Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 225
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.225
Editor: Gitte Rasmussen
Editor: C.E. Brouwer
Editor: Dennis Day
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are
assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals,
clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being
carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people
evaluate each others’ cognitive competences as they deal with each others’
understandings, knowings, feelings, doings, hearings and learnings
face-to-face.
The contributions focus on different evaluation activities in a variety of
institutional settings in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Holland and the United
States of America.
All the contributions approach the theme by use of Ethnomethodology (EM)
and/or Conversation Analysis (CA). Thus, the analytic interests concern how
participants organize activities of evaluating cognitive competences by means
of recognizable interactional methods. This approach differs from other
approaches and research interests within cognitive science as it concentrates
on how people in interaction orient towards cognitive competence irrespective
of scientific theories.
Dec 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL: http://www.brill.com/multidimensional-semantics-evaluative-adverbs
Author: Mingya Liu
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781902714 Pages: 254 Price: Europe EURO 89.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781902714 Pages: 254 Price: U.S. $ 124
Abstract:
Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs provides a multidimensional
analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive
evaluative adverbs trigger a conventional implicature, whereas, factive
evaluative adverbs not only trigger a conventional implicature but also a
conventional presupposition. This analysis proves to be more advantageous than
existing analysis in terms of empirical coverage and explanatory power. With
the case of evaluative adverbs, the book demonstrates how secondary meanings
(e.g. conventional presuppositions, conventional implicatures) interact with
primary meanings (i.e. main assertion, or at-issue content). For the first
time, a three-dimensional formal language of conventional implicatures and
conventional presuppositions is implemented and applied to derive the right
truth conditions of sentences with evaluative adverbs and predict their
projection behaviors. With a cross-linguistic perspective (focusing on German,
English and Mandarin Chinese) and using corpus- and psycholinguistic methods,
the book also offers new perspectives on the syntax/semantics/pragmatics of
adverbials.
Dec 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Investigating English Legal Genres in Academic and Professional
Contexts
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Author: Girolamo Tessuto
Hardback: ISBN: 1443842052 9781443842051 Pages: 315 Price: U.K. £ 49.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443842052 9781443842051 Pages: 315 Price: U.S. $ 74.99
Abstract:
This volume contributes to the latest studies in legal discourse studies by
presenting a descriptive and interpretive analysis of English legal genres
used in academic and professional writing contexts. The results of
corpora-driven data are discussed through (meta)discourse, genre and other
theoretical perspectives, and offer insights into the ways the writers’
discursive practices and meanings shape their membership to the legal
community and discipline. The volume attempts to show these ideas in
systematic and clear language, and is designed for native and non-native
readers whether involved in English applied linguistic research or
disciplinary English writing instruction.
Dec 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
Subtitle: Third Edition
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Reference/?view=usa&ci=9780199567461
Author: Andrew Delahunty
Author: Sheila Dignen
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199567461 Pages: 416 Price: U.S. $ 18.95
Abstract:
Allusions are a marvelous literary shorthand. A miser is a Scrooge, a strong
man a Samson, a beautiful woman a modern-day Helen of Troy. From classical
mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this revised and updated third
edition explains the meanings of more than 2,000 allusions in use in modern
English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rambo to Rubens. Based
on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used
allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate
usage, drawn from sources ranging from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to
Bridget Jones’s Diary. In addition, the dictionary includes a useful thematic
index, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out how her name is
used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of “Revenge” and find,
alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as
The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo.
Hailed by Library Journal as “wonderfully conceived and extraordinarily
useful,” this superb reference–now available in paperback–will appeal to
anyone who enjoys language in all its variety. It is especially useful for
students and writers.
Dec 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Music, Language, and Human Evolution
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Aesthetics/?view=usa&ci=9780199227341
Editor: Nicholas Bannan
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199227341 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 150
Abstract:
Why do human beings make music? No human society has ever existed without
music, and people all around the world commit considerable resources,
including time, effort, and ingenuity, to musical participation and
consumption. Yet until recently archaeology has had little to say about the
possible role of music in human evolution. This book examines the potential
role of musicality in human evolution and its consequences for human culture.
