Dr Jaime Hunt
Lecturer
Pathways and Academic Learning Support (Linguistics)
- Email:jaime.hunt@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:0249216885
Career Summary
Biography
Research Interests
As a linguist, my research focuses on various aspects of language contact, language shift, and heritage languages, particularly within German-speaking communities in Australia.
Language Contact: Investigating the dynamics of Anglicisms resulting from English-German contact, as well as lexical and structural changes brought about by contact between English and other languages. This includes examining the sociolinguistic factors influencing the adoption and adaptation of these loanwords.
Language Shift and Maintenance: Exploring the processes of language shift and maintenance among heritage language communities in Australia, with a particular focus on those with German-speaking ancestry.
Heritage Languages: Studying the role of German as a heritage language in Australia, including its cultural and linguistic preservation among diaspora communities. This involves analysing the intergenerational transmission of language and the impact of bilingualism on heritage language proficiency.
Sociolinguistics: Examining the social aspects of language use, including how language reflects and influences social identities, power dynamics, and cultural practices. This research often intersects with studies on language policy and planning.
Language Policy: Investigating the implications of language policies on heritage language communities, including how policies affect language maintenance and shift. This research also explores the role of family, educational and governmental institutions in supporting or hindering heritage language maintenance and identities.
The above research interests have contributed to multiple publications, conference presentations, and guest lectures, and culminated in the exhibition Heimat in the Hunter, running at Newcastle Museum from 17 June – 21 September 2025.
Teaching and Course Coordination
I currently coordinate and teach Linguistics courses within the Open Foundation program, the first and largest enabling program of its kind in Australia. For over 50 years, this program has made higher education accessible and achievable for a diverse range of students, transforming lives and strengthening the community. Courses I have taught include:
- Language in Society
- Foundations of Linguistics
I have also previously taught and contributed to the following courses at the Bachelor and Masters level in the former School of Humanities and Social Sciences:
- Foundation of Linguistics
- Introduction to Linguistics 1 & 2
- Language in Society
- Foundations of Language - Primary and Early Childhood contexts
PhD Supervision Availability
I am available to mentor and supervise PhD students with interests in language contact, sociolinguistics, or language policy. Specifically, my areas of expertise include:
- Language contact resulting in lexical and structural borrowing from English
- Language maintenance and shift within heritage language communities
- The impact of family, education, and national language policies on the linguistic and cultural practices of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in English-speaking societies
Visiting Scholar Positions
I have had the privilege of collaborating with esteemed scholars through various visiting scholar positions:
- 2019: Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach" at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
- 2019: Department of English, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
- 2019: Department of English Linguistics, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland, and Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
- Master of Applied Linguistics, University of Newcastle
- Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of New England
Keywords
- Anglicisms in German
- Contact Linguistics
- English-German Language Contact
- German as a heritage language
- Language maintenance
- Language policy
Languages
- English (Fluent)
- German (Fluent)
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 470309 | German language | 30 |
| 470411 | Sociolinguistics | 40 |
| 470409 | Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) | 30 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
| Title | Organisation / Department |
|---|---|
| Lecturer | University of Newcastle Education and Innovation Australia |
Academic appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1/6/2011 - 8/2/2015 | Casual Lecturer | University of Newcastle English Language and Foundation Studies Centre Australia |
| 1/1/2006 - 3/7/2015 | Academic Language and Learning Adviser | University of Newcastle Academic Division- Centre for Teaching and Learning Australia |
| 1/7/2005 - 20/12/2013 | Casual Academic | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Awards
Award
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
Best Publication English Language and Foundation Studies Centre, University of Newcastle |
| 2014 |
Excellence in Teaching and Learning English Language and Foundation Studies Centre |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (2 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | , 'Anglicisms around the Globe Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English' (2025) | Open Research Newcastle | |||
| 2019 |
, 'Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices' (2019)
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Chapter (5 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
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| 2025 |
Palmer W, Hunt J, Iyengar A, 'The gender of nominal Anglicisms across language families and regions: a typological study.' (2025)
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| 2025 |
Gottlieb H, Hunt JW, Imamura K, Niculescu-Gorpin A-G, Witalisz A, 'Anglicisms as evidence of the global English impact: An introduction' (2025)
