A/Prof Louise Ravelli

Overview

http://empa.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/louise-ravelli-174.html

Research Summary

I am interested in how people communicate and how communication is influenced by social contexts. This includes communication in the sense of language, visual design, and even three-dimensional space. I use linguistics, discourse analysis and multi-modal text analysis to understand texts in their social contexts, and explain how they achieve what they do. My primary interest is in various senses of professional communication, including museums, and how they communicate specialised knowledge to a general public; academic writing, and how students meet the challenges of University communication; three-dimensional space and how it communicates to users, and print and web media and their communicative potential.

Teaching

2010-2012
Program Convenor: (BMedia in Communication and Journalism; BMedia in Media Production; BMedia in Screen and Sound; Media, Culture, Technology major in the BA)

Course Convenor: mdia1002: Media Industry Contexts; mdia2004: Visual Communication

Teacher: mdia3003 Media Portfolio; mdia2002 Analysing Media Communication

Publications

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:
2006 Ravelli, Louise J. Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks London and New York: Routledge

2004 Ravelli, Louise J., with Ellis, Robert A. (Eds) Analysing Academic Writing: Contextualised Frameworks London: Continuum

2003 Ravelli, Louise J., with Simon Vandenbergen, A.M. and Taverniers, M. (Eds) Grammatical metaphor: views from systemic functional linguistics Amsterdam: Benjamins

1999 Ravelli, Louise J. Metaphor, Mode and Complexity: an exploration of co-varying patterns Mongraphs in Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Department of English Studies, University of Nottingham

1995 Ravelli, Louise J., with Ferguson, L. and MacLulich, C. Meanings and Messages: Language Guidelines for Museum Exhibitions Sydney: The Australian Museum

1992 Ravelli, Louise J., with Davies, M. (Eds) Advances in Systemic-Functional Linguistics: recent theory and practice London: Frances Pinter

BOOK CHAPTERS:
(in press) Ravelli, Louise J., with Rick Iedema 'Applied Linguistics in the Health Care Setting' C. Candlin and S. Sarangi (Eds) Handbook of Applied Linguistics: Communication in the professions Mouton de Gruyter

2010 Ravelli, Louise J. 'Systemic-Functional Linguistics' in K. Malmkjaer (Ed.) The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia 3rd Edition London and New York: Routledge pp524-537

2008 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Analysing Space’ in L. Unsworth (Ed.) Multimodal Semiotics: Functional Analysis in Contexts of Education London: Continuum pp17-33

2008 Ravelli, Louise J., with Stenglin, Maree ‘Feeling space: interpersonal communication and spatial semiotics’ in G. Antos and E. Ventola (Eds) Interpersonal Communication Handbook of Applied Linguistics, Volume 2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter pp355-393

2005 Ravelli, Louise J. “Shopping with ranks” in R. Hasan; C. Matthiessen and J Webster (Eds) Continuing Discourse on Language: a functional perspective Volume 1 London: Equinox pp165-166

2004 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Signalling the organization of written texts: hyper-
Themes in management and history essays’ in Louise J. Ravelli and Robert A. Ellis (Eds) Analysing Academic Writing: Contextualised Frameworks pp104-130 London: Continuum

2003 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Renewal of connection: integrating theory and practice in an understanding of grammatical metaphor’ in A. M. Simon Vandenbergen, M. Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (Eds) Grammatical Metaphor: views from systemic-functional perspectives Amsterdam: Benjamins pp37-64

1999 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Beginning analysis with functional grammar’ in L. Unsworth (Ed.) Researching Language in Schools and Communities London: Cassell pp27-64

1998 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘The consequences of choice: discursive positioning in an art institution’ in A. Sanchez-Macarro and R. Carter (Eds) Linguistic choice across genres: variation in spoken and written English Amsterdam: Benjamins pp137-154

1995 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘A dynamic perspective: implications for the metafunctions and an understanding of Theme’ in R. Hasan and P.H. Fries (Eds) On Subject and Theme: From the perspective of functions in discourse Amsterdam: Benjamins pp187-234

1988 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Grammatical metaphor: an initial analysis’ in E. Steiner and R. Veltman (Eds) Pragmatics, Discourse and Text: some systemically inspired approaches London: Frances Pinter pp135-147

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2008 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Genre and the Museum Exhibition’ Linguistics and the Human Sciences pp299-317

2006 Ravelli, Louise J., with Starfield, S. “The writing of this thesis was a process that I could not explore with the positivistic detachment of the classical sociologist”: Self and structure in New Humanities research theses. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 5, 3: 222-243

2001 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Matching purpose with substance: adding a meaning interface to usability studies’ in M. Wallace; A. Ellis and D. Newton (Eds) Moving Online II: A conference to explore the challenges for Workplaces, Colleges and Universities. School of Social and Workplace Development Southern Cross University ISBN: 1-86384-482-1 pp 232-242

2000 Ravelli, Louise J. "Beyond shopping: constructing the Sydney Olympics in 3-D text" Text 20 (4): 489-515

2000 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Retrospective: looking back at 20th Century Advertising’ in Currents – The Magazine for Colgate-Palmolive Staff in the South Pacific Region March pp4-7

1996 Ravelli, Louise J. "Making language accessible: successful text writing for museum visitors" Linguistics and Education 8: 367-387

TELEVISION
Derewianka, B. and Ravelli, Louise .J. (1995) Introduction to Language in a Social Context, 7 half-hour TV Programs, produced for PAGE (Professional and Graduate Education), University of Wollongong, in conjunction with SBS.

RADIO
2006 Ravelli, Louise J. ‘Interpreting the stories museums tell us’ Presenter for Lingua Franca, ABC Radio National, October 2006 Download: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1767981.htm

Contributions

I act as a reviewer for a variety of academic journals, including Visual Communication; International Journal of Art and Design; Museum Anthropology; English for Special Purposes; Linguistics and the Human Sciences, Instructional Science. I also act as a thesis examiner for Masters and Doctoral theses.