LINGLINE is a departmental newsletter specific to the interests and concerns of postgraduate students and departmental staff within the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University. LINGLINE aims to help students and staff feel that they are in touch with the Department and its news, as well as with one another, whether one is currently in Sydney or elsewhere in Australia, New Zealand or any of 25 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. LINGLINE welcomes contributions from all students and staff in the Linguistics Department. Please submit notices by email to the editor Tessa Green tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au Any ideas or comments re this newsletter will also be gratefully received and can be directed by email to this site.
Congratulations to many
• The Department wishes to congratulate all its recent graduates. CLICK HERE to see some of our Translation and Interpreting students celebrating their achievements. Also pictured is Alice Xufang Wu who does a great job as our Translation and Interpreting Administration Officer.
• Congratulations to Maria Anne Couchman who has satisfied the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis titled: "SFL, Corpus and the consumer. An exploration of theoretical and technological potential". Congratulations also to her supervisor Professor Christian Matthiessen.
• Congratulations to Catherine McMahon who has recently been awarded the position of Vice President of the Audiological Society of Australia, receiving unanimous support from the board. This is a fantastic achievement (and opportunity) for Catherine.
• Congratulations to Sharon Cameron, who completed her PhD in Linguistics under the supervision of Philip Newall and Harvey Dillon (from National Acoustic Laboratories) and has won the Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) 2005 PhD of the Year Award. This is great news for Sharon, Philip and Harvey.
• Congratulations also to Dr Jemina Napier from Linguistics and Colin McNaught from NCELTR who have both already been shortlisted as Highly Commended for the 2006 Macquarie University Innovation Awards. We look forward to the winners of each category being announced on 29 November 2006.
• Congratulations to Philip Newall (CI) and Catherine McMahon (Associate Investigator) with colleagues from University of Sydney for a grant of $800,000 from the NHMRC for the Blue Mountains Cohort study follow-up.
• Congratulations to Helen Slatyer for receipt of a grant of $119,880 from NAATI (the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) to conduct a project entitled "Rater reliability, rater behaviour and task comparability in the Translator and Interpreter test of the National Accredidation Authority for Translators and Interpreters(NAATI)." The project is being conducted as a consultancy to be run through Access Macquarie from September 2006 - November 2007.
At the recent Linguistics graduation ceremony, Ernest Akerejola graduated with a PhD in Linguistics and gave this speech on behalf of the graduating candidates:
Are you also from Macquarie University?
It is a great honour for me to speak on behalf of the graduating candidates of the Division of Linguistics and Psychology. I have chosen this rather "unusual" topic simply because of the belief that most of us graduating today can either relate to it as a past experience, or will encounter something similar, if truly this great University has passed through us.
My first contact with Macquarie University was at a Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1998. It was a momentous contact as participants from this University so distinguished themselves through their confidence, comportment and outstanding presentations - as plenary speakers, workshop leaders and paper presenters - that a number of other successful presenters were sometimes greeted with the question "Are you also from Macquarie University?" That experience spurred a dream and ambition in me to become academically associated with Macquarie University. As a result, I turned down an offer to do PhD study in a popular university in London that year.
I came to Macquarie University from the most populous university (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria: over 50,000 students), in the North Central part of the most populous country in Africa (Nigeria: over 130 million), where I had been a lecturer in the Department of English for over 16 years. In spite of my interest in research and further education, for people in Nigeria, lack of funds, opportunity and support often erode one's motivation. Moreover, there were few opportunities to study abroad. However, my dream happily came true when I was awarded the International Macquarie University Research Scholarship (IMURS) in 2001. I have come to understand by personal experience, and to prove during my study from 2002 - 2006, that the accolade those ambassadors from Macquarie received was well justified. To me, coming to Macquarie University was discovering "a gold mine of excellence, opportunities and great intellectualism".
