Associate Professor Rod Gardner

PhD
Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies (Brisbane, Logan)
Contact details for Associate Professor Rod Gardner

Research expertise

• Conversation Analysis
• Second Language interaction
• Collaborative work in front of computers
  
• Indigenous Australian conversation
• Conversation Analysis for Language Learning
• Language represented in the print media
  

Current teaching areas

• Conversation Analysis
• Classroom Interaction and Language Learning
  
• Sociolinguistics
• Language Teaching

Publications

Books

• Gardner, R., & Wagner, J. (2004). Second Language Conversations. London: Continuum. (Paperback edition 2005).
• Gardner, R. (2002). When Listeners Talk: Response Tokens and Recipient Stance With Special Reference to Mm. Pragmatics and Beyond Series.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  

Book chapters

• Gardner, R. (2007). Broken starts: Bricolage in turn starts in second language talk. In Zhu Hua, Paul Seedhouse, Li Wei and Vivian Cook (eds). Language Learning Teaching as Social Interaction. London: Palgrave.
  
• Gardner, R. (2004). Conversation Analysis. In Alan Davies and Catherine Elder (eds.). The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 262-284.
  
• Gardner, R. (2004). On delaying the answer: Question sequences extended after the question. In R. Gardner and J. Wagner (eds.) Second Language Conversations. London: Continuum.

Refereed journals

• Ilana, M., & Gardner, R. (In Press).  Silence is talk: Conversational silence in Australian Aboriginal talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics.
• Gardner, R., Karakasoglu, Y., & Luchtenberg, S. (2008). Islamophobia in the media: A response from multicultural education. Intercultural Education , 19, 2, 119-136.
  
• Gardner, R., & Ilana, M. (2007). Overlapping talk in a Garrwa community. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Special Issue, 2007.
  
• Gardner, R. (2007). The Right connections: Acknowledging epistemic progression in talk. Language in Society. 36, 3, 319-341.
  
• Gardner, R. (2004). Introduction. In R. Gardner and J. Wagner (eds.) Second Language Conversations. London: Continuum.

Refereed proceedings

• Gardner, R. (2005). Acknowledging strong ties between utterances in talk: Connections through Right as a response token (PDF 280k). In Mushin, I. (ed). Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society.