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From the Linguistics Postgraduate Office

The mid year examination timetable is now available on the web. To view the examination timetable, please go to http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/exam/ and click on 'Entire Exam Timetable'. Students enrolled in distance education units have been advised in writing of their examination timetable.

To add unit/s to a second semester program you should use a change of program form available as a download from the web. See http://www.mq.edu.au/postgrad/PDFs/COP.pdf

Grants for Postgraduate Research Student for conference attendance

The Department of Linguistics would like to remind students of the Linguistics Postgraduate Research Fund. This fund will provide a maximum grant of $500 for travel (using American Express Travel or STA) and associated costs to a conference for candidates currently enrolled in an MA(Hons) or PhD. It is anticipated that up to 20 grants will be provided in any one year. This is available to both local and overseas student, and full time and part time students.

There will be three closing dates a year. These are: 28th February, 30th June, 30th October.

Criteria - Essential criteria : Presentation of work at a conference/s. Desirable criteria: likely to lead to publication. Evidence of outcomes of previous successful applications.

Approximately 7 grants will be available at each closing date. If there are too few eligible applications in any one round, these will be added to the next round. If there are too many eligible applications in any one round, the ?desirable? criteria will be used for selection. Applicants who are unsuccessful in either the February or June round may reapply retrospectively in the December round should funds permit. Candidates may apply once only in any calendar year. No candidate may apply for more than three grants throughout the duration of their candidature. Applications for grants will be accepted three times a year. To apply, candidates should click here and complete this form, which is also available in hard copy form from Robyn or Lorraine in the Linguistics Postgraduate Office 9850-7102).

Applicants should be aware that the Overseas Travel Insurance provided by the University as part of its ongoing Insurance program does not apply to postgraduate or PhD students travelling overseas to attend conferences etc associated with their studies.

Forms must be submitted to the Linguistics Postgraduate Office, in hard copy, by the due date. Applications must have the support of the candidate?s supervisor. A letter, indicating acceptance of the candidate?s work at the conference for which the grant is sought, must also be attached. Late applications will not be accepted. Applications must not exceed the one page limit, except for details of publications from previous grants. Linguistics Postgraduate Research Fund.

From the NCELTR Resource Centre

For help with your information needs, email us at rescentr@nceltr.mq.edu.au All our services are listed on the website at http://nceltr.edu.au/resources

From the Library

Macquarie staff and students now have access to the Oxford English Dictionary online. Access is via the Catalogue or Databases link from the Library's home page, and it is available remotely with the use of your MQID. There is a Quick Reference Guide to help new users get the most out of OED Online linked from the Welcome page. There is also a Latest New Entries - useful and fun to see what new words are being added.

The following information from the OED Online Help describes its scope and purpose:

The Oxford English Dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. It traces the development of English from approximately 1150 AD up to the present day. The varieties of English covered include British English, American English, Australian English, New Zealand English, the Englishes of the Indian subcontinent, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean, among others. The Oxford English Dictionary is not an arbiter of proper usage, despite its widespread reputation to the contrary. The Dictionary is intended to be descriptive, not prescriptive. In other words, its content should be viewed as an objective reflection of English language usage, not a subjective collection of usage 'dos' and 'don'ts'. However, it does include information on which usages are, or have been, popularly regarded as 'incorrect'. The Dictionary aims to cover the full spectrum of English language usage, from formal to slang, as it has evolved over time. ...Most entries contain information on all of the following: spelling, pronunciation, derivation, meaning, and usage.

The usage of each word, meaning, or idiom in the Dictionary is documented through comprehensive examples drawn from quotations taken from printed texts of the present and the past. These quotation paragraphs begin with the earliest recorded occurrence of a term, and follow its development up to the modern period, unless the documentary evidence shows that the term has fallen out of use along the way.

Linguistics Department Seminars

The Linguistics Department Seminar Series which began recently has been well attended by research students, staff and visitors.

This Series is primarily intended for research students, but staff are also warmly invited as are coursework postgraduates. The seminars are given by a mix of Department staff, invited lecturers from other fields in the University, and outside visitors to the Department.

