School of Languages and Cultures

2023 Winter Research Program

Engage in a formal research project over the summer semester with the UQ Summer Research Program.

The UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program offers scholarships to students wishing to gain experience working alongside a researcher in a formal research environment in their area of interest at UQ.

Applications have closed

Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between Monday 26 June – Friday 21 July 2023.

Participation is open to undergraduate (including honours) and master by coursework students who are currently enrolled and will remain at UQ for the entirety of the research program.

Discover more about the Winter Research Program

  1. Memory discourses in letters to women who were executed and disappeared in Chile.
  2. How accurate is professional Mandarin/English interpreters' real-life telephone interpretations?
  3. Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War
  4. Multimodal public health communication
  5. Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.
  6. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 2
  1. Language use and story structure: Analysis of stories told by Russian-English bilingual children
  2. Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse
  3. ChatGPT for schools – Curating a prompt taxonomy for AI in F-10 Education.
  4. Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy
  5. Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

8. Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse

Project title: 

Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

  • 4 weeks; 25 hours per week
  • The project will be offered through a hybrid arrangement of on-site and online meetings.

Description:

This project explores how politeness and impoliteness is realised through linguistic and paralinguistic features in Korean discourse where appropriate uses of honorifics and speech levels have been mainly discussed as the sociolinguistic rules to express politeness. As an attempt to understand (im)politeness at a level of expressing epistemic stance and attributing credit to interlocutors as discursive strategies, not just at a level of grammar of honorifics, the current research project will contribute to expanding the meaning of (im)politeness in the Korean language. 

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Students participating in this project will gain research skills in discourse analysis including data collection and analysis. They will have opportunity to learn relevant theories and concepts in pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, so they can develop their own research topics based on the knowledge gained from this project.

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from any UQ enrolled students with high proficiency in the Korean language and an interest in socio-cultural understanding of languages.

Primary Supervisor:

Dr Narah Lee

Further info:

Please contact Dr Narah Lee via narah.lee@uq.edu.au to discuss the project prior to submitting your application.