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From the Editor

You will notice that the Linguistics Department has a new webpage. Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Web designers Cathy Nelson-Smith and Sola Fabumni, our new website was launched last week. You will find that navigation around the various programs, offerings and information that is available should now be quicker, easier and user-friendly. You will notice, too, that LINGLINE is now appearing in a different format. Previous issues are available on the News icon on the Department website.

It was great to see so many new students at the recent staff and student welcome party. The evening saw staff and students get together with other students from across all the different degree programs we offer in Linguistics.

A cermony took place during the evening and awards were presented to distinguished graduates of the Graduate Program in Editing and Publishing. The Department of Linguistics congratulates the following students:

Visitors

The Centre for Language in Social Life is pleased to host two visiting academics. They are Maria Lirola from the University of Alicante, Department of English Philology Alicante, Spain and Carlos Gouveia who joins us from the Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisboa in Portugal. Should you wish to make contact with Maria or Carlos, Maria's email address is mlirola@yahoo.es and for Carlos - carlos.gouveia@fl.ul.pt

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From the Linguistics Postgraduate Office

The Linguistics Postgraduate Office (Lindy Cooper, Pat Lewis, Robyn Guilmette, Lorraine Whybrow and Kylie Coaldrake) also welcomes new students and looks forward to assisting you with administrative issues as you study with us. Please find some information below that will assist you during your studies:

Linguistics Department Research Seminars

The first Linguistics Research Seminar will be held on March 14 at 11 am in W5C221. The title for the seminar is: "The Discourse of Medical Leaflets" and it will be given by Associate Professor David Hall, the Head of Linguistics. For more information about the 2005 Linguistics Research Seminar Series, please refer to the Seminar web page http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/research/researchseminars.htm

Writing support for on-campus postgraduate Students

Enrolment for the Writing and Communication Skills Program is now closed as the sessions are fully booked. Please also note the room changes below:

For futher details contact Tessa Green - tgreen@ling.mq.edu.au or phone 9850-6875.

Writing website for postgraduate students

Linguistics postgraduate students should be aware of the availability of LINGPWS The Linguistics Postgraduate Writing-Skills website. This is a resource designed to assist Linguistics students with academic writing. The Unit Content section for the website has six parts:

Part 1. Approaching the Assignment Question
Part 2. Planning Your Assignment
Part 3. Structuring Your Assignment
Part 4. Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism
Part 5. Critical Review Writing
Part 6. Common Questions about Linguistics Assignments

All Linguistics students enrolled in a postgraduate unit (on-campus, external) can now access the site by using their MQ ID and password which every student is given at enrolment.

To logon to the website please go to: http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/LINGPWS/

Any staff who don't already have a WebCT account but would like to access this site can request an application form by emailing muotf@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

For further enquiries about the Writing Skills Website, contact Tessa Green tgreen@ling.mq.edu.au.

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From the NCELTR Resource Centre

New students please be advised that the NCELTR Resource Centre is a specialist TESOL and applied linguistics library situated on the campus in W6B Room 382. We are open weekdays 9 am - 5 pm and provide a number of services to the students and staff of the Linguistics Department. These include:

Three recent additions to the Resource Centre's collection are:

Information about these resources may be found at our website http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/resources Our email address is rescentr@nceltr.mq.edu.au and phone number 9850 9653.

From the Macquarie Library

If you have any enquiries relating to linguistics and library resources please feel free to contact Maureen Kattau, Academic Outreach Librarian, Linguistics and Psychology, Macquarie University Library e-Learning & Information Services Division Ph: (61 2) 9850 6521, Email: mkattau@library.mq.edu.au

PhD Completions

Congratulations to PhD student -Victor Kachan, who was supervised by Robert Mannell. His thesis was entitled: "Vocal behaviour as a group characteristic: A socio-acoustic study across four villages in North Lebanon."

Also, for those who may be interested, here are some details about another recent completion in Linguistics at Macquarie University by Astika Kappagoda who was supervised by Associate Professor David Butt and also received the Vice-Chancellor's commendation for a thesis of exceptional merit.

Semiosis as the Sixth Sense: Theorising the Unperceived in Ancient Greek. Astika K Kappagoda. Completed 2004. Supervised by David G Butt, Christian MIM Matthiessen.

