Jul 01
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Social Origins of Language
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language 19
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665327.do
Author: Daniel Dor
Author: Chris Knight
Author: Jerome Lewis
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199665327 Pages: 528 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199665334 Pages: 528 Price: U.K. £ 35.00
Abstract:
This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural dynamics in driving language evolution. It considers, among other questions, the role of gesture in communication, communities, and the time-frame for language evolution.
Jun 30
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Multimodal and Visual Literacy in the Adult Language and Literacy Classroom
Helen de Silva Joyce
This latest resource aims to assist teachers to systematically integrate a focus on multimodal and visual literacy into their programming and classroom practice.
It provides:
an introduction to the elements through which multimodal and visual texts make meaning
sample analyses of multimodal texts from community and workplace contexts
programming and assessment approaches aligned to accredited curricula and training packages
sample classroom activities which will help teachers integrate multimodal and visual literacy into their teaching program
NSW AMES Publications
Order online at www.ames.edu.au
T: +61 2 8293 6940
F: +61 2 9715 8300
E: publications@ames.edu.au
Multimodal and visual literacy-flyer
Jun 30
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION IN PRIMATES: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Edited by Marco Pina & Nathalie Gontier
Book Abstract:
How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume, primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general, and in humans in particular. In the first part of the book, historians and philosophers of science address how the epistemological frameworks associated with primate communication and language evolution studies have changed over time, and how these conceptual changes affect our current studies on the subject matter. In the second part, scholars provide cutting-edge insights into the various means through which primates communicate socially in both natural and experimental settings. They examine the behavioral building blocks by which primates communicate, and they analyze what the cognitive requirements are for displaying communicative acts. Chapters highlight cross-fostering and language experiments with primates, primate mother-infant communication, the display of emotions and expressions, manual gestures and vocal signals, joint attention, intentionality and theory of mind. The primary focus of the third part is on how these various types of communicative behavior possibly evolved, and how they can be understood as evolutionary precursors to human language. Leading scholars analyze how both manual and vocal gestures gave way to mimetic and imitational protolanguage, and how the latter possibly transitioned into human language. In the final part, we turn to the hominin lineage, and anthropologists, archeologists and linguists investigate what the necessary neurocognitive, anatomical and behavioral features are in order for human language to evolve, and how language differs from other forms of primate communication.
Table of Contents: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/evolutionary+%26+developmental+biology/book/978-3-319-02668-8
ABOUT THE SERIES INTERDISCIPLINARY EVOLUTION RESEARCH
Website: http://www.springer.com/series/13109
FORTHCOMING ANTHOLOGIES (to appear in Fall & Winter 2014):
Macroevolution: Explanation, Interpretation, Evidence, Emanuele Serrelli & Nathalie Gontier (eds)
Reticulate Evolution: Symbiogenesis and Horizontal Gene Transfer, Nathalie Gontier (ed)
Cultural Phylogenetics: Concepts and Applications in Archaeology and Anthropology, Larissa Mendoza Straffon (ed)
Jun 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Journal Title: Linguistics and the Human Sciences
Volume Number: 9
Issue Number: 3
Issue Date: 2013
Main Text:
Editorial
Editor’s Introduction
Jonathan J. Webster
http://equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LHS/article/view/17470
LHS 9.3 (2013)
pp 227-228
Articles
Tenor in Judicial Reasoning: Modality in majority and dissenting judgments in the High Court of Australia
Rosemary Huisman and Tony Blackshield
http://equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LHS/article/view/17871
LHS 9.3 (2013)
pp 229-248
Developments in the linguistic description of Indian English: State of the art
Abhishek Kumar Kashyap
http://equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LHS/article/view/16122
LHS 9.3 (2013)
pp 249-275
Argument structure as an interactive resource by undergraduate students
Sook Hee Lee
http://equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LHS/article/view/15527
LHS 9.3 (2013)
pp 277-306
Looking out: Functional linguistics and genre
James R. Martin
http://equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LHS/article/view/21528
LHS 9.3 (2013)
pp 307-321
May 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Multimodal Epistemologies
Subtitle: Towards an Integrated Framework
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/u/MaioraniChristieLL
Editor: Arianna Maiorani
Editor: Christine Christie
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415825238 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Abstract:
This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and cultural stances inform communicative contexts across the world. It contributes to current theoretical debates in the disciplines of semiotics, linguistics, multimodality, and pragmatics, as well as those aspects of pedagogy and film studies that engage with the notions of text and narrative by addressing questions such as: How do we study multimedia communication? How do we incorporate the impact of new media technologies into the study of Linguistics and Semiotics? How do we construe culture in modern communication? How useful are the current multidisciplinary approaches to multimodal communication?
