Senior Lecturer
Overview
Sol's research interests include: (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Trauma and Memory Studies, Perceived Discrimination, Critical Translation Studies, Decolonial Thought.
Sol’s first university studies covered Spanish Literature/Education/Teacher Training at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación in Chile. She did a BA Classics (Latin) and Honours in African Studies (literature) at the University of Cape Town with the thesis: Feminism and historical reality in two ‘third world’ writers: Mariama Bâ (Senegal) and Ángeles Mastreta (Mexico): a comparison. In 1994 Sol relocated to the Galapagos Islands where she worked 6 years as editor translator and library assistant for the Publications Unit of the Charles Darwin Foundation. In 2002 she graduated with an MA (Linguistics) from the University of Queensland and in 2007 with a PhD in the area of Discourse Analysis and Comparative Cultural Studies. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland in Australia. Sol has over 50 publications, including four books, one co-edited book, and five books as a translator. Her work has appeared in journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Memory Studies, Social Semiotics, Journal of Pragmatics, Languages in Contrast, Babel, Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, and JILAR among others. Her co-authored historical Graphic Memoir Historias Clandestinas (2014) has a second edition in 2023 and is currently being made into a film. The English version of the graphic novel was published in 2023 in the U.S.
Research Interests
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Discourse Studies
Discourse Analysis from a decolonial perspective using tools from Critical Discourse Analysis and Discursive Psychology. -
Memory and Trauma Studies
Discourse analysis of the visitor experience to sites of traumatic memory. Contested memories in Chile. -
Perceived Discrimination
Perceived Discrimination in the field of Discourse Analysis is the study of discourse from the perspective of the victims of discrimination. Qualitative analysis of open ended interviews are used as data. -
Critical Translation Studies
The phenomenon of manipulation and censorship in translations Spanish-English-Spanish. The translation of Decolonial Thought.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Cape Town
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Cape Town
- Master of Arts, The University of Queensland
- Translator English-Spanish, NAATI
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Journal Article: “Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). “Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile. Social Semiotics, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2024.2314460
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Book Chapter: Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law
Dolhare, Maria Itati and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law. The law and critical discourse studies. (pp. 282-293) edited by Le Cheng and David Machin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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Rojas‐Lizana, Sol (2023). Canova, Paola (2020) Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco, University of Texas Press (Austin), xi + 192pp. $70.34 hbk. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 42 (1), 172-173. doi: 10.1111/blar.13451
Supervision
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The discourse of Perceived Discrimination in non-Japanese and mixed-race Japanese people in Japan
Doctor Philosophy
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20th century Western discourses in Martín Gusinde and José Emperaire's monographs on the Kawésqar world and southern Chile: A decolonial reading
Doctor Philosophy
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(2019) Doctor Philosophy
Available Projects
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The discourse of perceived discrimination of stigmatised identities
Perceived Discrimination (PD) is the study of discrimination that centres on the victims' experience through the analysis of their accounts. PD emerged in the areas of social psychology, psychiatry, migrant studies as quantitative research. PD in the area of Discourse Studies is qualitative research that looks at the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of PD discourse. It uses content and discourse analysis (CDA, Cognitive Linguistics, Discursive Psychology) to analyse the data. I am available to supervise projects on PD in the area of Discourse Studies working with the following identities: international students, ageism, neurodivergent people, blind people, deaf people, or other stigmatised identities. Please read the book The discourse of perceived discrimination: Perspectives from contemporary Australian society (Routledge, 2020) before contacting me.
Publications
Book
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Places of traumatic memory: a global context
Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman eds. (2020). Places of traumatic memory: a global context. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
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The discourse of perceived discrimination: perspectives from contemporary Australian society
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). The discourse of perceived discrimination: perspectives from contemporary Australian society. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429429804
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Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2009). Discourse and genre in everyday texts. Letters to the Editor in the local press of Australia and Chile. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.
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Hickman Jr., Cleveland P., Zimmerman, Todd L. and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2000). Guía de campo de los crustáceos de Galápagos: guía de campo illustrada sobre los balanos, camarones, langostas y crangrejos comunes de las islas Galápagos. Lexington, VA, USA: Sugar Spring Press.