For research students, at least two thirds attendance at the seminars in any given semester is required as part of their research training. The scope of the series is intended to provide a broader understanding of a wide range of aspects of Linguistics over the candidature of the research student and, thereby, to ensure that research students can set their own particular research projects in the context of the study of language and linguistics as a whole, and develop a wider awareness of the discipline.

For more information about the research seminars, please refer to the Seminar web page http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/programs/researchdegrees/researchseminars.htm

Click here for the schedule of the seminars.

For research students

Central Commencement Program for Research Students ( Source: email - Prof. Tansley, Macq. University, 12 May 2004).

Earlier this year, Macquarie University welcomed 130 new candidates to our highly regarded Doctoral and Research Masters programs in a one-day presentation by experienced staff members. A website has now been created as a link to the things that all new research candidates may need to know about.

The site can be found at http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ROCP/home.htm and is accessible via an MQID login. The site is best viewed in
Internet Explorer.

Menu options allow research students and staff to track through the Central Commencement Program presentations as audio files, slideshows,
archival documents or links to background information under four general headings:

  1. Services and Resources Offered by the University
  2. Rights and Duties of a Member of the University Community
  3. Ethical Values and Working Together
  4. The Road to Completion

Division of Linguistics and Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival, December 9, 10 and 11 ? 2004, Macquarie University.

The Postgraduate research festival is a wonderful opportunity for our students to present their work in an open and friendly environment. You will meet colleagues from Psychology and Linguistics, and you may find that you share similar interests. The feedback that you receive from staff and students should prove to be invaluable.

If you are just starting out on your research you may like to use the festival to tell people what your research is all about, and the sort of things that you are likely to be doing.

For further information on the research festival and to see some abstracts from last year, visit the festival website at: http://www.psy.mq.edu.au/festival/

New Divisional Centre for Translation and Interpreting

We are pleased to announce that a Divisional Centre for Translation and Interpreting will soon be established at Macquarie University. Watch this space for further updates.

New Auslan project

Dr Jemina Napier has just been awarded a grant from the Vice-Chancellor's Development Fund to develop Auslan videotape resources to enhance the flexible delivery of the PG Dip in Auslan Interpreting in external mode - to the tune of $45,000! The money will be used to employ a project officer who will collect Auslan texts and edit together a series of videos which will be used in Auslan interpreting analysis and practice. The project will commence at the beginning of August, and will take approximately one year to complete.

Language and communication workshop

Dr Jennifer Peck from Linguistics will be facilitating another language and communication workshop which is open to all Macquarie staff.

In her last workshop, 12 people attended but interestingly, while this workshop was open to both men and women, only women attended. Discussion involved issues relation to organisational cultures, how many organisations and therefore cultures that individuals belong to within Macquarie University, and also involved determining what the different interaction/communication patterns/issues are.

Men and Women in Meetings - Any Other Business?

Dr Peck's next workshop will raise the following issues for discussion:

Lunch will be provided. It will be held on Wednesday 9 June, 12.00 noon?2.00pm, in the Workplace Relations Training Room 2, Ground Floor, C4B. Further enquiries can be directed to Lyn Nasir, x7389, lyn.nasir@mq.edu.au

Scholarships and Fellowships

Trave l scholarship for two students to Verona, Italy.

The ESU ARDSU of Verona offers two students from Macquarie University the opportunity for a three-week Italian language and culture course held in beautiful and historic Verona, Italy. The program provides a travel grant which will cover the following for the two selected students:

25 hours a week of beginners, intermediate, or advanced Italian language and grammar lessons taught by qualified native speaking teachers. Seminars in Italian history, culture, geography, and art. 1 one-day excursion. Visits to places of historic/artistic interest in Verona. Board: twin-share rooms with bath in self-contained apartments. Meals: lunch and dinner at University canteen or restaurants. Breakfast is not included. Travel expenses are not included.

