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Peter White is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales with a PhD from the University of Sydney. He has over 20 years of experience in journalism, including work with the Sydney Morning Herald and SBS. His academic work focuses on linguistic analyses of mass communicative discourse including journalism, corporate communications, and political rhetoric. He has developed the Appraisal framework, which examines how texts convey evaluative meanings. His research interests span educational linguistics, translation studies, contrastive analysis, and computational linguistics, particularly in areas like sentiment analysis and argumentation theory. As a lecturer, he supervises PhD candidates and teaches various subjects related to journalism and linguistics, while also engaging in music as a semi-professional jazz musician.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Teaching various courses in journalism and linguistics and supervising PhD candidates.
Sydney Morning Herald • Sydney, Australia
Worked as a journalist for 20 years before transitioning into academia.
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