Latest News
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 are pleased to announce the joint organisation of SdC IWODA 1 - 2011 (First Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis), which will be held 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).
Upcoming Events
5-9/9/2011 - IWODA'11 (First Santiago de Compostela International Workshop on Discourse Analysis), organized by the research groups SCIMITAR and Discourse & Identity, will be held in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). For further details visit http://www.usc.es/congresos/iwoda
Lachlan Mackenzie participated in a workshop on the Contextual Component in Functional Discourse Grammar in Barcelona (Spain) on 8 and 9 September 2011.
Newest Publications
- 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!
Mike Hannay is professor of English language at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His primary research interest
is in informational relations in the clause and the complex written sentence. Over the last 30 years he has published a number of articles in this area within the framework of Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar.
In the same subject area he also does more applied research relating to the development of discourse competence amongst advanced learners of English, particularly Dutch and Spanish, in the context of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
He has co-written and edited a range of textbooks and dictionaries for the Dutch and German-speaking markets, and is a member of the Dutch National Quality Institute for translating and interpreting, a committee which advises the authorities
on codes of practice, testing, and professional training for sworn translators and interpreters in the Netherlands in the framework of recent new legislation.
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.