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Selected Papers from the 2008 Stockholm Metaphor Festival
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The 2008 Stockholm Metaphor Festival attracted some 30participants from 15 countries throughout the world: Australia,Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Nigeria,Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the USA. Theten papers included in this volume consist of the two keynote lecturesand eight out of the 19 session papers.From the outset, the Metaphor Festival has welcomed contributionsdiscussing metaphor and metonymy as well as other types of figurativelanguage within different theoretical frameworks and with literary aswell as linguistic approaches.The papers included in this collection reflect some of the breadth ofthe presentations at the 2008 Festival.Of the two keynote speakers, Antonio Barcelona presents ananatomy of metonymy at all linguistic levels, from phonology todiscourse, while Gerard Steen explores the conditions required forthe use of metaphor to be considered deliberate (as opposed toconventional, automatic and unconscious).In the remaining contributions, A’Beckett studies an extendedmetaphor running through a Tom Sharpe novel, Alm-Arvius exploresiconicity and poeticity in the discourse functions of schemes andtropes, Eizaga Rebollar discusses the representation and storage ofconceptual information underlying idioms as well as the retrievaland use of idioms in communication, Hsieh and Kolodkina presentexpressions for hands and eyes as metaphors for emotion in Chinese,Russian and English, Kryvenko investigates animal metaphors inUkrainian and English sports terminology, Roldán-Riejos charts therole of medical metaphors in engineering discourse, Taiwo traces theuse of metaphorical expressions in Nigerian political discourse, andTwardzicz provides a scrutiny of metaphors in commercial contracts.
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Of butterflies and birds, of dialects and genres : Essays in honour of Philip Shaw
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume is a tribute to our friend and colleague Philip Shaw, Professor of English linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.The 22 contributions to this volume by friends and colleagues worldwide bear witness to Philip’s academic versatility as well as his interests beyond academia. The first paper, ‘Narratives of Nature in English and Swedish: Butterfly books and the case of Argynnis paphia’, a genre study by Annelie Ädel and John Swales, is illustrated by Philip devoting himself to one of his favourite activities. It is followed by four other genre analyses, based on very different texts: Trine Dahl, ‘Telling it Like it Is or Strategic Writing? A portrait of the economist writer’, Paul Gillaerts, ‘Move Analysis of Abstracts from a Diachronic Perspective: A case study’, Maurizio Gotti, ‘Investigating the Generic Structure of Mediation Processes’, and Nils-Lennart Johannesson, ‘Orrmulum: Genre membership and text organisation’.The following five papers all relate to Philip’s work in the fields of English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The ESL study by Britt Erman and Margareta Lewis is titled ‘Vocabulary in Advanced L2 English Speech’, and ELF is represented by Beyza Björkman’s ‘Peer Assessment of Spoken Lingua Franca English in Tertiary Education in Sweden: Criterion-referenced versus norm-referenced assessment’. The three following papers relate to Philip’s work on academic writing: Magnus Gustafsson & Hans Malmström, ‘Master Level Writing in Engineering and Productive Vocabulary: What does measuring academic vocabulary levels tell us?’, Akiko Okamura, ‘Philip Shaw’s Writing Expertise in Academic Discourse’, and Diane Pecorari, ‘Additional Reasons for the Correlation of Voice, Tense and Sentence Function’.The three papers to follow address issues within the fields of dialectology and sociolinguistics, representing different speech communities in the English-speaking world: Joan C. Beal, ‘Tourism and the Commodification of Language’, Peter Sundkvist, ‘“Ridiculously Country”: The representation of Appalachian English in the Deliverance screenplay’, and Sandra Jansen, ‘“I don’t sound like a Geordie!”: Phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of Carlisle English’.This naturally leads on to studies on World Englishes, represented by papers by Kingsley Bolton, ‘World Englishes, Globalisation, and Language Worlds’, Gunnel Melchers, ‘The North Wind and the Sun: A classic text as data for World Englishes’, Christiane Meierkord & Bridget Fonkeu, ‘Of Birds and the Human Species – Communication in Migration Contexts: English in the Cameroonian migrant community in the Ruhr area’, and Augustin Simo Bobda, ‘The Emergence of a Standardizing Cameroon Francophone English Pronunciation in Cameroon’.The five final papers deal with a variety of linguistic topics all close to Philip’s heart but not so easily accommodated into the above sections. They are: Maria Kuteeva, ‘Tolkien and Lewis on Language in their Scholarly Work’, Karin Aijmer and Anna Elgemark, ‘The Pragmatic Markers Look and Listen in a Cross-linguistic Perspective’, Magnus Ljung, ‘Goddamn: From curse to byname’, Christina Alm-Arvius, ‘Opposites Attract’, and Erik Smitterberg, ‘Non-correlative Commas between Subjects and Verbs in Nineteenth-century Newspaper English’.
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