Annabelle Lukin

Personal profile

Biography

Annabelle is Associate Professor of Linguistics, and one of two Department HDR Directors. Her research interests include the study of language in politics, media, healthcare and literature. In 2019 she published a War and its Ideologies: A Social-Semiotic Theory and Description, a book based on 15 years on research into how language legitimates some forms of violence while stigmatizing others. Annabelle is interested in contributing to a better public understanding about the nature and power of language. She has been interviewed on commercial and public radio, and has contributed a number of articles to The Conversation.

Annabelle combines discourse analysis with corpus methods. She is an affiliate of the Sydney Corpus Lab.

She is a member of Communicators Declare, an organisation of communications, PR and marketing professionals who have declared they will not work for organisations that support continued use of polluting fossil fuels.

Research interests

Media, power, politics, climate denialism, ideologies around war and violence, and, as a counter balance to these topics, the aesthetics of language in literature

Research engagement

Currently researching communications in inflammatory bowel disease with researchers and clinicians at Ingham Applied Medical Research Institute and Liverpool Hospital.

Research student supervision

Not currently available for PhD supervision until 2022.

Supervision areas: discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, media and political discourse, stylistics, healthcare communication

Teaching

Annabelle convenes Ling2218 (Grammar and Meaning), and co-convenes Ling1109 (Language, Culture and Communication), Ling3392 (Discourse Analysis) and Ling7701 (Modern Linguistic Theories in the History of Human Sciences).

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Projects

2 Active
6 Finished

Children and Young People’s Rights, Participation and Protection (CRPP) Faculty of Arts Research Stream (also known as the MQU Children's Research Network)

Barrett Meyering, I., Daft, S., Doel-Mackaway, H., Faulkner, J. & Lukin, A.

1/10/17 → …

Project: Research

The power of meaning: Linguistics for the study of ideology

Lukin, A.

1/07/17 → …

Project: Research

The science of meaning: lexis, grammar and semantics in culture

Lukin, A.

31/07/13 → 31/01/14

Project: Research

The 'pre-texts' of war: texts as agents in the prosecution and historical construal of wars

Lukin, A., Butt, D. & Manning, P.

1/01/10 → 31/12/10

Project: Research

The problem of 'translation equivalence': a case study of Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss'

Lukin, A.

14/10/09 → 13/10/10

Project: Research

Research Outputs

44 Citations
4 h-Index
20 Article
17 Chapter
4 Conference proceeding contribution
2 Edited Book/Anthology
4 More

Review of Hart, Christopher (2014) Discourse, Grammar and Ideology: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives

Lukin, A., 2019, In : Language, Context and Text. 1, 1, p. 194-203 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review

War and its ideologies: a social-semiotic theory and description

Lukin, A., 2019, Singapore: Springer, Springer Nature. 283 p. (M. A. K. Halliday Library functional linguistics series)

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Advanced cancer patients’ construction of self during oncology consultations: a transitivity concordance analysis

Karimi, N., Lukin, A., Moore, A. R., Walczac, A. & Butow, P., Dec 2018, In : Functional linguistics. 5, p. 1-23 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

8 Downloads (Pure)

Cancer care as an integrated practice: consultations between an oncologist and patients with advanced, incurable cancer

Karimi, N., Moore, A. & Lukin, A., 2018, Perspectives from systemic functional linguistics. Sellami-Baklouti, A. & Fontaine, L. (eds.). New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 315-337 23 p. (Routledge studies in linguistics; vol. 18).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Language, linguistics and verbal art: the contribution of Ruqaiya Hasan to the study of literature

26/10/16

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Expert Comment