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We are glad to announce that Professor Christopher Butler has been appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de La Rioja. Further details: Professor Butler, Doctor Honoris Causa
The research group Discourse & Identity is pleased to announce the joint organisation of 1st conference on The Discourse of Identity , which will be held in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Further details on the programme in http://www.usc.es/congresos/identity
The research groups SCIMITAR and Discourse & Identity organized the SdC IWODA 1 - 2011 (First Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis), which was hold in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from September 5 to 9, 2011. Further details on the programme in http://www.usc.es/congresos/iwoda
We are proud and delighted to confirm that, additional to the award from the Autonomous Government of Galicia of research funding to the tune of €55,566, an application to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has yielded the fine sum of €121,000.
We are very pleased to announce that SCIMITAR is one of the partners in a European Project coordinated by the Contragram research group (Universiteit Gent) entitled Scientific Research Network "Contrastive Linguistics: constructional and functional approaches" and founded by the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) for a period of 5 years, starting on 01/01/2011. The other participating research teams are: Functional Linguistics Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Franitalco (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Centre for Grammar, Cognition and Typology (Universiteit Antwerpen), Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (Université Catholique de Louvain), Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar (Universiteit Leiden), Construction Grammar Research Group (University of Edinburgh), Indo-European Case and Argument structure in a Typological Perspective (University of Bergen), Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) (Université de Lille 3), Crisco (Université de Caen), Functional Linguistics English–Spanish and its applications (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and School of English (University of Hong Kong).
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Newest Publications
- Gómez-González, M. Á. 2012. Review of Contrastive Pragmatics by Karin Aijmer (ed). Languages in Contrast. Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins
- Gómez González, M. Á. 2012. The question of tag questions in English and Spanish. In I. Moskowich and B. Crespo (eds), Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future: Corpora in the 21st Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholarly Press. 59-97.
- Butler, C.S. 2011. Functional linguistics. In A. McCabe (ed) An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies. London: Equinox. 368-371.
- Gómez González, M.Á. 2011. Lexical cohesion in multiparty conversations. Language Sciences 33.1. 167-179.
- Gonzálvez-García, F., S. Peña Cervel and L. Pérez Hernández. 2011a. Guest-editors of a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics (9:1), entitled "Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications". Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins.
- Iglesias-Rábade, L. 2011. Semantic Erosion of Middle English Prepositions. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang.
- Mackenzie, J.L. 2011a. The study of semantic alternations in a dialogic Functional Discourse Grammar. In Pilar Guerrero Medina (ed), Morphosyntactic Alternations in English: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. London: Equinox. 38-61.
- Mackenzie, J.L. 2011b. Le gaélique écossais: langue à champ postérieur? In M. Jadir (ed), Fonctionnalisme et description linguistique. Saarbrücken: Editions Universitaires Européennes.
- Mackenzie, J.L. 2011c. Préface. In M. Jadir (ed), Fonctionnalisme et description linguistique Saarbrücken: Editions Universitaires Européennes.
- Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F.J. and F. Gonzálvez-García 2011a. Illocutionary meaning revisited: Subjective-Transitive constructions in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (Lódz Studies in Language). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 65-77.
- Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F.J. and F. Gonzálvez-García 2011b. Constructional Integration in the Lexical Constructional Model. B.A.S./British and American Studies vol. XVII.
- Taboada, M. 2011. Stages in an online review genre. Text and Talk 31 (2): 247-269.
Meet a Member of SCIMITAR!
Elsa González-Álvarez is a tenured Lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a BA in English Philology and a PhD in English Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Elsa teaches courses in morphology and syntax, in addition to postgraduate courses in second language acquisition and methodology in linguistic research. Her area of interest is second language acquisition, in particular acquisition of lexicon and discourse competence. She is the editor of three different volumes, some of them stemming out of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conferences held in Santiago de Compostela. She has also published on lexical innovation, acquisition of prepositions and multi-word expressions, most of it with a contrastive emphasis.
Selected publications include:
González Álvarez, E. 2007. Task-effect on the use of lexical innovation strategies in interlanguage communication, in García-Mayo (ed.) Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
Gómez González, María de los Ángeles; MacKenzie, Lachlan; González Álvarez, Elsa (eds.). 2008. Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Gómez González, María de los Ángeles; MacKenzie, Lachlan; González Álvarez, Elsa (eds.). 2008. Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
González Álvarez, E. & Doval Suárez, S. 2008. Testing the cognitive categorisation of AT in Native and Non-Native English speakers. Evidence from a corpus study. The Linguistics Journal 3: 100-135.
Welcome!
SCIMITAR is a forum for international cooperation among researchers oriented to the study of the interface between grammar and discourse.
The methods used are strongly contrastive. We work on the intralinguistic comparison of different varieties of English, and cross-linguistic comparison of English with other languages, notably Spanish.
The tools used are primarily those of corpus and computational linguistics, and the approaches taken include Functional Discourse Grammar, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Rhetorical Structure Theory, Construction Grammar, and the Lexical Constructional Model.