Important information Institution: Universita degli Studi di Verona. Location: Verona, Italy. Program Dates: 4 August-28 August 2004. Deadline to apply: 18 June 2004. Application can be obtained from Dawn Koban. Travel Grant covers: Accomodation, tuition fees, & most meals. Contact: Dawn Koban, Coordinator, Outgoing Student Programs Macquarie University Macquarie International Building E3A, Level 1 New South Wales 2109 Australia Tel: +61 2 9850 7297 dawn.koban@io.mq.edu.au

Macquarie University Research Fellowship 2005

The guidelines and application form for the Macquarie University Research Fellowship 2005 (MURF) are now available on the Research Office web site: http://www.ro.mq.edu.au/fund/internal/ The closing date for receipt of applications is 30 June 2004.

University of Sydney - Linguistics Seminar

The next Linguistics Department Seminar will take place on Friday 4th June, 2.30 pm. Venue: Room 203, Transient Building, University of Sydney. All welcome. The following seminar will be presented by Ilana Mushin from the Linguistics Department, University of Sydney.

Towards a typology of second position clitics in North-Central Australia: some pragmatic considerations.

Abstract:
The presence of (obligatory) pronominal enclitics constitutes an aerial feature of Central-Northern Australian languages, from Western Australia to the Queensland Border. In some languages enclitics are described as primarily attaching to verbs (eg. Western Desert), others to the first constituent (eg. Warlpiri). In many of these languages, pronominal clitics combine with tense, aspect and/or mood markers to form "clitic complexes" (or "auxiliaries"), which may in turn have fixed clausal positions (eg. Warlpiri, Wambaya). Most investigations of clitic complexes have focussed on their formal properties, especially the range of phenomena that may function as clitic hosts, and the implications of different patterns of clitic attachment for syntactic description (eg. Simpson & Withgott 1986, McConvell 1980, 1996, Laughren 2002). While much of this work acknowledges that discourse functions play a role in what motivates patterns of clitic attachment, there has been little detailed investigation of the precise nature of these discourse functions (other than allocation of the label ^Ifocus1), and their effects on the patterns of grammaticalisation of clitic complexes we observe in this part of Australia (McConvell 1996 is an exception). This seminar presents the genesis of such an investigation as part of a wider study of the grammaticalisation of information structure in Australian languages.

For more information, contact Jane Simpson, Ph. (02) 9351 3655, jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au

PhD Studentship (UK)

ESRC Centre Linked Studentship (+3 studentship): Call for applications - Evaluation of digital technologies in second language acquisition research.

The National Centre for Research Methods has recently been established with support from ESRC at the University of Southampton. In connection with this new Centre, a number of ESRC Linked Studentships are available from October 2004. One of these studentships will be based in the School of Humanities (Modern Languages: Centre for Applied Language Research), and will be of interest to candidates wishing to pursue research in computational approaches to second language acquisition.

Within Modern Languages at Southampton, there is a well established research programme which is using the CHILDES software tools originally developed for researching child language acquisition, to develop a database of second language learner language and undertake research into second language acquisition using this database. This programme is directed by Dr Florence Myles and Prof Rosamond Mitchell (for details see http://www.flloc.soton.ac.uk/ and http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/ ). Up to now the exemplar language used has been French as L2, but there are active plans to extend the research programme into other languages.

The successful candidate for this fully funded +3 ESRC studentship will be attached to the FLLOC research programme and to NCRM. They will undertake a project exploring and evaluating the usefulness for second language acquisition research of the recently developed XML-compatible version of the CHILDES software suite. The successful candidate must meet all normal ESRC eligibility criteria. In addition they must possess relevant academic qualifications and research training, including completed research training in speech science/ computational linguistics to ESRC-recognised Research Training Masters level, and an interest in second language acquisition. Knowledge of French would be a useful advantage.

