Division 20 Language, Communication and Culture
This division covers language studies, communication and culture. It includes literary studies and linguistics. This division has six groups:
GROUP 2001 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
This group covers communication and media studies. It includes the social impacts of marketing and advertising. This group has six fields:
- 200101 Communication Studies
- 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
- 200103 International and Development Communication
- 200104 Media Studies
- 200105 Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
- 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
GROUP 2002 CULTURAL STUDIES
This group covers cultural studies. It includes the cultural impacts of marketing and advertising. This group has thirteen fields:
- 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies
- 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
- 200203 Consumption and Everyday Life
- 200204 Cultural Theory
- 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
- 200206 Globalisation and Culture
- 200207 Maori Cultural Studies
- 200208 Migrant Cultural Studies
- 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
- 200210 Pacific Cultural Studies
- 200211 Postcolonial Studies
- 200212 Screen and Media Culture
- 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
GROUP 2003 LANGUAGE STUDIES
This group covers language studies. It includes comparative language studies and translation and interpretation studies. This group has twenty-four fields:
- 200301 Early English Languages
- 200302 English Language
- 200303 English as a Second Language
- 200304 Central and Eastern European Languages (incl. Russian)
- 200305 Latin and Classical Greek Languages
- 200306 French Language
- 200307 German Language
- 200308 Iberian Languages
- 200309 Italian Language
- 200310 Other European Languages
- 200311 Chinese Languages
- 200312 Japanese Language
- 200313 Indonesian Languages
- 200314 South-East Asian Languages (excl. Indonesian)
- 200315 Indian Languages
- 200316 Korean Language
- 200317 Other Asian Languages (excl. South-East Asian)
- 200318 Middle Eastern Languages
- 200319 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
- 200320 Pacific Languages
- 200321 Te Reo Maori (Maori Language)
- 200322 Comparative Language Studies
- 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
- 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
GROUP 2004 LINGUISTICS
This group covers linguistics. This group has nine fields:
- 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
- 200402 Computational Linguistics
- 200403 Discourse and Pragmatics
- 200404 Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science
- 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
- 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
- 200407 Lexicography
- 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
- 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified
GROUP 2005 LITERARY STUDIES
This group covers literature and literary studies. It includes:
- comparative literature studies;
- literary theory; and
- stylistics and textual analysis.
This group has twenty-seven fields:
- 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
- 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
- 200503 British and Irish Literature
- 200504 Maori Literature
- 200505 New Zealand Literature (excl. Maori Literature)
- 200506 North American Literature
- 200507 Pacific Literature
- 200508 Other Literatures in English
- 200509 Central and Eastern European Literature (incl. Russian)
- 200510 Latin and Classical Greek Literature
- 200511 Literature in French
- 200512 Literature in German
- 200513 Literature in Italian
- 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
- 200515 Other European Literature
- 200516 Indonesian Literature
- 200517 Literature in Chinese
- 200518 Literature in Japanese
- 200519 South-East Asian Literature (excl. Indonesian)
- 200520 Indian Literature
- 200521 Korean Literature
- 200522 Other Asian Literature (excl. South-East Asian)
- 200523 Middle Eastern Literature
- 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
- 200525 Literary Theory
- 200526 Stylistics and Textual Analysis
- 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
GROUP 2099 OTHER LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
This group covers language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified. This group has one field:
- 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
