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John Kinder
Associate Professor
John Kinder
PhD Well, FAHA
Associate
Professor (Italian Studies)
Arts Building, Room 2.06
Ph: +61 (8) 6488 2192
Fax: +61 (8) 6488 1182
john.kinder@uwa.edu.au
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Teaching and
Research Interests
Italian language and linguistics, with special focus
on the external history of language in
Italy. I also teach in Italian sociolinguistics and
dialectology.
I am the academic contact person for exchanges
with the
University di Bologna and the Universita
Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.


Selected Publications
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Learning in Two Languages: models of bilingual
education (with C. Barrett-Pugh, M.P. Breen and M. Rohl).
Canberra: Language Australia (National Languages
and Literacy Institute of Australia). 1997.
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Using Italian: a guide to contemporary
usage (with Vincenzo M. Savini). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
CLIC: Cultura e Lingua d'Italia in Cd-rom / Culture and
Language of Italy on Cd-rom. Novara: Interlinea Edizioni,
2008.
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"Auxiliary verbs, dictionaries and the
late evolution of the Italian language".
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
Series S, 18 (2004): 115-132.
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"La variazione nell'insegnamento
dell'italiano a stranieri: riflessioni
dall'Australia". Lingua Italiana
D'Oggi. 1 (2004): 175-187.
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"Languages of migration and settlement". In
J. Gregory and J. Gothard (eds), Historical
Encyclopedia of Western Australia. Perth,
University of Western Australia, in press
(2008).
Complete Publications List

Current
Project
I am also working on an ARC-supported three-year
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.
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