Through the analysis of specific case studies that are developed within diverse academic disciplines and which draw on a range of theoretical frameworks, the goal of this book is to provide a basis for an overarching framework that can be applied by scholars and students with different academic and cultural backgrounds.
May 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 241
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.241
Editor: Fabienne H. Baider
Editor: Georgeta Cislaru
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270740 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270740 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270740 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256461 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256461 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256461 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
This book presents new issues in the study of the interface of emotions and
language, and their use in social context. Two fundamental questions are
tackled: the way different languages encode emotional information and the core
role emotions play in languages’ structure, use and learning. Seldom treated
means of expressing emotions (such as interjections, conditionals, scalarity,
allocentric constructions), the social and professional impact of emotions and
the latest developments in the interface of speech recognition / emotions are
some of the key contributions to this volume. The cross-cultural perspective
contrasts new couples of languages (among which Australian aboriginal
languages, Cypriot Greek, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian) and addresses
sociolinguistic, pragmatic and discursive issues. Most of the papers attempt
interesting theoretical articulations that aim at a better understanding of
the linguistic and sociolinguistic nature of emotions. This book will be
highly relevant for students and researchers interested in emotions,
semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as prosody and philosophy
of language.
May 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Language, Culture, and Mind
Subtitle: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/cognitive-linguistics/language-culture-and-mind-natural-constructions-and-social-kinds?format=PB
Author: Paul Kockelman
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107689022 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107689022 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 37.99
Abstract:
Editor’s Note: This is a new paperback edition of a previously announced book.
Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as ‘ouch’ and ‘yuck’; complement-taking predicates, such as ‘believe’ and ‘desire’; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality. And, more generally, it develops a theoretical framework through which both community-specific and human-general features of mind may be contrasted and compared. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.
1. Language, culture, mind: emblems of the status human;
2. Inalienable possessions: what hearts, mothers, and shadows have in common;
3. Interclausal relations: how to enclose a mind by disclosing a sign;
4. Myths about time and theories of mind: why the moon married the sun;
5. Other minds and possible worlds: when psychological depth is dialogical breadth;
6. Interjections: why the center of emotion is at the edge of language;
7. Conclusion: natural constructions and social kinds.
May 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Meaning, Discourse and Society
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/discourse-analysis/meaning-discourse-and-society?format=PB
Author: Wolfgang Teubert
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107660502 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107660502 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 38.99
Abstract:
Editor’s Note: This is a new paperback edition of a previously announced book.
Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.
Introduction; Part I. Meaning, the Mind and the Brain:
1. The cognitive turn;
2. The long history of mind linguistics;
3. What do we know about mental concepts?;
4. Morphing theoretical sémes into ‘real’ concepts;
5. From mental representations to conceptual ontologies;
6. What is meaning?;
7. Where should we look for meaning?;
Part II. Discourse and Society:
8. Language as discourse;
9. Society presupposes language, and language presupposes society;
10. A closer look at oral societies;
11. Differences between oral and literate societies;
12. Empirical linguistics deals only with recorded language;
13. Meaning, knowledge and the construction of reality;
14. The language of the scientific experimental report;
15. Diachronicity, intertextuality and hermeneutics;
16. Meaning and the interpretation of a haiku;
Conclusion.
Apr 30
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Language Hoax
Subtitle: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-language-hoax-9780199361588
Author: John H. McWhorter
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199361588 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 19.95
Abstract:
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think?
This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. It is language that reflects culture and worldview, not the other way around. The fact that a language has only one word for eat, drink, and smoke doesn’t mean its speakers don’t process the difference between food and beverage, and those who use the same word for blue and green perceive those two colors just as vividly as others do.
McWhorter shows not only how the idea of language as a lens fails but also why we want so badly to believe it: we’re eager to celebrate diversity by acknowledging the intelligence of peoples who may not think like we do. Though well-intentioned, our belief in this idea poses an obstacle to a better understanding of human nature and even trivializes the people we seek to celebrate. The reality — that all humans think alike — provides another, better way for us to acknowledge the intelligence of all peoples.
Apr 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Origins of Language
Subtitle: A Slim Guide
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701668.do
Author: James R. Hurford
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198701668 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 40.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780198701880 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 14.99
Abstract:
Jim Hurford looks at the very varied aspects of this evolution, covering human
prehistory; the relation between instinct and learning; biology and culture;
trust, altruism, and cooperation; animal thought; human and non-human vocal
anatomy; the meanings and forms of the first words; and the growth of complex
systems of grammar and pronunciation. Written by an internationally recognized
expert in the field, it draws on a number of disciplines besides linguistics,
including philosophy, neuroscience, genetics, and animal behaviour, and will
appeal to a wide range of readers interested in language origins and
evolution.
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