The University of Western Australia
Asst/Prof Celeste Rodriguez Louro
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
- Contact details
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- Address
- Linguistics
The University of Western Australia (M258)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
- Phone
- 6488 2865
- celeste.rodriguezlouro@uwa.edu.au
- Location
- Room 2.46, Social Sciences Building, Crawley campus
- Qualifications
- MA Ill., PhD Melb.
- Biography
- Celeste Rodriguez Louro was born in July 1977 and was raised and educated in Argentina. She has traveled and lived in different countries since 2001, including Costa Rica, the USA, Austria, Poland and Australia. She completed a BA/Honours in English Language Teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina in 2001, an MA in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and a PhD in Linguistics at Melbourne University in July 2009. She is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at The University of Western Australia, a position she took up in late January 2011.
- Key research
- Grammaticalisation; variationist sociolinguistics; language attitudes; Australian English; Argentinian Spanish; Latin American Spanish
- Publications
- SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
THESIS
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste (2009). Perfect evolution and change: A sociolinguistic study of Preterit and Present Perfect usage in contemporary and earlier Argentina. The University of Melbourne: Ph.D. Thesis. Available at http://tiny.cc/kf6i7. (You may need to copy and paste link to your browser).
ARTICLES & BOOK REVIEWS
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste (2011). Review of Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and skills, by Susan Hunston & David Oakey. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34 (1): 118–121. http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/article/view/2123.
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste & Margarita Jara Yupanqui. (2011). Otra mirada a los procesos de gramaticalización del perfecto en español: Perú y Argentina [Another look at perfect grammaticalization processes in Spanish: Peru and Argentina]. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 4 (1): 55–80.
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste & Chad Howe. (2010). Perfect potential: Semantic change in narrative contexts across Spanish. Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana [International Journal of Iberoamerican Linguistics]. Volume VIII Number 2 (16): 157–176.
http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-79951991721&origin=inward&txGid=3Fa8zsqV-lZ2TlOmeOvfTaN%3a2
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste. (2010). Past time reference and the present perfect in Argentinian Spanish. In Yvonne Treis & Rik de Busser (Eds.), Selected papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. Melbourne, Australia. http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2009.html
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste. (2008). Usos del Presente Perfecto y el Pretérito en el español rioplatense argentino [Uses of the Present Perfect and the Preterit in Argentinian River Plate Spanish]. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Association of Latin American Linguistics and Philology (ALFAL). Montevideo: Uruguay.
Rodríguez Louro, Celeste (2007). El Presente Perfecto en el español rioplatense argentino [The Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish]. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística 1/2: 43–66.
Montrul, Silvina & Celeste Rodríguez Louro. (2006). Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter: A look at the discourse-pragmatic distribution of null and overt subjects by L2 learners of Spanish. In Linda Escobar and Vincent Torrens, (Eds.). The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 401–418.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PANELS/WORKSHOPS AND INVITED TALKS
(Invited talk) “Quotative verbs in Australian English”, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, April 2012
(Invited talk) “Epistemic verbs in Australian English”, Grupo estudios del discurso. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain, April 2012
“Quotatives Down Under: Be like in cross-generational Australian English speech”, Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change, University of Salford, Manchester, UK, 2012
“Peripheral envelopes: Periphrases in the variable context”, 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, (with Chad Howe), 2012
“Global, sexy and fun: Attitudes to Spanish by Australian university students”, Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) Conference, Canberra, Australia, 2011
(Invited talk) “Broadening horizons: The power of language learning in Australia”, Perth Modern School, Perth, Australia, 2011
(Invited talk) “Grammaticalization of epistemic parentheticals in Australian English”, University of Vienna, Austria, 2011
“Out-of-the-box pathways: Pragmatic nuances and the Present Perfect in Argentina”, Panel on Perfect evolution across languages and dialects: Semantic change and pragmatic motivations, 12th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Manchester, England, 2011
Panel on Perfect evolution across languages and dialects: Semantic change and pragmatic motivations, 12th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Manchester, England, (with Chad Howe), 2011
“Evolution with an attitude: The grammaticalisation of think and reckon in Australian English”, 12th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Manchester, England, (with Tom Harris), 2011
