Sally Hunt

Lecturer
BJourn, BA (Hons), MA, PhD (Rhodes)
Email address: s.hunt@ru.ac.za

Research interests:

• Corpus linguistics
• (Critical) Discourse Analysis
• Language and Gender

Courses taught:

• Linguistics 1 Discourse Analysis
• Linguistics 2 Discourse Analysis
• Linguistics 3 Critical Discourse Analysis
• Linguistics 3 Introduction to Russian Linguistics
• Postgraduate Language and Gender
• Postgraduate Corpus Linguistics

Selected research outputs:

• 2011: Blood, sweat and tears: using corpus techniques to critically analyse children's literature.  University of the Western Cape seminar: September 2011.
• 2011: Corpus Linguistics and CDA: workshop presented at University of the Western Cape. Cape Town, September 2011.
• 2011: Why Hermione is not the hero: using corpus methods to analyse the discoursal representation of female physicality in children's literature. Corpus Linguistics 2011, Birmingham, July 2011.
• 2011: Corpus Linguistics and CDA: workshop presented at SAALA / LSSA / SAALT / EPIP joint conference. Grahamstown, June 2011.
• 2011: The Discoursal Construction of Female Physical Identity in Selected Works in Children's Literature. Unpublished PhD thesis: Rhodes University, Grahamstown. January 2011.
• 2009: Representations of girls and boys in children's literature. Invited lecture in ROLLS (Research on Languages and Linguistics at Sussex), November 2009.
• 2008: Hunt, S., Dowse, R. and La Rose, C. Health Literacy Assessment: Relexicalising a U.S. Test for a South African Population.  Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 26(2): 267-281.
• 2008: Hunt, S., Dowse, R. and La Rose, C. Literacy and Access to Information about Health Issues in a Multicultural Society. Paper presented at the Intercultural Communication and Linguistics Conference (joint conference of the Mouton Journal 'Intercultural Pragmatics', the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa, and the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association), Stellenbosch, January 2008.
• 2007: Dowse, R., Hunt, S. and La Rose, C. How well are Health-related Terms Understood? Poster presented at the 21st Annual SAAHIP Conference, Drakensberg, March 2007.
• 2006: Dowse, R. Hunt, S. and La Rose, C. Inequalities in access to health-related information: application of a modified health literacy test in an English second-language population. Poster presented at the 14th International Social Pharmacy Workshop in Oxford, UK, July 2006.
• 2006: De Klerk, V., Adendorff, R., De Vos, M., Hunt, S., Niesler, T., Simango, S.R. and Todd, L. Educated mother-tongue South African English: a corpus approach. Language Matters, 37(1): 85-105.
• 2005: Hunt, S. Some (more) features of conversation amongst women friends. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 23(4): 445-458.
• 2005: Hunt, S. Women's Bodies in Sweet Valley: an analysis using SFG. Paper presented at the annual joint conference of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association and the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa, Dikololo, 6 - 8 July 2005.
• 2004: Hunt, S. The Linguistic Construction of Female Physical Identity in Teenage Romance Fiction. Paper presented at the conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 4 - 6 June 2004.
• 2003: Hunt, S. The development of female friendship: further observations from conversations. Paper presented at the 23rd Conference of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association, Johannesburg, 30 June - 2 July 2003.
• 2002: Hunt, S. The beginning of female friendship: the beginning of a study. Paper presented at the 22nd Conference of the Southern African Applied Linguistics Association in Pietermaritzburg, 8 - 10 July 2002.
• 2001: Hunt, S. Deborah Schiffrin. In Mesthrie, R. (ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Pergamon, 910.
• 2001: Hunt, S. Cross-cultural communication in South Africa: contrasts in interactional norms in tertiary education. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Cross Cultural Communication: Communication and Cultural (Ex)Change, Hong Kong, 24-26 July 2001.
• 2001: Hunt, S. Speech Acts Across Cultures: Xhosa mother-tongue speakers of English and requests. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Southern African Association for Applied Linguistics, Grahamstown, 9-11 July 2001.
• 2000: Hunt, S. and De Klerk, V. Discourse Domination? The role of gender in seminar interaction. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 18: 73-87.
• 2000: Hunt, S. 'Invisible' Boundaries: An Investigation of the Effects of Culture on Interaction in Small Teaching Groups at a South African University. Paper presented at the British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference in Cambridge, England, 7 - 9 September 2000.
• 2000: Hunt, S. Systematising Speaker Initiative in Self-selection in Terms of Rights to the Floor. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, Cape Town, January 2000.
• 2000: Hunt, S. Interaction in tutorials: an interim report on a comparison of mainstream and foundation course groups. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Southern African Association for Applied Linguistics, Stellenbosch, 14 - 16 September 2000.
• 2000: Hunt, S. and Kenyon, T. Intercultural Communication Training in Schools. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Southern African Association for Applied Linguistics, Stellenbosch, 14 - 16 September 2000.