Apr 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Full Title: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
Short Title: CADAAD
Date: 01-Sep-2014 – 03-Sep-2014
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact Person: Tamás Eitler
Meeting Email: cadaad2014@gmail.com
Web Site: http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2013
Meeting Description:
CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. The fifth CADAAD conference will take place in Budapest, 1-3 September 2014.
Reflecting the diversity of topics and approaches in critical discourse studies, the following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers:
Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
Professor Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Technology Sydney)
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics)
Professor Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia)
Professor Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington)
Call for Papers:
We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
– (New) Media Discourse
– Party Political Discourse
– Advertising
– Discourses of War and Terrorism
– Discourses of Discrimination and Inequality
– Power, Ideology and Dominance in Institutional Discourse
– Identity in Discourse
– Education Discourses
– Environmental Discourses
– Health Communication
– Language and the Law
We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse research and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to the following fields:
– Sociolinguistics
– Multimodality
– Media and Mass Communication Studies
– Political Science
– Functional Linguistics
– Cognitive Linguistics
– Corpus Linguistics
– Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory
– Conversation and Discourse Analysis
– Ethnography of Communication
– Discursive Psychology
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment tocadaad2014@gmail.com before 1 December 2013. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 March 2014.
A peer-reviewed collection of selected papers is planned to be published with an international publisher.
For more information, please visit http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014. Should you have any questions, please contact us at cadaad2014@gmail.com.
Apr 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Birdsong, Speech, And Language
Subtitle: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/birdsong-speech-and-language-0
Editor: Johan J. Bolhuis
Editor: Martin Everaert
Hardback: ISBN: 9780262018609 Pages: 556 Price: U.S. $ 50.00
Abstract:
Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human
speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest
research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human
speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They
examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and
speech and language acquisition, considering vocal imitation, auditory
learning, an early vocalization phase (“babbling”), the structural properties
of birdsong and human language, and the striking similarities between the
neural organization of learning and vocal production in birdsong and human
speech.
After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and
evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of
acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the
neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and
evolution of language.
Contributors
Hermann Ackermann, Gabriël J. L. Beckers, Robert C. Berwick, Johan J. Bolhuis,
Noam Chomsky, Frank Eisner, Martin Everaert, Michale S. Fee, Olga Fehér, Simon
E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Jonathan B. Fritz, Sharon M. H. Gobes, Riny
Huijbregts, Erich Jarvis, Robert Lachlan, Ann Law, Michael A. Long, Gary F.
Marcus, Carolyn McGettigan, Daniel Mietchen, Richard Mooney, Sanne Moorman,
Kazuo Okanoya, Christophe Pallier, Irene M. Pepperberg, Jonathan F. Prather,
Franck Ramus, Eric Reuland, Constance Scharff, Sophie K. Scott, Neil Smith,
Ofer Tchernichovski, Carel ten Cate, Christopher K. Thompson, Frank Wijnen,
Moira Yip, Wolfram Ziegler, Willem Zuidema
Mar 31
eldonannouncements
This year’s ASFLA conference, to be held at the Melbourne Campus of the ACU in October, has its own page on Interstratal-Tension. You can find it in the ‘Conferences’ section of the Links on the sidebar, or the SFL-related links too..
Meantime, here us a direct link to the page devoted to this year’s local SFL gathering. More updates as they come to hand – and don’t forget that submission of abstracts closes on April 12th. See the flyer for more details.
Mar 22
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse Analysis and Human and Social Sciences
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431241
Editor: Simone Bonnafous
Editor: Malika Temmar
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312417 Pages: 177 Price: U.S. $ 63.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312417 Pages: 177 Price: U.K. £ 39.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034312417 Pages: 177 Price: Europe EURO 49.00
Abstract:
What is the relationship between discourse analysis and its more recent
companion disciplines such as sociology, political science and information and
communication sciences, at their point of convergence between the symbolic and
the social? How are relationships evolving between discourse analysis and
disciplines like the literary studies, psychoanalysis and philosophy, which
have been the constant companions of linguistics as these emerged and
developed? What is the place and role of discourse analysis in Europe? These
are some of the themes dealt with in this book. A team effort on the part of
Centre d’Etude des Discours, Images, Texte, Ecrits, Communication (Céditec EA
3119), it aims not to present another view of the history and concepts of
discourse analysis, but to encourage thinking and debate on interdisciplinary
practices.
