Deanna Wong
Lecturer
Department of Linguistics
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Deanna is a sociolinguist with a specialization in corpus linguistic research, including corpus analysis, design and annotation. Her doctoral dissertation made use of corpus annotation to identify listener-produced backchannels in telephone conversations. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the use of linguistic corpora to examine interactional aspects of communication that extend beyond structural models of language. For example, currently, she is researching the use of LOL in blog comments, using the Birmingham Blog Corpus.
Research Interest
Linguistics
Publications
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Updating the ICE annotation system: Tagging, parsing and validation Wong, D., Cassidy, S. & Peters, P. Nov 2011 In : Corpora. 6, 2, p. 115-144 30 p.
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Turn management and backchannels Peters, P. & Wong, D. 2015 Corpus pragmatics: A handbook. Aijmer, K. & Rühlemann, C. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 408-429 22 p.
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Academic culture: a student's guide to studying at university Brick, J., Herke, M. & Wong, D. 2016 3rd ed. Melbourne: Macmillan Publishers. 331 p.
