Dec 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=500323
Author: Helen Caple
Hardback: ISBN: 9780230301009 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 50
Abstract:
Photojournalism provides an analysis of press photography from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the role of photography in the news and how meanings are made in news photographs. It also investigates the meanings that are made at the intersection of words and images in the news story context. This is becoming increasingly important for multimodal news reporting in the twenty-first century.
The book brings together the author’s experiences as a professional photographer, lecturer and researcher to provide readers with a comprehensive tool kit for analyzing images and text-image relations. It explores a wide range of case studies and will appeal to scholars in Social Semiotics, Linguistics, Communications Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and Media/Journalism Studies.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 144
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.144
Editor: Claire Lefebvre
Editor: Bernard Comrie
Editor: Henri Cohen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Abstract:
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and
difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of
interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has
been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several
disciplines. The selection of contributions in this volume highlight scenarios
of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty of language based on
biological, historical, social, cultural, and paleontological forays into the
conditions that brought forth and favored language emergence, augmented by
insights from sister disciplines. The chapters all reflect new speculation,
discoveries and more refined research methods leading to a more focused
understanding of the range of possibilities and how we might choose among
them. There is much that we do not yet know, but the outlines of the path
ahead are ever clearer.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters
Subtitle: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 236
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.236
Author: Keiko Tsuchiya
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: S. Korean won 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural
setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular
context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a
student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the
UK, comparing British tutor – British student conversations with British tutor
– Japanese student conversations in English. A new research methodology, a
time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis, is introduced for analysing
listenership and turn-taking structure, synthesising visual data with verbal
data in timeline. The method also integrates discourse-pragmatic and
conversation analytic approaches with the corpus-based analysis. This work
reports strategies in use of response tokens for framework shifts and
multi-functional nature of hand gestures observed in the conversations.
Therefore, this book is highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate
students, who study pragmatic and discursive practice in intercultural
settings using multimodal corpora.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Ideology in Language Use
Subtitle: Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/ideology-language-use-pragmatic-guidelines-empirical-research?format=PB
Author: Jef Verschueren
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Abstract:
The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world’s leading pragmatists, introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the tools, methods and theories of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Illustrations are drawn systematically from a coherent corpus of excerpts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history textbooks dealing with episodes of colonial history and in particular the 1857 ‘Indian Mutiny’. It includes the complete corpus of excerpts, allowing researchers and students to evaluate all illustrations; at the same time, it provides useful practice and training materials. The book is intended as a teaching tool in language-, discourse- and communication-oriented programs, but also for historians and social and political scientists.
Introduction; Part I. Language Use and Ideology; Part II. Pragmatic Rules of Engagement; Part III. Pragmatic Guidelines and Procedures; Conclusion.
Nov 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Introducing Functional Grammar
Subtitle: 3rd Edition
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781444152678/
Author: Geoffrey Thompson
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415826303 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781444152678 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 42.95
Abstract:
Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.
No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides: An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar – functional and formal; An overview of the SFG model – what it is and how it works; Advice and practice on identifying elements of language structure such as clauses and clause constituents; Numerous examples of text analysis using the categories introduced, and discussion about what the analysis shows; Exercises to test comprehension, along with answers for guidance.
Introducing Functional Grammar remains the essential entry guide to Hallidayan functional grammar, for undergraduate and postgraduate students of language and linguistics.
Nov 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Series Title: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415709781/
Editor: James Paul Gee
Editor: Michael Handford
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415551076 Pages: 694 Price: U.S. $ 225.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415709781 Pages: 694 Price: U.S. $ 55.95
Abstract:
Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Register and Genre, Developments in Spoken Discourse, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications and Identity, Culture and Discourse.
The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. All chapters have been closely edited by James Paul Gee and Michael Handford. With a focus on the application of Discourse Analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic, and analyse authentic data.
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis is vital reading for linguistics students as well as students of communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.
Oct 23
ThE CLOwNannouncements
First Call for Papers
First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference, IACS-2014
September 25-27, 2014
Lund, Sweden
http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
IACS-2014@semiotik.lu.se
The First International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) Conference (IACS-2014) will be held in September 25-27, at Lund University, Sweden. Founded in Aarhus, Denmark, on May 29, 2013, The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Central topics are the evolution, development of, and interaction between different semiotic resources such as language, gestures and pictorial representations.
Plenary speakers
* Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
* Merlin Donald, Queens University
* Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
* Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
* Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester
Theme of the conference: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics
Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European and North American research centres, have experienced the needs to combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to be able to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of mankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The product of these collaborations has been the emergence of the field of Cognitive Semiotics, with its own journal (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cogsem) and academic association. The conference aims both to celebrate this, and to look forward into possibilities for further development.
