Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000: Linguistics, Language, and the Professions : Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology

by Alatis, James E.; Hamilton, Heidi E.; Tan, Ai-Hui

• ISBN13: 9780878403738
• ISBN10: 0878403736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. With topics as wide-ranging as coherence in operating room communication, involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions, and jury understanding of witness deception, this resulting volume of selected papers provides both experts and novices with myriad insights into the excitement of cross-disciplinary language analysis. Readers will find -- in the words of one contributor -- that in such cross-pollination of ideas, "there's tremendous hope, there's tremendous power and the power to transform."

Table of Contents

Opening
Introduction to the volume	1	(2)
James E. Alatis
Welcoming remarks	3	(1)
Heidi E. Hamilton
Plenary speeches
The talk of learning professional work	4	(21)
Shirley Brice Heath
Linguistics, education, and the Ebonics firestorm	25	(21)
John R. Rickford
Dateline, deadline: Journalism, language, and the reshaping of time and place in the millennial world	46	(21)
Allan Bell
Breaking into language and law: The trials of the insider-linguist	67	(14)
Roger W. Shuy
The (socio)linguistic turn in physician-patient communication research	81	(23)
Richard M. Frankel
Holy tower of Babel: The language and linguistics of machines	104	(15)
Lee Lubbers
Selected conference papers
Language policy and mother-tongue education in South Africa: The Case for a market-oriented approach	119	(16)
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Language mixing at home and school in a multilingual community (Mandara Mountains, Cameroon)	135	(6)
Leslie C. Moore
Exploring children's spontaneous accomplishments of reading activity	141	(21)
Laura Sterponi
Involvement strategies in news analysis roundtable discussions	162	(14)
Stacy Krainz
Helping a jury understand witness deception	176	(14)
David Singleton
Coherence in operating room team and cockpit communication: A psycholinguistic contribution to applied linguistics	190	(30)
Patrick Grommes
Rainer Dietrich
Linguistic approaches in information retrieval of medical texts	220	(14)
Anne-Marie Currie
Jocelyn Cohan
Larisa Zlatic
Linguistics and Speech-language pathology: Combining research efforts towards improved interventions for bilingual children	234	(17)
Adele W. Miccio
Carol Scheffner Hammer
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Closing
GURT 2000 closing panel discussion, May 6, 2000	251	(15)
Heidi E. Hamilton
Appendix A Individual presentations and colloquia at GURT 2000	266