Drawing on a growing body of research in archaeology, anthropology,
psychology, and musicology, it illustrates the inter-disciplinary necessity of
accounting for the phenomenon of human music-making.
Through twelve articles, the contributors to his volume build on Charles
Darwin’s speculation that human language may have had its origins in forms of
vocal communication closer to the condition of music. Music and language are
both acquired by individuals, and thus transmitted over the generations as a
consequence of an evolved biology specially adapted for these purposes. The
authors of this book seek to illuminate the debate surrounding the precedence
of musicality over language in research influenced by Darwin’s proposal,
critically examining the controversial philosophical, developmental, and
inter-cultural issues implied.
The accompanying CD provides some glimpses of the practice of music in a
variety of cultures and illustrates ways of listening to the human voice that
reveal its intrinsic musicality.
Nov 29
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhgeneral observations
Pressure to be intelligent is weaker for people today than it was for our hunting-and-gathering ancestors — and humans may be getting gradually dumber as a result, a scientist is proposing. [Read more here.]
Nov 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhlexico-grammar
If you already understand the difference between a transitve and an intransitive clause, you do not need to click here.
Nov 01
eldonsuitable quotations meaning, metaphor
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
(Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6)
…pondering the proliferation of words which mean so many more different things than they used to.
Oct 16
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Date: 18-Apr-2013 – 20-Apr-2013
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Jo Angouri
Meeting Email: Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk
Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2013
Meeting Description:
The third I-mean conference will address the relationship between language and identity.
Following the I-mean tradition, we seek to explore ways in which researchers can fruitfully work across methodological and disciplinary boundaries. We also welcome scholars from other disciplines who have an interest in the links between language and identity.
The conference aims to explore whether and to what extent bringing together different methodological and theoretical approaches can:
– Enhance understanding of identity attribution in interaction
– Lead to theoretically robust methodological innovation
Exploring how speakers use language to claim an identity has been explored but also challenged in the various traditions (ranging from mainstream sociolinguistic theory to linguistic anthropology). In the broadly defined field of sociolinguistics there are many conceptualisations of ‘identity’. Through language we actively construct and negotiate our self and social identities. It is through language that we index, directly and indirectly, who we are/how we wish to be perceived and where we (want to) belong. We see identity as (not exclusively but to a large extent) a linguistic phenomenon, dynamic and constantly evolving.
Plenary Speakers:
Dawn Archer
Nik Coupland
Penny Eckert
Lorenza Mondada
Ben Rampton
Ruth Wodak
Invited Panels:
I-mean 3 will host two invited panels. Details will be announced by the end of October 2012 or soon after.
Round table: Stances, methodologies and methods for the analysis of identity in interaction
Call for Papers:
Papers are invited from researchers working across different linguistic fields and traditions, focusing on any aspect of language and identity.
Main conference themes:
– Constructionist and post-modern approaches to identity
– Identity in spoken interaction: methodologies and methods
– Three waves of variation studies
– Variation, identity and language change, revisited
– Multimodal approaches
– The relationship between role and identity
– Culture, language(s) and identity
– Identity Theory and Social Theory
Submission Details:
Panel Proposals:
Panel proposals are invited by 1 December 2012. Decisions about panels will be made by 15 December. Panel organisers should oversee abstracts from panel members, with up to 6 papers in a panel (2 X 90 minute slots). Individual panel members should submit abstracts, clearly marked with Panel names, to the main conference email address by 31 January 2013 as below. All abstracts (in panels and the main conference) will be subject to double blind review as always.
Individual Papers:
Abstracts of no more than 350 words (max and including references, if absolutely necessary) are invited. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is the 31 January 2013. Abstracts should not include the name and affiliation of the author(s).
A submission form will be published on the I-mean website soon.
In the meantime please don’t hesitate to contact us (Jo.Angouri@uwe.ac.uk and/or Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk) for any further details.
Oct 10
eldonannouncements conferences
Information on ASFLA’s conference next year in Melbourne, hosted by the Australian Catholic University, can be found on its own page on this site. you can navigate to it from here by clicking on this link, or you may also download a short brochure on the conference in Word doc format here.
There is also a link to the page in the blogroll, waaay down in the “Conferences” blogroll, at the bottom right of the page after you scroll and scroll…
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