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CONTIHBUTORS

A ~ i d e s

Extrinsic Possibility and Intrinsic Potenti~ty: 7 on May and Can + 1

Dwight BOLINGER

Dwight Bolinger is Professor Emeritus of R 3raance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and Visiting Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Stanford University. His current preoccupation is mostly English prosody (with one volume, Intonation and its parts, recently published by Stanford University Press and a companion volume, Intonation and its uses, at the editing ~tage), along with occasional .~M!ies, including this one, into marginally related fields.

'We Don't Want War, But. . . ' Speech Act Schemata and liner-Schema-Inference Transfer 25

Gerda E. LAUERBACH

Gerda E. Lauerbach (born 1942) studied English and German at the Universities of Wtirzburg and Munich, FRG, and, after taking 10 years off to start raising a family and studying law in the U.K., returned to West Germany to obtain the usual degrces, in English, German and Sociology at the University of Frankfurt/Main. She is now a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Institut ffir England- und Amerikastudien, University of Frankfurt. Publications on learner language, language and identity, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Open and Closed Texts: The Ideological/Semantic Analysis of Textbook Narratives 53

Allan LUKE

Aiian Luke teaches at James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia. His research centres on literacy, curriculum theory and the analysis of ,=hildren's school

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books. Hi~ most recent book is Literacy, Textbooks and Ideology (Faimer Press, 1988), a criti~2J analysis of postwar fi~e~acy instruction and texts.

The Emergent Syntax of Pre-~ntential Turn-Opemngs 81

Anne V!CHER and David SANKOFF

Anne Vicher, born in 1955, DEA in General Linguistics from the Universit6 de Paris V, lecturer a' Universit6 de Paris VII. Her publications include 'Sous un mot, une controverse: Lea emplois pragmatiques de "Toujo~rs", in: ModJles L.nguistiques 7 (2), 105-124 (with A. Cadiot, O. Ducrot and T.B. Nguyen); 'Justement, inverseur argumentafLe~ in: Lexique. Revue de rUniversit~ de Lille 1, 151-164 (with A. Cadiot, O. Ducrot and F. Recanati); and 'Les emplois pragmatiques de toujours (suite): Le cas des . . . . !. ~. . . . . . . . . ,,,,..,,m~i,,..~ assertives', in: Moae, les Linguistiques 8 (2), 115-122 (with O. Ducrot and T.B. Nguyen).

David Sankoff, born in 1942, received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from McGill Univer- sity in 1969. Since 1969 he has been a researcher at the Centre de recherches mathtmatiques of the Universit6 de Montrtal, and since 1983 he has also been Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. L~s publications include: (with M. Lemieux and C. FontMne) 'Quantificateur et macqueur de discours', in: D. Sankoff (ed.), Diversity and Diachro~y, pp. 38!-390 (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1987); (with M. Olynyk and A. d'Angiejan) 'A quantitative and qualitative analysis of speech markers in the native and second language speech of bilingtmls' in: Applied Psycholinguistics 8, 121-136.

Review a~ieles

A Transition Stage in the Theory of Fallacies 99

Frans H. VAN EEMEREN and Rob GROOTENDORST

Frans H. van Eemeren (born 1946) and Rob Grooiendorst Coo•i 1944) ~-e Professors of Speech Communication at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Frans H. van Eemeren studied linguistics and Rob Grootendorst Dutch language and literature. Their rese2umh is in the general area of descriptive and normative pragmatics and has concen[:~d c,:~ argumentation theory. Together with .L Anthony Blair and Charles A. ~ViLL~d~ t*~ o r t ~ ~ in 1986 the first International Conference on Argumentation at ,he Umver~.~ c~' Amsterdam and founded the International Society for the Study of *~rL~enta,~zt (1S~A). They are co-editors of the international journal Argumentation. ~".~et~c~ ~ey have pubfished a n u m t , of books and articles in Dutch, English, Fre~cL and German. Main publications in English: Speech acts in argumentative

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discussions (Dordrecht: Foils, 1984), Handbook of argumentation theory (with Tjark Knfigcr; Dordr~ht: Foris, 1987), Argumentation: Across the lines of discipline, Argu- mentation: Perspectives and approaches and Argumentation: Analysis and practices (co-e~ted with J. Anthony Blair and Charles A. Willard: Dordrecht: Foris, 1987).

