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Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Kruk, J., Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. (2022, November). Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society 2022, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

This paper draws attention to the important effect that gesture in science fiction can have on real-world communicative contexts, as well as the benefits and challenges of using corpus approaches in gesture study.

A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Freestone, P. (2021, December). A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online

The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfumes, from the religious festivals of ancient Rome to the works of the Roman... Read More about A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF.

The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. M. (2020, December). The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Online

An examination of the linguistics of scent in real-word languages and in Aramteskan, the linguist-constructed language of the Shadowscent duology by P. M. Freestone.