Alan started following the work of 3 people.
Alan followed the research interest: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Alan followed the research interest: Jacques Lacan, Poltical Theory, the Real, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Yannis Stavrakakis, Slavoj Zizek
Faculty Member, Linguistics
The Australian National University, Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific
Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Human Sciences
About
I am currently interested in everyday reasoning, especially accounts and explanations, and the ways in which these are constructed in different types of spoken interaction. I'm actively working on emergent discourse patterns in the extended turns-at-talk that were produced by accounting professionals in the interview situation. On a syntactic level I am interested in coherence, cohesion, discourse markers, logical connectives and complex nominal groups.
Other interests include linguistic anthropology, especially forms and uses of directives across cultures. I'm currently translating and analysing Mekeo and Kuni texts with an eye to spontaneous discourse patterns and to illustrate the social functions of myths (e.g. in justifying untoward behaviour) in specific preliterate societies of Papua New Guinea.
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