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El Reino Del Galapago: Volviendo A Su Edad De Oro
Merlen, Godfrey and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (1999). El Reino Del Galapago: Volviendo A Su Edad De Oro. Quito, Ecuador: Fundación Charles Darwin.
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Hickman Jr., Cleveland P., Finet, Yves and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (1999). Guía de campo de los moluscos marinos de Galápagos: guía de campo ilustrada sobre caracoles, bivalvos y chitones de las aguas intermareales y someras de las islas Galápagos. Lexington, VA, USA: Sugar Spring Press.
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Guía de campo sobre estrellas de mar y otros equinodermos de Galápagos
Hickman, Cleveland P. and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (1998). Guía de campo sobre estrellas de mar y otros equinodermos de Galápagos. Lexington, VA, USA: Sugar Spring Press.
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Galapagos: Una Historia Natural
Jackson, Michael H. and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (1997). Galapagos: Una Historia Natural. Calgary, AB, Canada: University of Calgary Press.
Book Chapter
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Dolhare, Maria Itati and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law. The law and critical discourse studies. (pp. 282-293) edited by Le Cheng and David Machin. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
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Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
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The visitor’s gaze in the museum of memory and human rights in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). The visitor’s gaze in the museum of memory and human rights in Chile. Places of traumatic memory. (pp. 83-106) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_5
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Citizen voices in the visitor book of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). Citizen voices in the visitor book of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile. Ottawa Hispanic Studies 28: An open dialogue on democracy and citizen empowerment in the Latin-American context: Our voices. (pp. 17-40) edited by Ana M. Fernandez. Ottawa, Canada: Alter/Lugar Comun.
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2017). Who is asking the questions? Using co-constructed interviews in the study of perceived discrimination from a discourse analytical perspective. Narrative research in practice: stories from the field. (pp. 159-181) edited by Rachael Dwyer, Ian Davis and elke emerald. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1579-3_8
Journal Article
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2024). “Ps. I’ll find you.” The discourse of postmemory in letters to executed and disappeared grandparents in Chile. Social Semiotics, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10350330.2024.2314460
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Rojas‐Lizana, Sol (2023). Canova, Paola (2020) Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco, University of Texas Press (Austin), xi + 192pp. $70.34 hbk. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 42 (1), 172-173. doi: 10.1111/blar.13451
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Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2023). Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile. Memory Studies. doi: 10.1177/17506980231195570
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Massa, Beatriz Aguila, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Abarca, Ramon Uribe (2022). Estudio de audiencias durante la pandemia y el estallido social chileno: efectos de la conmemoración virtual del 11 de septiembre del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Clepsidra. Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Memoria, 9 (18) 2, 10-27.
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2022). Discourses of memory denial and the concept of dignity: the Graderías de la Dignidad memorial at the National Stadium in Chile. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28 (1), 53-66. doi: 10.1080/13260219.2022.2087323
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Dolhare, María Itatí and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2022). Applying the principles of Vivir Bien to a court resolution in Bolivia: language, discourse, and land law. Critical Discourse Studies, 20 (3), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2022.2102517
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El translenguaje en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: una lectura decolonial
Seif, Natalie and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). El translenguaje en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: una lectura decolonial. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 98 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/14753820.2021.1877441
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Family language policies among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Chowdhury, Farzana Yesmen and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). Family language policies among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia. International Multilingual Research Journal, 15 (2), 178-193. doi: 10.1080/19313152.2020.1846835
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Dolhare, María Itatí (2021). ¿Qué Importa el preámbulo?: pensamiento decolonial en el preámbulo de las constituciones de Bolivia y Ecuador: una aproximación desde el análisis del discurso. Critical Discourse Studies, 18 (1), 43-75. doi: 10.1080/17405904.2019.1567363
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Taboada, Manuela B., Rojas-Lizana, Sol, Dutra, Leo X. C. and Levu, Adi VasuLevu M. (2020). Decolonial design in practice: designing meaningful and transformative science communications for Navakavu, Fiji. Design and Culture, 12 (2), 141-164. doi: 10.1080/17547075.2020.1724479
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Cordella, Marisa (2020). Ageing in a foreign land: Stressors and coping strategies in the discourse of older adult Spanish speakers in Australia. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4 (1), 5-23. doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00010_1
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Perceived discrimination in the discourse of second-wave Latin American immigrants in Brisbane
Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2020). Perceived discrimination in the discourse of second-wave Latin American immigrants in Brisbane. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 4 (1), 25-46. doi: 10.1386/tjtm_00011_1
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Niveri, Roxanne Lizelle and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). ‘Changes’ to the new Japanese-Language Proficiency Test: Newly emerged language policies for non-Japanese and Japanese citizens. electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs), 19 (3) 8.