The guide, support and cooperation received from my supervisor, the Department of Linguistics, especially the Centre for Language in Social Life, and the Division where I undertook my research, in conjunction with the research processes (particularly, concept formulation, definition and methodology), have given me an experience not only beneficial to my academic and professional pursuit, but one that has also equipped me with strategies that have proved efficacious in dealing with personal and domestic situations. I have grown from a person with so many assumptions to one who would first conceptualise, define, analyse systemic options and evaluate them before taking a decision on any issue. The profile of, as well as my experience in, the Division of Linguistics & Psychology at Macquarie University, confirms that it is the best of such Faculties in the entire world, especially in terms of human resources and programs. The classrooms, with "state of the art" facilities; laboratories in the Division of Linguistics & Psychology; the staff of the Division - friendly and committed; combined with the training system comprising lectures, seminars, frequent professional talks and other academic activities in the Division provide an excellent environment for successful and accelerated research.
The complementary roles of the Macquarie University Library Complex with different training programs, the facilities and forums provided through Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Association (MUPRA) and Students at Macquarie (SAM) for academic, social and physical interactions make Macquarie University a desirable place to study. It is no wonder then that the University continues to record monumental achievements in different research areas, thereby ranking as one of the leading universities in the world.
The social environment gives an aura of multiculturalism, openness, freedom and tolerance that is second to none. Macquarie University has an environment ripe for cross-cultural learning and cross fertilization of ideas, facilitating harmony and broadmindedness, while breeding well-informed and well rounded-individuals. I have been to many places, but have never felt at home outside home like my experience here.
For all graduating today, the path to this celebration has not been entirely easy. It has cost some of us a great sacrifice in respect of social dignity, ecological and cultural dislocation, convenience of ourselves and our entire family, recreational pleasures, intra or intercontinental movement and possibly other opportunities, to go through the studies. But through perseverance and focus on our goal, we are proud today, and will continue to be happy throughout our life for the choices we have made.
Personally, my study at Macquarie has further consolidated my sense of fulfilment in opting for academia, instead of accepting the title to my late father's royal throne. This is not to undervalue the role of the royal institution in African communities, but there are other ways of leading a community. Rather, the path I have chosen is one that will accelerate and perpetuate the scale and pace of development in the community. For instance, through the development of a writing system and the linguistic description of Òkó - my language - the rich cultural heritage and tradition of my people will have a life beyond the mere memory of the elderly in the community to that of permanence and multimodal existence (such as an archive of written, audio and video records). The outcome of the study will lead the Ogori/Magongo community into a whole range of social activities, literacy, oracy, documentation and so on that will provide employment and entertainment for my people.
Indeed, by training me, Macquarie University has not only given me an opportunity to develop myself for the challenges of the future, but it has also produced a potential that will contribute meaningfully, through the outcomes of my research, to the much needed development in my country, Nigeria, Africa as well as prepared me to contribute to the knowledge-based epistemic universe. The University has produced another ambassador, who can proudly demonstrate to the entire world what it means, "to be from Macquarie University".
Therefore, on behalf of all graduating students, I hereby express a profound appreciation to the authorities of Macquarie University and the Australian Government and Community for the opportunity given us to study at Macquarie University. I also thank all the past and present stakeholders for their contribution in making Macquarie University the centre of excellence that it is today.
Thank You.
Ernest Akerejola
Department of Linguistics
Division of Linguistics & Psychology
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia.
The ALLE Conference (Macquarie University, held September 2006).
The inaugural international conference of the ALLE Research Group, Diversity and Community in Applied Linguistics: Interface, Interpretation, Interdisciplinarity, took place from 20 to 22 September at Macquarie University, with distinguished delegates from around the world. Approximately 60 papers were presented by participants who came from as far afield as Botswana, Denmark, Iran, Chile and Israel.
Thanks to all our colleagues on the organising committee who worked so hard over the last year to plan the event, and to those from the department who supported us by attending and presenting at the conference. We have received excellent feedback about the quality of the presentations and are very pleased that our inaugural event was so successful. You can also check out the feature in the Macquarie Globe Newsletter http://www.international.mq.edu.au/globe/default.aspx?id=11&EditionID=116
Also, CLICK HERE here for a photograph taken on the last afternoon of the Conference. The Conference Organising Committee wishes to express its thanks to all our participants and especially to our wonderful volunteers!