Communication and Cultural Specificity: The Importance of Gestures and Face Expressions 111

Don~An/que BOUCHET

Do~i~'dque Bouchet, born 1949, educated in Pads as an economist and as a sociologist. M~'~ed to a Dane, three children. From 1977 until 1980, Associate Professor of g ~ n t i n n a l E c o n o m i c s _.at th e .~ nn lwor~ i t y nF A~ l l hn rg ' ~ . - . , , . ~ =.l~ammarlr ~-~(2;n~a 1..,,,,,QQ(~ ,~.,.,o,.,,~.a,.,,A .o, ,~;~,~

Professor of Sociology at Odense University in Denmark. Took the initiative to KOMPLEKS, a panel of 14 distinguished Scandinavian researchers with a common interest in interdisciplinary reflections and in creating links between science, technol- ogy, and cultural activities. Member of the board of Paradigm, a Scandinavian journal for transdisciplinary reflection. Dominique Boucher has written five books in Danish and more thaa fifty articles in six different languages mostly about social change, advertising, socialisation, epistemology, economic theory, sociological theory and method.

Book rev/ews

Florian Coulmas, ¢d., Direct and indirect Speech 119

Jane SIMPSON

Jane Simpson is presenOy working on dictionaries of several Abofi~nal languages, and finishing a book entitled Warlpiri morpho-syntax: A iexicalist approach.

Gary D. Prideaux, Psycholinguistics: The Experimental Study of Language 123

Matlene DOLITSKY

Marlene Dolitsky has worked on child bilingualism, humor and communication. Over the last few years her work has been on 'nonsense' including a monograph entitled:

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Under the Tumtum Tree: From nonsense to sense. A study of non.automatic comprehen- sion (Amsterdam: Benjarnins, 1984).

Gary D. Prideaux and William J. Baker, Strategies and Structures

ana SLAVk gOVA

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~orn in Pardubice, Czechoslova_Lria, in 1963, she studied Czech and English at C ~ l e s University and is now a doctoral student. Her research f o c u ~ on semantic and cognitive roles.

Jenny Cook-Gumperz, WiRiam A. Corsaro and Ji~'gen StreecL eds., Children's Worlds and Children's Language 129

Emi~a NERCISSL~,NS

Emifia Nercissians, born in Tehran, !ran, in 1953, studied comparative history of cultures, sociolingtfistics, and edu,'.e~tion. She has taug~.t at Tehran Un/versity, Aiame Tabatabai University, Shahid Beheshti University, Teacher's Training University, and Somaya Technical and Vocational College. Her present research interests are: sociology of language and education, multilingualism and multiglossia, national and ethnic relations, language pl~-dng, multicultural education, language acquisition, and E F L / ~ L . She is a member of ISA (International Sociological Association), L~TEFL (International Assodation of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), and LAGB (Lhgtfistic Association of Great Britain).

Nh-a Reiss, Speech Act Taxonomy as a Tool for Ethnographic Description: An Analysis Based on Videotapes of Continuous Behavior in Two New Pork Households

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M. sBIsA

Marina Sbis~ has st~, ~ ~ philosophy of Language, together with related topics of philosoph/cal, Hnguistic, and senfiotic nature. Many of her publications deal with such ~opics as speech act theory and d/scourse analysis.

Barbara Fox, Discourse Structure and Anaphora. Written and Conversational English

Francis CORBLIN

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Francis Corblin has worked on anaphora and linguistic cat~:gories involved in reference (Ind6fini, d6fmi et d6monstratif. Const~ctions tinguistiques de la r6f6rence, Geneva: Droz, 1987). Iris main research subject now is about d/scourse representation structure.

Harro Stammerjohann, ed., Tema-Rema in Italiano/q'heme-Rheme in Italian/ Thema-Rhem8 im Itafienischen 148

Fr~,d,~k DANES

Franti~k Dane~ was born in Pisek (Bohemia) in 1919. Ph.D. (Charles University, Prague), Dr. Sc., Senior Principal Research Fellow in the Institute of Czech LanLn~,~ge of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Director, 1965-1970). Associate Professor, Charles University, Prague. Since 1983 Professor emeritus.

Current research interests include general linguistics, syntax and semantics, text linguistics and sociolinguistics. Recent publications: 'On the non-ideal character of natural languages', in: Theoretical Linguistks, 1983; 'Sentence patterns and predicate classes', in: Language Topics, Amsterdam 1988; A grammar of Czech, Vo[. 3: Syntax (co-author and co-editor), Prague 1988; Veta a teyt [Sentence and text], Prague, 1985; 'Functional sentence perspective and text connectedne~s', in: Text and discourse connectedness, Amsterdam, 198~; ~ocles Herausbiidung und Reform yon Stan- dardsprachen and Sprachkultur in Sociolinguistics. An internalional handbook, Berlin and New York, 1988.