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Media articles about my work with language revitalisation and RNLD
Helping my language live — language activism Talk the Talk Podcast 1 May 2019
Graduates Celebrate Language Kimberley Echo 20 October 2016
Meet the 10 achievers of their Certificate III in Aboriginal Languages for Communities and Workplaces NITV 19 October 2016
Speaking up Australian Geographic 28 April 2016
Linguistics jobs – Interview with a Language Revitalisation Program Director All Things Linguistic 2016
Indigenous language comes alive Shepparton News 21 July 2015
Workshop breathes new life into native languages The Guardian 13 May 2015
Leading chronicler of endangered Aboriginal languages to meet with locals The Guardian 12 May 2015
Veteran linguist’s work preserved ABC Alice Springs 23 April 2014
Digital lifeline for Aboriginal languages facing extinction The World Today ABC Radio 22 April 2014
Local language lessons The Guardian 22 April 2014
Elders track lost Indigenous languages ABC Capricornia 5 January 2012
Vadodara to host Global Language Meet The Indian Express 4 January 2012
My co-authored paper on “yeah no” has attracted media and blogging attention over the years
This is the original article:
2002 Burridge, K. & M. Florey M. “‘Yeah no he’s a good kid’: a discourse analysis of ‘yeah no’ in Australian English”. Australian Journal of Linguistics 22(2): 149-171
Here is some of the media commentary about the article and the speech feature yeah-no.
And, like, she goes ‘yeah, nah’: terminating our bad speech habits The Conversation 9 January 2015
Yeah no Talk the talk 5 November 2013
Yeah, no Grammarphobia 17 May 2013
When yes means no and no means yes Stuff 19 March 2008
Slang’s ‘yeah no’ debate not all negative The Age 11 June, 2004
Too much speech-junk? Yeah-no! The Age 19 June, 2004
Words we use when the brain lags Sydney Morning Herald 21 June, 2004
