Dr Michele Zappavigna

Dr Michele Zappavigna of the Linguistics Department at the University of Sydney   PhD
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Research Interests

  • Systemic theory
  • Functional grammar
  • Development of technology to support discourse analysis
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Discourse analysis in the area of restorative justice
  • Systemic visualisation (visualising linguistic analyses).

Publications

  • [Monograph Chapter] A survey of process type classification over difficult cases ( with M.O'Donnell and C. Whitelaw) New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning: From Language to Multimodality. C. Jones and E. Ventola [eds.]Equinox. 2008 (forthcoming).
  • [Monograph Chapter] Tacit Knowledge in Communities of Practice. (with J. Patrick) Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and KnowledgeManagement. E. Coakes and S. Clarke [eds.] Hershey, PA: Idea GroupReference. 2005.
  • [Monograph Chapter] Tacit Knowledge and Discourse Analysis. (with J. Patrick) Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. M. Khosrow-Pour[ed.] Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference. 2005
  • [Conference Paper] Annotating and visualising co-instantiation. Semiotic Margins. Sydney. 2007.
  • [Conference Paper] Syndromes of meaning: Exploring patterned coupling in a NSW Youth Justice Conference. International Free Linguistics Conference. Sydney. 2007
  • [Conference Paper] "Just like sort of guilty kind of": The rhetoric of tempered admission in Youth Justice Conferencing. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress. Woollongong. 2007
  • [Conference Paper] A survey of process type classification over difficult cases (with M. O'Donnell and C. Whitelaw). European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop. London. 2005.
  • [Conference Paper] Explicating Tacit Knowledge Embedded in Nominalisation. ACIS 2005. Socialising IT: Thinking About the People. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). B. Campbell, J. Underwood and D. Bunker [eds.] Australasian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems. 2005.
  • [Conference Paper] Eliciting tacit knowledge from spoken discourse about requirements analysis. (with J. Patrick) Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference for Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS 2004). F. Burstein and H. Linger [eds.] Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2005. pp 143-160.
  • [Conference Paper] Inter-coder reliability and process type (with J. Patrick). Euro-International Systemic Functional Linguistics Workshop, Madrid. 2004.
  • [Conference Paper] Eliciting tacit knowledge from spoken discourse. (with J. Patrick). Proceedings of the 10th Americas Conference on Information Systems C. Bullen and E. Stohr [eds.] Hoboken, NJ: Stevens Institute of Technology. 2004. pp 2195-2204.
  • [Conference Paper] Assessing Knowledge Management Services through Discourse Analysis (with J. Patrick, J. Davis and A. Stern). Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems. Adelaide: University of South Australia. 2003.
  • [Conference Paper] User driven example-based training for creating lexical knowledge bases (with J. Patrick, D. Palko and R. Munro). AI2002 Workshop Proceedings, Volume 1. S. Geldof and D. Molla-Aloid [eds.] Sydney: Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University. 2002. pp.17-23
  • [Conference Paper] Inferring Semantic Structure from Format (with J. Partick, D. Palko and R. Munro). Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities C. Cole and H. Craig [eds.] Sydney: Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. 2003.
  • [Conference Paper] Knowledge Management as Social Semiotic: discourse analysis as a measure of quality (with J. Patrick and A. Stern). The Role of Quality in Knowledge Management: Proceedings of the 2002 Australian Conference for Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS) F. Burstein and H. Linger [eds.] Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publications. 2003. pp 55-72