Note on Translation Introduction by Michael Holquist Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel) The Problem of Speech Genres The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis From Notes Made in 1970-71 Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences Index

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

This study investigated (a) mathematics achievement (Test of Academic Progress) of 589 female and 644 male, predominantly white, 9th-12th grade students enrolled in mathematics courses from four schools, controlling for mathematics background and general ability (Quick Word Test); (b) relationships to mathematics achievement, and to sex-related differences in mathematics achievement, of spatial visualization (Differential Aptitude Test), eight attitudes measured by the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales, a measure of Mathematics Activities outside of school, and number of Mathematics Related Courses and Space Related Courses taken. Complex results were obtained. Few sex-related cognitive differences but many attitudinal differences were found. Analyses of variance, covariance, correlation, and principal components analysis techniques were used. The results showed important relationships between socio-cultural factors and sex-related cognitive differences.

Sex-related defferences in mathematics achievement, spatial visualization, and affective factors

言语行为理论是哲学和语言学,特别是语言哲学和语用学的重要理论之一。与言语行为理论有关的诸多著作中,最重要最经典的是奥斯汀的How to Do Things with Words。然而这不是一本易读的书,为此作者分析了该书的脉络,给准备精读该书的读者提供一些参考。

How to Do Things with Words之脉络分析

In this chapter we critically study the way news in the press may contribute to what is sometimes called the new racism . Since news reports are a type of text, our approach will be discourse analytical . This means that we do not treat news as transparent messages whose contents may be analysed in a superficial, quantitative way. Rather, we examine the complex structures and strategies of news reports and their relations to the social context. In our case, the social context consists of the activities of journalists in newsmaking, as well as the interpretations of readers, in the increasingly multicultural societies of western Europe and North America. More specifically we want to know what role the media in general, and news in particular, play in the reproduction of racial and ethnic inequality in these societies, and aim to do so through a systematic analysis of news discourse structures.

http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/New%28s%29%20racism%20-%20A%20discourse%20analytical%20approach.pdf

New(s) Racism: A discourse analytical approach

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6720218/6793094/06793095.pdf

Book review: a review of hemispheric asymmetry: What's right and what's left by joseph b. hellige harvard university press, cambridge, ma, 1993 hardbound, 396 pages, $35

Towards a typology of silence

The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pairs to the interpretation of silence. A model is presented which attempts to explain the observer’s cognitive competence, and its limits, in being able to interpret the silent answer. A basic distinction is also made between intentional silence (the refusal to answer) and non-intentional silence (the psychological inability to answer). The interpretation of silence is extended from a theoretical viewpoint to an analysis of various discourse types. Firstly, silence in the legal world: the accused’s and the witness’s right of silence, the right of legal authorities to silence the broadcasting of direct speech. The author then analyzes the silencing of characters in a literary text (Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ), in a biblical text (Moses and his speech impediment in Exodus), in opera (Moses’ silence in Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron ) and in the cinema. Here, after the initial discussion of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence , focus is shifted to the generation gap and the representation of silence by song in Mike Nichols’ The Graduate .

Discourse of silence

The right of silence: a socio-pragmatic model of interpretation

The speech act status of incitement: Perlocutionary acts revisited

The paper deals primarily with the classification of what is known in LSP as ‘legal language’. Despite considerable consensus concerning the topics included under this label, there is a substantial amount of terminological uncertainty. An analysis of the use of terms such as ‘variety’. ‘genre’, ‘register’ and ‘discourse’ clarifies the issues that are prevalent in works on legal language. Such an analysis may also clarify issues in LSP in general, for this is relevant to medical, engineering, and any other professional language. The term ‘legal discourse’, it is argued, is the most accurate term to describe the phenomenon under discussion, since not only does it include legal register, but it involves the various legal genres, too. In fact, legal register as such, in terms of special words and expressions, may be of secondary importance today, even in LSP teaching, and any study of legal discourse should perhaps become mainly a study of legal genres.

Dennis Kurzon

Papers

Towards a typology of silence

Discourse of silence

The right of silence: a socio-pragmatic model of interpretation

The speech act status of incitement: Perlocutionary acts revisited

‘Legal language’: varieties, genres, registers, discourses