Humanities and Social Sciences

Linguistics Program

Dr David Bradley

Tenured Reader and Associate Professor in Linguistics.

Linguistic and areal interests include

• Sociohistorical linguistics,
• phonology and phonetics,
• language policy and language maintenance,
• language endangerment
• East, Southeast and South Asian languages, especially those of the Sino-Tibetan group and minorities
• Knowledge of English, Burmese, Thai, Chinese, French, Italian and a variety of Asian minority languages including Lahu, Gong, Lisu.
• many years of field experience in Thailand, Burma, Laos, China, India and Nepal

Teaching since 1975 in Linguistics and Asian languages and studies

Substantial external funding received.

Extensive contacts with Asian universities over more than 25 years; participated in establishing, obtaining funding for, and running exchange links in China, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia and India. Many years of fieldwork experience in China, Southeast and South Asia.

Administrative Responsibilities

Extensive university administrative experience in linguistics and language studies. Established and led the development of La Trobe University's Asian Languages program (Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Hindi, Burmese).

Program Seminar Co-ordinator

Major Research Areas

Dr Bradley has conducted extensive research on endangered languages, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, geolinguistics, language policy and phonetics/phonology in Southeast, East and South Asia over many years, especially on Tibeto-Burman languages.

Current Teaching Areas

LIN22/32LAT: Language Across Time
LIN22/32LIA: Language in Asia
LIN22/32LIS: Language in Society

Publications

Professional Associations

• Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Australian Linguistic Society

Service to the Linguistics community

• Australian Journal of Linguistics
• Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
• Mon-Khmer Studies
• Pacific Linguistics
• Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale
• Himalayan Linguistics

Journal editorships

• D Bradley & R D Sussex, editors, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 1987-1991 (vol.7 to 10)
• H J Sasse, D H Whelan & D Bradley, Founding editors, Journal of Language Documentation and revitalisation

• Guest editor, International Journal of the Society of language issue on language endangerment in East Asia

Service to the field

• Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Management Committee, Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia
• National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Mandarin Chinese Panel member
• Anonymous reviewer of grant proposals for Australian, US, UK, Hong Kong and other major granting bodies
• Anonymous reviewer of manuscripts for numerous Australian and overseas publishers and journals
• Examination of 31 PhD or Masters theses for eight other Australian universities

Visiting Academic Positions

• Visiting Directeur de Researche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris 9-12/2002
• Visiting professor, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 11/1980 - 2/1981; 10/1988-12/1988; 12/1992-1/1993, 1/1996
• Visiting lecturer, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India 1/1978 - 2/1978

External research funding

Dr David Bradley has received various grants since 1970 from a variety of sources including

• UNESCO
• the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council (US)
• Myer Foundation
• Sunshine Foundation
• Japan Foundation
• ARGS and ARC (the Australian Research Council)
• Australian Commonwealth Department of Education (various programs
• UMAPS
• commissioned research projects, National Priority (Reserve) Fund
• Department of Foreign Affairs (AusAID, Australia-China Council

Current grants include:

• ARC 1997-2002 Divergence, contact and convergence in Lisu
• CNRS 2002 poste rouge