From the Linguistics postgraduate office
Higher Research Degree Candidates - note new process for Annual Reporting this year!
Please note that the process for submitting the Annual Progress Report in 2006 differs from last year. If you are a continuing candidate, last year you would have been sent a hard copy of the 2005 Annual Report for completion. This year, the new procedure requires that candidates download My Annual Report Cover Sheet from eStudent and the body of the Progress Report from the HDRU Website, and after completion forward both documents to their Division Administrator.
DAppLing candidates who are still on the coursework component are not required to submit an annual report at this stage. Please note that a letter is also being sent to your home address alerting you to the commencement of the 2006 annual progress review. The complete procedure document including downloading instructions and this document are available from: http://www.research.mq.edu.au/students/current_students Students may either fax or scan their completed sections to Robyn Guilmette who can forward on to supervisors. +61-2-9850-9352 (fax) or email robyn.guilmette@ling.mq.edu.au
An advance email has been sent to your official University email address which is used as your contact email address for candidature matters. If necessary please arrange for email forwarding or links through eStudent. Your contact details and personal information can be checked and changed online via eStudent https://student1.mq.edu.au/t1tbmain.asp. Please be sure to keep important contact and personal information up to date at all times. We welcome any feedback you may wish to give on the annual progress review process, or indeed other matters and will forward to the relevant offices of the University.
Higher Degree Research Candidates - new space available.
The Linguistics Department has recently acquired some additional space and has chosen to make this available to Higher Degree Research students who currently do not have office space within the University. The space is located in Building C3B Room 416 and has been fitted out with work stations (Mac and PC), a printer and storage options including mobile pedestals, filing cabinets, overhead cupboards and lockers (all lockable). This room will soon have wireless access for students who wish to bring their own laptops. As space is on a first come first serve basis, we strongly encourage you to retain your MUPRA space access cards. CLSL (C5A441) is also available for use by HDR candidates. If you are interested in making use of this new space, please complete the application form available on the web at: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/research/hdr_rooms.htm Return completed form to Robyn Guilmette (C5A515). External students please see Robyn on arrival to arrange temporary access during your residential time. Please take note of the guidelines for room usage also available at the above web address. In particular, please note that no responsibility will be taken for files left on the PCs. It is your responsibility to copy any files that you want to keep onto removable media when you have finished using the computer.
NEW Postgraduate unit in the Applied Linguistics Programs
A unit in Discourse Analysis available Semester 2 2007
Chris Candlin & Stephen Moore announce a special study in Applied Linguistics, their newly designed unit in Discourse Analysis which will be available from Semester 2 2007 (in that Semester appearing as LING939) and then in its own right as LINGXXX (code to be confirmed) from Semester 1 2008.
This unit focuses on the analysis of spoken, written and multimodal discourse in a range of real-life settings and domains. It locates such discourses in their historical, institutional, and local context presenting a range of methodologies for descriptive, interpretive and explanatory analysis. The unit emphasises application of discourse analysis to the study of professional encounters.
Linguistics research seminars (all welcome)
The final Linguistics research seminar for 2006 will be presented by A/Prof. Peter Petocz from the Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, along with Prof. Pam Peters, Dr. Alan Jones and Mr Adam Smith from the Department of Linguistics on Monday, November 6 - Venue: W5C221 - 11 am.
TERMFINDER -- an online dictionary project, helping students over the verbal hurdles of specialist disciplines across campus.
TERMFINDER is a Flagship Project (2006-7), in which university lecturers and dictionary specialists collaborate to create online dictionaries of the terminology of particular disciplines. Every discipline uses polysyllabic words and multiword expressions to embody key concepts, and without them students cannot get very far in understanding lectures or readings. The project presentation will show how lecturers in any discipline can develop their own online dictionary of relevant terminology. It involves using digitised readings and lecture notes to create a computer corpus, in which high-frequency items are identified, and relevant examples and related terms can then be extracted from it.
