Rate My Professor Valeria Sinkeviciute

University of Queensland

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Linguistics Applied Linguistics Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Sociolinguistics

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5.08/20/2025

Inspires a passion for knowledge and growth.

4.05/21/2025

Knowledgeable and truly inspiring educator.

5.03/31/2025

Brings real-world relevance to learning.

4.02/27/2025

Always fair, constructive, and supportive.

5.02/5/2025

Great Professor!

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Dr. Valeria Sinkeviciute is Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland, and Convenor of the Applied Linguistics Program. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp in 2016 with the thesis “It’s never meant to be offensive…”: an analysis of jocularity and (im)politeness in Australian and British cultural contexts, MA in Linguistics from Vilnius University in 2010 on cross-cultural pragmatics in Canadian English and Québécois, and BA from Vilnius University in 2008 on politeness in British English and Peninsular Spanish first encounters. Her research specializations lie in pragmatics and discourse analysis, particularly the pragmatics of social interaction (face-to-face and online), identity construction, conversational humour, (im)politeness, getting acquainted, and family talk. She works with naturally-occurring conversations, reality television discourse, qualitative interviews, corpora, and social media. Currently, she leads the AusFamTalk project, Family talk in multilingual Australia.