2003 - Language Studies

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This collection contains Flinders' staff research in Language Studies, reportable as part of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), from 2001-

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The role of the victim in the plays of Florencio Sánchez
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2003-03) Taler, Fiona
Florencio Sánchez was the first major playwright in Uruguay to treat themes relevant to his times and region. His prime concern was the portrayal of social-moral conflict in his society. His plays are divided into two main groups, those involved with rural life and those dealing with conflict in an urban setting. The urban plays expose the conflict seen in both poor and middle-class families and the rural ones expose the destruction of the family unit as old landowners are dispossessed of their land by unscrupulous speculators. This essay argues that although Sánchez’s main concern was to denounce corruption in society and to expose the victimisation of the weak, he enriches the dramatic texture of his plays by making the victims active participants. The victim is always able to articulate his or her dilemma and is given a choice of action, even if this choice is one between two evils. Frequently the survival of the family is pitched against the survival or wellbeing of the individual. Three plays have been chosen, two urban plays, En familia and La pobre gente and one rural play, Barraca abajo. The final conclusion has to be that the greed and corruption in the system are indeed destroying family unity, but that there is strength and energy found among those victimised which in some way contributes to the effect of victimisation. In the end, the choice is made by the victim.
From Tobruk to Clare: the experiences of the Italian prisoner of war Luigi Bortolotti 1941-1946
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2003-12) O'Connor, Desmond John
The paper explores the personal account of an Italian prisoner of war, Luigi Bortolotti (1916-1980), who has left a 300-page diary manuscript that relates his experiences from the time of his capture in Tobruk in 1941 until he was repatriated to Italy in 1946. After being placed in camps in Ismailia and Suez, Bortolotti was shipped to Australia where he spent nearly three years in the POW camp at Hay (New South Wales). Early in 1944 he was sent to work on a farm in Clare, South Australia, a country town to which he would return to settle as a migrant in 1948. The paper follows Bortolotti’s daily, often mundane account of his life as a POW in the context of the events of the time and highlights the mental and physical stress and sense of hopelessness that he and many other Italian POWs felt in the Hay camp during their years of confinement. It re-evaluates what has too easily been labeled the “fair treatment” of Italian POWs in Australia and a wartime experience that has been called “not a bad thing”.
First year post-secondary attitudes towards the study of French: A longitudinal study
(Melbourne University Press, 2004) West-Sooby, John; Bouvet, Eric James
fast Fiction en la clase de espanol avanzado: una experiencia creativa en Las Antipodas
(Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2004) Lorenzin, Maria Elena
The Regenerative Spirit: Vol. 2 (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post)colonial (Re)presentations - Australian Postcolonial Reflections
(Lythrum Press, 2004) Bierbaum, Nena; Williams, S M; Hosking, Rick; Lonergan, Dymphna; Deane, Laura Inez
When the diaspora returns: language choices in post-independence Timor Lorosa'e
(Lythrum Press, 2004) Golden, Jill
Computerised Tracking of Reading Strategies: a Pedagogic Case Study in Context
(2004) Bouvet, Eric James; Breelle, Dany Michelle
Pistage informatise des strategies de lecture : une etude de cas en contexte pedagogique
(2004) Bouvet, Eric James; Breelle, Dany Michelle
Graduate student's choices in dissertation and thesis writing
(TESOL, 2005) Najar, Robyn Lee
French Migration to South Australia (1955-1971): What Alien Registration documents can tell us
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2005-08) Bouvet, Eric James; Boudet-Griffin, Elizabeth
The present article investigates the demographic characteristics of French migrants to South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. These two decades are of particular interest because during this period French migration to Australia was strongly influenced by the implementation of a series of assisted passage schemes. As a result, the number of settler arrivals to Australia reached unprecedented heights during this period. This study, based on original data collected at the National Archives of Australia, provides an opportunity to identify migratory and settlement trends and measure the scope of assisted migration. In order to establish the historical context of the present investigation, the paper gives an overview of the composition and development of the French community in Australia from the days of settlement to the 1970s.
How angry can you be in French and Italian? Integrating research and teaching for the development of pragmatic competencies in L2 classrooms
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2005-08) Mrowa-Hopkins, Colette Marie; Strambi, Antonella