With the help of CFL software experts, a system has been developed for creating and exploiting the customised corpus, as well as a user-friendly interface for staff to create the dictionary webpages, and for students to access them. The seminar will be of particular interest to lecturers in charge of large undergraduate units, and those with substantial numbers of students from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
If you are interested in presenting a seminar, or have a suggestion for a visiting speaker for the next series, please contact Tessa Green tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au For further information on the seminar series, go to http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/research/researchseminars2006.htm
From the Research Festival Committee
Division of Linguistics & Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival - Thursday December 7 & Friday December 8, 2006
The Postgraduate Research Festival is a Divisional event designed to showcase the work of all Higher Degree Research students in the Division of Linguistics and Psychology. This year's Festival is being held on Thursday December 7 and Friday December 8, in building C4A at Macquarie University. The Festival is an opportunity for our students to present their research to others in the Division, and to get feedback in a friendly and collaborative environment.Further information is available on the Festival website http://www.lp.mq.edu.au/festival.htm
Preparations for the Division Research Festival continue. We have received 125 abstracts so far. Note that once submitted, abstracts are approved and put up on the Festival website under "Presenters" so please take a moment to check that your abstract is there and that all details are correct: http://www.lp.mq.edu.au/research.php
A draft program will be available on the Research Festival website soon.
From the NCELTR Resource Centre
New acquisitions
• McEnery, Tony, Xioao, Richard and Tono, Yukio. (2006). Corpus based language studies: an advanced resource book. London: Routledge. Series Editors Christopher Candlin and Ronald Carter. NCELTR P128.C68.M37 2006
• Hyland, Ken and Hyland, Fiona (eds). (2006). Feedback in second language writing: contexts and issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. NCELTR P53.27.F44 2006
• Emmitt, Marie, Komesaroff, Linda and Pollock, John. (2006) Language and learning: an introduction for teaching. 4th ediion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.NCELTR PE1065.E45 2006
• Fasold, Ralph W. and Connor-Linton, Jeff (eds). (2006) An introduction to language and linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.NCELTR P12.I55 2006
The companion website for this title can be found at http://www.cambridge.org/features/linguistics/fasold/
Information about our resources may be found at the NCELTR Resource Centre website http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/resources Our email address is rescentr@nceltr.mq.edu.au, phone number: +61 2 9850 9653 and Fax: +61 2 9850 9953.
From the Macquarie Library
Postgraduate Study Room
The Library provides a separate postgraduate student study area on the eastern end of Level 2 (entrance level) of the Library. Access to the room is by swipe card using your student card. The Room has seating for 21 students and facilities include desktop power connections for laptop computers and access to the wireless network. There are also daily lockers available free of charge.
For further information on library resouces contact Maureen Kattau, the Academic Outreach Librarian - Linguistics and Psychology, Macquarie University Library e-Learning & Information Services Division on Ph: (61 2) 9850 6521 Email: mkattau@library.mq.edu.au
Scholarships and Awards
Two Macquarie University Scholarships available now
For further details go to: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/postgraduate/scholarship.htm
Rice Humanities Research Center External Faculty Fellowships
Rice University's Humanities Research Center will award up to four external faculty fellowships during the academic year 2007-2008. Fellows will be in residence at the Center for one semester, give a series of three lectures or teach one course, and participate in the Center's intellectual life. Both junior and senior faculty with appointments at universities other than Rice are eligible but must be at least three years beyond receipt of the PhD by the beginning of their fellowship term. Fellows are awarded a stipend ranging from 40K to 75K, depending on rank, and a moving allowance. Application Deadline: December 18, 2006. Application information is available at http://hrc.rice.edu. These fellowships are generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lynette S. Autrey Endowment.
China Scholarship Council
The closing date for applications for the new China Scholarship Council -Macquarie University Joint Postgraduate Scholarship Program is 10 November and there are still places available. Eligible potential students are encouraged to apply. Details can be accessed through http://www.research.mq.edu.au/students/scholarships. Translation and Interpreting students, for example, might qualify under the "Applied Social Sciences and WTO-related Areas" rubric.
