Full Name
Ilana Mushin
Speaker Bio
Ilana Mushin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland and co-editor of the journal Interactional Linguistics. Her research combines CA and descriptive linguistics, especially focused on Garrwa, an endangered Indigenous language of Australia, and Australian Aboriginal varieties of English. She has published a range of work on epistemics, turn-taking and language alternation in Garrwa-English bilingual conversations. Together with long-time collaborators Joe Blythe, Rod Gardner and Lesley Stirling, she is currently an Investigator on the comparative CA project, Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia (CIARA).