Dissertation Abstract: It is assumed that Western intellectual thinking and writing originates in the cultural practices of ancient Greece. In particular, the activity of constructing theories has its first identifiable origins during the sixth to the fourth centuries BCE in the Greek world. This thesis aims to investigate what linguistic resources had been developed in ancient Greek to enable this form of cultural activity, since the language of these texts constructs such theories.

It is argued in this thesis that such linguistic resources had been present in Homeric Greek. However, as the Greek world changed over the next four centuries, these resources were recombined and further developed- in particular, the simultaneous deployment of persuasion with description or narrative? to result in the construction of theories, as in Herodotus' explanation of the flooding of the Nile. Furthermore, this theorising activity comes to have an influence on the activity of describing or
narrating events, so that such descriptions are modelled in terms of a covert theoretical model, in order to construct understanding and conscious knowledge. The historian Thucydides' account of the plague of Athens demonstrates such a theorised description. Thus the meaning-making of texts becomes a legitimate 'mental tool' for investigating and understanding one's experience of the world.

A multi-stratal and multi-levelled linguistic analysis using the theoretical framework of systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) was performed in order to trace the diachronic development of theorisation. This development is characterised in terms of an ensemble of features of generic structure, rhetorical structure, and ideational lexicogrammar (and its relationship to clausal semantics through metaphor). Since there is no existing SFL description of ancient Greek, a major part of this thesis also investigates how SFL theory might be applied to this language, in order to support the linguistic analysis and enable textual intepretation.

Linguists in the media

Phd research - Phnom Penh Post

Masters graduate publishes in Japanese Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Call for Proposals: TIRF Announces Its 2005-2006 Research Priorities

The TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF) is pleased to announce the research topics for the 2005-2006 funding competition. Although allocations of funds are made subject to budgetary availability, the TIRF Board anticipates funding up to four Doctoral Dissertation Grants and up to four Priority Research Grants in 2005-06. For Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) proposals only, applicants may choose the current (2005-06) priority or one of the past priorities topics (2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05) listed on the TIRF website (http://www.tirfonline.org/)

All Priority Research Grant (PRG) proposals must be directly related to one of the TWO sets of topics shown below. PRG proposals addressing other research priorities will not be considered.

The 2005-06 research priorities are:

  1. The Integration of Grammar Instruction into Adult ESL/EFL Curricula: Approaches and Their Effectiveness
  2. The Relationship Between the Age at Which English is Introduced in Public Schools (as a Second Language, Foreign Language, or Medium of Instruction to Speakers of Other Languages), and Educational Processes and Outcomes.

TIRF Grant Features
Grants will be in the range of US$5,000-$25,000 each, with $25,000 the maximum award. Doctoral Dissertation Grants of up to US$5000 per proposal are available. Priority Research Grants: preference will be given to proposals that most closely address the priority issues targeted by TIRF and which involve partnerships between researchers in institutions in more than one country, ideally involving at least one partner in a non-English-dominant country. Magistral (M.A.) and doctoral students are NOT eligible to apply for PRGs. Only doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy can apply for a DDG.

The deadline for receipt of complete proposals is May 31, 2005 (11:59 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time-on the west coast of Canada/USA). Submissions are by email only. Please visit TIRF's website for further information and proposal submission guidelines: http://www.tirfonline.org/.

Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, weekly seminars, Sem 1 2005.

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars held by Linguistics at Sydney University are on Fridays, beginning at 2.30 pm in Room 110, the Transient Building, Camperdown Campus. [NOTE change of room from previous years]. They are followed by afternoon tea in the Tea-room. All are welcome.

For further information: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/ling/seminars.html Jane Simpson, 9351-3655, e-mail jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au

Systemic Functional Linguistics Seminars (Sydney University)

On Friday afternoons at Sydney University you are welcome to attend the SFL seminar series held in the Mills Building Room 148, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. The program for first semester 2005 is:

March
4 Michele Zappavigna
11 Geoff Williams et al.
18 Carlos Gouveia

April
8 Casey Whitelaw
15 Christian Matthiessen
22 Christian Matthiessen

May
6 Annabelle Lukin
13 Sue Hood
20 Stephen Moore

UK Debate on Global Terror

The Institute for the Study of Language and Society, Aston University and The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick are organising a debate on Global Terror, which will take place on the 8th April 2005 at Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. The aim of this debate is to explore current media representations of terror and the role of translation in shaping news production in global news organisations.