Writing website for postgraduate students
Linguistics postgraduate students can access 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 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 tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au
Macquarie University has a new multimedia website called MQ-tv. The website - www.mqtv.mq.edu.au recently went live.
The site contains videoed interviews with academics and researchers ranging across topics that include the history wars, the postmodernism controversy, and the changing roles of men and women. It also includes short videos about aspects of research at the university, as well as films on sport and innovation targeted at students. There is also a podcast site where visitors can access interviews on subjects such as space travel, tips on how to write a novel, and how musicians can generate publicity for their acts. The site also includes a blog space for Macquarie academics - MQ Blogs - and visitors can respond by posting comments, which are subject to moderation. Visitors can also post comments on several of the video interviews. Ther MQtv team welcomes any feedback from the Macquarie community - just go to the article 'About MQtv' on the new website and post your comment.
With sadness
Obituary - William Bright - William Bright, 78, Expert in Indigenous Languages, Is Dead By Margalit Fox, New York Times, October 23, 2006.
William Bright, an internationally renowned linguist who spent more than half a century inventorying the vanishing riches of the indigenous languages of the United States, died on Oct. 15 in Louisville, Colo. He was 78 and lived in Boulder, Colo.
The cause was a brain tumor, said his daughter, Susie Bright, the well-known writer of erotica.
At his death, Mr. Bright was professor adjoint of linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was also emeritus professor of linguistics and anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught from 1959 to 1988.
An authority on the native languages and cultures of California, Mr. Bright was known in particular for his work on Karuk (also spelled Karok), an American Indian language from the northwest part of the state. Shortly before his death, in recognition of his efforts to document and preserve the language, he was made an honorary member of the Karuk tribe, the first outsider to be so honored.
His books include "American Indian Linguistics and Literature" (Mouton, 1984); "A Coyote Reader" (University of California, 1993); "1,500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning" (University of California, 1998); and "Native American Placenames of the United States" (University of Oklahoma, 2004).
Mr. Bright's approach to the study of language was one seldom seen nowadays. With the ascendance of Noam Chomsky in the late 1950's, linguistics shifted its focus from documenting language as an artifact of human culture to analyzing it as a window onto human cognition.
But to Mr. Bright, language was inseparable from its cultural context, which might include songs, poetry, stories and everyday conversation. And so, lugging unwieldy recording devices, he continued to make forays into traditional communities around the world, sitting down with native speakers and eliciting words, phrases and sentences.
Among the languages on which he worked were Nahuatl, an Aztec language of Mexico; Cakchiquel, of Guatemala; Luiseño, Ute, Wishram and Yurok, languages of the Western United States; and Lushai, Kannada, Tamil and Tulu, languages of the Indian subcontinent.
William Oliver Bright was born on Aug. 13, 1928, in Oxnard, Calif. He received a bachelor's degree in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1949. After a stint in Army intelligence, he earned a doctorate in linguistics from Berkeley in 1955.
He began his fieldwork among the Karuk in 1949. At the time, their language was a tattered remnant of its former splendor, spoken by just a handful of elders. Since encounters with Europeans had rarely ended well for the Karuk, the community had little reason to welcome an outsider.
But Bill Bright was deferential, curious and, at 21, scarcely more than a boy. He was also visibly homesick. The Karuk grandmothers took him in, baking him cookies and cakes and sharing their language. They named him Uhyanapatanvaanich, "little word-asker."
In 1957, Mr. Bright published "The Karok Language" (University of California), a detailed description of the language and its structure. Last year, the tribe published a Karuk dictionary, compiled by Mr. Bright and Susan Gehr. Today, Karuk children learn the language in tribal schools.
Mr. Bright was divorced twice and widowed twice. From his first marriage, he is survived by his daughter, Susannah (known as Susie), of Santa Cruz, Calif. Also surviving are his wife, Lise Menn, a professor of linguistics at the University of Colorado; two stepsons, Stephen Menn of Montreal and Joseph Menn of Los Angeles; one grandchild; and two step-grandchildren.