Formal applications should be made using the standard University of Southampton Postgraduate Application Form, with a covering letter stating that you wish to be considered for the ESRC Centre Linked Studentship in Linguistics. Application forms are available from the university website at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/pgresearch/ (click on application/ admission). The deadline for receipt of completed applications is: Friday 18 June 2004. Shortlisted applicants may be called for interview in Southampton in the first week of July. For inquiries and further information concerning the Studentship including full particulars of the proposed project please contact:Prof R Mitchell (email R.F.Mitchell@soton.ac.uk , direct line 023 80592231) or Dr Florence Myles (email F.J.Myles@soton.ac.uk , direct line 023 80592269). Centre for Applied Language Research, Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

ALS 2004

Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney NSW 2006 13 - 15 July 2004. Further details, see conference website at http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=4

SFL Workshop - Sydney University

A Reclaiming Knowledge workshop will be held this December 13-15 at Sydney University, featuring Christie, Martin, Maton, Matthiessen, Muller, OHalloran, Painter, Tyler, Wignell and Williams as keynote speakers. The organisers are aiming to push along the dialogue between Bernstein's sociology of education and SFL, focussing on the complementary natures of knowledge in the home, workplace and school. Offers of papers (for the parallel papers program) in and around this theme are welcome, and abstracts are due July 31 an can be sent to Fran Christie at f.christie@edfac.usyd.edu.au ).

For further information on the workshop, including registration details and references to relevant reading, visit the ASFLA website & http://www.lexised.com/asfla/asfla04 Note that early bird registration closes June 30.

The Third International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition

The Third International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition organized by: Tohoku University 21st Century Program in Humanities Strategic Research and Education Center for an Integrated Approach to Language, Brain, and Cognition - http://www.lbc21.jp/ Workshop on Linguistic Science at Interdisciplinary Crossroads - http://www.lbc21.jp/TEMP/InfoForum03.htm . Date: June 11 (Friday), 9 am- 5 pm. Venue: The Cass Centre, Cambridge, UK - http://www.thecasscentre.co.uk/location.htm

*Pre-registration kindly requested via COE Program Secretariat: office@lbc21.jp . Speakers include:

Contact: Secretariat, COE Program in Humanities, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8576 Japan Tel. +81-22-217-7550, Fax. +81-22-217-7850, E-mail: office@lbc21.jp

European Society for Translation Studies 4th Congress Translation Studies: Doubts and Directions Faculty of Letters -- University of Lisbon
Portugal 26-29 September 2004

The Second Circular including up-to-date information on the congress, the social programme during conference days, the pre- and post-congress tours, as well as the registration form is now available on-line at http://www.fl.ul.pt/est2004

AILA 2005

AILA 2005 (incorporating AAAL) is to be held in Madison, WI, USA, July 24-29, 2005. For further information go to http://www.aila2005.org/ .

Call For Papers: 2nd Annual Linguistic Workshop in conjunction with WIP It Up: bad ideas? The 2004 WIP (Work-In-Progress) Conference 25th and 26th September 2004 The University of Queensland. Submission Deadline: 7th July 2004

In conjunction with the WIP conference, the linguistic workshop aims to showcase the research conducted by postgraduates in the field of linguistics. Presentations are welcome from all backgrounds of pure/applied linguistics and language analysis. The workshop offers an opportunity to present emerging thesis ideas in a supportive and friendly environment, in which positive feedback is acquired. Papers should be 20 minutes in length. 100-200 word abstracts should be submitted by the 7th July 2004 to wip@uq.edu.au . For enquiries pertaining to the linguistic workshop, contact: Julie Steele ( j.steele1@mailbox.uq.edu.au ) For general enquiries, contact: Kylie Cardell ( k.cardell@uq.edu.au ) OR Marian Redmond ( marian.redmond@uq.edu.au )

Call For Papers: WIP It Up: bad ideas? The 2004 WIP (Work-In-Progress) Conference 25th and 26th September 2004 The University of Queensland

The WIP (work-in-progress) post-graduate conference is on again! The WIP Conference (now in its 8th incarnation!) is designed to provide a valuable opportunity for postgraduates from the Humanities and Social Sciences to present papers and discuss their research in a collegiate environment. This conference is all about postgraduates and your topics may be as diverse as you like. It's a unique opportunity to experience conference life in its most accessible and non-threatening form! There will also be panels and speakers on post-graduate outcomes and concerns, and at this stage, we expect to hold a linguistics workshop and a Creative Writing workshop.

