Professor Ilana Mushin
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Ilana Mushin

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Background

I am a linguist whose research interests include: interactions between discourse, cognition and grammar, pragmatics, perspective-taking in discourse, Conversation Analysis, typology, narrative structure, language shift and language maintenance, Australian First Nations Languages.

I am currently a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project 'Conversational interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia' (CIARA - https://www.ciaraproject.com).

Author of:

  • Articles on interactions between discourse and grammar in Garrwa and other Australian First Nations Languages, including A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa. Mouton De Gruyter. 2012
  • Publications on epistemics and evidential pragmatics, including Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2001
  • Publications on Aboriginal English in Queensland Aboriginal Communities
  • Publications on classroom interaction in Early Years and First Nations schooling.

Editor of:

  • Interactional Linguistics (Journal co-edited with Prof. Simona Pekarek Doehler, https://benjamins.com/catalog/il)
  • Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (With Brett Baker, Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2008)
  • Indigenous Language and Social Identity (With Brett Baker, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner, Canberra:Pacific Linguistics, 2011)

Availability

Professor Ilana Mushin is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Language, Communication and Culture Linguistics

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Search Professor Ilana Mushin’s works on UQ eSpace

63 works between 2001 and 2025
All (63) Book (4) Journal Article (35) Other Outputs (2) Edited Outputs (1) Conference Publication (1) Book Chapter (20)

61 - 63 of 63 works

2006

Book Chapter

Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling

Mushin, I (2006). Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling. Language and Memory: Aspects of Knowledge Representation. (pp. 387-408) edited by H. Pishwa. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling

2005

Journal Article

Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa

Mushin, Ilana (2005). Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (2), 253-273. doi: 10.1080/07268600500233027

Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa

2005

Journal Article

Narrative Functions of Clause Linkage in Garrwa: a perpective analysis

Mushin, I. (2005). Narrative Functions of Clause Linkage in Garrwa: a perpective analysis. Studies in Language, 29 (1), 1-33. doi: 10.1075/sl.29.1.02mus

Narrative Functions of Clause Linkage in Garrwa: a perpective analysis

Current funding

  • 2022 - 2026
    Communication training for mental health professionals: developing cultural sensitivity and capability to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people mental health outcomes (led by CQU)
    Central Queensland University
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2021 - 2023
    Developing Cultural Sensitivity and Capability through Communication Training for Mental Health Professionals (MRFF Indigenous Health Research Grant led by QIMRB)
    Queensland Institute of Medical Research
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2024
    What is distinctive about Australian Aboriginal conversational style? (ARC Discovery Project administered by Macquarie University)
    Macquarie University
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2019
    Talking knowledge, doing learning: the early years
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2016
    Language and cultural diversity in early years classrooms
    Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    The developmental origins of tool innovation
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Over-imitation, trial-and-error learning and the inter-generational transmission of information
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Clearing the path towards literacy and numeracy: language for learning (ARC LP administered by Griffith University)
    Griffith University
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Language Acquisition Project
    Department Education - Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Grammatical choices in Australian Aboriginal conversation: Grammar in interaction in the Garrwa community
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Ilana Mushin is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Phonological and morphological dimensions of Rabighi Arabic: A descriptive analysis of an undocumented Saudi variety

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rob Pensalfini

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Overlapping talk in Bahasa Indonesian Conversations

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sanako Mitsugi

  • Master Philosophy

    Topics in the Structure of Romagnolo

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kathleen Jepson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Loanwords Adaptation in the Plural System of Urban Hijazi Arabic Dialect

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Rob Pensalfini

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Professor Ilana Mushin directly for media enquiries about:

  • Aboriginal langugaes
  • Australian Aboriginal langugaes
  • Discourse analysis
  • Languages - Aboriginal
  • Linguistic typology
  • Pragmatics
  • Sociolinguistics

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