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<div>New book announcement:</div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>New
Directions in Nordic Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis:
Methodological Issues</b></font><font size="+1"
color="#000000"><b><br>
</b></font><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Edited by Wenche Vagle
and Kay Wikberg</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Oslo: Novus</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">ISBN: 82-7099-333-6</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Price in Euro: 32.20 (Price in NOK:
264.00)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Fax order form to be found at<b>
www.novus.no/pages/fax.html</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">This volume is a
collection of papers based on the presentations given at the NordText
Conference that was held at the University of Oslo in January 2000.
The papers focus on recent methodological developments within text
linguistics and discourse analysis - mainly as reflected in the
Nordic countries. Some of the papers discuss important
text-linguistic and discourse-theoretical issues such as the widening
scope of the discourse concept, the semantic constraints of discourse
connectives, and central terms such as<i> discourse
communities</i>,<i> parallel texts, superstructure</i> and<i>
polyphony</i>. Others deal with the empirical application of
discourse-analytical methods - some of them multidisciplinary -
in the study of for instance multimodal discourse, media discourse,
subject-oriented prose, school texts and writing skills, discourse in
professional settings, simultaneous interpretation, genre variation
and evolution, as well as contrastive issues and quantitative text
patterns.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" color="#000000"><b>Table of
contents</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Especially invited
contributions</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">Corinne
Rossari:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Pragmatic Links and Semantic Impact of Discourse
Connectives</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">Jan
Svensson:<x-tab> </x-tab>Non-literary prose in Sweden:
Reflections on a multi-disciplinary approach<br>
Stig Johansson:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Grammar Across Speech and Writing</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Discussion of Concepts<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">Kjersti
Breivega:<x-tab> </x-tab>Mot ei lingvistisk forankring av
superstrukturomgrepet?<br>
Finn Frandsen:<x-tab> </x-tab>What Do Members of
Discourse Communities Have in Common?<br>
Sigmund Kvam:<x-tab> </x-tab>Parallel Texts, Translation
and Contrastive Textology: Some Theoretical
Considerations</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Developments in
methodology<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">Trine
Dahl:<x-tab> </x-tab>Text evaluation methods: the case of
computer-generated summaries<br>
Anne Marie
Bülow-Möller:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Using textlinguistic methodologies for analysing processing
in simultaneous interpretation<br>
Kjersti Fløttum:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Linguistic and literary polyphony - some methodological
questions<br>
Francoise Sullet-Nylander:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Reported speech in French media discourse</font></div>
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</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Multimedia discourse<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1"
color="#000000">Anna-Malin
Karlsson:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Analysing the multimodality of writing. A model and a method
applied to personal homepages<br>
Winni Johansen:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Semantic Isotopy and the Analysis of Polysemiotic Texts<br>
Pentti Haddington:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Applying theories, doing Praxis: Methodological problems in
studying the textual accessibility of baby-food labels<br>
Rowena Jansson:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Metadiscourse - Bridging the gap</font></div>
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</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000">School texts and writing
skills<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">Per
Ledin:<x-tab> </x-tab>To put a
full stop: The use of the sentence in children's compositions<br>
Catharina Nyström:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Reference cohesion in school-texts. In search of a method of
analysis<br>
Åsa Wengelin:<x-tab>
</x-tab>Investigating writing strategies - how do spelling
difficulties influence text production?<br>
Eva Östlund-Stjärnegårdh: What texts pass the national test in
Swedish?</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font color="#000000">Discourse in professional settings<br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="-1">Salli
Kankaanpää:<x-tab> </x-tab>From letters
to news reports. Diachronic changes in Finnish municipal press
releases 1979 - 1999<br>
Inger Ruin:<x-tab> </x-tab>Non-finite versus
finite constructions - a problem in the translation of Swedish
literary texts into English?<br>
Jesper Hermann:<x-tab> </x-tab>Understandings
between doctors and patients - some methodological
issues</font></font><br>
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wenche.vagle@inl.uio.no<br>
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Wenche Vagle<br>
Forsker/researcher<br>
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Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitenskap<br>
Universitetet i Oslo<br>
Postboks 1013, Blindern<br>
0315 Oslo<br>
Tlf: 22 85 69 74<br>
Faks: 22 85 71 00<br>
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Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature<br>
University of Oslo<br>
P.O. Box 1013, Blindern<br>
N - 0315 Oslo<br>
Norway<br>
Phone: (+47) 22 85 69 74<br>
Fax: (+47) 22 85 71 00</div>
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