“Language learning in multilingual Australia: A look at Spanish”. Third Annual Roundtable of the Language and Society Centre. Monash University, Melbourne, (with †Michael Clyne), 2011
“Variation at the periphery: Continuative meaning and the Spanish Perfect”, Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2010, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, (with Chad Howe), 2010
(Invited talk) “Linguistic Attitudes in Argentina”, Symposium on Argentinian Culture, School of Music and Hispanic Program, UM, Melbourne, 2010
“Perfect usage and change in two varieties of Argentinian Spanish”, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2010, Brisbane, Australia, (with Ilpo Kempas), 2010
“Grammaticalization pathways revisited: Perfect usage in Peru and Argentina”, Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2009, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, (with Margarita Jara Yupanqui), 2009
“Against the mainstream: Non-canonical perfect usage in Australian English and Argentinian Spanish”, Free Linguistics Conference 2009, Sydney, Australia, (with Marie-Eve Ritz), 2009
“Perfect potential: Semantic change in narrative contexts across Spanish”, 11th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Melbourne, Australia (with Chad Howe), 2009
“Nothing present about this perfect: The Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish”, Workshop on Grammaticization and Variation in Romance Languages, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Workshop on Grammaticization and Variation in Romance Languages, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne, (with Catherine Travis), 2009
“Constraints on Present Perfect usage in Argentinian River Plate Spanish", The University of Melbourne Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Student Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2008
(Invited talk) “Usos lingüísticos y sociolingüísticos del Presente Perfecto y el Pretérito en el español rioplatense argentino”, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008
“Usos del Pretérito y el Presente Perfecto en el español rioplatense argentino”, XV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2008
“Speakers’ attitudes and the ‘standard’ in Argentinian Spanish”, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney, Australia, 2008
“Linguistic-external forces on language change: The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish”, Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008
“Tense and aspect patterns in Argentinian River Plate Spanish: The Preterit and the Present Perfect”, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Adelaide, Australia, 2007
“On the uses and functions of the Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish”, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Brisbane, Australia, 2006
“Argentinian River Plate Spanish: The Preterit and the Present Perfect”, CRLC Workshop 2006 Brisbane, Australia, 2006
“The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish”, Symposium on Discourse Analysis: The Dialectic between Society and Discourse, Melbourne, Australia, 2005
“Beyond the Syntax of the Null Subject Parameter: A Look at the Discourse-Pragmatic Distribution of Null and Overt Subjects by L2 learners of Spanish”, Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Syntax, Madrid, Spain, (with Silvina Montrul), 2004
- Roles, responsibilities and expertise
- Organising Committee, 2012 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
https://bookings.arts.uwa.edu.au/ocs/index.php/linguistics/linguistics2012
Australian Speech Corpus, Associate Member
https://austalk.edu.au/project-members.html
Celeste is a NAATI accredited English-Spanish translator (NAATI accreditation ASCO 2529-15) and holds an Acreditación de examinadores DELE: Niveles B1 y B2 from Instituto Cervantes in Sydney - Funding received
- UWA, Supplementary Travel Grant; $750; 2012
UWA, 2012 Research Development Awards, research grant for project entitled “A sociolinguistic study of syntactic variation and change in Australian English”, $35,348; 2011 (55% success rate [56/99])
Programme for Cultural Cooperation between the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Australian National University (ANU), research and conference grant for project entitled “Global, sexy and fun: Attitudes to Spanish language learning by Australian university students”; $3000; 2011
UWA, School of Humanities, Staff Research Travel Grant, $2,000; 2011
UWA, Supplementary Travel Grant; $750; 2011
UM (University of Melbourne), Grants-in-Aid, “Exploiting bilingualism: The Melbourne Language Exchange Group”; $1,896; 2010 (Declined)
ARC Network in Human Communication Science, HCSNet WinterFest Scholarship, $1,200; 2010
Australian Federal Government, Department of Education, Science and Training: International Fee Remission Scholarship; full tuition fee coverage for duration of course and annual Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC); $22,400 p.a.; 2005–2009
La Trobe University, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, registration fee waiver, 2009
UM, Scholarships office and School of Languages and Linguistics: Melbourne International Research Scholarship; $19,425 p.a.; 2005–2008
UM, Faculty of Arts: Lillian Ernestine Lobb Scholarship, one scholarship awarded annually to a female postgraduate with excellent academic records (on the recommendation of the Dean of the Arts Faculty), $12,000; 2008
UM, School of Languages and Linguistics: Matching funding support, $600; 2008.