In recent years, discourse analysis has contributed to raising language practitioners’ awareness of the pragmatic aspects of culture in language and communication. However, the application of research data to teaching has often been limited to ESL contexts. On the other hand, the need to use research data in teaching cross-cultural pragmatic competence has been strongly advocated in the literature on SLA (Kasper, 1997), in view of the well-documented absence of the socio-pragmatic aspects of language/culture from foreign language textbooks (Liddicoat, 1997). In this paper we illustrate the rationale, as well as the main theoretical and practical aspects, of a research project designed to allow closer interaction between our research and teaching activities. In 2003, we initiated a cross-cultural investigation of emotion display and self-disclosure by Anglo-Australian, French and Italian speakers, based on the observation and analysis of non-verbal behaviour displayed in contemporary feature films. Following a discussion of issues that pertain to our research, we suggest ways in which our results can be brought into the classroom, with a view to provide opportunities for the development of socio-pragmatic competence in learners of French and Italian.
Paris-Match: Etude sur la representation d'une identite culturelle
(Peter Lang Publishing, 2006) Mrowa-Hopkins, Colette Marie
Modern Greek on Distance Mode: The Case of Darwin
(2006) Frazis, George
"Unrecorded lives": oral narratives of a group of first-generation Campanian women residing in Adelaide, South Australia
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2006-12) Glenn, Diana Cavuoto
This study examines issues of identity and cultural maintenance, as evidenced by the oral testimonies of a generational cohort who were born in the region of Campania in Southern Italy and who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s-1960s. During the post-war period of mass migration by Italians to overseas destinations, an Assisted Migration Agreement was signed by Australia and Italy (in 1951); however, the majority of Campanian migrants to Adelaide were not the beneficiaries of assisted passages. Rather, sponsorship by spouses, relatives or paesani, followed by cluster settlement patterns, were strong features of transnational immigration by Campanians to South Australia in the post-WWII period. As a result, the journeying and resettlement experiences of this project’s sampling of first generation Campanian women were predominantly influenced by family kinship networks operating within a system of chain migration. The paper will consider the ways in which the project informants developed mechanisms in order to survive the difficulties of cultural displacement and marginalisation from mainstream culture. The participants’ “outsider” point of view provides valuable information on the significance of cultural dislocation as a feature of South Australian society in the last fifty years.
El humor como resolucion de lo imposible en la obra de Pablo Urbanyi
(Editorial Pliegos, 2007) Lorenzin, Maria Elena
Distance Education: Problems and Perspectives
(Flinders University, 2007) Frazis, George
Il peso della lontananza nell'opera di Enoe Di Stefano
(Franco Cesati, 2007) O'Connor, Desmond John
Changes in the ethnic identification of women’s soccer clubs in Adelaide: the case of Adelaide City Women’s Football Club.
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2007-08) Rosso, Edoardo Giovanni
The paper focuses on women’s soccer, one of the fastest growing sports in Australia, and in particular on the aspect of the ethnic background of Adelaide-based clubs. The paper aims to illustrate the shift in ethnic image that has occurred in recent years amongst Adelaide clubs, formerly associated with the Italian community, and to investigate the reason(s) behind this shift. Methods include interviews and correspondence with officials, sponsors, players and coaches of a local women’s soccer club (Adelaide City Women’s Football Club - ACWFC), officials of the South Australian Women’s Soccer Association (SAWSA) and a literature review. The outcome is an inside perspective on the phenomenon of the abandonment of the Italian background of Adelaide women’s soccer clubs. The project’s significance relates to the exploration of a field, ethnicity in women’s soccer in Adelaide, which links the important framework of ethnic community identity to a national fast-growing sport such as women’s soccer.
French migration to Australia in the post WWII period: Benevolent tolerance and cautious collaboration
(Department of Languages, Flinders University, 2007-08) Bouvet, Eric James
The main objective of this study is to consider the diplomatic relations between France and Australia in the three decades following World War II with a view to documenting the events that contributed to the development of French migration to Australia. This period is significant in the context of the history of the French in Australia because in the thirty years that followed the war, more French migrants arrived in Australia than at any other time in the history of the French presence in this country. The few studies that have been concerned with French migration to Australia have not examined in great detail the events that took place during this time. In order to shed light on the diplomatic relations between France and Australia relative to the question of French migration, I have analysed archival materials, including formerly classified Commonwealth and diplomatic correspondence recently released by the National Archives of Australia. Before presenting an account of the events that shaped post World War II migration from France, this article will outline the state of the research on the French in Australia and provide an overview of the development of the French community in Australia from the days of settlement to the earlY 1970S.
Two Perspectives on Language Maintenance: The Salvadorian Community in Queensland and the Spanish Community in South Australia
(2008) Gil, Jeffrey Allan; Sanchez-Castro, Olga

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