Louise Jane Ravelli (born 29 July 1963) is an Australian
linguist
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. She is a professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the
University of New South Wales, Australia.
Her research expertise includes multimodal communication, museum communication,
discourse analysis
Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event.
The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative sy ...
, and
systemic functional grammar,
using the frameworks of
Systemic Functional Linguistics,
Social Semiotics, and Multimodal Discourse Analysis.
Ravelli has authored a number of books in linguistics, multimodality, and museum studies, including ''Multimodality in the Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis'' (with Robert McMurtrie, 2016),
''Doctoral Writing in the Creative and Performing Arts'' (with Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield, 2014), and ''Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks'' (2006).
Biography
Ravelli grew up and attended school in
Parkes, New South Wales
Parkes is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is the main settlement in the local government in Australia, local government area of Parkes Shire. Parkes had a population of 9,83 ...
.
Ravelli completed a
Bachelor of Arts
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with Honours in Linguistics at the
University of Sydney
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, Australia in 1985, followed by a
Master of Philosophy
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in 1987 at the
University of Birmingham
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, United Kingdom.
In 1991 she completed her
PhD, also at the University of Birmingham, supervised by
Michael Hoey.
She then held a position at the
University of Wollongong, Australia for six years, before moving to the University of New South Wales (UNSW). At UNSW, Ravelli initially worked in the Department of Linguistics, before moving to the Department of Media in 2007.
Ravelli has worked as a communications consultant to the
Australian Museum and the
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Ravelli also wrote a book of language guidelines for museum exhibitions, published by the Australian museum in 1995 (''Meanings and messages: Language guidelines for museum exhibitions,'' with Linda Ferguson and Carolyn MacLulich).
Ravelli serves as an editor for the journal
''Visual Communication''.
Contributions to linguistics
Ravelli has contributed to academic writing, museum communication, and multimodality, especially spatial discourse analysis. She also contributed to early research on grammatical metaphor, for example her 1988 book chapter, ''Grammatical metaphor: An initial analysis'' in the book ''Pragmatics, Discourse and Text: Some systemically-inspired approaches''.
Her work on academic writing includes research conducted as part of an
Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant titled ''Writing in the Academy: The practice-based thesis as an evolving genre'' (2008-2012, with Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield).
Awards and distinctions
* University of Birmingham/Collins COBUILD Scholarship for Postgraduate Research (1986–1987)
Key publications
# Ravelli, L. (2006). ''Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks''. London and New York: Routledge.
# Ravelli, L. (1988). Grammatical metaphor: an initial analysis, in E. Steiner; R. Veltman R (Eds). ''Pragmatics, Discourse and Text: Some systemically-inspired approaches'', London: Pinter, pp. 133 – 147.
# VandenBergen, A; Taverniers, M; Ravelli, L. (Eds). (2003). ''Grammatical metaphor: views from systemic functional linguistics.'' Amsterdam: Benjamins.
# Ravelli, L. (1999). Getting started with functional analysis of texts, in L. Unsworth (Ed). ''Researching language in schools and communities''. London: Cassell, pp. 27–64.
# Ravelli, L. (2003). Renewal of connection: integrating theory and practice in an understanding of grammatical metaphor. In AM Simon-Vandenbergen, M. Taverniers, and L. Ravelli (Eds) ''Grammatical metaphor: views from systemic functional linguistics''. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 37–64.
References
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Linguists from Australia
Australian women linguists
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
University of Sydney alumni
Academic staff of the University of Wollongong
Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
Academic journal editors
Writers from New South Wales
21st-century Australian women
21st-century Australian writers
Australian expatriates in England
People from Parkes, New South Wales