From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture
Journal Article
Freestone, P., Kruk, J., & Gawne, L. (2023)
From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(s3), 257-266. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006
Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the...
Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture
Presentation / Conference
Kruk, J., Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. (2022, November)
Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society 2022, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
This paper draws attention to the important effect that gesture in science fiction can have on real-world communicative contexts, as well as the benefits and challenges of usi...
A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF
Presentation / Conference
Freestone, P. (2021, December)
A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online
The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfu...
Online intensive facilitated writing training—a way to maintain engagement and support resilience in doctoral researchers
Presentation / Conference
Hilliard, R., & Freestone, P. (2021, June)
Online intensive facilitated writing training—a way to maintain engagement and support resilience in doctoral researchers. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Teaching & Learning annual conference, Online
Your PhD Survival Guide: Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year
Book
Firth, K., Connell, L., & Freestone, P. (2020)
Your PhD Survival Guide: Planning, Writing, and Succeeding in Your Final Year. Abingdon: Routledge
From the creators of Thesis Boot Camp, Your PhD Survival Guide is a 'hands on' toolkit for the late stages of a doctorate, helping candidates make the practical and personal t...
The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages
Presentation / Conference
Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. M. (2020, December)
The Language of Scent in Real and Constructed Languages. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society annual conference, Online
An examination of the linguistics of scent in real-word languages and in Aramteskan, the linguist-constructed language of the Shadowscent duology by P. M. Freestone.
Shadowscent: Crown of Smoke
Book
Freestone, P. M. (2020)
Shadowscent: Crown of Smoke. London: Scholastic
The sequel to Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom, set in a fantasy world where social, political and economic life revolves around scent.
Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom
Book
Freestone, P. M. (2019)
Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom. London: Scholastic
Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom is a classic quest adventure set in a fresh new fantasy world where smell is the queen of the senses. It was a Scottish Book Trust Teen Book of...
What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked?
Book Chapter
Freestone, P. M. (2016)
What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked?. In S. La Marca, & P. Macintyre (Eds.), Where the Shoreline Used to be (167-183). Australia: Penguin
A short story set in and around a private school in a future water-shortage Melbourne, examining the environmentally exacerbated class and economic divisions through the eyes ...