Papers can be on any topic and should be twenty minutes in length. 100-200 word abstracts should be submitted by the 7th July 2004 to wip@uq.edu.au . Our website is at www.emsah.uq.edu.au/wip .

Per un approccio linguistico all'arte verbale: metodi e strumenti diversificati/ Towards a Linguistic Approach to Verbal Art: Theory and Practice
(University of Bologna, 23-24 September, 2004)

Conference website: http://www.lingue.unibo.it/ceslic/bologna2004.htm

Speakers include Ruqaiya Hasan, David Butt, Carol Taylor Torsello, John Sinclair and Bill Louw.

Note - there is no conference fee. All those interested in the relationship between language, linguistics and literature - and can make it! - are most welcome!


Papillon- 2004 Workshop on Multilingual Lexical Databases Grenoble, August 30th-September 1st, 2004 immediately after COLING 2004 Venue: IMAG Institute, Grenoble, France

Multilingual lexical databases are (i) databases for (ii) structured lexical data which can be used either (iii) by humans e.g. to define their own dictionaries or (iv) by natural language processing (NLP) applications. Such databases are now felt indispensable in language science with the advances of language engineering. Like databases in genomics, multilingual lexical databases need rich annotations; they are complex, and they evolve as time goes by.

The Papillon project is a Web collaborative project with the aim to build an open source multilingual lexical database for several languages (French, German, English, Japanese, Lao, Malay, Thai and Vietnamese). The provided lexical information has to be rich enough for a human to be able to query and generate his/her own tailored dictionary (e.g. for language learning or for translation work) and for NLP applications to be able to extract a whole range of data or to directly exploit some particular data. The 2004 Papillon workshop, the fifth in a series of workshops organized every year by the Papillon members, will aim at identifying problems relevant to the multilingual-lexical-database community. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between practitioners from several fields and is thus open to anybody working in a domain pertaining to lexical databases such as: databases, man-machine interface for dictionaries, data annotation, XML, standardization of dictionaries or lexical data; lexicography, translation, computational linguistics, etc. This workshop is open and particularly encourages submissions by researchers from outside the Papillon project.

Miscellaneous Information - Papillon project Web site: http://www.papillon-dictionary.org/
CLIPS: http://www-clips.imag.fr/
IMAG Institute: http://www.imag.fr/
Grenoble tourist information: http://www.grenoble-isere-tourisme.com/

Second Call - DeXus - Discourse Nexus 2.0 An international summer school in discourse studies. (Registration deadline: 15th June, 2004). 16th - 21st August, 2004. Location: Centre for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. Web site: http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dexus2

DeXus is the name for the Discourse Nexus summer school, which was held very successfully for the first time in 2003 at the Centre for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University. DeXus focuses on innovative research in discourse studies and its application to a variety of settings and data sets. Participants will engage in a mix of lectures, workshops, group work, individual consultations and discussion sessions. The goal of DeXus is to create a space in which attendees can discuss the latest moves in discourse studies, apply approaches in discourse studies to 'real world' problems, learn hands-on in a positive environment and find new relays between academic work and social change.

Keynote lectures will focus on the following themes:

Workshops will be held on the following topics:

More lectures and workshops to be announced soon. Check the website.

The summer school is international and open to all researchers, PhD and graduate students. For more academic information, contact the organisers: Paul McIlvenny paul@hum.aau.dk or Pirkko Raudaskoski pirkko@hum.aau.dk Please register online at http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dexus2 . For practical information, please contact the DeXus secretariat at cds@hum.aau.dk

Call for Papers: Asia Pacific Journal of Education

Asia Pacific Journal of Education will be published by Carfax/Taylor and Francis from 2005. Its focus is on major shifts in educational policy and
governance, curriculum and pedagogy, and in the everyday lives and practices of students and teachers in the Asia-Pacific Rim. New empirical
and theoretical work, as well as critical and exploratory essays that focus on the impacts of modernity, postcolonialism and globalisation on
education systems will be featured. We would welcome manuscripts on:

Asia Pacific Journal of Education is published biannually by Carfax/Taylor and Francis.