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Aging and migration: the value of familism for Spanish speakers
Cordella, Marisa and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2019). Aging and migration: the value of familism for Spanish speakers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 35 (1), 99-109. doi: 10.1007/s10823-019-09389-1
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol, Tolton, Laura and Hannah, Emily (2018). "Kiss me on the lips, for I love you," Over A Century of Heterosexism in the Spanish Translation of Oscar Wilde. International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, 6 (2) 2, 9-18. doi: 10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.2p.9
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The indigenous concept of Vivir Bien in the Bolivian legal field: a decolonial proposal
Dolhare, Maria Itati and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2017). The indigenous concept of Vivir Bien in the Bolivian legal field: a decolonial proposal. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.31
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Dieckmann, Cristy and Isolda Rojas-Lizana (2016). The pragmatics of legal advice services in a community legal centre in Australia: domination or facilitation?. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 23 (2), 167-193. doi: 10.1558/ijsll.v23i2.20291
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“A very big thank you to…”: Letters of gratitude in local newspapers from Australia and Chile
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2015). “A very big thank you to…”: Letters of gratitude in local newspapers from Australia and Chile. Languages in Contrast, 15 (2), 251-279. doi: 10.1075/lic.15.2.05roj
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Promotional discourse in the websites of two Australian universities: a discourse analytic approach
Hoang, Thi Van Yen and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2015). Promotional discourse in the websites of two Australian universities: a discourse analytic approach. Cogent Education, 2 (1) 1011488, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/2331186X.2015.1011488
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Reid, Alison and Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Seguridad cultural para las madres indigenas mesoamericanas. Una exploracion de las Epistemologias del sur con el Códice florentino como guia. Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, 15 (2).
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Mental illness, dementia and family in China, by Guy Ramsay
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Mental illness, dementia and family in China, by Guy Ramsay. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 1-2. doi: 10.1080/17542863.2014.894544
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Perceived discrimination in LGBTIQ discourse from Australia: a typology of verbal discrimination
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2014). Perceived discrimination in LGBTIQ discourse from Australia: a typology of verbal discrimination. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1). doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3303
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Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts
Pohlman, Annie, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Jamarani, Maryam (2014). Stigma and exclusion in cross-cultural contexts. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 11 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.5130/portal.v11i1.3749
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Mendez de Sifontes, Isabel and Rojas Lizana, Isolda (2013). An error analysis of persistent grammatical errors carried over from beginner to intermediate Spanish. Revista Electronica de Linguistica Aplicada, 12 (1), 63-85.
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Manipulacion del genero gramatical y sexual en la traduccion espanola de un cuento de Oscar Wilde
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda and Hannah, Emily (2013). Manipulacion del genero gramatical y sexual en la traduccion espanola de un cuento de Oscar Wilde. Babel, 59 (3), 310-331. doi: 10.1075/babel.59.3.04roj
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Bridging the language and cultural gaps: the use of blogs
Garcia-Sanchez, Soraya and Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2012). Bridging the language and cultural gaps: the use of blogs. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 (3), 361-381. doi: 10.1080/1475939X.2012.719396
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Eterio Pajares Infante: La traduccion de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2012). Eterio Pajares Infante: La traduccion de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII. Babel: International Journal of Translation, 58 (2), 247-249.
