutton (ed.), Culture change, language change: case studies from Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-120, 91-113.
Siegel, J. 1991. Variation in Fiji English. In J. Cheshire (ed.), English around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 664-74.
Siegel, J. 1990. Pidgin Hindustani in Fiji. In J.H.C.S. Davidson (ed.), Pacific Islands languages: essays in honour of G.B. Milner. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 173-96.
Siegel, J. 1990. Language maintenance of Overseas Hindi. In M.A.K. Halliday, J. Gibbons and H. Nicholas (eds), Learning, keeping and using language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 91-113.
Siegel, J. 1988. The development of Fiji Hindustani. In R.K. Barz and J.
Siegel (eds), Language transplanted: the development of Overseas Hindi. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 121-49.
Siegel, J. 1988. Introduction. In R.K. Barz and J.
Siegel (eds), Language transplanted: the development of Overseas Hindi. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1-19.
Siegel, J. 1987. Spreading the word: Fijian missionaries in the New Guinea Islands. In D.C. Laycock and W. Winter (eds), A world of languages: papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-100, 61321.
Siegel, J. 1986. Wai: a Malaitan language in Fiji. In P. Geraghty and L. Carrington (eds), Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-94, 435-63.
Siegel, J. 1984. Tok Pisin in the mass media. In S.A. Wurm and P. Mühlhäusler (eds), Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics A70, 517-33.
Siegel, J. 1984. Introduction to the Labu language. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 23. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics A-69, 83-157.
Siegel, J. 1983. Media Tok Pisin. Papers in pidgin and creole linguistics 3. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics A-65, 81-92.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Siegel, J. 2010. Bilingual literacy in creole contexts. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (4), 383-402.
Siegel, J. 2009. Chinese Pidgin English in south-eastern Australia: The notebook of Jong Ah Siug. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24 (2), 306–337.
Siegel, J. 2008. Pidgin in the classroom. Educational Perspectives 41 (1&2), 55-65.
Siegel, J. 2007. Creoles and minority dialects in education: An update. Language and Education 21(1), 66-86.
Siegel, J. 2007. Recent evidence against the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis: The pivotal case of Hawai‘i Creole. Studies in Language 31 (1), 51-88.
Siegel, J. 2006. Language ideologies and the education of speakers of marginalized language varieties: Adopting a critical awareness approach. Linguistics and Education 17, 157-174.
Siegel, J. 2005 Possession in South Pacific contact languages. In Simon Musgrave (ed), Language contact, hybrids and new varieties: Emergent possessive constructions (special volume of) Monash University Linguistic Paper 4(1/2), 33-44.
Siegel, J. 2005 Applied Creolistics revisited. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20 (2), 275-305
Siegel, J. 2005 Literacy in pidgin and creole languages. Current Issues in Language Planning 6(3).
Siegel, J. 2005 Creolization outside creolistics. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 20(1), 141-166.
Siegel, J. 2004 Morphological elaboration. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19(2), 333-362.
Siegel, J. 2004 Review article: Vivika Velupillai: Hawai‘i Creole English: A typological analysis of the tense-mood-aspect system (Palgrave McMillan, 2003). English World-Wide 25(2), 285-297.
Siegel, J. 2004. Morphological simplicity in pidgins and creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19(1), 139-162.
Siegel, J. 2003 Substrate influence in creoles and the role of transfer in second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25(2), 185-209.
Siegel, J. 2003 (with Diana Eades, Helen Fraser, Tim McNamara and Brett Baker). Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: A preliminary report. Language Policy 2(2), 179-199.
Siegel, J. 2000. Substrate influence in Hawai'i Creole English. Language in Society 29/2, 197-236.
Siegel, J. 1999. Creole and minority dialects in education: An overview. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 20, 508-531.
Siegel, J. 1999. Stigmatized and standardized varieties in the classroom: Interference or separation? TESOL Quarterly 33/4, 701-728.
Siegel, J. 1999. Transfer constraints and substrate influence in Melanesian Pidgin. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14/1, 1-44.
Siegel, J. 1998. Indian languages in Fiji: Past, present and future. South Asia 21, 181-214.
Siegel, J. 1998. Substrate reinforcement and dialectal differences in Melanesian Pidgin. Journal of Sociolinguistics 2, 347-73.
Siegel, J. 1998. Literacy in Melanesian and Australian pidgins and creoles. English World-Wide 19/1, 104-33.
Siegel, J. 1998. Review of Towards a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: An experiment in corpus linguistics by John W.M. Verhaar. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13, 172-80.
Siegel, J. 1997. Review article: Linguistic ecology: Language change and linguistic imperialism in the Pacific region by Peter Mühlhäusler. Australian Journal of Linguistics 17, 219-38.
Siegel, J. 1997. Formal versus non-formal vernacular education: The education reform in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 18/3, 206-22.
Siegel, J. 1997. Using a pidgin language in formal education: help or hindrance? Applied Linguistics 18/1, 86-100.
Siegel, J. 1997. Pidgins and English in Melanesia: Is there a continuum? World Englishes 16/2, 185-204.
Siegel, J. 1995. How to get a laugh in Fijian: Code-switching and humor. Language in Society 24(1), 95-110.
Siegel, J. 1994. Review of S. Romaine: Language, education and development: Urban and rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea', Language in Society, 23, 144-9.
Siegel, J. 1994. Review of Rajend Mesthrie: English in Language shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English', Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 15, 86-90.
Siegel, J. 1993. Dialect contact and koineization (review article). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 99, 105-21.
Siegel, J. 1993. Controversies in the study of koines and koineization. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 99, 5-8.
Siegel, J. 1992. The transformation and spread of Pidgin Fijian. Language Sciences 14/3, 1-22.
Siegel, J. 1992. Indian languages and identity in Fiji. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 3/1, 115-32.
Siegel, J. 1990. Review article: Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic substrate by R.M. Keesing. Pacific Studies 14/1, 109-33.
Siegel, J. 1990. Pidgin English in Nauru. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 5/2, 157-86.
Siegel, J. 1989. English in Fiji. World Englishes 8/1, 47-58.
Siegel, J. 1987. Review article: The Fijian Language by Albert J. Schütz. Oceanic Linguistics 26, 114-23.
Siegel, J. 1986. Pidgin English in Fiji: a sociolinguistic history. Pacific Studies 9/3, 53106.
Siegel, J. 1985. Koines and koineization. Language in Society 14/3, 357-78.
Siegel, J. 1982. Plantation Pidgin Fijian. Oceanic Linguistics 21, 1-72.
Siegel, J. 1981. Developments in written Tok Pisin. Anthropological Linguistics 23, 20-35.