<div>Dear Ingrid Piller,</div> <div> </div> <div> Thanks very much for the information on possible reviewers for some books. I would like to offer myself as one of such reviewers. As requested, the following information is provided</div> <div> </div> <div> <STRONG>Qualification:</STRONG> </div> <div>A PhD holder in Applied Lingusitics from the National University of Singapore, currently I am a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Award holder at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Before the commencement of my doctoral studies in Singapore, I taught English Language and Linguistics at the University of Cape Coast and University of Education of Winneba, both in Ghana, for five years. I also taught academic writing at Lee Kuan School of Public Policy (Singapore) as well as tutored Social Variation in English at undergraduate level at the
National University of Singapore.</div> <div> </div> <div><STRONG>Interests: </STRONG></div> <div>My interests include (critical) discourse analysis, sociolinguistics (especially, language and gender, address terms), the interface between postgraduate education and academic writing, disciplinary discourse/disciplinary variation. </div> <div> </div> <div><STRONG>Postal address: </STRONG></div> <div> Dr Joseph B.A.Afful</div> <div> Department of Applied English Language Studies </div> <div> University of the Witwatersrand</div> <div> Bag 3, Wits 2050 </div> <div> Johannnesburg, South Africa.<BR></div>
<div><STRONG> </STRONG>I would like to review any one of the following books, if available: </div> <div> </div> <div>Geluykens, R and K Pelsmaekers, Eds. (2006). Discourse in Professional<BR>Contexts. LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 03. Munich, Lincom Europa.<BR><BR>Joseph, John E. (2006). Language and politics. Edinburgh, Edinburgh<BR>University Press.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tolson, Andrew (2006). Media Talk: Spoken discourse on TV and radio.<BR>Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press</div> <div> </div> <div>Hakulinen, Auli and Margret Selting, Eds. (2005). Syntax and lexis in<BR>conversation: studies on the use of linguistic resources in<BR>talk-in-interaction. Amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR> </div>
<div> I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.</div> <div> </div> <div>Kind regards,</div> <div>Joseph</div> <div> </div> <div>Dr Joseph B.A.Afful</div> <div>Department of Applied English Language Studies </div> <div>University of the Witwatersrand</div> <div>Bag 3, Wits 2050 </div> <div>Johannnesburg, South Africa.<BR> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Ingrid Piller <ingrid.piller@UNIBAS.CH></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>The titles below are currently available for review in<BR>_Discourse&Society_ and/or _Discourse Studies_ and/or _Discourse and<BR>Communication_. If you are interested in serving as a<BR>reviewer, pls contact the book review editor at ingrid.piller@unibas.ch
with<BR>the title/s you are interested in, your full postal address, and a *brief*<BR>description of your qualifications, research interests and fields of<BR>expertise.<BR><BR>The following points might help you in your decision whether or not to<BR>offer to review books in your field of expertise:<BR><BR>*Book reviewing is an important service to the academic community.<BR><BR>*Your review should normally reach me within three months of your<BR>receipt of the book. <BR><BR>*The normal length of a book review in our journals is 1,000 words. Your<BR>review should provide an overview of the contents of the book as well<BR>as a well-argued judgment regarding its place in the field and its likely<BR>importance to the readers of our journals. Mere content summaries are<BR>undesirable. <BR><BR>*Further information about each journal is available at these websites:<BR>http://dcm.sagepub.com; http://das.sagepub.com/; http://dis.sagepub.com/<BR><BR>*Your review will normally be
