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From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture (2022)
Journal Article
Freestone, P., Kruk, J., & Gawne, L. (in press). From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistics Vanguard,

Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulc... Read More about From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture.

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.

Your PhD Survival Guide: Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year (2020)
Book
Firth, K., Connell, L., & Freestone, P. (2020). Your PhD Survival Guide: Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year. Abingdon: Routledge

From the creators of Thesis Boot Camp, Your PhD Survival Guide is a 'hands on' toolkit for the late stages of a doctorate, helping candidates make the practical and personal transition from student to independent scholar.

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.

Shadowscent: Crown of Smoke (2020)
Book
Freestone, P. M. (2020). Shadowscent: Crown of Smoke. London: Scholastic

The sequel to Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom, set in a fantasy world where social, political and economic life revolves around scent.

Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom (2019)
Book
Freestone, P. M. (2019). Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom. London: Scholastic

Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom is a classic quest adventure set in a fresh new fantasy world where smell is the queen of the senses. It was a Scottish Book Trust Teen Book of the Month, A Diva Magazine Book of the Month, and an Aurealis Awards final... Read More about Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom.

What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked? (2016)
Book Chapter
Freestone, P. M. (2016). What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked?. In S. La Marca, & P. Macintyre (Eds.), Where the Shoreline Used to be (167-183). Australia: Penguin

A short story set in and around a private school in a future water-shortage Melbourne, examining the environmentally exacerbated class and economic divisions through the eyes of a queer scholarship student from a rural farming background.