Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Josh Dahmen is a linguist at Macquarie University, Sydney, and at the Australian National University, Canberra. He specialises in Australian Aboriginal languages and conducts field research on Jaru, an endangered language of Western Australia.
Josh is a researcher in the comparative ARC projects Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia (led by Associate Professor Joe Blythe) and Body, Language and Socialisation Across Cultures (led by Emeritus Professor Alan Rumsey).
Research interests
- Interactional linguistics and conversation analysis
- Australian First Nations languages
- Documentary linguistics
- Language contact and language shift
- Language socialisation
- Multimodal communication
Teaching
External positions
Senior Research Officer, Australian National University
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MACQ LING CA LAB: Macquarie Linguistics Conversation Analysis Lab
Blythe, J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Barnes, S. (Primary Chief Investigator), Dahmen, J. (Investigator), de Dear, C. (PhD Student), Jones, A. (PhD Student), Alharbi, E. (PhD Student), Skinner, N. (PhD Student), Yang, J. (Student) & Tao, H. (PhD Student)
25/01/24 → …
Project: Research
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Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia
Blythe, J. (Primary Chief Investigator), Mushin, I. (Chief Investigator), Stirling, L. (Chief Investigator), Gardner, R. (Chief Investigator), Possemato, F. (Research Assistant), Dahmen, J. (PhD Student), de Dear, C. (PhD Student) & Roberts, C. (PhD Student)
30/01/18 → 3/04/24
Project: Research
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Calibrating recipiency through pronominal reference
Dahmen, J. & Blythe, J., Dec 2022, In: Interactional Linguistics. 2, 2, p. 190–224 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion
Dahmen, J., 1 Apr 2022, In: International Journal of Bilingualism. 26, 2, p. 198–226 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An interactional-linguistic perspective on Jaru conversation
Dahmen, J., 2022, (Unpublished) 313 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: a collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment
Dahmen, J., May 2026, In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 36, 1, p. 1-32 32 p., e70026.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Child-directed speech in Ku Waru and Nungon (Papua New Guinea)
Sarvasy, H., Rumsey, A., Dahmen, J., Onga, J. & Yam, S., 15 Jul 2025, In: Language Development Research. 5, 3, p. 191-244 54 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Kinship-based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment / Supplementary video files
Dahmen, J. (Owner), Macquarie University, 20 Oct 2025
DOI: 10.25949/17696090.v1
Dataset: Audiovisual
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A satellite view of spatial points in conversation / Supplementary video files
Blythe, J. (Contributor), Possemato, F. (Contributor), Dahmen, J. (Owner), de Dear, C. (Contributor), Gardner, R. (Contributor) & STIRLING, L. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 12 Oct 2023
DOI: 10.25949/18133682.v1
Dataset: Audiovisual
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Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: Codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion / Supplementary video files
Dahmen, J. (Owner), Macquarie University, 24 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.25949/16666912.v1
Dataset: Audiovisual
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Calibrating recipiency through pronominal reference / Supplementary video files
Dahmen, J. (Owner) & Blythe, J. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 7 May 2023
DOI: 10.25949/17294816.v1
Dataset: Audiovisual
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Using a geospatial approach to document and analyse locational points in face-to-face conversation / Supplementary video files
Possemato, F. (Contributor), Blythe, J. (Contributor), de Dear, C. (Contributor), Dahmen, J. (Owner), Gardner, R. (Contributor) & STIRLING, L. (Contributor), Macquarie University, 24 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.25949/17211686.v1
Dataset: Audiovisual