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| 2022 |
Hunt J, 'Hey, it’s what all the cool kids are talking about, okay? Exploring collocations of Anglicisms in spoken German', 20, 119-136 (2022) [B1]
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| 2020 | Hunt JW, 'To -s or not to -s? Plural marking on anglicisms in spoken German', 213-228 (2020) [B1] | Open Research Newcastle | ||||||
| 2019 |
Hunt J, 'Anglicisms in German: Tsunami or trickle?', 25-58 (2019) [B1]
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Conference (6 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 |
Hunt J, Davis S, 'The complexity of factors influencing the linguistic production of Heritage-German speakers in Newcastle, Australia' (2023)
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| 2023 |
Hunt J, Davis S, 'Language shift within a German-speaking community in regional Australia: Ideologies, utility, and attitudes' (2023)
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| 2019 |
Hunt J, Davis S, '“There’s little bits, I mean... I wish there was more, but...” Echoes of societal attitudes, family language policy, and education language policies on the maintenance of German among second- and third-generation speakers in Newcastle, Australia' (2019)
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Journal article (8 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||||||||
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| 2022 |
Hunt JW, Davis SE, ''So, mein Deutsch ist schlecht horizontal ellipsis ': echoes of societal attitudes and education language policies within the family language policies of second- and third-generation German speakers in Newcastle, Australia', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM, 19, 233-250 (2022) [C1]
Family language policy research often neglects the dynamic nature of FLP over time. Here, we interview second generation members of migrant families for their recollect... [more] Family language policy research often neglects the dynamic nature of FLP over time. Here, we interview second generation members of migrant families for their recollections as heritage language learners and their experiences setting their own FLP towards their children. We use a transdisciplinary oral history/narrative methodology to discern oscillating attitudes concerning language maintenance and acquisition as a function of changing societal and education policy. Participants are from three families originating in waves of German-speaking migrants to Australia between the 1930s and 1970s. We find that FLP only occasionally maps onto the stages of shifting ideology, highlighting individual agency of families in setting their own FLP, although sometimes remnants of bygone ideologies enter the family through marriage. Furthermore, while participants negotiated inconsistent impacts of education policies on the availability of German classes at school, to support their FLP, they utilise forms of language education outside the school system, including travel to the German-speaking 'homelands'. These case studies underline the individuality of participants' experiences of FLP, their autonomy, and success in shaping their own language policies. Overall, it is striking how much autonomy and agency individuals and families have, considering the external forces of language education policy and language ideology discourses.
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| 2022 | Khodos I, Hunt J, 'Developing Students’ Linguistic and Analytical Skills: The Use of Anchored Instruction in an Introductory Sociolinguistics Course', International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 34, 153-160 (2022) [C1] | Open Research Newcastle | |||||||||
| 2022 |
Hunt JW, 'Snakes, Sharks, and the Great Barrier Reef: Selected Use of Anglicisms to Represent Australia in the Australian German-Language Newspaper, Die Woche', FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION, 7 (2022) [C1]
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| 2021 | Alenazi Y, Chen S, Picard M, Hunt J, 'Corpus-focused Analysis of Spelling Errors in Saudi Learners' English Translations', TESOL International Journal, 16, 1-25 (2021) [C1] | Open Research Newcastle | |||||||||
| 2019 |
Hunt JW, 'Lexical hybridization of English and German elements: A comparison between spoken German and the language of the German newsmagazine der Spiegel', Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 136, 107-120 (2019) [C1]
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| 2019 |
Hunt J, Davis S, 'Social and historical factors contributing to language shift among German heritage-language migrants in Australia: An overview', Linguistik Online, 100, 159-180 (2019) [C1]
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| 2018 |
Hunt JW, 'The gender of anglicisms in spoken German', WORD-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION, 64, 103-125 (2018) [C1]
Unlike English nouns, German nouns have grammatical gender. One issue arising from this, when the two languages come into contact with each other, is which gender Engli... [more] Unlike English nouns, German nouns have grammatical gender. One issue arising from this, when the two languages come into contact with each other, is which gender English loanwords take when borrowed into German. Previous studies on anglicisms and their gender have focused on the printed word, highlighting the importance of semantics over morpho-phonological analogy in gender assignment to loanwords. This paper will provide insight into the gender assignment process applied to nominal anglicisms by analyzing a data set (199 types, 1108 tokens) from a corpus of everyday modern spoken German (46,844 types and 1185,080 tokens). Results confirm the hypothesis that morphology matters more than semantics in gender assignment to anglicisms in German.
