Rosalind Ivanić (born 1949) is a Yugoslav-born

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. She is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

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, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on

applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, Communication stu ...

with a special focus on

literacy Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...

intertextuality Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref ...

, multimodal communication, adult literacy, educational linguistics, critical language awareness,

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, and second language writing. Along with Theo van Leeuwen and David Barton, she is considered one of the most prominent researchers on literacy.

Career

Ivanić taught English language, literacy and study skills to children and adults in

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and

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between 1970 and 1985. She was director of the Language Support Unit at

Westminster Kingsway College Westminster Kingsway College is a large college for further education in central London with centres in Kings Cross, London, King's Cross in London Borough of Camden, Camden, together with Victoria, London, Victoria and Soho, London, Soho centres ...

, United Kingdom. She was a lecturer in adult literacy, language and learning at Garnett College for teachers in further and higher education before joining the staff at Lancaster in 1986. Ivanić was a full-time member of the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

between 1986 and 2008. She has been an Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre of Lancaster University since 2002 and she was appointed

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in September 2008.

Research

Ivanić's research focused on

, applications of Theo van Leeuwen's Theory of Representation, academic discourse practices, writing practices in both academic and non-academic settings, the link between research and practice, multimodal communication, adult literacy, educational linguistics, critical language awareness,

, and second language writing. In 1994 Ivanić, along with Lancaster Literacy Research Group including David Barton, claimed that literacy is not a skill but a set of practices which is culturally shaped and embedded in social action. In a research article, published in the '' Journal of Second Language Writing'' in 2001, Ivanić claimed that writing (lexical, the syntactic, the organisational and the material aspects of writing construct identity) conveys a representation of the writer. In a research article, entitled Discourses of writing and learning to write and published in Language and Education, Ivanić proposed a meta-analysis of theory and research about writing and writing pedagogy. She identified six discourses: # skills discourse # creativity discourse # process discourse # genre discourse # social practices discourse # sociopolitical discourse

Publications

Ivanić has publications in several major journals such as '' Journal of Second Language Writing'', '' Literary and Linguistic Computing'', and '' Language and Education''.

Bibliography

Books

*Tseng, M. L., & Ivanic, R. (2005). Understanding the relationships between learning and teaching : an analysis of the contribution of applied linguistics. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.

Articles

*Smith, N., McEnery, T., & Ivanic, R. (1998). Issues in transcribing a corpus of children's hand-written projects. ''Literary and Linguistic Computing, 13''(4), 217–225. *Camps, D., & Ivanic, R. (2001). I am how I sound: Voice as self-representation in L2 writing. '' Journal of Second Language Writing, 10''(1-2), 3-33. do

*Bolitho, R., Carter, R., Hughes, R., Masuhara, H., Tomlinson, B., & Ivanic, R. (2003). Ten questions about language awareness. '' English Language Teaching Journal, 49''(4), 251–259. *Ivanic, R. (2004). Discourses of writing and learning to write. '' Language and Education, 18''(3), 220–245.

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External links

* 1949 births Living people Applied linguists British women linguists Women linguists Linguists from the United Kingdom Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University {{Authority control