His other books include "The World's Writing Systems" (Oxford University, 1996), which he edited with Peter T. Daniels; and the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Oxford University, 1992), of which he was editorm 1966 to 1987, Mr. Bright was the editor of Language, the field's flagship journal.
The professor was also a meticulous reader of all his daughter's manuscripts. He displayed the finished products - among them "Susie Bright's Sexual State of the Union" (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and "Mommy's Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn and Cherry Pie" (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003) - proudly on his shelves at home.
RFL online now
The October 2006 issue (Volume 18, Number 2) of the electronic journal Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is now online and can be read at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
In this issue Cindy Brantmeier presents a multicomponent model of interest and L2 reading. Alan Taylor reacts to Pigada and Schmidt (2006). Our new feature, RFL Revisited: Past Articles Today, presents a 1983 article by Julian Edge, with commentaries by the author and Jee Hyun Ma. Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other Venues presents references through 2005-2006. Sam Duncan reviews Literature in Language Education by Geoff Hall. Alan Jones reviews Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten Critical Studies, edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck, and Torben Vestergaard. Diane Malcolm reviews The Science of Reading: A Handbook, edited by Margaret Snowling and Charles Hume. Paul Nation reviews Teaching Word Meaning by Steven A. Stahl and William E. Nagy.
RFL is a scholarly, refereed journal published on the World Wide Web by the University of Hawai`i with Richard Day and Thom Hudson as the co-editors and Anne Burns, Macquarie University, as the reviews editor.
The journal is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai`i. The journal is a fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of scholars in the field of foreign and second language reading. There is no subscription fee to readers of the journal. It is published twice a year, in April and October. Detailed information about Reading in a Foreign Language can be found at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
Call for papers, reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board members - Scientific Journals International
Every researcher, writer or artist deserves a fair consideration to be published. Scientific Journals International (SJI) provides a one-stop efficient forum for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines. Our open access electronic journals are available free of charge to over 800 million Internet users from around the world. Unlike other online journals we do not limit access through registration or subscription. There is no other journal in the world that aims to have this scope.
This initiative is driven by an overriding passion to assist researchers, writers and artists to cope with the publish or perish reality that has been created by the policies of the academia and funding agencies. According to several surveys, a large majority of authors and researchers cite slow review process and publication delays in the current system as a major obstacle to their publishing objectives. Many have also expressed concerns about the fairness and integrity of the peer review process in traditional scholarly publishing. Some scholars have argued that there is a need to free the publication process for broader and fairer access.
Scientific Journals International (SJI) is the first global initiative that intends to accomplish this objective. We sincerely believe that researchers, writers and artists who have devoted months or years to a research/creative project, should not be shut out of the publication world simply because they did not follow certain procedural or stylistic rules and guidelines or because their work did not fit in. All traditional journals have very rigid stylistic or procedural policies that unduly create artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and creativity.
Scientific Journals International (SJI) maintains minimal procedural and stylistic rules, and accepts papers that follow any style manual such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. A fair peer-reviewed evaluation system is used to select papers for publication. SJI maintains a rapid electronic submission, review and publication process. Additionally, we do not set the same limitations on the length of the article as other traditional and online journals do. Our capability for perpetual future accessibility and preservation is also extremely valuable to both authors and readers.
All accepted and published articles remain in our databases and archives in perpetuity for worldwide exposure and visibility. Each electronic article is encoded with html meta-tags which allow for more sophisticated searching techniques. The information which is contained in an article can be intelligently structured for bibliographic access. For more information visit http://www.scientificjournals.org. If our server is down temporarily, please go to the alternate site http://www.gcchq.com/SJI.