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| 2015 |
Spray E, Hunt JW, 'Measuring the academic literacies beliefs and researcher identity of research students', Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 1-16 (2015) [C1]
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Media (1 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
Hunt J, Davis S, 'Deutsches Erbe / German Heritage' (2018)
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Presentation (3 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Hunt J, '“Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut” German as a Heritage Language in Newcastle, Australia' (2018) | ||
| 2017 | Hunt J, 'Oh no! Anglicisms! (Fully revised version)' (2017) | ||
| 2016 | Hunt J, 'Oh no! Anglicisms!' (2016) |
Review (1 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Hunt JW, 'The Language of the Third Reich', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS (2019)
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Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 12 |
|---|---|
| Total funding | $27,719 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20231 grants / $5,041
External collaboration_International_Hunt$5,041
Funding body: University of Newcastle
| Funding body | University of Newcastle |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Jaime Hunt |
| Scheme | External Collaboration Grant Scheme - International |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2023 |
| Funding Finish | 2023 |
| GNo | G2300428 |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | Y |
20221 grants / $4,953
German as a Heritage Language and Culture in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley Australia Phase 2$4,953
Funding body: Australian Linguistic Society
| Funding body | Australian Linguistic Society |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Jaime Hunt, Doctor Sacha Davis |
| Scheme | Research Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2022 |
| Funding Finish | 2022 |
| GNo | G2200666 |
| Type Of Funding | C3100 – Aust For Profit |
| Category | 3100 |
| UON | Y |
20202 grants / $3,750
Research and Innovation Summer Research Internship Program$3,000
The project included a search of newspaper records for the Newcastle and surrounding region in support of a current multidisciplinary study of the historical and linguistic experiences of German-speakers and their descendants in Newcastle (title: German as a Heritage Language in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley). This will contextualise, verify, and expand upon the lived experience of German-speakers as recorded in interview. In addition, this project will provide the local historical context contributing to the Heritage-speaker lexicon: dynamics and interfaces project in collaboration with the University of Mannheim and Humboldt University, Germany, while contributing to our understanding of migrant experiences, the Novocastrian reception of Jewish refugees and German expellees from Eastern Europe, and debate proposals for their settlement in Australia provoked locally and nationally.
Funding body: Research and Innovation Division
| Funding body | Research and Innovation Division |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Dr Jaime W Hunt, Dr Sacha E Davis, Mr James Allison-Gray |
| Scheme | Summer Research Internship Program |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2020 |
| Funding Finish | 2021 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
Faculty of Education and Arts Undergraduate Internship Scheme$750
Part of a larger project to establish the history of German-speaking migrants in the Newcastle and the Hunter Valley area, this sub-project helped to advance Phase II by directly investigating the first generation of German-speaking migrants. (Phase I of the project investigated the second and third generations.)
