Sorry for multiple copies
Dear colleagues,
We should like to take this opportunity to ask you if you
could circulate the two following issues, with further details enclosed in
corresponding attachments.
One contains the First Call of the Second International
Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLCII), contrasts within and
between languages, to be held at the University of Santiago Compostela,
Spain, from 25th to 27th October 2001: we want it to be open and comprehensive
(for details, see the file attached).
Also attached are the details of
a Theme-Topic-Focus-and discourse-structure related book just released by
John Benjamins, which can be opened with Adobe Acrobat reader, a tool you can
download from the following webpage www.adobe.com/acrobat (I hope). In
case you can´t open it, here you have some information about the book: "The
Theme-Topic Interface: Evidence from English", Pragmatics and Beyond NS,
71. 2000 Hb. ca. xxiv, 425 pp. + index 90 272 5086 3 NLG 158.00 1 55619
949 X USD 79.00. It offers a cognitive-discourse-functional approach to
such discourse categories as Topic, Theme, Focus, Given-New information to give,
in Part II, a substantiation of these insights, mainly the prominence of initial
position, in natural spoken English using multivariant statistical tests for
significance.
BEST and THANKS IN ADVANCE :-)
MLA
>*******************************
>Dr María Ángeles
GÓMEZ-GONZÁLEZ
>Profesora Titular de Filoloxía Inglesa
>Departmento
de Filoloxía Inglesa
>Facultade de Filoloxia
>Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela
>Avda. de Castelao, s/n
>E-15704 Santiago de
Compostela
>Fax.: + 00 34 981-574646
>Tel: + 00 34
981-563100 Ext. 11856
>email: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm
>*******************************
>Dr María de los
Ángeles GÓMEZ-GONZÁLEZ
>Profesora Titular de Filoloxía
Inglesa
>Departmento de Filoloxía Inglesa
>Facultade de
Filoloxia
>Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
>Avda. de
Castelao, s/n
>E- 15782 Santiago de Compostela. Spain
>Fax.: + 00
34 981-574646
>Tel: + 00 34 981-563100 Ext.
11856
>email: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm