2009年5月16日 星期六

顧曰國

顾曰国,现任中国社会科学院语言研究所研究员,博士生导师,当代语言学研究室主任,《当代语言学》杂志主编之一;同时兼任北京外国语大学校长助理、网络教育学院常务副院长,博士生导师。1985年获英国兰开斯特大学语言学系语言研究优等硕士学位,1987年获该系语用学与修辞学博士学位,师从英国学术院院士Leech院士。在国际刊物上发表论文21篇,国内杂志上发表文章18篇,国际杂志特邀专号主编2期,合编著学术著作1部,英语和语言学教材32部。从1994年起,任国际《语用学》杂志咨询编审,2000年当选为国际语用学协会常务理事。2002年起,任国际《篇章学》杂志咨询编审。同时还任中国功能语言学协会常务理事;是教育部远程教育专家组成员。先后获霍英东教育基金1993年第四届青年教师科研类一等奖,1994年北京市哲学社会科学优秀论文一等奖,1995年中国“国氏”博士后奖,1997年英国学术院王宽城基金会奖。2002年获教育部中央电大系统优秀教材一等奖。国家“百千万工程”千名学术带头人之一。国内外大学兼职有:英国诺丁汉大学特聘教授、江西财经大学外语学院名誉院长、山西大学名誉教授等。短期专题讲学的大学有:香港大学、香港理工大学、香港浸会大学等。国际学术会议主题报告11次。

quoted from: http://ling.cass.cn/dangdai/editors/guyg_eng.htm
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Geoffrey Leech. (quoted from wikipedia)

Geoffrey Leech was Professor of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University from 1974 to 2002.He then became Research Professor in English Linguistics. He has been Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, since 2002.
Leech's main academic interests are:English grammarSemanticsStylisticsPragmaticsCorpus linguisticsCorpus-based natural language processing by computer. http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/Geoffrey-Leech/

Something about multimodality. (quoted from wikipedia)

(1) An introduction to M.A.K Halliday---
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an Australian linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the systemic functional grammar (which also goes by the name of systemic functional linguistics [SFL]).
Halliday was born and raised in England. He took a BA Honours degree in Modern Chinese Language and Literature (Mandarin) at the University of London. He then lived for three years in China, where he studied under Luo Changpei(羅常培) at Peking University and under Wang Li(王力) at Lingnan University, before returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge. Having taught Chinese for a number of years, he changed his field of specialisation to linguistics, and developed systemic functional grammar, elaborating on the foundations laid by his British teacher J. R. Firth and a group of European linguists of the early 20th century, the Prague School. His seminal paper on this model was published in 1961. He became the Professor of Linguistics at the University of London in 1965. In 1976 he moved to Australia as Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until he retired. The impact of his work extends beyond linguistics into the study of visual and multimodal communication, and he is considered to have founded the field of social semiotics. He has worked in various regions of language study, both theoretical and applied, and has been especially concerned with applying the understanding of the basic principles of language to the theory and practices of education. He received the status of emeritus professor(榮譽教授) of the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney, in 1987, and is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. With his seminal lecture "New Ways of Meaning: the Challenge to Applied Linguistics" held at the AILA conference in Saloniki (1990), he became one of the pioneers of eco-critical discourse analysis (a discipline of ecolinguistics).
(2) Social semiotics and multimodality---
Social semiotics is currently extending this general framework beyond its linguistic origins to account for the growing importance of sound and visual images, and how modes of communication are combined in both traditional and digital media (see, for example, Kress and van Leeuwen, 1996), thus approaching semiotics of culture (Randviir 2004). Theorists such as Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen have built on Halliday's framework by providing new "grammars" for other semiotic modes. Like language, these grammars are seen as socially formed and changeable sets of available "resources" for making meaning, which are also shaped by the semiotic metafunctions originally identified by Halliday. The visual and aural modes have received particular attention. Accounting for multimodality (communication in and across a range of semiotic modes - verbal, visual, and aural) is considered a particularly important ongoing project, given the importance of the visual mode in contemporary communication.

John M. Swales. (quoted from wikipedia)

John Swales is a linguist known for his work on genre analysis in applied linguistics and ESL. He is a Professor of Linguistics and former Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. In addition to writing scholarly books and publications, John Swales is unique among applied linguists in that he is also the author of several writing textbooks for students whose native language is not English. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ling/people/John_Swales.htm http://www.flipkart.com/genre-analysis-john-swales-michael/0521338131-fzw3f9osy2