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Different Cultures, Different Languages, Different Speech Acts: Polish vs. English 145

Anna WIERZBICKA

Anna Wierzbicka (born 1938, Poland, Warsaw) was educated at Warsaw University where she obtained her MA in 1958. She received her Ph.D. (in 1964) and her ‘Habilitation’ (in 1968) from the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1973 she joined the staff of the Department of Linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra where she now holds the position of Reader in Linguistics. In addition to several books in Polish (on semantics, stylistics, syntax and general linguistics) she has published in English: Semantic primitives (Athenaurn, 1972); Lingua mentalis

(Academic Press, 1980); The case for surface case (Karoma, 1980, Ann Arbor), and Lexicography and conceptual analysis, (Karoma, 1985). She has also published over sixty articles on semantics, lexicography, syntax, pragmatics, language and culture, poetics and Slavic linguistics. Currently, she is working on a ‘Dictionary of English speech act

verbs’, to be published by Academic Press.

Levels of Style Shifting

Margret SELTING

Margret Selting (born

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1955) studied Linguistics, English and Social Sciences at the Universities of Bielefeld (West Germany) and York (England). At the moment finish- ing a dissertation on communication problems and their interactive management in conversations between clients and officers in official discourse. Presently teaching in the area of second language acquisition and intercultural communication at the University of Oldenburg (West Germany). Main areas of interest: institutional com- munication, intercultural communication, conversational analysis and sociolinguistics. Publications: ‘Institutionelle Kommunikation: Stilwechsel als Mittel strategischer In- teraktion’, Linguistische Berichte 86 (1983); (together with Dafydd Gibbon) ‘Intonation und die Strukturierung eines Diskurses’, Zeitschrift ftir Literaturwissenschaft und Lin-

guistik (LiLi) 49 (1983); ‘Ebenenwechsel und Kooperationsprobleme in einem Sozial- amtsgesprach’ Zeitschrift ftir Sprachwissenschaft 4(l) (1985).

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Enfin, Marqueur Metalinguistique 199

Anne CADIOT, Oswald DUCROT, Bernard FRADIN, and Thanh Binh NGUYEN

Anne Cadiot (nee 1949). Maitrise de lettres modernes (Sorbonne 1968) Professeur de franqais, These de 3eme cycle en tours (etude sur les connecteurs pragmatiques dans la conversation), Participe au groupe de recherches pragmatiques qu dirige 0. Ducrot.

Oswald Ducrot (ne 1930). Professeur de philosophie dans I’enseignement secondaire, Attache de recherches au CNRS. Actuellement directeur d’ttudes a 1’E.H.E.S.S.. Travaille en semantique et pragmatique.

Bernard Fradin (ne 1949) Etudes de slavistique (Clermont-Ferrand) puis de linguistique (Paris VIII-Vincennes), Doctorat de 3eme cycle en linguistique 1977 (en grammaire generative sur les conces- sives, Dir. N. Ruwet). Employe au CNRS comme lexicographe au T&or de /a Langue Frunpise.

Travaille sur l’articulation syntaxe/lexique (these d’etat).

Thanh Binh Nguyen, Doctorat de 3eme cycle a 1’E.H.E.S.S. en 1981 (sur la concession et la construction des situation argumentatives, Dir. 0. Ducrot), Doctorat d’etat en tours a la Sorbonne (sur les strategies argumentatives).

Publications: Cadiot, A., (en collaboration), 1979, ‘Oui mois, non mais, ou il y a dialogue et dialogue’,

Langue franqaise 42:94-103. Ducrot, O., T.B. Nguyen et al., 1980, Les mats du discours, Paris, Minuit. Ducrot, O., B. Fradin, T.B. Nguyen et al., 1982, ‘Justement, l’inversion argumentative’,

Lexique 1:151-164. Presses Universitaires de Lille. Fradin, B., 1979, ‘Un mot d’excuse’, Semantikos 3:1-26.

Nominations. La Constitution des Roles dans le Dialogue 241

Christian PLANTIN

Christian Plantin (born 1947) teaches French as a first language, at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Main topic of research: argumentation and research in teaching French to native adults. Main publications: Oui, non, si: Etude des enchainements duns

les dialogues. These de 3e Cycle, EHESS.- Paris VIII (1978) and La gentise discursioe de I’intensite: le cas du si ‘intensif (to appear).

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Inferential Pragmatics and the Literary Text 261

Christine RICHARDS

Christine Richards studied English language and literature at the University of London. England. M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1977. She taught at the University of London Department of Extra-Mural Studies between 1974 and 1977 and has taught at the Polytechnic of North London since 1977. Her main areas of interest are discourse theory, psycholin- guistics and nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Among her publications are: ‘Process to process, English 30(136):79-83 (1981) and ‘The art and arts of Hardy’, English 29(134): 170-175 (1980).

Persuasive Language in the Television Medium: Contrasting Advertising and Televangelism 287

Rosemarie SCHMIDT and Joseph F. KESS

Rosemarie Schmidt (born 1956). Areas of linguistic study have ranged from semantics and speech act analysis to verbal persuasion and the use of language in hypnosis. Current interests include conversational processes and techniques of social skills training.

Joseph F. Kess (born 1942) is a Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics and is currently Acting Chairman of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Victoria. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1967 from the University of Hawaii. His research interests include the psycholinguistic contributions to the formulation of jury instructions and the effects of language legislation on language maintenance.

Phonology for Conversation: Phonetic Aspects of Turn Delimitation in London Jamaican 309

J.K. LOCAL, W.H.G. WELLS and M. SEBBA

John Local (born 1947) B.A. (English Language and Literature, University Newcastle Upon Tyne) is a Lecturer in Phonetics and Linguistics at York University. After doing post-graduate research on the Tyneside Linguistic Survey he was awarded his Ph.D. for work on sociolinguistic variation and children’s language acquisition. Publications include work on the structure and function of intonational variability, and papers on phonetic variation in children’s language. Current research interests centre on phonetic aspects of conversation and ‘Resonance phonology’.

