Dr Jim Hlavac - Researcher Profile

Biography

Before joining the Translation and Interpreting Studies Program in 2011, Jim worked in the Arts Academic Language and Learning Unit. Jim's previous lecturing experience includes sociolinguistics, bilingualism, child language acquisition and English for academic purposes. Jim has worked as a freelance interpreter and translator in Europe and Australia and is NAATI accredited for both interpreting and translation in Croatian and German. Currently, Jim lectures in the interpreting stream of the Master of Interpreting and Translation Studies.

His research interests lie in the following areas:

Translation and Interpreting:

• Pedagogy of interpreting
• Lay and non-professional interpreting
• Incidence of interpreting and translation amongst multilinguals and multilingual societies

Linguistics

• Contact linguistics
• Bilingualism
• Morpho-syntactic and lexical innovation in migrant languages
• Language attitudes

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2000

GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARTS

Institution: Macquarie Univeristy, Sydney

Year awarded: 1993

GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1989

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONOURS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Books

Hlavac, J., 2003, Second-Generation Speech: Lexicon, Code-Switching and Morpho-Syntax of Croatian-English Bilinguals, Peter Lang, Bern, switzerland.

Book Chapters

Hlavac, J., Peterson, J.A., Piscioneri, M., 2012, International and local students? use of hard-copy and electronic learning resources- evidence from Arts and Education students in Australia, in Effectively Implementing Information Communication Technology in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, eds Jim Peterson, Okhwa Lee, Tofazzal Islam, Matthew Piscioneri, Nova Science Publishers, New York, NY, USA, pp. 101-117.

Journal Articles

Hlavac, J., 2012, Continuing and shifting multilingualism in an emigre situation: Language use and attitudes amongst Iraqi Chaldeans and Assyrians in Melbourne, International Journal of the Sociology of Language [P], vol 217, De Gruyter Morton, Berlin Germany, pp. 195-218.

Hlavac, J., Orlando, M., Tobias, S.L., 2012, Intake tests for a short interpreter-training course: Design, implementation, feedback, International Journal of Interpreter Education [E], vol 4, issue 1, Conference of Interpreter Trainers, United States, pp. 21-45.

Hlavac, J., 2012, Psycholinguistic, metalinguistic and socio-psychological accounts of code-switching: A comparative analysis of their incidence in a large Croatian-English sample, Suvremena Lingvistika [P], vol 38, issue 1, Croatian Philological Society, Zagreb Croatia, pp. 47-71.

Hlavac, J., 2011, Hesitation and monitoring phenomena in bilingual speech: a consequence of code-switching or a strategy to facilitate its incorportaion?, Journal of Pragmatics [P], vol 43, issue 15, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 3793-3806.

Hlavac, J., 2011, Sociolinguistic profiles of users and providers of lay and professional interpreting services: The experiences of a recently arrived Iraqi language community in Melbourne, Translation & Interpreting [E], vol 3, issue 2, Interpreting and Translation Research Group, University of Western Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-32.

Hlavac, J., Peterson, J., Piscioneri, M., 2011, Time allocations for study: evidence from Arts students in Australia, Education and Training [P], vol 53, issue 1, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 27-44.

Hlavac, J., 2010, Ethical implications in situations where the language of interpretation shifts: The AUSIT Code of Ethics, Translation & Interpreting [E], vol 2, issue 2, University of Western Australia, Interpreting and Translation Research Group, Western Australia, Australia, pp. 29-43.

Hlavac, J., 2010, Shifts in the language of interpretation with bi- or multi-lingual clients: circumstances and implications for interpreters, Interpreting [P], vol 12, issue 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 186-213.

Piscioneri, M., Hlavac, J., Peterson, J., 2010, Technology enhanced learning: the reading challenge, Asia-Pacific collaborative education journal [P], vol 6, issue 1, Institute of APEC Collaborative Education (IACE), Busan, Republic of Korea, pp. 51-76.

