Benjamin Purser

Benjamin graduated from the Australian National University in 2014 with a PhB in Linguistics, receiving First Class Honours and the University Medal. He was Lead RA on Sydney Speaks from 2014-2019 (with one year off in that time, while working in Tokyo, Japan). As Lead RA, Benjamin has worked in many capacities across both the 1970s and contemporary corpora, and has helped develop research methodologies. He has conducted investigations into methodologies for determining social class in these diverse, longitudinal data (Purser, Travis, Grama; ALS presentation, 2019), and on the use of the data for dialect coaching of Australian English over time (Purser, Grama, Travis, Voice and Speech Review, To Appear 2020). Based in Sydney, Benjamin continues to assist with Sydney Speaks, dividing his time between the project, his role as Senior Research Officer and tutor at Macquarie University, and his business as a dialect and voice coach in the performing arts industry.
Type
party
Access Privileges
School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Given Name
Benjamin
Surname
Purser
Uni ID
u5005463
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-0479
Brief Description
Benjamin graduated from the Australian National University in 2014 with a PhB in Linguistics, receiving First Class Honours and the University Medal.
Full Description
Benjamin graduated from the Australian National University in 2014 with a PhB in Linguistics, receiving First Class Honours and the University Medal. He was Lead RA on Sydney Speaks from 2014-2019 (with one year off in that time, while working in Tokyo, Japan). As Lead RA, Benjamin has worked in many capacities across both the 1970s and contemporary corpora, and has helped develop research methodologies. He has conducted investigations into methodologies for determining social class in these diverse, longitudinal data (Purser, Travis, Grama; ALS presentation, 2019), and on the use of the data for dialect coaching of Australian English over time (Purser, Grama, Travis, Voice and Speech Review, To Appear 2020). Based in Sydney, Benjamin continues to assist with Sydney Speaks, dividing his time between the project, his role as Senior Research Officer and tutor at Macquarie University, and his business as a dialect and voice coach in the performing arts industry.
Email Address
benjamin-purser@outlook.com
Postal Address
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University
Website Address
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-0479
Fields of Research
4704 - Linguistics; 470404 - Corpus linguistics; 470410 - Phonetics and speech science; 470411 - Sociolinguistics
Socio-Economic Objective
130202 - Languages and linguistics
Keywords
Linguistics; Language variation and change; Language change over the lifespan; Sociolinguistics; Australian English; Australian history; Ethnicity
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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