Mar 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:37:20
From: Michael Vitevitch [mvitevit@ku.edu]
Subject: Call for Special Issue: Frontiers in Language Sciences
My co-editor (Thomas Hills) and I (Michael Vitevitch) are making one last push
for submissions to a special issue of the on-line, open access journal
Frontiers in Language Sciences dealing with the topic of ”Insights to the
study of Language from Network Science.” Work from any discipline and on a
variety of topics is encouraged!
http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/researchtopics/Insights_to_the_st
udy_of_Langu/490
I understand that many people are skeptical of on-line journals, however, see
this URL about the recent purchase of the Frontiers journals by the Nature
Publishing Group:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/nature-publishing-group-buys-into-open-ac
cess-publisher.html
I hope to see a paper from you in this special issue.
Best regards,
Mike Vitevitch
Mar 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Date: 28-Aug-2013 – 28-Aug-2013
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact: Oliver Bond
Contact Email: conference@lagb.org.uk
Meeting URL: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/primategrammar
Meeting Description:
The Workshop on Primate Grammar (and Beyond) will be held in association with Philippe Schlenker’s Henry Sweet Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain 2013.
Background
In the last thirty years, several striking results have emerged from field studies of the vocalizations and gestures of non-human primates.
– Alarm calls sometimes have a referential semantics, i.e. they do not always encode a level of threat, but sometimes the kind of predator that triggers their occurrence (e.g. Seyfarth and Cheney, Science 1980). To give an example, Campbell’s monkeys have a ‘hok’ alarm call which is usually used in the presence of eagles, while another alarm call, ‘krak’, is more commonly associated with leopards (Ouattara et al., PNAS, 2009b).
– In some cases, a simple morphological structure appears to be available. To continue with the same example, Campbell’s monkeys have an ‘-oo’ suffix which can appear after the ‘roots’ ‘hok’, ‘krak’ and ‘wak’ (and it might conceivably modify their meanings in a regular way) (Ouattara et al., PLOS ONE, 2009a).
– Several systems of primate vocalizations display syntactic regularities, though few are understood. It might initially appear that call sequences can be generated with finite state machines, with ‘loops’ that produce numerous instances of repetitions – but at this point this is just an impression. A few rules are understood in greater detail, however. For instance, in Campbell’s monkeys a single ‘boom boom’ pair can appear at the beginning of a sequence – and it seems to have a semantic effect: sequences prefixed with the ‘boom boom’ call are associated with contexts that do no involve predation (Ouattara et al., PNAS 2009b).
– In addition, a rich literature has investigated the communicative gestures of various apes, with detailed lists of gestures and associated meanings in chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, as well as a description of the variation – or lack thereof -within and across species (e.g. Hobaiter and Byrne, Animal Cog 2011).
These properties are evocative of phenomena that linguists have studied in human language. This workshop aims to ask whether the level of sophistication reached by recent descriptions of primate communication systems makes them ripe for a kind of ‘primate linguistics’. One side of the question is methodological: can the tools of contemporary linguistics (with its emphasis on formal modelization) bring new light to data from experimental primatology? The other side of the question is substantive: are the formal properties of non-human primate communication systems indicative of a particular proximity (in particular an evolutionary one) with human language?
Programme
The workshop will be held as part of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2013 on Wednesday 28th August 2013 in the Khalili Lecture Theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
10.00-10.30
Registration and coffee
10:30-11:00
Philippe Schlenker (Jean-Nicod/NYU) ‘Introduction’
11:00-12:00
Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna) ‘Animal pattern perception: A broad comparative approach’
12:00-13:00
Robert Seyfarth (UPenn) ‘Social cognition and the origin of language’
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14:30-15:30
Simon Townsend (Zurich) ‘Semantic compositions in the meerkat alarm call system’
15:30-16:30
Klaus Zuberbühler (St Andrews) ‘Meaningful strings of calls in primates’
16.30-17.00
Tea
17:00-18.30
Philippe Schlenker (Jean-Nicod/NYU) ‘Towards a primate linguistics’
18.30-19.30
Reception
Details on how to register for this event and other sessions taking place as part of LAGB 2013 will be available in May 2013.