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The translation of English novels in the XVIII century
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2012). The translation of English novels in the XVIII century. Babel: Revue Internationale De La Traduction-International Journal of Translation, 58 (2), 247-249. doi: 10.1075/babel.58.2.09roj
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Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2011). Justifying and condemning sexual discrimination in everyday discourse: Letters to the Editor in the Australian local press. Journal of Pragmatics, 43 (2), 663-676. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.007
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Reglas de abreviatura en el diario de un monje español en Australia
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda, Arroyo-Furphy, Susana and Esposto, Roberto H. (2009). Reglas de abreviatura en el diario de un monje español en Australia. JILAR Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 15 (1), 99-115. doi: 10.1080/13260219.2009.9649904
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Rojas-Lizana, I. (2008). Review of La cortesia en el mundo hispanico: Nuevos contextos, nuevos enfoques metodologicos by Martina Schrader-Kniffki (ed.). Spanish in Context, 5 (2), 315-318.
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The courtesy in the Hispanic world: New contexts, new methodological approaches
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2008). The courtesy in the Hispanic world: New contexts, new methodological approaches. Spanish in Context, 5 (2), 315-318. doi: 10.1075/sic.5.2.10roj
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La cortesia: un fenomeno pragmatico
Rojas-Lizana, Isolda R. and Arroyo-Furphy, Susana (2005). La cortesia: un fenomeno pragmatico. Razon y Palabra, 11 (48).
Conference Publication
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Rojas-Lizana, Sol (2021). El visitante de las exposiciones itinerantes del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos: un análisis discursivo de los libros de visita en Puerto Montt y Valdivia. VIII Congreso de Educación, Museos Y Patrimonio “Compartir, incluir e integrar para el futuro”, Valparaíso, Chile, 25-26 November 2019. Santiago, Chile: ICOM.
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Rojas-Lizana, I. R. and Arroyo-Furphy, S. (2005). Estrategias de cortesa en cartas de agradecimiento: Un fenmeno pragmtico: Cartas al director en dos peridicos chilenos. VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios del Discurso: America Latina en su Discurso, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, 5-9 September, 2005. Santiago, Chile: Asociacion Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso (ALED).
Other Outputs
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Rojas Lizana, Ariel (Original author & Translator) and Rojas Lizana, Sol (Original author & Translator) (2023). Clandestine stories. Translated ed. Shreveport, LA, United States: Ends of the World Comics.
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Rojas-Lizana, Ariel and Rojas Lizana, Sol (2023). Historias clandestinas. 2nd edn ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
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Ariel Rojas Lizana and Sol Rojas-Lizana (2021). Historias clandestinas. eBook ed. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
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Rojas Lizana, Ariel and Rojas Lizana, Sol (2014). Historias clandestinas. Santiago, Chile: LOM Ediciones.
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Rojas-Lizana, Isolda (2007). Letters to the editor in the local press : genre and discourse in everyday texts from Australia and Chile. PhD Thesis, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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The discourse of Perceived Discrimination in non-Japanese and mixed-race Japanese people in Japan
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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20th century Western discourses in Martín Gusinde and José Emperaire's monographs on the Kawésqar world and southern Chile: A decolonial reading
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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An interdisciplinary study of transgenerational trauma in Russia
Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Completed Supervision
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(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
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Language and culture maintenance among Bangladeshi migrants in Southeast Queensland, Australia
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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An Interactional Sociolinguistic Analysis of Kanto and Kansai Listening Behaviours
(2018) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Legitimation of violence against women in Colombia: A feminist critical discourse analytic study
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Possible Research Projects
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
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The discourse of perceived discrimination of stigmatised identities
Perceived Discrimination (PD) is the study of discrimination that centres on the victims' experience through the analysis of their accounts. PD emerged in the areas of social psychology, psychiatry, migrant studies as quantitative research. PD in the area of Discourse Studies is qualitative research that looks at the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of PD discourse. It uses content and discourse analysis (CDA, Cognitive Linguistics, Discursive Psychology) to analyse the data. I am available to supervise projects on PD in the area of Discourse Studies working with the following identities: international students, ageism, neurodivergent people, blind people, deaf people, or other stigmatised identities. Please read the book The discourse of perceived discrimination: Perspectives from contemporary Australian society (Routledge, 2020) before contacting me.