Invited speakers include Dr. Ali Chokry (BBC Monitoring Service, Western European coverage), Dr. Ali Shahabi (BBC Monitoring Service, Arabic Coverage), and Mr. Hugh Miles (author of the recent book Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World).

For more information, write to Christina Schäffner c.schaeffner@aston.ac.uk or Alberto Orengo a.orengo@warwick.ac.uk or visit our webpage, where you can download a registration form (registration fee is £10 and includes lunch and coffee): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/research/tgn/events/gt/

This event is organised in the context of the AHRB funded project Translation in Global News, which investigates the role of translation in global media and promotes interdisciplinary research in this area. For more information on the project, please visit the website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/research/tgn/

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

Call for Papers - LitCon 2005. This conference which is hosted by Universiti Sains Malaysia and RMIT will be held in Penang from 15-17 August 2005. You can click here for a conference flyer and further details.

Calls for Papers/Panels - What is the New Rhetoric? University of Sydney, Australia, September 2-4, 2005.

The University of Sydney proudly announces its first conference on "Rhetoric: What is the New Rhetoric?" Featuring keynote speaker Professor Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University, http://www.stanford.edu/~lunsfor1/ the conference will focus upon new directions in Rhetoric. Since the 1950s, the definition of the New Rhetoric has expanded to encompass a variety of theories and movements, raising the question of how the New Rhetoric is defined and understood in the twenty-first century.

Papers and panels are invited on any aspect of the New Rhetoric, including (but not limited to) writing theory and pedagogy; histories and theories of rhetoric; interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric, communication and writing; the significance of rhetoric in both educational and professional sectors; and the interrelatedness of rhetoric and other disciplines.

Please send 300-500 word abstracts to: Susan Thomas at susan.thomas@arts.usyd.edu.au by 15 March, including your text in the body of the e-mail rather than as
an attached document.

The 4th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning on "Challenges for Integrating Work and Learning" - 11-14 December 2005.

The Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the Australian Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning Research (OVAL Research - a key University Research Centre), are hosting RWL4 - the 4th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning on "Challenges for Integrating Work and Learning" - 11-14 December 2005.

Full information on the RWL4 Conference is now available on the website: http://www.oval.uts.edu.au/rwl4and a downloadable flyer .pdf is available there. Expressions of interest to participate - by attendance, submitting a paper, sponsorship - are invited. The Full Brochure will be available later in 2005, but enquires now should be directed to the Conference Secretariat.

Call for Papers (Deadline 31 Mar 2005) - Multimodal Texts: Engaging Sign Systems, 22 Oct 2005 - 23 Oct 2005, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Mario Saraceni, Meeting Email: mario.saraceni@port.ac.uk

'Multimodality' has been defined in semiotics as the co-existence of more than one mode, or sign system, within the same text. From advertising, film and television to websites, game environments and mobile technology, the texts that surround us today are increasingly multimodal. This is not, however, a uniquely contemporary phenomenon; the interdependence of sign systems is central to the history of textuality and long predates digital and print eras. Nor is it peculiar to any one culture, as the movement of these texts between languages and cultures is accelerated through processes of globalisation. Contributions are invited for an international interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Portsmouth on the relationships between different sign systems within texts and on the transfer of multimodal texts between languages and cultures. Much work has already been done within individual disciplines on this topic, and the aim of the conference is to promote dialogue and to allow the dissemination of up-to-the-minute research in this area between specialists in different fields. The organisers therefore welcome proposals for papers from scholars in linguistics, literature and comparative literature, film, television and media studies, translation studies, fine arts, musicology, creative art and design and other disciplines. Proposals dealing with less studied combinations of sign systems are particularly welcome. Topics might include, but are in no way limited to the following:

*the extent to which multimodal texts redefine genres, *multimodal discourse analysis, *multimodality past and present, *intersemiotic translation/ekphrasis, graphic novels and comics in translation, *the syntax of multimodal language, *multimodal texts and new technologies, *multimodality and popular culture, *illustration and book cover design, *word and music studies, *ideology across/between sign systems.