We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts for one of the three categories:
1. Oral presentations (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion)
2. Posters (at a dedicated poster session)
3. Theme sessions (3 to 6 thematically linked oral presentations, introduced by a discussant.
The individual abstracts should be preceded by an abstract for the theme session as a whole. In case the theme session is not accepted, individual abstracts will be reviewed as submissions for oral presentations.)
The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics:
. Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
. Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology
. Communication across cultural barriers
. Cross-species comparative semiotics
. Evolutionary perspectives on altruism
. Experimental semiotics
. Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources
. Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
. Multimodality
. Narrativity across different media
. Semantic typology and linguistic relativity
. Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction
. Semiotic and cognitive development in children
. Sign use and cognition
. Signs, affordances, and other meanings
. Speech and gesture
. The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
. The evolution of language
Abstracts should be submitted at the site: http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
Important dates
. Deadline for abstract submission (theme sessions): 31 Dec 2013
. Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 1 Feb 2014
. Notification of acceptance (theme sessions): 15 Feb 2014
. Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
. Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014
Local organizing committee
. Mats Andrén
. Johan Blomberg
. Anna Redei Cabak
. Sara Lenninger
. Göran Sonesson
. Jordan Zlatev
Oct 13
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Now available: a brand new app for smartphones and tablets: Academic Writing in English (AWE), available for free from the Apple App Store and from Google Play.
AWE is a complete course designed to help you improve your academic writing assignments, such as: – class essays; – exam essays; – experimental reports; – scientific essays; – dissertations; – academic articles.
AWE includes: – an in-depth self-learning course covering the entire creative process of academic writing; – interactive exercises that help you learn; – checklists for reviewing your critical thinking, your arguments and your essay as a whole; – an extensive glossary of important terms.
AWE also provides easy tips for avoiding plagiarism, conducting research, thinking critically, making strong arguments and presenting your work well.
Coming soon (also free): English Spelling and Punctuation (ESP).
Already available (in a free and paid version): the interactive Grammar of English (iGE). For more information, see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/apps/
Oct 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
The 5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD) will take place 1-3 September 2014 and will be hosted by ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research. 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 by no means limited to the following:
• (New) Media discourse
• Party political discourse
• Advertising
• Discourses of war and terrorism
• Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse
• Identity in discourse
• Education discourses
• Environmental discourses
• Health communication
• Business communication
• Language and the law
• *Discourses of inequality, discrimination and othering*
• *Global economic discourses and discourses of the financial crisis*
• *Discourses of political protest and civil (dis)order*
• *Neoliberalism and the new divides*
• *Anti-EU discourses*
Papers addressing the highlighted topics are especially welcome. In giving weight to these topics we wish to call to attention some of the most pressing problems currently facing Europe. We hope that CADAAD 2014 will provide a publically visible forum for critically reflecting on these issues.
We welcome papers which approach topics such as listed above from theoretical and analytical perspectives sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, including but without being limited to the following:
• Sociolinguistics
• Multimodality
• Media and Mass Communication Studies
• Functional Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory
• Conversation and Discourse Analysis
• Ethnography of Communication
• Discursive Psychology
• Political Science
We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing theoretical frameworks and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies.
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)
All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of 250-350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2014@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.
In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted. A list of our new panels are available at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ and at http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014.
We are planning to offer a small number of bursaries to be applied for by delegates who come from disadvantaged circumstances. Application information will be provided on our website later this year.
Selected papers are planned to be published in a thematically constrained volume to be submitted to an international publisher. Other selected papers will appear in a proceedings issue of the CADAAD journal.
For further information please visit our new conference website at http://cadaad2014.elte.hu/ or http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014 and our new Facebook page at facebook.com/Cadaad2014.
Oct 05
ThE CLOwNannouncements
The editorial team of Functions of Language (FoL) is pleased to welcome Martin Hilpert as new editor. Martin succeeds Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, who co-founded the journal in 1994 and has been part of the editorial team ever since. Martin Hilpert is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel. His work focuses on grammar and lexis, both in synchrony and in diachrony, which he studies through the use of innovative corpus-based methods. For full detail on Martin, please see his professional website at http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert/. While it is with great regret that we say goodbye to Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, we are also confident that Martin will bring new energy and above all new ideas, knowledge and expertise to the editorial team.
To profile the journal even more strongly as the leading international outlet for the publication of research from the full spectrum of functionalist linguistics, the new editorial team has decided to increase the publication rhythm of the journal from two to three issues per year. The journal continues to invite papers that explore the functionalist perspective on the organization and use of natural language, seeking to bring out the fundamental unity behind the various schools of thought while stimulating discussion among functionalists. It encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from a broad range of languages.
The access Functions of Language please use the URL address below:
http://benjamins.com/catalog/fol
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