Kerry Taylor-Leech
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kerry Taylor-Leech plays a role.
2020 Timorese talking back: The semiotic construction of chronotopes in the Timor Sea protests Linguistic Landscape 6:1, pp. 29–51 | Article
Taking the dispute between East Timor and Australia over their maritime boundary as an illustrative context, this article discusses the role of semiotic resources in constructing chronotopes of protest. Reflecting first on language choice in urban protests during East Timor’s struggle for… read more
2012 Strategies for building social connection through English: Challenges for immigrants and implications for teaching english as a second language Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35:2, pp. 138–155 | Article
This article draws on ethnographic data from a longitudinal study of newly-arrived immigrants of non English-speaking background in the Australian Adult Migrant English Program to investigate their opportunities for using English and the language learning strategies (LLS) they used to make the… read more
2009 Review of Liddicoat, A.J., ed. (2007) Issues in Language Planning and Literacy Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication, Read, John and Ute Knoch (eds.), pp. 18.1–18.4 | Review
2008 Language and identity in East Timor: The discourses of nation building Language Problems and Language Planning 32:2, pp. 153–180 | Article
Language choice in the newly independent Republic of East Timor can be usefully examined in the wider context of language policy in multilingual states. The present article reports on ethnographic research investigating official and popular discourses of language and identity in East Timor and the… read more
