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discourse barsky , robert f . ( igrc , montreal , canada ) . constructing a productive other . discourse theory and the convention refugee hearing john benjamins 1994 . x , 272 pp . discourse hb : us : 1 55619 297 5 / eur : 90 272 5041 3 us $ 64 . 00 / hfl . 110 , - - a study of the process of constructing a productive other for the purpose of being admitted to canada in the categort of " convention refugee " . the whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases , and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international jurisprudence , all analyzed within the context of discourse analaysis . pragmatics and beyond new series , 29 pamela downing and michael noonan ( eds . ) word order in discourse ( university of wisconsin milwaukee ) typological studies in language , 30 1995 . ca . x , 583 pp . + index hb 1-55619 - 424 - 2 $ 135 . 00 . pb 1-55619 - 636 - 9 $ 37 . 95 eighteen papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse . word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon , a matter of selecting randomly one set of possible orders generated by the grammar . however , as the papers in this collection show , word order variation is not random , but rather is govemed by testable principles which are common to all languages . stygall , gail ( university of washington ) . trial language . differential discourse processing and discursive formation . pragmatics and beyond new series , 26 john benjamins 1994 . xii , 230 pp . discourse hb : us : 1 55619 294 0 / eur . : 90 272 5038 3 us $ 59 . 00 / hfl . 105 , - - this study of anglo - american legal discourse is the first comprehensive discourse analysis of american legal language in its prototypical setting , the trial by jury . with ethnographic data gathered in a civil jury trial , the book compares the discourse processing of the legal participants and the lay jurors in the trial . the study argues for a foucauldian discourse analysis of institutional languages , a social theory powerful enough to account for the power and tenacity of these ianguages , where traditional linguistic explanation has failed . wortham , stanton e . f . ( bates college , lewiston , maine ) . acting out participant examples in the classroom . pragmatics and beyond new series , 30 john benjamins 1994 xiv , 178 pp . discourse hb : us : 1 55619 298 3 / eur : 90 2725042 1 us $ 49 . 00 / hfl . 90 , - - pb 1-55619 - 243 - 6 $ 29 . 95 this volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event enacted classroom " participant examples " . the study reports that in some cases speakers not only discuss , but also act out the roles assigned to them in participant examples . that is , speakers do with each other , what they are talking about as the content of the example . participants act as if events described as the example provide a script for their interaction . cmejrkova , svetlaand frantiek ticha ( eds . ) the syntax of sentence and text . a festschrift for frantiek dane john benjamins 1994 . 398 pp . discourse hb : us : 1 55619 267 3 / eur90 272 1551 0 us $ 95 . 00 / hfl . 145 , - - published in honour of his 75th birthday , this volume celebrates dane ' international contribution to the development of prague school functionalism , the theory of functional sentence perspective , discourse studies and semantics . contributions by : robert de beaugrande ; andrej boguslawski ; alexandr bondarko ; svetla cmejrkova , maria - elisabeth conte ; martin davies ; wolfgang dressler ; anna duszak ; nils erik enkvist ; jan firbas ; paul l . garvin ; roland harweg ; jana hoffmanova ; miroslav komarek ; jirm kraus ; philip l . luelsdorff , eva machackova ; olga miillerova , igor nemec ; janos sander petvfi ; hansjakob seiler ; sorin stati ; frantiek ticha ; eugenius uhlenbeck ; ludmila uhlirova ; joseph vachek ; eija ventola . linguistic and literary studies in eastem europe , 42 translation dollerup , cay & annette lindegaard ( eds . ) . teaching translation and interpreting 2 . john benjamins 1994 viii , 358 pp . translation / interpretation cloth : us : 1 55619 682 2 / eur : 90 272 1601 0 us $ 69 . 00 / hfl . 130 , - - bridging the gap empirical research in simultaneous interpretation . sylvie lambert & barbara mosel-mercer ( eds . ) john benjamins 1994 362 pp . translation / interpretation cloth : us : 1 55619 481 1 / eur : 90 272 2144 8 us $ 69 . 00 / hfl . 130 , - - a collection of 30 articles discussing various aspects of interpreting grouped in 4 sections : i . pedagogical issues , ii . simultaneous interpretation , iii . sign language and court interpreting , iv . neuropsychological research . snell - hornby , mary , franz pvchhacker & klaus kaindl ( eds . ) translation studies : an interdiscipline . selected papers from the translation studies congress , vienna , 9-12 september 1992 . john benjamins 1994 xii , 438 pp . translation cloth us : 1 55619 478 1 / eur : 90 272 2141 3 us $ 95 . 00 / hfl . 170 , - - this selection of 44 papers from the 163 presented at the translation studies congress which was held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the institut f | r dolmetscher und \ bersetzer ausbildung in vienna , shows how translation studies is moving away from purely linguistic analysis into lsp , psychology , cognition , and cultural orientations . the volume is divided into sections reflecting the focal subject areas of the congress : translation , history and culture ; interpreting theory and training ; terminology and special languages ; teaching and training in translation . also included are papers from a special workshop including interdisciplinary research projects from vienna . pragmatics givon , t . ( ed . ) voice and inversion . john benjamins 1994 viii , 510 pp . ling theory cloth us : 1 55619 420 x / eur : 90 272 2917 1 us $ 95 . 00 / hfl . 180 , - - paper us : 1 55619 421 8 / eur : 90 272 2918 x us $ 32 . 95 / hfl . 65 , - - this collection aims first to establish a structure-independent , language-independent definition of pragmatic voice , and more specifically then a universal functional definition of ' inverse ' . the grammar and pragmatic function of the four major voice constructions - - direct-active , inverse , passive , antipassive - - are surveyed using narrative texts from 14 languaegs : koyukon ( athabascan ) , plains cree , ( algonquian ) , chepang ( tibeto - burman ) , squamish and bella coola ( salish ) , sahaptin ( sahaptian ) , kutenai ( isolate ) , suriinam carib ( carib ) cebuano and karao ( philippine ) .