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent by 31 March 2005 to: Dr Mario Saraceni email mario.saraceni@port.ac.uk and Dr Carol O'Sullivan email carol.osullivan@port.ac.uk. School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, Park Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DZ, UK. It is anticipated that a selection of papers from the conference will be published.

Call for Papers - One-day conference on ‘Translating Terror: Globalisation and the New Planetary Wars’, which will take place on 11 November 2005 at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

This conference is organised by the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies and The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. Click here for more information.

Call for Paper for Special Issue of Society & Animals on Language and Non-Human Animals

Society & Animals is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that encourages multi-disciplinary exploration of the interaction between nonhuman animals and humans. The journal welcomes submissions of papers for a Special Issue on how language reflects and reinforces values people hold and actions people take relative to the nexus between humans and our fellow animals. The Special Issue is scheduled for publication in 2006.

Papers (no more than 6,000 words) should highlight one or more of the many ways that language analysis can illuminate and perhaps enhance this human-other animal nexus. Submissions are welcome regardless of authors' views on humans' relationship with our fellow animals and regardless of the particular language or languages involved in the analysis. Indeed, divergent opinions and analysis of languages other than English are encouraged. The deadline for submissions is 5 May, 2005.

Papers should be submitted electronically and must not have been published previously (although they might have been presented). Prospective authors are welcome to contact the Guest Editor prior to that date with questions and suggestions: George Jacobs: jacobs_george@yahoo.com. The journal's editorial board includes over 30 scholars, policy makers, animal advocates, animal-assisted therapists, and animal shelter, zoo, and wildlife professionals. The journal is published quarterly by Brill Academic Publishers. Back issues can be viewed at http://www.psyeta.org/S-and-AFullLTxt.shtml or http://www.psyeta.org/sa. If those links don't work, go to Google and type "Society & Animals".

New Publications

From Cambridge University Press - http://www.cup.org/

Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance, 2004, Author: Adam Kendon, University of Pennsylvania
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/0521835259

Abstract: Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this long-awaited study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.

From Blackwell Publishing - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/

Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis, Henry Widdowson. Series Title: Language in Society, 2005.
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/0631234519

Abstract: This fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text and discourse is designed to provoke genuinely critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined. The enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since. What these are all centrally concerned with is the relationship between the analysis of the formal properties of text and the significance that is assigned to them in discourse interpretation. Widdowson explores this relationship and introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process. He also focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in the light of the issues discussed. The result is a stimulating volume that makes explicit the distinctions between the key concepts of text and discourse, and between context, co-text and pretext. It shows how these are related and can provide a theoretical frame of reference for the critical evaluation of current issues in discourse analysis.

From Continuum

Agency and Consciousness in Discourse: Self-Other Dynamics as a Complex System, Paul J. Thibault.

In the past two decades there has been considerable interest in the ways in which subjects are positioned in discursive practice. This interest has entailed a focus on the role of language and discourse in the processes in and through which subjects are constituted in discourse. However, questions of agency and how it relates to consciousness have received less attention. This book explores the ways in which agency and consciousness are created through transactions between self and other. The book argues that it is necessary to regard body-brain interactions in the context of the social and discursive practices which act upon human bodies. These issues of agency and individuation are explored in relation to infant semiosis, as well as in relation to children's symbolic play. Thibault looks at the importance of the self-referential moral conscience in relation to the interpersonal dimension of all acts of meaning-making. This conscience is also connected to the development of a self-referential viewpoint which the book argues is connected to the ecosocial semiotic systems of thinking about consciousness as a complex system operating on many different levels.

The author discusses and evaluates the work of linguists, psychologists, biologists, semioticians, and sociologists such as Basil Bernstein, Mikhail Bakhtin, J. J. Gibson, M. A. K. Halliday, Walter Kauffman, Lakoff & Johnson, Jay Lemke, Jean Piaget and Stanley Salthe, to develop a new theory of agency and consciousness.

Paul J. Thibault is Professor in Linguistics and Media Communication, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway.

Computational and Quantitative Studies, M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster.

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.