Book Proposals - New Linguistics Publisher
H.H. Langlin Press, a brand new independent publisher dedicated exclusively to publishing academic books on linguistics, announces its launch. We seek proposals for linguistics books of all types, including research monographs, edited volumes, textbooks, and others. We will also consider proposals for book series. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.langlinpress.com
Upcoming conferences and workshops
Call for Proposals - Communication, Medicine & Ethics - University of Lugano (Switzerland) 28 - 30 June 2007. Deadline for Abstracts - 15 January 2007. The conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various medical specialities and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis will be on the dissemination of ongoing research in discourse/communication studies and practical ethics which engages directly with medical practitioners. Keynote Speakers will include:
• Professor Jenny Kitzinger Cardiff University (UK)
• Professor Wolf Langewitz, University Hospital Basle (Switzerland)
• Professor Peter Twohig, Saint Mary's University (Canada)
Conference organizing committee: Peter J. Schulz, Sara Rubinelli, Benedetta Waldburger International advisory committee: Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. Candlin, Claire Penn. Please visit www.comet.unisi.ch for further details regarding submission of proposals, registration, programme of events etc. or contact us at rubinels@lu.unisi.ch
Proposals (individual papers, posters, workshops and colloquia) are invited on all areas of the conference, including the following themes:
• Client-professional Encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, psychotherapists etc)
• Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
• Communication Skills Training and Problem-based Learning
• Distributed Expertise among Professionals and Clients
• Ethics and Communication
• Health and Disability
• Health and the Lifespan
• Health Literacy
• Identities and Experiences of Illness
• Interprofessional Communication and Hospital Management Systems
• Media and Health Communication
• Medical Education
• Nature of Evidence in Diagnosis and Non-Diagnosis
• Public Understanding of Health and Illness
• Tailoring Health Messages
• Quality of Life and Quality of Care
• Role of Health Technologies and Medical Informatics
• Representation of the Body
• (Shared) Decision Making
• Telemedicine and Mediated Healthcare Delivery
• Values and Responsibilities in Professional Practice
Individual paper/poster proposals should be within 250 words, and proposals for colloquia and workshops should be within 500 words. Abstracts (with the heading "COMET2007") should be sent to: sara.rubinelli@lu.unisi.ch Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2007.
Upcoming SFL Conferences
• 4th International Congress on English Grammar - 8 -12 January 2007. http://www.psnacet.org/myframes.html
• International Symposium on Grammar and Meaning - 29 - 31 January 2007. http://www.grammarsymposium.com
The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies (HCLS) -Announcing the first HCLS Conference (HCLS-C1)
• HCLS-C1, the first of a series of annual conferences, will be held in early October 2007 (dates to be announced soon) under the auspices of The Halliday Centre at the City University of Hong Kong. The conference title is: "Becoming a World Language: the growth of Chinese, English and Spanish." The relevance of discourse on this topic for the community of those interested in language studies is obvious. Over the last few decades, the English language has been growing as it meets the growing needs of the world community. There is good reason to suppose that other languages such as Chinese and Spanish are also moving in a similar direction. Our interest in the phenomenon of becoming a world language arises from what this might mean for speech communities, and how an applicable linguistics might contribute to an understanding of the short and long term effects of the phenomenon both on speakers and on speech systems. Please email your abstract to: HCLS@cityu.edu.hk by no later than 1 May 2007. For the most up-to-date information on HCLS-C1, please go to http://www.hallidaycentre.cityu.edu.hk.
Second call for papers - Second International conference of the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo), with general sessions and special thematic sessions on "Typology, Gesture, and Sign". University of Lille 3, Lille, France 10-12 May 2007. http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/Events/colloque2007/
• Critical Link Congress 2007 - Critical Link is at the forefront of meetings dedicated to our profession. The 5th Critical Link meeting will appeal to a wide audience, including: practising interpreters, linguists, lawyers, judicial officers, legal administrators, police, tribunal members and other tribunal staff, medical practitioners, medical administrators, interpreting agencies, accreditation, certification and registration bodies, government departments, academics, educators, and all service providers and service recipients who have ever needed interpreting services, as well as any other interested party. We look forward to your participation in this unique event.For more information about Critical Link 5 please contact the Congress Secretariat: GPO Box 3270 Sydney, 2001 Australia. Phone: +61 2 9254 5000 Fax: +61 2 9251 3552 Email: info@criticallink2007.com OR visit our website for all the latest program, social, venue, accommodation and general information. http://www.criticallink2007.com/Default.htm
• ISFC 2007 Summer School: Odense, Denmark, Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th July.
