Research Interests include interactions between discourse, cognition and grammar, pragmatics, perspective-taking in discourse, Conversation Analysis, typology, narrative structure, language shift and language maintenance, Australian Aboriginal Languages.
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Journal Article: "Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation
Mushin, Ilana (2012) "Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation. Pragmatics and Society, 3 2: 270-293. doi:10.1075/ps.3.2.07mus
Book: A grammar of (Western) Garrwa
Mushin, Ilana A grammar of (Western) Garrwa. Boston, MA , United States: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. doi:10.1515/9781614512417
Book Chapter: Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2011). Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations. In Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (Ed.), Indigenous language and social identity: Papers in honour of Michael Walsh (pp. 207-221) Canberra, ACT, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.
Journal Article: Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana (2010) Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 30 4: 471-496. doi:10.1080/07268602.2010.518556
Journal Article: Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2009) Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 41 10: 2033-2052. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.11.004
Book Chapter: Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement
Mushin, Ilana (2008). Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement. In Mushin, Ilana and Baker, Brett (Ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (pp. 87-109) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Journal Article: Free to bound to free? Interactions between pragmatics and syntax in the development of Australian pronominal systems
Mushin, Ilana and Simpson, Jane (2008) Free to bound to free? Interactions between pragmatics and syntax in the development of Australian pronominal systems. Language, 84 3: 566-596. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0048
Journal Article: Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community
Gardner, R. and Mushin, I. (2007) Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 3: 35.1-35.14.
Journal Article: Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia
Mushin, Ilana (2006) Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia. Linguistic Typology, 10 3: 287-326. doi:10.1515/LINGTY.2006.010
Journal Article: Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa
Mushin, Ilana (2005) Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 2: 253-273. doi:10.1080/07268600500233027
(2018–2022) Macquarie University
Talking knowledge, doing learning: the early years
(2015–2017) ARC Discovery Projects
The developmental origins of tool innovation
(2014–2017) ARC Discovery Projects
Language maintenance and cultural identity among Lebanese-Australian families
(2018) Doctor Philosophy
(2016) Doctor Philosophy
Pedagogical practices in PhD supervision meetings from a conversation analytic perspective
(2016) Doctor Philosophy
"Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation
Mushin, Ilana (2012) "Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation. Pragmatics and Society, 3 2: 270-293. doi:10.1075/ps.3.2.07mus
Mushin, Ilana A grammar of (Western) Garrwa. Boston, MA , United States: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. doi:10.1515/9781614512417
Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2011). Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations. In Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (Ed.), Indigenous language and social identity: Papers in honour of Michael Walsh (pp. 207-221) Canberra, ACT, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.
Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana (2010) Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 30 4: 471-496. doi:10.1080/07268602.2010.518556
Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2009) Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 41 10: 2033-2052. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.11.004
Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement
Mushin, Ilana (2008). Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement. In Mushin, Ilana and Baker, Brett (Ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (pp. 87-109) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Mushin, Ilana and Simpson, Jane (2008) Free to bound to free? Interactions between pragmatics and syntax in the development of Australian pronominal systems. Language, 84 3: 566-596. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0048
Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community
Gardner, R. and Mushin, I. (2007) Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 3: 35.1-35.14.
Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia
Mushin, Ilana (2006) Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia. Linguistic Typology, 10 3: 287-326. doi:10.1515/LINGTY.2006.010
Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa
Mushin, Ilana (2005) Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 2: 253-273. doi:10.1080/07268600500233027
Mushin, Ilana A grammar of (Western) Garrwa. Boston, MA , United States: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. doi:10.1515/9781614512417
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling
Mushin, Ilana Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: Narrative Retelling 87 ed. Edited by Jucker, Andreas Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing company, 2001.
Dis, that and da other: variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school
Fraser, Henry, Mushin, Ilana, Meakins, Felicity and Gardner, Rod (2018). Dis, that and da other: variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school. In Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson and Jill Vaughan (Ed.), Language practices of Indigenous children and youth: the transition from home to school (pp. 237-269) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_10
Diverging from 'business as usual'. Turn-initial ngala in Garrwa conversation
Mushin, Ilana (2018). Diverging from 'business as usual'. Turn-initial ngala in Garrwa conversation. In Studies in language and social interaction (pp. 119-153) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/slsi.31.05mus
Epistemic trajectories in the classroom: how children respond in informing sequences
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2017). Epistemic trajectories in the classroom: how children respond in informing sequences. In Amanda Bateman and Amelia Church (Ed.), Children's knowledge-in-interaction: studies in conversation analysis (pp. 13-36) Singapore, Singapore: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1703-2_2
Establishing connections: a tale of two communities
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2016). Establishing connections: a tale of two communities. In Kerry Taylor-Leech and Donna Starks (Ed.), Doing research within communities: stories and lessons from language and education field research (pp. 105-114) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government Reserves: the case of Woorie Talk
Mushin, Ilana and Watts, Janet (2016). Identifying the grammars of Queensland ex-government Reserves: the case of Woorie Talk. In Felicity Meakins and Carmel O'Shannessy (Ed.), Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonisation (pp. 57-85) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton.
