
Dr Peter White
Ph.D (University of Sydney), B.A. (Hons) University of Sydney, B.A. (Hons) University of Adelaide, Graduate Certificate in ESL Teaching (University of New South Wales)
Dr White is one of the principal architects of the Appraisal framework,an account of the means by which texts convey evaluative and attitudinal meanings. [See Language of Evaluation website for detailed information, contacts, bibliographies/links and an introductory course.] He is influential in the development of linguistics-based analyses of mass communicative discourse (journalism, politics, corporate communications, public relations and advertising) and in the contrastive analysis of jo...
- Publications
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
I act as literacy development consultant for a group of primary schools identified as having students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. I act in a similar capacity in a project developing teaching and learning resources for literacy developments in remote-area indigenous schools in the Anangu lands of northern South Australia.
I review for a number of academic journals including Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse, Context and Media, Functions of Language, and Functional Linguistics.
My Research Supervision
Linguistics, Journalism, Translation Studies
My Teaching
Currently supervising PhD students in the following topic areas:
- journalistic discourse analysis (including contrastive studies),
- political discourse analysis,
- translation and interpreting studies,
- contrastive linguistics and contrastive discourse analysis (across cultures and languages),
- educational linguistics (issues in academic English, literacy development, ESL/EFL, genre-based pedagogy),
- the language of evaluation and intersubjective stance,
- argumentation theory and the language of persuasion,
- critical discourse analysis.
Undergraduate teaching
- Convener: Journalistic Voices and Values (MDIA1002)
- Convener: Features Journalism (MDIA2003)
- Convener: Opinion Journalism (MDIA2002)
- Convener: Professional Media Practices (MDIA3010)