Download detailed information about this event:
http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/primategrammar/circular
To submit a paper for the General Session of the Annual Meeting or the Workshop on Morphology, please see the LAGB 2013 website:
http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/
Mar 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Brian Paltridge from the University of Sydney and Sue Starfield from the
University of New South Wales have been contracted by Routledge as editors for
a new book series, Routledge Research in English for Specific Purposes. Books
in the series will describe original, cutting-edge research and be aimed at
researchers, academics and research students with an interest in the
particular area. Areas covered in the series will include, but not be limited
to, multimodality and English for specific purposes; English as an
international language and English for specific purposes; English in the
workplace; corpus studies and English for specific purposes; vocabulary and
English for specific purposes; technology and the teaching and learning of
English for specific purposes; aviation English and English for specific
purposes; intercultural rhetoric and assessment and English for specific
purposes.
Enquiries regarding the submission of proposals for books in the series should
be sent to Brian Paltridge (brian.paltridge@sydney.edu.au) and Sue Starfield
(s.starfield@unsw.edu.au).
Feb 20
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres
Series Title: Linguistic Insights – Volume 172
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431371
Editor: Maurizio Gotti
Editor: Carmen Sancho Guinda
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.S. $ 124.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.K. £ 77.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: Europe EURO 96.07
Abstract:
Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the
construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and
diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various
fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific
observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports,
university decision-making in public meetings, patients’ oral and written
accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries,
university websites, narratives of facts in legal cases, narrative processes
in arbitration hearings, briefs, and witness examination accounts. In addition
to exploring narration in this wide range of contexts, the volume uses
narrative as a powerful tool to gain a methodological insight into
professional and academic accounts, and thus it contributes to research into
theoretical issues. Under the lens of Narratology, Discourse and Genre
Analysis, fresh research windows are opened on the study of academic and
professional interactions.
Feb 20
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Equinox is pleased to announce a new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory
edited by James Lantolf (The Pennsylvania State University).
Language and Sociocultural Theory is an international journal devoted to the
study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory.
Articles appearing in the journal may draw upon research in the following
fields of study: linguistics and applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive
science, anthropology, cultural studies, and education. Particular emphasis is
placed on applied research grounded on sociocultural theory where language is
central to understanding cognition, communication, culture, learning and
development. The journal especially focuses on research that explores the role
of language in the theory itself, including inner and private speech,
internalization, verbalization, gesticulation, cognition, conceptual
development, etc). Work that explores connections between sociocultural theory
and meaning-based theories of language also fits the journal’s scope.
Publication and Frequency
2 issues per volume year, April and September (commencing 2014)
For information on contributing and subscribing please see the journal
website:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LST/index
With best wishes
Valerie Hall, Equinox Publishing Ltd
Feb 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Working with Multimodality
Subtitle: Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415676205/
Author: Jennifer Rowsell
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415676236 Pages: 182 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415676236 Pages: 182 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415676205 Pages: 182 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415676205 Pages: 182 Price: U.S. $ 36.95
Abstract:
In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds,
images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we
know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex
texts.
In Working with Multimodality, Jennifer Rowsell focuses on eight modes: words,
images, sounds, movement, animation, hypertext, design and modal learning.
Throughout the book each mode is illustrated by cases studies based on the
author’s interviews with thirty people, who have extensive experience working
with a mode in their field. From a song writer to a well known ballet dancer,
these people all discuss what it means to do multimodality well.
This accessible textbook brings the multiple modes together into an integrated
theory of multimodality. Step-by-step, beginning with theory then exploring
modes and how to work with them, before concluding with how to apply this in
an investigation, each stage of working with multimodality is covered.
Assuming no prior knowledge about multimodality and its properties, Working
with Multimodality is designed to appeal to advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students interested in how learning and innovation is different
in a digital and media age and is an essential textbook for courses in
literacy, new media and multimodality within applied linguistics , education
and communication studies.
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