Refereed Papers - should be in the range of 6000 words (including an abstract of 100 - 200 words, references, and space taken for tables/figures - calculated on 500 words to a journal page) in length, typed in 12 pt font on A4 paper, paginated and double-spaced. A separate first page should include the full title, a short title for use as a running head, author name(s), institutional and email address(es), and indicate the author responsible for correspondence related to manuscript submission. The title should be on page 1 and not exceed 10 words (50 letters), and should be followed by an abstract of 100 - 200 words.

Papers should be submitted to the Editorial Administrator via APJE@nie.edu.sgAPJE@nie.edu.sg and authors should follow the notes for contributors at http://www.crpp.nie.edu.sg/Publications/APJE/

Reviews can vary from 1000 words for a single-title review to 6000 words for an essay review. Contributors should follow the guidelines for articles, and attempt to review books in terms of related and current literature and scholarly debate.

New Publications

From Peter Lang - http://www.peterlang.de/

Translated Texts: Properties, Variants, Evaluations by Erich Steiner. Peter Lang Verlag (Frankfurt/ Main), 2004, pp.197, price: 39 Euro.

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.de/all/index.cfm?vSuche=vSuche&vDom=3&vRub=3060

This book deals with the nature of translations as texts, concentrating on English and German. Its focus is on texts rather than on sentences, on embeddedness in contexts rather than on decontextualized examples, and on units of meaning rather than on items of form. While this orientation may set the book apart from linguistic approaches of a more formalist and more narrowly structuralist leaning, it does insist on a focus on language. The argumentation presented here shows a high regard for details of linguistic realization, rather than a discourse exclusively situated on higher semiotic levels. Although the author subscribes to a basically socio-semiotic and functionalist orientation, the specific contribution attempted here to the socio-semiotic enterprise is that of the linguist and translation scholar, rather than that of the literary studies or cultural studies specialist. The approach seeks to consider translations and related forms of texts on macro and micro-levels, offering tools for the language professional and for the researcher.

From Oxford University Press - http://www.oup.com/us%20http://www.oup.co.uk

Title: Exploring Media Discourse. Series Title: A Hodder Arnold Publication Publication Year: 2003

Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/?view=usa&ci=0340719893

Author: Myra Macdonald, University of Sunderland, UK Paperback: ISBN: 0340719893, Pages: 224, Price: U.S. $ 21.95

Abstract: The volume explores how a concept of discourse can be usefully applied to the analysis of visual as well as verbal texts. Drawing on case studies from American and British media, it re-examines the relationship between discourse and ideology, demonstrating how both interrelate and contribute to media analysis.

From Palgrave Macmillan - http://www.palgrave.com

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis , 2004

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is03932921

Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK, Hardback: ISBN: 1403932921, Pages: 280, Price: U.K. ?: 55

Abstract: In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed in a series of corpus-based studies in which analysis of collocations provides insight into the cognitive motivation and expressive connotation of metaphor. By unifying traditional and cognitive semantic with pragmatic approaches, the reader becomes aware of the importance of metaphor in persuasive language.

From Edinburgh University Press - http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/

Critical Discourse Analysis and Language Cognition, 2003 - Author: Kieran O'Halloran, Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communications at The Open University Paperback: ISBN: 0748618287, Pages: 256, Price: U.K. ? 18.99 Book URL: http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/cgi/odbic.exe?input=NewWeb/Books/O%27Halloran2578.htm

Abstract: An interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for students in areas such as English language, media studies and applied linguistics, as well as practitioners in the field. It also offers a new way forward for highlighting manipulative language, accomplishing this through the innovation of a model of reading for gist. The model is an original synthesis of elements from four contemporary cognitive frameworks: connectionism, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistic evidence on inference generation, and relevance theory. Significantly, Kieran O'Halloran also shows how each of these frameworks challenges current notions of cognition in CDA and he carefully works through the implications of this for how CDA highlights manipulative language.