Throughout his career Professor Halliday has continued to address the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship to Computational and Quantitative Studies. The sixth volume in the collected works of Professor M. A. K. Halliday includes works that span the last five decades, covering developments in machine translation and corpus linguistics. Also included is discussion of recent collaborative efforts bringing together those working in systemic functional grammar, fuzzy logic and "intelligent computing", engaging in what Halliday refers to as computing with meaning. The principles and methods outlined in these papers remain as relevant today as when they were first published, continuing to point the way forward in an endeavour where success depends more on advancing our knowledge of language than machines.

Professor M.A.K. Halliday is Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney. Jonathan J. Webster is Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. Series: Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday.

Please contact Francesca Vinter to order: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7922 0921 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7928 7894 Email: fvinter@continuumbooks.com

From John Benjamins - http://www.benjamins.com/

Web Advertising: New forms of communication on the Internet: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 131. Publication Year: 2004. Author: Anja Janoschka, University of Zurich.

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20131

Abstract: This book examines new forms of communication that have emerged through the interactive capabilities of the Internet, in particular online advertising and web advertisements. It develops a new model of online communication, incorporating mass communication and interpersonal communication. Interactive mass communication redefines the roles of online communication partners who are confronted with a higher degree of complexity in terms of hypertextual information units. In web advertising, this new aspect of interactivity is linguistically reflected in different types of personal address forms, directives, and "trigger words". This study also analyzes the different strategies of persuasion with which web ads try to initiate their activation.

Web Advertising provides essential information on the language of web advertisements for academics, researchers and students in the fields of hypertext-linguistics, advertising, communication and media studies.

Language Typology: A functional perspective, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 253, 2004.

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20253

Editor: Alice Caffarel, Sydney University, Editor: J.R Martin, University of Sydney, Editor: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Macquarie University.

Abstract: This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages
against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages. The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.

Positions Vacant

Director of ILC (Independent Learning Centre) position at Chinese University Hong Kong (CUHK).

Details about how to apply on the CUHK Personnel Office webpage: http://perntc.per.cuhk.edu.hk/personnel/jobvacancy.asp?id=05/010(737)/1 Position details at: http://perntc.per.cuhk.edu.hk/personnel/jobvacancy.asp?id=05/010(737)/1

Assistant Professors in Linguistics - The Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.

Applications are sought from candidates able to undertake teaching and research in one or more of the following areas: (1) comparative language studies; (2) linguistic computing and language technology; (3) corpus-based language studies.

Candidates should possess a Ph.D in linguistics, preferably with expertise in functional approaches to grammar and discourse, and should have experience in the comparative analysis of at least two languages, preferably Chinese, and either English, Japanese or Korean. Responsibilities include teaching and supervision at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including BA, MA, MPhil and PhD. Candidates with a proven record of publications or strong research potential preferred. Building on its existing strengths in applications of linguistics and language technology, the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics is developing new teaching and research initiatives related to intelligent applications of language studies, where meaning and its theoretical and computational modeling is crucial. Teaching in this area will emphasize the study of language in context, and the description of language in ways which address language-related issues arising in all aspects of community life, including professional and workplace, administrative, legal, educational and clinical. In terms of research, our goal is to develop computational tools, corpora and other general resources as part of the ongoing expansion of our metalanguage for modelling meaning. A suite of projects is being undertaken in collaboration with international partners in the areas of comparative language studies (including Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean), computational linguistics, and corpus-based language studies.

Assistant Professor in Linguistics - The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, McMaster University, Canada.

Applications are invited for a two year contractually limited appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of linguistics, cognition, and language(s) other than English with a focus on morphology or syntax in a variety of frameworks. The ability to teach in other core areas of linguistics is desirable.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in linguistics or a cognate discipline and will have demonstrated excellence in teaching and research. The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics presently offers undergraduate degrees in Linguistics, German, Italian and Spanish. The starting date for the appointment is July 1, 2005. Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Applications, including curriculum vitae, transcripts, samples of publications, and letters from three academic referees should be addressed to: Dr. Robert McNutt, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton,h Ontario L8S 4M2, Canada. Applications received by March 31, 2005 will be assured of consideration. For further information on the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, see http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~modlang/

 

 

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