Hlavac, J., 2009, "Letosvet": A vulgar song or a folk-(socio)linguistic experiment?, Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Uhingu. Aastaraamat (Estonian Papers in Applied Linguistics) [P], vol 5, Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics and institute of the Estonian language, Tallin, Estonia, pp. 313-326.

Hlavac, J., 2009, Eto leto svet: Estonia's Eurovision song as a source of folk-linguistic controversy, Monash University Linguistics Papers [P], vol 6, issue 2, Monash University, school of languages, cultures and linguistics, Melbourne, pp. 47-64.

Hlavac, J., 2009, 'Eto leto svet': When Estonians (try to) sing in Serbian, Prilozi Proucavanju Jezika (Contributions to the Study of Language)[P], vol 40, Department for Serbian language and linguistics, faculty of arts, Novi Sad university, Novi Sad, Serbia, pp. 97-111.

Hlavac, J., 2006, Bilingual discourse markers: Evidence from Croatian-English code-switching, Journal of Pragmatics, vol 38, issue 11, Elsevier, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1870-1900.

Hlavac, J., 2006, Language policies and practice in the European Union(in Croatian), Language: A Journal of the Culture of the Croatian Literary Language (in Croatian), vol 53, issue 3, Croatian Philological Society, Zagreb Croatia, pp. 96-110.

Hlavac, J., 2005, The EU language policy and interpreting/translation practices: the case of Croatia's application for EU membership, Monash University Linguistics Papers, vol 3, issue 2, Linguistics Program, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 53-62.

Hlavac, J., 2004, Croation-English language contact: transfers and code-switching amongst second-generation, Croation speaking Australians, Zagreber Germanistische Beitraege: Jahrbuch fuer Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft [P], vol 7, University of Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 169-192.

Hlavac, J., 2003, Bilingual interjections: Evidence from Croation-English code-switching, Monash University Linguistics Papers [P], vol 3, issue 1, Linguistics Program, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 39-50.

Hlavac, J., 1999, 32 years on and still triggering: Psycholinguistic processes as motivation for switching amongst Croation-English bilinguals, Monash University Linguistics Papers [P], vol 2, issue 1, Linguistics Program, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 11-24.

Hlavac, J., 1999, Phonological integration of English transfers in Croation: Evidence from the Croation speech of second-generation Croation-Australians, Filologija [P], vol 32, Croation Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 39-74.

Conference Proceedings

Hlavac, J., 2009, Hrvatski jezik medu Australcima hrvatskog podrijetla (Use of Croatian amongst Australian of Croatian origin), 21 International Scientific Congress: The Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics, 24 May 2007 to 26 May 2007, Hrvatsko drustvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku, Zagreb Hrvatska, pp. 84-94.

Other

Hlavac, J., 2005, The EU language policy and interpreting / translation practices: the case of Croatia's application for EU membership, Paper presented at Translation and / as Culture conference.

Hlavac, J., 2005, Towards a hierarchy of conversational loci and incidences of code-switching: evidence from Croation-English discourse, Paper presented at ALS 2005.

Hlavac, J., 2004, Review of Carol Myers-Scotton, contact linguistics: Bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes, Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol 24, issue 2, Taylor and Francis, London, United Kingdom, pp. 235-239.

Hlavac, J., 2003, Can threastened languages be waves? Reversing language shift revisited: A 21st century prespective, Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol 23, issue 1, Taylor and Francis, London, United Kingdom, pp. 103-107.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Evaluation of translations in the training of professional translators: At the crossroads between theoretical, professional and pedagogical practices..

Supervisors:

Nelson, B (Main), Hlavac, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Gift of Tongue - Voice & Speech Training for Conference Interpreter.

Supervisors:

Hlavac, J (Main), Huang, H (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Translating English into Indonesian; its role in the development of Bahasa Indonesia for the last.

Supervisors:

Hlavac, J (Main), Aveling, H (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Badalotti, F.

Program of Study:

Multilingual professionals: translators, interpreters and cultural identities. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Wilson, R (Main), Hlavac, J (Associate).

Student:

Inggall, E.

Program of Study:

Bilingualism as first language in the early years of twin girls. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Gearon, M (Main), Hlavac, J (Temp).