Bill Wells (born 1950) read Modern Langues at Oxford, then worked for several years as a translator and EFL teacher. He did postgraduate work in linguistics at the University of York, researching on information focus in English and also on the phonetics of London Jamaican. Research interests include prosodic phonology and

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phonological disability. He is currently lecturer in Phonetics and Linguistics, ment of Health Sciences, Birmingham Polytechnic.

Mark Sebba (born 1956) completed his D. Phil. at the University of York

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syntax of serial uerbs, a study of serialisation in Creoles (especially Sranan), West African Languages and Chinese. Since 1981 he has been working on a sociolinguistic and syntactic study of London Jamaican. He is planning a book on Language Policy in South Africa.

According To Me, Sentences Like This One Are O.K.

Norman MACLEOD

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Norman Macleod (born 1940) is Lecturer in the Department of English Language in the University of Edinburgh. His main interests are: stylistics (particularly the analysis of the language of fiction), text structure, and English grammar.

Review A rticle

Modeling the Psycholinguistic Mold

Marcel0 DASCAL, Jose BORGES NET0 and Edson FRANCOZO

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Marcel0 Dascal (born 1940, in Sao Paulo), Ph.D. 1973, Hebrew University of Jerusa- lem. Currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Linguistics at UNICAMP. His publications include, among other things, La skiologie de Leibniz (Paris, 1978), and Pragmatics and the philosophy of mind

(Amsterdam, 1983). He is also the editor of Dialogue: An interdiscip/inary upproach (Amsterdam, 1985), and several other volumes.

Jose Borges Neto (born 1951) is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Universidade Federal do Parana, since 1979. Presently at UNICAMP, where he prepares his doctoral dissertation, he works mainly in the field of epistemology of linguistics.

Edson Fraqozo (born 1951) is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UNICAMP, and is presently on leave of absence at Tel-Aviv University, where he is preparing his Ph.D. Dissertation. His research interests are neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

Book Reviews

Klaus Heinrich, Tertium datur: Eine religionsphilosophische Einfuhrung

in die Logik 377

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Hartmut HABERLAND

Hartmut Haberland, born in Hannover, Germany, in 1948. Studied philosophy and linguistics in Stuttgart and West Berlin. Since 1974, Associate Professor of German linguistics at the Roskilde University Center, Roskilde, Denmark. Since 1977, Editor of the Journal of Pragmatics. He has also taught linguistics at the Universities of West Berlin (Freie Universitat), Dusseldorf, and Copenhagen.

Dov M. Gabbay and Franz Guenthner, eds., Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 1: Elements of Classical Logic 385

Paolo CASALEGNO

Paolo Casalegno (born 1952) is a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy). His main research interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and mathematical logic.

Ryszard Zuber, Non-declarative Sentences 388

Gian Arturo MARCO

Gian Arturo Marco (born 1956) studied philosophy at the University of Pavia and mathematics at the University of Torino, Italy. He spent a period of study at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include: formal semantics and philosophy of language. He is currently working on the problem of non-monotonic formal theories of truth.

Herman Parret, Semiotics and Pragmatics. An Evaluative Comparison of Conceptual Frameworks

Gerard DELEDALLE

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Gerard Deledalle is Professor of philosophy and Head of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Communication et de 1’Education at the University of Perpignan (France). He is vice-president of the Federation Francaise des Centres de Recherche en Semiotique. His principal interests are American and comparative philosophy and semiotics, especially Peircean semiotics. His publications include: La pkdagogie de John Dewey (1965); La philosophie de John Dewey (1967); Le Pragmatisme (1971); C.S. Peirce, Ecrits sur le signe (1978); Thkorie et pratique du signe (1979); La philosophie amkricaine (1983), and Char/es S. Peirce (1985). He is editing the transactions of the Perpignan symposium on ‘Semiotics and Pragmatics’.

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H.G. Widdowson, Language Purpose and Language Use 391

Willis EDMONDSON

Willis J. Edmondson teaches Applied Linguistics in the University of Hamburg, and is currently interested in the role of cognition in foreign language learning, and in discourse processing.

Willis Edmondson, Spoken Discourse 402

Anthony BALDRY

Anthony Baldry (born 1949) teaches at Pavia University and is mainly concerned with discourse analysis, lexicography, language teaching, and computational linguistics.

Jurgen Streeck, Kommunikation in einer kindlichen Sozialwelt. Eine mikroethnographische Studie 405

Annick DE HOUWER

Annick De Houwer was born in 1958, graduated in linguistics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 1979 and specialised in psycholinguistics at the Catholic Univer- sity of Leuven and Stanford University where she was a Fulbright student. Is currently tutor for English Linguistics at the Free University of Brussels and preparing a doctoral dissertation on the simultaneous acquisition of Dutch and English in pre-school children. Recent publications include ‘The development of the verb phrase in a bilingual child’, in Language learning in formal and informal contexts, edited by D.M. Singleton and D.G. Little, IRAAL 1984, and ‘Repairs and the use of the monitor in early second language acquisition’, in Sprache und Geseilschaft, edited by H. Krenn, J. Niemeyer and U. Eberhardt. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1984.

Florian Coulmas and Konrad Ehlich, eds., Writing in Focus 411

Ulf TELEMAN

Ulf Teleman (born 1934) Professor of Linguistics at the University Centre of Roskilde, Denmark, 1973-1982, professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Lund, Sweden, since 1982. Published books on grammar and sociolinguistics. Current research interests: the history of standard Swedish, the psychology of writing (and its relation to writing instruction).