Dr Caroline Lipovsky

LLB (Paris II), MA (Paris I), MA in Applied Linguistics, PhD (University of Sydney)
Lecturer
Room 752, A18 Christopher Brennan Building
Email:
+61 2 9351 3651

I have taught French language and culture at all levels in a range of institutions in South Korea, Hong Kong and Australia. While in Korea, I also co-presented bi-weekly French language programs on Korean television.

With a background in law and marketing, I have also worked a number of years in the commercial departments of various companies in South Korea, France and Hong Kong. This sparked my interest in intercultural communication and the language used in the workplace. This is how I came to research self-presentation in job interviews in French and Australasian-English in my PhD thesis, analysing the linguistic resources whereby candidates demonstrate their expertise, construct their professional identity, and build co-membership with their interviewers.

Projects include a study of self-presentation in job applicants’ résumés and cover letters, and a study of candidates’ non-verbal communication in job interviews. I am also currently collaborating with Dr Ahmar Mahboob, analysing students’ evaluations of their native and non-native speaking teachers in TESOL.

• Impression management
• Intercultural communication
• Language of the workplace
• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Language of evaluation, Appraisal

• Exploring linguistic aspects of self-presentation in job interviews in French and English.
• Investigating linguistic aspects of self-presentation in cover letters and résumés.
• Analysing students’ evaluations of their native and non-native speaking teachers in TESOL (with Dr Ahmar Mahboob).

• 2007, Making a good impression in job interviews in French: strategies and outcomes, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AUMLA), Special Issue, pp. 129-141.
• 2007, Examining attitudes towards NESTs and NNESTs: a comparison of a thematic vs. an appraisal analysis [with Ahmar Mahboob], in Gitsaki, C. (Ed.), Language and Languages: Global and Local Tensions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 292-306.
• 2006, Candidates’ negotiation of their expertise in job interviews, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 38 (8), pp. 1147-1174.
• 2006, Self-presentation in job interviews, in Ramallo, F., Lorenzo, A. and Rodr'guez-Yáñez X.P. (Eds.), Discourse and Enterprise : Communication, Business, Management and other Professional Fields, LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 15, LINCOM, München, pp. 263-276.
• 2003, Making a good impression in a job interview: the role of the applicant’s lexico-grammatical choices, in Mouret, F., Raynal C. and Tellier M. (Eds.), Actes du 8ème Atelier des Doctorants en Linguistique; 7-8 juillet 2003, Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, UFR de Linguistique, pp. 92-97.
• 1999, Strategic Listening to French: A Program for Intermediate and Advanced Students [with C. Sheaffer-Jones], The University of New South Wales, 114 pages.

• French language at all levels
• Sociolinguistics
• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Research methods in applied linguistics

• Learning to graduate: A study of Japanese ESL students' use and development of graduation [with Ahmar Mahboob]. 1st International Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, 6-7 October 2007
• The semantics of graduation: examining ESL learners’ use over time [with Ahmar Mahboob]. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) Congress, University of Wollongong, 29 June-1 July 2007
• Making a good impression in job interviews in French. Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA) Congress, University of New South Wales, 5-7 February 2007
• Negotiating rapport in job interviews in French and English. Early Career Researchers (ECR) Conference, School of Languages & Cultures, University of Sydney, 6 October 2006
• Appraising native and non-native English speaking teachers in TESOL
  [with Ahmar Mahboob] Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Congress, University of Queensland, 5-8 July 2006
• Negotiating solidarity in job interviews: the role of the participants’ semantic choices. International Systemic Functional Conference, University of Sydney, 17-22 July 2005
• A hitchhiker’s guide to job interviews: negotiating one’s expertise. Systemic Functional Seminar, University of Sydney, 10 June 2005
• Small talk, name-dropping and personal disclosure: establishing co-membership in job interviews. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Congress, University of South Australia, 15-17 July 2004
• Making a good impression in a job interview: the role of the applicant’s lexico-grammatical choices. 8th Doctoral Meeting in Linguistics, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, 7-8 July 2003
• Candidate’s self-presentation versus interviewer’s perception: an analysis of job interviews held in French. Language, Text and Culture Workshop, School of European, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies, University of Sydney, 1-2 February 2001
• Presenting oneself successfully in job interviews in French. French Department Seminar, University of Sydney, 19 October 2000
• Impression management in cross-cultural job interviews. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Congress, University of Melbourne, 7-9 July 2000

• Co-convenor, ALAA 2008
  See: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/conference/ALAA/
• Member of the Organising Committee, LingFest 2008
  Check: http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/
• Member of the Organising Committee, Free Linguistics Conference 2007
  See: http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=14
• DELF/DALF Examination Jury Member, Sydney, until 2004
• Co-convenor, Troisième Stage d’Immersion d’Armidale, University of New England, 22-29 June 1996