Ken Tann

Ken Tann is an in-house linguist at the UQ Business School. He specializes in applying linguistic and semiotic techniques to interdisciplinary research, and helps industry professionals add value to their professions through effective communication. His analytical framework has been applied across media, forensic, education and workplace contexts. He is currently supervising PhD research in marketing, finance and aged care. Business communication, Employability skills, Office design, Applied linguistics and educational linguistics, Communication and media studies, Discourse and pragmatics, Human Society, Language, Communication and Culture, Linguistics, Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies, Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Sociology of education

[2026] Language in corporate annual reports [2026] A topological approach to English for academic purposes: the prominent register variable (PRV) hypothesis [2025] Figurative language and narrative writing: insights from high-achieving primary school students [2025] Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers' mental health [2024] Language in Corporate Annual Reports [2023] Reconceptualizing stigmas in aged care: a typology of stigmatizing discourses in the aged-care context [2023] Planning for the Aged Care Workforce of the Future- Implications of Stigma on Health Professionals’ Intentions to Work in Aged Care [2023] Communicating in space: relating the physical and the social in open