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Photo Paul Lakatos: P.R.R. White covering a protest against the Roxby Downs uranium mine in 1981 - The Adelaide Advertiser
Dr Peter R. R. White teaches linguistics with a socio-semiotic orientation (e.g. applied, appliable, educational, discourse analytical etc.) and journalism studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, having previously taught at Birmingham University in the UK, the University of Adelaide in South Australia, the University of Sydney and Wollongong University. He is one of the architects of the Appraisal framework, an approach to the analysis of evaluative language. [See Language of Evalu
In addition to his work on the language of evaluation, his research interests include the discourses of mass communication (verbal and visual meaning making in journalism, politics, advertising and public relations), educational linguistics (literacy development, including literacy in indigenous education, genre-based pedagogy, journalism education), translation studies, contrastive linguistics, argumentation theory, corpus and computational linguistics, the language of science and technology, and new devel
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