Features:

From Continuum- http://www.continuumbooks.com/

Langu age, Education and Discourse: functional approaches. Open Linguistics Series, 2004, editor: Joseph A Foley, RELC, Singapore
Hardback: ISBN: 0826461875, Pages: 340, Price: U.K. ? 75.00

Abstract: This collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse in educational settings. The book questions the idea of 'discourse' to reveal that the social processes of learning are imbued with the ideologies of the society and education system within which learning takes place. The contributors take into account the historical and cross-cultural perspectives of both classroom practices and the student's own awareness of the ideological meanings of language activities. Language, Education and Discourse is divided into two sections. Part one covers early childhood and the growing development of a language system in kindergarten and primary school. Part two furthers this analysis by looking at discourse in secondary and tertiary
education. The contributors pose questions about the ideological content of reading material, the role and importance of teaching
grammar in the school system, and finally examine how to refine the discourse of education.

This book will be useful to academics in the latest functional perspectives on language and education.

Various SFL titles recently made available from Continuum

Positions Vacant

Language Specialist (Academic Appointment) - SEAMEO Regional Language Centre

The SEAMEO Regional Language Centre is looking for PhD graduates in the field of Applied Linguistics. We seek an individual to teach serving teachers from the region on professional and some graduate courses and to participate in research, publication, and other scholarly activities. We are particularly interested in those specializing in Second Language Acquisition and Materials Development. The candidate should have at least two years of experience teaching a second or foreign language at school or university level and at least two years in teacher training. It would be an advantage if some of this experience was in Southeast Asia. Experience at the primary school level would also be particularly useful. Citizenship of a country of Southeast Asia would be an advantage where all else was equal. The SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, which was set up in 1968, is one of fourteen educational centres under the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization. Its mission is to assist SEAMEO member countries in the area of language education. To achieve its purpose, the Centre conducts advanced training courses and undertakes research, publications and information dissemination related to the linguistic needs and problems of Southeast Asia. Appointment is targeted for early in the second half of 2004.

For enquiries, please contact: Dr Christopher Ward, Head (Specialists Department), SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, 35 Orange Grove Road,Singapore 258352. Email: ChrisWard@relc.org.sg Fax: (65) 6734-2753

The commencing salary will depend on the candidate?s qualifications, experience and the level of appointment offered. Variable bonuses are paid on top of the monthly salary. Currently, this is usually not less than the equivalent of one month?s salary. Monthly Gross Salary Ranges are:

Language Specialist 1 S$3,200.00 ? S$6,430.00
Language Specialist 2 S$5,200.00 ? S$8,430.00
Language Specialist 3 S$7,200.00 ? S$10,430.00
Language Specialist 4 S$9,200.00 ? S$16,530.00
(US$1=S$1.7 approximately as at Feb 2004)

Leave and medical benefits will be provided. SEAMEO staff (other than Singapore citizens and permanent residents) enjoy a tax free status. Other benefits, depending on the type of contract offered, include provident fund benefits, subsidized housing at RELC and airfares. A staff member, with the permission of the Director, may undertake approved consultation/outside work of a specialist nature and retain fees earned. Candidates should complete and send their application form together with their detailed curriculum vitae, which should include area of research interest, list of publications and the names and addresses, email addresses and telefax numbers of three referees to: Manager (HR and Publications), SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, 35 Orange Grove Road, Singapore 258352, Email: hslau@relc.org.sg Fax: (65) 6734-2753

English Language Instructor - (befristetes Lektorat, 2 Jahre) - University of Trier

Essential qualifications : native competence in English; a first degree (which will probably include same combination of English, German and/or Linguistics); a recognized teaching qualification and/or training in TESOL and/or Applied Linguistics; very good knowledge of German and the ability to teach translation German-to-English.

Main responsibilities : during teaching terms: 8 practical English language classes per week (16 hours) on topics such as Phonetics, Grammar, Spoken and Written English, Translation, Cultural Studies. Outside teaching terms: various ether duties, such as examining, preparation of teaching materials, etc.

Applications (curriculum vitae, references or names of referees) by June 14, 2004 to the dean of the faculty: Professor K.-H. Pohl, FB2, Universit?Trier, D-54286, Germany. The University of Trier aims to raise the proportion of women in academic posts and encourages appropriately qualified women to apply. Handicapped persons with equal qualifications will be given preference.


 

 

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