• ISFC 2007: Odense, Denmark, Monday 16th to Friday 20th. Conference website: http://www.humaniora.sdu.dk/isfc2007/
• ESFLCW 2007: Saarbrücken, Germany, 23-25 July. Deadline: 31 January 2007. Conference website: http://www.uni-saarland.de/sonstige/ESFLCW/
• 4th International Congress on English Grammar - Madurai, Tamilnadu, India: 8 -12 January 2007.
The 4th International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG4) is the continuation of a congress in India initiated by the contribution of M.A.K Halliday and Christian Matthiessen. This is an annual congress which is organized by Systemic Functional Linguistics Association of India and has been highly successful untill this year The 3rd congress early this year marked a massive success with the participation of well-known linguists of the world. Some of the participants include Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia), Bill Greaves (York University, Canada), B.B. Kachru (University of Illinois, USA), Yamuna Kachru (University of Illinois, USA), and Paul Tench (Cardiff University, UK). The next congress (ICEG4) is scheduled to be organized at Madurai in Tamilnadu. The ICEG4 offers a great opportunity for visiting Madurai. The details of the conference can be found on http://www.psnacet.org/web%20iceg2007.htm
• The 5th International Conference on ELT in China & the 1st Congress of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Hosted by China English Language Education Association, Beijing Foreign Studies University. (May 16-21, 2007). FLTRP International Convention Center: Language, Education and Society in the Digital Age. For more details go to http://www.celea.org.cn/english/5celea.asp
New Publications
From Cambridge University Press - http://us.cambridge.org
Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between Primary Care Physicians and Patients (2006). Editor: John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard.
Abstract: This new and pathbreaking volume provides a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations. The first of its kind for thirty years, it brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation, identifying the distinctive tasks, goals and activities that make up each phase of primary care as social interaction. Using conversation analysis techniques, the authors analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit, and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through each of these activities. The result is a view of the medical encounter that takes the perspective of both physicians and patients in a way that is both rigorous and humane. Clear and comprehensive, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication studies, sociology, and medicine.
From Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd - http://www.continuumbooks.com
Historical Discourse: The language of time, cause and evaluation. Author: Caroline Coffin. Series Title: Continuum Discourse (2006). Book URL: www.continuumbooks.com/search/default.aspx?SearchTypeID=1&SearchText=sociolinguistics&Imprint
Abstract: Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, Caroline Coffin demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. In this analysis, language emerges as a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing. Presupposing no prior knowledge of systemic functional linguistics, this insightful book will be of interest to researchers in applied linguistics and discourse analysis, as well as history educators.
Positions Vacant
• Positions available in Japan - Kanda University of International Studies. CLICK HERE for further information.
• Assistant Professor - Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder www.colorado.edu/linguistics/
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the field of language development, to begin August 2007. We encourage applications from specialists in any area of language development, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language socialization, aphasiology, and bilingualism. We especially welcome applicants whose research is empirical, usage-based, and attentive to social as well as cognitive dimensions of language development. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of specialization, as well as occasional introductory survey courses in linguistics, psycholinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in linguistics (or closely related field) by the time of the appointment. Additional information on the University of Colorado Department of Linguistics can be found at www.colorado.edu/linguistics/. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 17, 2006, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter outlining details of current and future research interests, a statement of teaching experience and specialization, a curriculum vitae, two representative publications or research papers, and three letters of recommendation. Address all correspondence to: Prof. Kira Hall, Search Committee Chair, Department of Linguistics, 295 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295. The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. Contacts: Lise Menn - Office: 303-492-1609, Linguistics Dept. Fax: 303-413-0017, 295 UCBHellems 293 University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309-0295. Lise Menn's home page - http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/
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