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Prof Zuckermann's research focuses on language, identity and society. He analyses cultural contact as manifested in language, and the ways in which languages - as well as words - emerge, evolve and interact Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (titular) (Cantab.), M.A (summa cum laude) (Tel Aviv), is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Fellow in linguistics at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. He is Editorial Board member of Journal of Language Contact (JLC), and occasional consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
On 11-13 Sept 2009, he organized the first Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL), a most successful international conference held at the Brisbane Writers Festival (State Library of Queensland), as well as at UQ.
He has published in English, Israeli ('Ivrit'), Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. His controversial iconoclastic bestseller book Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli - A Beautiful Language. Hebrew as Myth) (ISBN: 978-965-13-1963-1) was published in 2008 by Am Oved (Tel Aviv), and his book Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (ISBN: 1-4039-1723-X) came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2003.
He is currently preparing four further volumes: (1) You Already Know Hebrew/English! (An innovative tool for foreign language learning/teaching) (Keren Publishing House), (2) Language Genesis and Multiple Causation, (3) Language, Religion and Identity, and (4) Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics.
He has been Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and has been affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Studies, University of Cambridge.
Prof. Zuckermann has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in four continents, e.g. at the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Oriental Studies, now known as Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), National Uni of Singapore, Uni of Miami, Uni of Haifa and Ben-Gurion Uni of the Negev.
He has been research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center (Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy), Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) (Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Uni Texas Austin) and Kokuritu Kokugo Kenkyuuzyo (National Language Research Institute, Tokyo).
He has held a range of fellowships and scholarships, including a British Academy Research Grant, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship, British Chevening Scholarship and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students Scholarship (Tel Aviv), Scatcherd European Scholarship (Oxford), and Denise Skinner Graduate Scholar (St Hugh's College, Oxford).
Assoc Prof Zuckermann has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses all over the globe. He has been an invited speaker on TV programmes in Israel (e.g. Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 10, Channel 23, YES, YES DOCO), different radio programmes in Australia (e.g. ABC Lingua Franca, ABC Encounters, SBS interviews in Israeli, Yiddish, Italian and English), Israel (e.g. Kol Israel, Galey Tzahal), New Zealand, South Africa and Germany, and has featured in dozens of newspaper articles in the UK (e.g. Reuters), USA (e.g. The Forward), Canada (e.g. Globe and Mail), Israel (e.g. Yediot Akharonot, Maariv, Haaretz, YNet, NRG, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz in English, Makor Rishon, Time Out, Israel Hayom, Erev Erev, Ha'ir), the Netherlands (e.g. Trouw), Spain (e.g. Terra), New Zealand (e.g. New Zealand Jewish Chronicle) & Australia (e.g. The Australian, Courier Mail).
In 1993-6 he taught preparatory courses for various psychometric examinations (e.g. GMAT) at Kidum Institute and co-authored four books in this field. Other interests include opera (in particular Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti and Mozart), film, photography, constrained literature, poetry, paleo-anthropology and human migration, cultural immersion through travel, and world politics.
Further particulars: http://www.zuckermann.org/
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Social Sciences: Phonology, Social Sciences: Semantics, Geographical: Middle/Near East, Social Sciences: Jewish Studies, Social Sciences: Sociology of Language, Social Sciences: Linguistics/Philology, Geographical: Israel, Social Sciences: Aboriginal Studies, Social Sciences: Islamic Studies, Humanities: Chinese Language/Literature, Humanities: Southeast Asian Languages/Literature, Humanities: Slavic Language/Literature, Humanities: Russian Language/Literature, Humanities: Philosophy of Language, Humanities: Modern History, Humanities: Latin American Languages/Literature, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Esperanto, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Classical Latin, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Classical Greek, Humanities: Jewish History, Humanities: Japanese Language/Literature, Humanities: Italian Language/Literature, Humanities: Icelandic Language/Literature, Humanities: German Language/Literature, Humanities: English Language/Literature, Humanities: Culture, Humanities: Cultural Studies, Humanities: Cultural History, Humanities: Comparative Religion, Humanities: Asian Languages/Literature, Humanities: Arabic Language/Literature, Humanities: ARTS/HUMANITIES/CULTURAL ACTIVITIES, Humanities: Yiddish Language/Literature, Humanities: Hebrew Language/Literature, Geographical: International Affairs, Social Sciences: Globalization, Social Sciences: American Studies, Geographical: New Zealand, Geographical: Poland, Geographical: Estonia, Education: Educational Testing/Measurement, Social Sciences: Human Learning and Memory, Social Sciences: Political History, Education: Politics of Education, Social Sciences: Anthropology, Geographical: Lebanon, Social Sciences: Cultural/Social Anthropology, Social Sciences: Cross-Cultural Studies, Science and Technology: Logic, Social Sciences: Linguistic Geography, Social Sciences: Turkish Studies, Geographical: Taiwan (Nationalist China), Education: Public Education, Social Sciences: Psycholinguistics, Humanities: Philosophy, Social Sciences: Syntax, Humanities: Medieval Studies, Humanities: Medieval History, Education: Foreign Languages Education, Medical: Dyslexia, Education: English as a Second Language, Social Sciences: Language Acquisition and Development, Social Sciences: Planning/Policy Studies, Social Sciences: Nationalism, Social Sciences: National Planning/Policy, Social Sciences: Migration |
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