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Qualifications
PhD (Australian National University), BA (Hons) (University of Queensland), Certified Provisional Interpreter (Kriol-English) (NAATI)
Research interests
- Australian Kriol
- Pidgin and Creole Languages
- Sociolinguistics and language variation
- Dialectology
- Australian English, including Aboriginal English varieties
- Australian Aboriginal Languages
- Endangered Languages, including documentation and revitalisation
- Language education, including Indigenous language education
- Language activism and language policy
- Community linguistics
- Linguistic fieldwork
- Linguistics communication / Popular linguistics
- Translation and Interpreting in Australian Aboriginal Languages (especially Kriol)
- Bilingual Education / Mother-tongue education
- Language shift
- History, language and culture of Ngukurr / Roper River Region, N.T.
- Marra language and Marran language family (non-Pama-Nyungan)
Expertise Areas
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
- Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
- Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Stories from the saltwater as told by the old Marra ladies
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
12/07/10 → 1/09/11
Project: Research
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Aboriginal English(es)
Dickson, G., 2019, Australian English Reimagined: Structure, Features and Developments. Louisa Willoughby & Howard Manns (ed.). 1st ed. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, p. 134-155Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Variation in the reflexive in Australian Kriol
Dickson, G. & Durantin, G., 2019, In: Asia-Pacific Language Variation. 5, 2, p. 171-207Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Alabat tok najawei: Surveying geographic variation in Kriol speaking communities east of Katherine
Dickson, G., 2016, Brisbane, AustraliaResearch output: Other contribution
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Rethinking the substrates of Roper River Kriol: The case of Marra
Dickson, G., 2016, Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation. Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy (ed.). 1st ed. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, p. 145-173Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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No Warlpiri, no school? A preliminary look at attendance in Warlpiri schools since introducing the First Four Hours of English policy
Dickson, G., 2010, In: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 35, p. 97-113Research output: Contribution to journal › Article