LACUS Forum 31 (2004) articles

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LACUS Forum 31 was published in 2005

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I. Featured Lectures

Presidential Address: Slang and Interconnections
Connie Eble
Inaugural Lecture: Metonymic Reasoning inside and outside Language
Klaus-Uwe Panther
Invited Lecture: Cultural Knowledge, Discourse Poetics, and the Performance of Social Relations
Michael Silverstein
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: Maria Whitney’s Trip to Leipzig 1880–1882: A Woman’s Personal Connection and Public Exclusion
Patricia Casey Sutcliffe
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: A Diachronic Perspective on Concessive Constructions with Just Because
Martin Hilpert

II. Interconnections within Language

Finiteness, Case and Agreement
Gülşat Aygen
For the Unity of Meaning of The Polish Verbal Prefix Za-
Barbara Bacz
The Semantics of Hidatsa NP Coordination
John P. Boyle
On Timing and Rhythm in British English
Lucas Van Buuren
The Conceptual Model of Distributivity
Inga B. Dolinina
Promises and Predictions: A Revised Model-Theoretic Approach
Rennie Gonsalves
Classifying Hortatory and Persuasive Discourse
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Focus-Affected Readings of Weak NPs and Information Updating
Kuniyoshi Ishikawa
The Persistence of a Fiction: The Segmental Phoneme
William J. Sullivan
Aspectual Influence on Temporal Relations: Evidence from The Perfective Le in Mandarin
Jiun-Shiung Wu

III. Interconnections Between Language and the World

Military Metaphors of Success and Failure in Conventional and Peace Operations
Nannette Brenner
Language Learning Input and Input for Learning to Communicate
Douglas W. Coleman
Experientially-Based Narration in Autism: A Case Study
Jessica De Villiers
From Art to Writing: The Megalithic Impetus for Ogam Script
Toby D. Griffen
The Problematic Interface Between Writing and Speech
Roy Hagman
Evaluating the Discourse of War: Examining the System of Attitude in the Print Media
Viktoria Jovanović-Krstić
Representation of Shape By English and Chinese Speakers
Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo
Fashions in the Naming of Children
Saul Levin
Continuing Where Sapir Left Off:Vocalic Iconicity in English
Julius Nyikos
Family Trees in Historical Linguistics and Evolutionary Biology
Robert Orr
Visual Information-Seeking Behavior of Chinese- and English-Speaking Children
Nancy Pine
Pocs & Clichés & Oddball Constructions, Oh My!
Peter A. Reich
Intermodal Congruence in Children’s Picture Books: A Pilot Study
William C. Spruiell
Do Different Brain Mechanisms Exist for Different Types of Linguistic Reasoning?
Jodi Tommerdahl, Roger Gil & Georges Molinié
Ontology Engineering for Linguistic Information: Implementing Relational Networks
Jonathan J. Webster
The Rhetoric of 9/11: A Text Linguistic Case Study
Jonathan J. Webster
Linguistics without Signs? Thing, Concept, and Name in Hard-Science Linguistics
Victor H. Yngve

IV. From LACUS Forum XXX

A Pragmatic Perspective on the Interpretation of Modal Verbs in Constitutional Documents
Ibileye Gbenga
Early Shaping of Spatial Meaning in Three Languages and Cultures: Linguistic or Cultural Relativity?
Kristine Jensen De López, Mariko Hayashi & Chris Sinha


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