The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof John Kinder

Associate Professor (on leave)
European Languages and Studies

Contact details

Address

European Languages and Studies
The University of Western Australia (M203)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2192

Fax

6488 1182

Email

john.kinder@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://www.european.uwa.edu.au/about/staff/john_kinder

Location

Room 2.06, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

MA PhD Well., FAHA

Publications

Most recent publications:

"Language and identities: the exceptional normality of Italy", Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. 5, 2 (2008).
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/issue/view/35

“Come insegnare italiano agli oriundi italiani? Il caso dell’Australia”, in Pierangela Diadori (ed.), La DITALS Risponde 6, Perugia, Guerra, 2008, pp.59-66.

“Immigration, integration and dialects: reflections on a recent Italian government advertising campaign”. FULGOR, 4, 1 (2009). http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor/back_issues.htm

“I am writing simply to say I have nothing to write about: the Martelli letters 1854-1864”. New Norcia Studies. 19 (2011).

“Italian as a language of communication in nineteenth century Italy and abroad” (with Michele Colombo). Italica. In press.

Memberships

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Fellow of the Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana

Current projects

I am working on an ARC-supported project entitled "Enduring diversity: a history of multilingualism in Italy". The aim of the project is to use the findings of the sociology of language to compile a picture of language choice and language mixing throughout Italy. While traditional studies of the major European languages take the emergence of the national language as the logical focus of language history, this project will complement such studies by studying the diversity of language usage which endured over two millennia even while a national language was being developed. The resulting volume will pose a number of questions for further research into language history.

Research profile

Research profile and publications