UM, Faculty of Arts: Travel for research in postgraduate study, $1,350; 2008.
UM, School of Languages and Linguistics: Conference attendance support scheme, $500; 2007
UM, Faculty of Arts: PhD Fieldwork Support Scheme, $3,900; 2006
UM, School of Languages: Conference attendance support scheme, $750; 2006
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese: Full tuition, partial fee waiver (USD 21,714 p.a.) and teaching assistantship; 2002–2004
- Languages
- Argentinian Spanish (native speaker); English (near-native); Portuguese (fair); Polish (fair)
- Memberships
- Australian Linguistic Society
Linguistic Society of America
Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística
International Pragmatics Association
- Honours and awards
- UWA, Nominated for Faculty of Arts Teaching Award (16 nominations; 38 enrolled students), 2011
[Reflection on teaching document available upon request]
UIUC, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Certificate of recognition as excellent teacher, (various courses); 2003 and 2004 - Previous positions
- Celeste has held teaching/research positions at the following institutions of higher learning:
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
Mar del Plata Community College, Argentina
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
University of Melbourne, Australia
RMIT University, Australia
La Trobe University, Australia
University of New England, Australia - Teaching
- The University of Western Australia
2012
LING 3002 Typology: The diversity of languages (3rd year/Honours)
LING 2003 Language, Culture and Society (2nd year)
LING 1901 Communication across cultures and languages (Broadening unit)
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/courses/undergrad/broadening-units
2011
LING 3312 Linguistic Field Methods: Methods in Sociolinguistics (3rd year/Honours)
LING 1103 Language, Culture and Society (1st year)
HONOURS SUPERVISION
Harry Midalia. The social evaluation of epistemic RECKON: Speaker attitudes and social constraints. UWA, 2011
Caroline Dixon. I was like: “definitely Aussie”. BE LIKE and other quotatives across generations in Australian English. UWA, 2011
- New and noteworthy
- MEDIA
6PR Afternoon Show with Tony McManus, Perth, March 26 2012
http://www.6pr.com.au/blogs/6pr-perth-blog/like-is-like-so-popular/20120326-1vu3i.html
Like it or not, it's the lingo
The West Australian
Interviewed by Bethany Hiatt
March 24-25, 2012
[Text available upon request]
It’s not like any other language
Interviewed by Lindy Brophy
UWA News, Volume 31, Number 2, March 19 2012
http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201203234465/features/it-s-not-any-other-language
Nationwide study to research Australian voices
ABC News – 7.30, Perth, October 2011
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-14/nationwide-study-to-research-australian-voices/3572748
6PR 882 News Talk with Paul Cook, Perth, October 2011
[Interview available upon request]
The Big Australian Speech Corpus
Interviewed by Daniel Midgley
Talk the Talk, RTR FM 92.1, Perth, September 2011
http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/talk-the-talk/id436133392
When I was young: The decay of language
Interviewed by Kiya Alimoradian
Pelican Magazine, Edition 6, Volume 82, Decay, UWA, September 2011
http://issuu.com/uwastudentguild/docs/pelican_ed6_vol_82
Tongue ties break down the barriers
Interviewed by Denise Ryan
The Age, Melbourne, Australia, June 4 2010
http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/tongue-ties-break-down-the-barriers-20100604-xk0w.html - Current projects
- I am currently working on a number of projects, including:
1. A study of the present perfect and the preterit in Argentinian Spanish (my PhD thesis topic);
2. A study of Present Perfect/Present Tense variation in continuative contexts in Spanish (with Chad Howe)
3. A study of epistemic phrases (with special emphasis on 'reckon') in Australian English;
4. A study of quotative verbs (with a focus on BE LIKE) in Australian English;
5. A study of attitudes to language by (1) Australian English speakers and (2) tertiary level learners of Spanish in Melbourne (started with the late Michael Clyne);
6. An edited volume on Argentinian Spanish (with Laura Colantoni) - Research profile
- Research profile and publications