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia
| Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Dr Sacha E Davis, Dr Jaime W Hunt, Mr James Allison-Gray |
| Scheme | Faculty of Education and Arts Undergraduate Internship Scheme |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2020 |
| Funding Finish | 2020 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
20192 grants / $5,217
Creating online pedagogies to enhance critical thinking and analytical skills in the EPHUMA149 Language in Society course$4,932
Funding body: the Educator Network (tEN)
| Funding body | the Educator Network (tEN) |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Jaime Hunt and Iryna Khodos |
| Scheme | Teaching and Innovation Investment Scheme (TI2) |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2019 |
| Funding Finish | 2019 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
German as a Heritage Language in Australia: Conducting research using semi-structured interview; and Varieties of Australian English$285
Funding body: Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
| Funding body | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt |
|---|---|
| Scheme | Visiting Scholars Funding Scheme |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2019 |
| Funding Finish | 2019 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
| Category | 3IFB |
| UON | N |
20183 grants / $2,235
German as a heritage language in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley$1,600
Funding body: ELFSC Research Office
| Funding body | ELFSC Research Office |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Dr Jaime W Hunt; Dr Sacha E. Davis |
| Scheme | ELFSC Research Funding 2018 |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2018 |
| Funding Finish | 2018 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
Travel Funding$475
Funding body: Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt
| Funding body | Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt |
|---|---|
| Scheme | Travel Funds |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2018 |
| Funding Finish | 2019 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | External |
| Category | EXTE |
| UON | N |
“Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut” German as a Heritage Language in Newcastle, Australia$160
Funding body: Potsdam University
| Funding body | Potsdam University |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Jaime W. Hunt and Sacha E. Davis |
| Scheme | Visiting Scholars Honorarium |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2018 |
| Funding Finish | 2018 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
| Category | 3IFB |
| UON | N |
20173 grants / $6,523
German as a heritage language in Newcastle and the Hunter$3,518
Funding body: Australian Linguistic Society
| Funding body | Australian Linguistic Society |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Doctor Jaime Hunt, Doctor Sacha Davis |
| Scheme | Research Grant |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2017 |
| Funding Finish | 2017 |
| GNo | G1601158 |
| Type Of Funding | C3200 – Aust Not-for Profit |
| Category | 3200 |
| UON | Y |
Exploring barriers to success for students in enabling programs$1,875
Funding body: ELFSC Research Office
| Funding body | ELFSC Research Office |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Jaime W. Hunt, Joyleen Christensen |
| Scheme | Statistical Support Funding |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2017 |
| Funding Finish | 2017 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
Oh no! Anglicisms!$1,130
Funding body: Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
| Funding body | Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt |
|---|---|
| Scheme | Visiting Scholars Funding Scheme |
| Role | Lead |
| Funding Start | 2017 |
| Funding Finish | 2017 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | International - Non Competitive |
| Category | 3IFB |
| UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
| Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | PhD | Variation in the Morphological and Phonetic Form of English Loanwords Produced by Speakers of Jordanian-Arabic in Jordan and in Australia | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
| 2021 | PhD | Discourse strategies in English Medium Instruction (EMI) lectures at polytechnic institutes in Indonesia | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
| 2021 | PhD | Exploring EFL Student Plagiarism: Insights from Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
| Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | PhD | Lexical Errors Analysis of Saudi University English Major Students’ Translation Texts | PhD (Education), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Research Projects
C07 The impact of language ideologies on register distinctions in multilingual contexts 2023 -
German as a heritage language and culture in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley 2017 -
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Research Opportunities
PhD Supervision Availability
I am available to mentor and supervise PhD students with interests in language contact, sociolinguistics, or language policy. In particular: Anglicisms/English loanwords Heritage languages Language maintenance and shift in heritage language communities
PHD
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
5/10/2022 - 14/12/2029
Contact
Doctor Jaime Hunt
University of Newcastle
Pathways and Academic Learning Support
jaime.hunt@newcastle.edu.au
Research Collaborations
The map is a representation of a researchers co-authorship with collaborators across the globe. The map displays the number of publications against a country, where there is at least one co-author based in that country. Data is sourced from the University of Newcastle research publication management system (NURO) and may not fully represent the authors complete body of work.
| Country | Count of Publications | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 12 |
Dr Jaime Hunt
Position
Lecturer
Open Foundation
Pathways and Academic Learning Support
Engagement and Equity Division
Focus area
Linguistics
Contact Details
| jaime.hunt@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | 0249216885 |
| Links |
Research Networks Research Networks |
Office
| Room | GPG16 |
|---|---|
| Building | General Purpose |
| Location | Callaghan Campus University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |
