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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My name is Paulo Gago, currently doctoral student at the
Catholic University from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My M.A. was in Applied
Linguistics and I studied issues of framing and footing in the criminal written
legal sentence, considering the discourse of the private and state attorneys and
of the judge. The focus was on how the judge arrived at the final decision
about a criminal case influenced by those issues. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>In my doctoral study I am investigating how
alignments are criated in the discourse of negotiation meetings where there is
no final agreement in the same meeting. I work in the interactional approach to
discourse and my interests lye on language and social interaction,
language and culture, negotiation discourse, legal discourse, research on
foreign language teaching and learning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I would be very glad to know if there is some new article on
alignment and footing. I just know the classical ones (Goffman, 1974, 1981,
Tannen, 1993, Clayman, 1992, etc.). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Paulo Gago</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>