Same but different: understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlements
Mushin, Ilana, Angelo, Denise and Munro, Jennifer M. (2016). Same but different: understanding language contact in Queensland Indigenous settlements. In Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Diane Hafner (Ed.), Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country (pp. 383-408) Philadelphia, PA, United States: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/clu.18.18mus
The impact of interaction and language on leading learning in Indigenous classrooms
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2016). The impact of interaction and language on leading learning in Indigenous classrooms. In Johnson, Greer and Dempster, Neil (Ed.), Leadership in diverse learning contexts (pp. 289-309) Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28302-9_15
"Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation
Mushin, Ilana (2014). "Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation. In Janis Nuckolls and Lev Michael (Ed.), Evidentiality in Interaction (pp. 103-126) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/bct.63.07mus
Liminal pronoun systems: evidence from Garrwa
Mushin, Ilana (2014). Liminal pronoun systems: evidence from Garrwa. In Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (Ed.), Language description informed by theory (pp. 99-122) Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi:10.1075/slcs.147.06mus
Language for learning in indigenous classrooms: foundations for literacy and numeracy
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2013). Language for learning in indigenous classrooms: foundations for literacy and numeracy. In Robyn Jorgensen, Peter Grootenboer and Peter Sullivan (Ed.), Pedagogies to enhance learning for indigenous students: evidence-based practice (pp. 89-104) Singapore: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-981-4021-84-5_6
Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2011). Turn management in Garrwa mixed-language conversations. In Brett Baker, Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (Ed.), Indigenous language and social identity: Papers in honour of Michael Walsh (pp. 207-221) Canberra, ACT, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.
Clause-initial position in four Australian languages
Simpson, Jane and Mushin, Ilana (2008). Clause-initial position in four Australian languages. In Mushin, Ilana and Baker, Brett (Ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (pp. 25-57) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Discourse and grammar in Australian languages
Baker, Brett and Mushin, Ilana (2008). Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. In Mushin, Ilana and Baker, Brett (Ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (pp. 1-23) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement
Mushin, Ilana (2008). Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement. In Mushin, Ilana and Baker, Brett (Ed.), Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages (pp. 87-109) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling
Mushin, I (2006). Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling. In H. Pishwa (Ed.), Language and Memory: Aspects of Knowledge Representation (pp. 387-408) Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Tools of engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations
Blythe, Joe, Gardner, Rod, Mushin, Ilana and Stirling, Lesley (2018) Tools of engagement: selecting a next speaker in Australian Aboriginal multiparty conversations. Research on Language and Social Interaction, . doi:10.1080/08351813.2018.1449441
Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Neldner, Karri, Wilks, Matti, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2018) Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities. Child Development, . doi:10.1111/cdev.13084
Young children's tool innovation across culture: Affordance visibility matters
Neldner, Karri, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2017) Young children's tool innovation across culture: Affordance visibility matters. Cognition, 168 335-343. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.07.015
Watts, Jane, Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2017) Da Symbol Dat Under da Stuffs: teaching the language of maths to Aboriginal learners of standard Australian English as a second dialect. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 1-13. doi:10.1017/jie.2017.29
Nielsen, Mark, Mushin, Ilana, Tomaselli, Keyan and Whiten, Andrew (2016) Imitation, collaboration, and their interaction among Western and Indigenous Australian preschool children. Child Development, 87 3: 795-806. doi:10.1111/cdev.12504
Rethinking Australian Aboriginal English-based speech varieties: evidence from Woorabinda
Munro, Jennifer and Mushin, Ilana (2016) Rethinking Australian Aboriginal English-based speech varieties: evidence from Woorabinda. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 31 1: 82-112. doi:10.1075/jpcl.31.1
Linguistic cues for recipient design in an Indigenous Australian conversational narrative
Mushin, Ilana (2016) Linguistic cues for recipient design in an Indigenous Australian conversational narrative. Narrative Inquiry, 26 2: 217-256. doi:10.1075/ni.26.2.03mus
Expanded transition spaces: the case of Garrwa
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2015) Expanded transition spaces: the case of Garrwa. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 MAR: 1-14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00251
'Up dere la': final particle la in a Queensland Aboriginal vernacular
Gourlay, Claire and Mushin, Ilana (2015) 'Up dere la': final particle la in a Queensland Aboriginal vernacular. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35 1: 76-101. doi:10.1080/07268602.2015.976902
Indigenous voices of Queensland
Round, Erich, Mushin, Ilana, Alvey, Elizabeth, Yu, Fei and Hornsby, Eric (2015) Indigenous voices of Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia, The University of Queensland.
Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children
Nielsen, Mark, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana and Whiten, Andrew (2014) Exploring tool innovation: a comparison of Western and Bushman children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126 384-394. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2014.05.008
Nielsen, Mark, Mushin, Ilana, Tomaselli, Keyan and Whiten, Andrew (2014) Where culture takes hold: "overimitation" and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children. Child Development, 85 6: 2169-2184. doi:10.1111/cdev.12265
Making knowledge visible in discourse: implications for the study of linguistic evidentiality
Mushin, Ilana (2013) Making knowledge visible in discourse: implications for the study of linguistic evidentiality. Discourse Studies, 15 5: 627-645. doi:10.1177/1461445613501447
Language matters in demonstrations of understanding in early years mathematics assessment
Mushin, Ilana, Gardner, Rod and Munro, Jennifer M. (2013) Language matters in demonstrations of understanding in early years mathematics assessment. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 25 2: 415-433. doi:10.1007/s13394-013-0077-4
Teachers telling: informings in an early years classroom
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2013) Teachers telling: informings in an early years classroom. Australian Journal of Communication, 40 2: 63-81.
"Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation
Mushin, Ilana (2012) "Watching for witness": evidential strategies and epistemic authority in Garrwa conversation. Pragmatics and Society, 3 2: 270-293. doi:10.1075/ps.3.2.07mus
Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana (2010) Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 30 4: 471-496. doi:10.1080/07268602.2010.518556
An Introduction to 'Studies in Australian Indigenous Conversation'
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2010) An Introduction to 'Studies in Australian Indigenous Conversation'. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 30 4: 393-396. doi:10.1080/07268602.2010.518552
Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction
Mushin, Ilana and Gardner, Rod (2009) Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 41 10: 2033-2052. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.11.004
The underlying orderliness of turn-taking: Examples from Australian talk
Gardner, Rod, Fitzgerald, Richard and Mushin, Ilana (2009) The underlying orderliness of turn-taking: Examples from Australian talk. Australian Journal of Communication, 36 3: 65-90.
Mushin, Ilana and Simpson, Jane (2008) Free to bound to free? Interactions between pragmatics and syntax in the development of Australian pronominal systems. Language, 84 3: 566-596. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0048
Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community
Gardner, R. and Mushin, I. (2007) Post-start-up overlap and disattentiveness in talk in a Garrwa community. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 3: 35.1-35.14.
Mushin, Ilana (2006) Review of: Epistemic stance in English conversation: A description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think By Elise Kärkkäinen. Discourse Studies, 8 3: 463-464. doi:10.1177/146144560600800306
Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia
Mushin, Ilana (2006) Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia. Linguistic Typology, 10 3: 287-326. doi:10.1515/LINGTY.2006.010
Narrative Functions of Clause Linkage in Garrwa: a perpective analysis
Mushin, I. (2005) Narrative Functions of Clause Linkage in Garrwa: a perpective analysis. Studies in Language, 29 1: 1-33. doi:10.1075/sl.29.1.02mus
Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa
Mushin, Ilana (2005) Word order pragmatics and narrative functions in Garrwa. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 25 2: 253-273. doi:10.1080/07268600500233027
Teachers telling students: informings in an Indigenous classroom
Gardner, Rod and Mushin, Ilana (2012). Teachers telling students: informings in an Indigenous classroom. In: AIEMCA 2012 Biennial Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 29-30 November 2012.
Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
Selected papers from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society (2007) . Edited by Ilana Mushin and Mary Laughren. 2006 Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, 7-9 July 2006, St Lucia, Australia.
(2018–2022) Macquarie University
Talking knowledge, doing learning: the early years
(2015–2017) ARC Discovery Projects
The developmental origins of tool innovation
(2014–2017) ARC Discovery Projects
Language and cultural diversity in early years classrooms
(2014–2016) Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment
Over-imitation, trial-and-error learning and the inter-generational transmission of information
(2011–2013) ARC Discovery Projects
(2010–2013) Griffith University
(2010–2013) Department Education - Queensland
Pragmatics of English email communication between Saudi female students and male professors
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Humour and Laughter in Australian Workplace Interactions
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Language maintenance and cultural identity among Lebanese-Australian families
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Pedagogical practices in PhD supervision meetings from a conversation analytic perspective
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Morphosyntactic and Semantic Properties of Hijazi Arabic Modals
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The Use of Address Terms in the City of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Language Maintenance Among Cantonese Migrants In Brisbane
(2011) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Vietnamese demonstratives: A spatially-based polysemy network
(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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