published within twelve months after<BR>acceptance of your manuscript. Following publication of the issue which<BR>contains your review, you will receive an electronic offprint in pdf-format.<BR><BR>Thank you for your attention and best wishes,<BR>Ingrid<BR><BR><BR>Ingrid Piller<BR>English Department, Basel University, Nadelberg 6, CH-4051 Basel,<BR>Switzerland<BR>Ph: ++ 41 61 267 27 90, Fax: ++ 41 61 267 27 80 ingrid.piller@unibas.ch,<BR>http://pages.unibas.ch/anglist/people/teachers/piller.htm<BR><BR>Languages, Identities and Tourism project:<BR>http://www.snf.ch/prodb/webforms/ProjectDetail.aspx?ID=9e05ff7d-0454-4f77-9e<BR>c8-491e76f6045f<BR><BR>Book review editor:<BR>Discourse and Communication: http://dcm.sagepub.com New in 2007:<BR>Pre-register for FREE online access to Volume One now.<BR>Discourse and Society: http://das.sagepub.com/ <BR>Discourse Studies: http://dis.sagepub.com/<BR><BR><BR>Aalto, Nancy and Ewald Reuter, Eds. (2006). Aspects of
intercultural<BR>dialogue: theory, research, applications. Cologne, Saxa.<BR>Alatas, Syed Farid (2006). Alternative discourses in Asian social science:<BR>responses to Eurocentrism. New Delhi, Sage.<BR>Allan, Keith and Kate Burridge (2006). Forbidden words: taboo and the<BR>censoring of language. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.<BR>Battistella, Edwin L. (2005). Bad language: are some words better than<BR>others? Oxford, Oxford University Press.<BR>Bultinck, Bert (2005). Numerous meanings: the meaning of English cardinals<BR>and the legacy of Paul Grice. Amsterdam, Elsevier.<BR>Cooren, Francois, James R. Taylor, et al., Eds. (2006). Communication as<BR>organizing: empirical and theoretical explorations in the dynamic of text<BR>and conversation. Mahwah, Lawrence Erlbaum.<BR>Cronin, Michael (2006). Translation and identity. London, Routledge.<BR>Davies, Celia, Margaret Wetherell, et al. (2006). Citizens at the centre:<BR>deliberative participation in healthcare
decisions. Bristol, The Policy<BR>Press.<BR>Deleuze, Gilles (2006). Two regimes of madness: texts and interviews<BR>1975-1995. New York, Semiotext(e).<BR>Della Porta, Donatella and Mario Diani (2006). Social movements: an<BR>introduction. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Duranti, Alessandro, Ed. (2006). A companion to linguistic anthropology.<BR>Oxford, blackwell.<BR>Ekstrom, Mats, Asa Kroon, et al., Eds. (2006). News from the interview<BR>society. Goteborg, Nordicom Goteborg University.<BR>Falkheimer, Jesper and Andre Jansson, Eds. (2006). Geographies of<BR>communication: the spatial turn in media studies. Goteborg, Nordicom<BR>Goteborg University.<BR>Fine, Jonathan (2006). Language in psychiatry: a handbook of clinical<BR>practice. London, Equinox.<BR>Geluykens, R and K Pelsmaekers, Eds. (2006). Discourse in Professional<BR>Contexts. LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 03. Munich, Lincom Europa.<BR>Gotti, Maurizio and Davide S. Giannoni, Eds. (2006). New Trends in<BR>Specialized Discourse
Analysis Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and<BR>Communication. Vol. 44. New York, Peter Lang.<BR>Guattari, Félix (2006). The Anti-Oedipus papers. New York, Semiotext(e).<BR>Hakulinen, Auli and Margret Selting, Eds. (2005). Syntax and lexis in<BR>conversation: studies on the use of linguistic resources in<BR>talk-in-interaction. Amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR>Hankiss, Elemér (2006). The toothpaste of immortality: self-construction in<BR>the consumer age. Baltimore, MD, The John Hopkins University Press.<BR>Heath, Anthony F., John Ermisch, et al., Eds. (2005). Understanding social<BR>change. Oxford, Oxford University Press.<BR>Hutchby, Ian (2006). media talk: conversation analysis and they study of<BR>broadcasting. London, Open University Press.<BR>Jaworski, Adam and Nikolas Coupland, Eds. (2006). the discourse reader.<BR>London, Routledge.<BR>Jones, Campbell and Rolland Munro, Eds. (2006). contemporary organization<BR>theory. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Joseph, John E. (2006).
Language and politics. Edinburgh, Edinburgh<BR>University Press.<BR>Kurhila, Salla (2006). Second Language Interaction. Amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR>Laury, Ritva, Ed. (2006). Minimal reference: the use of pronouns in Finnish<BR>and Estonian discourse. Helsinki, Studia Fennica Linguistica.<BR>Le, Elisabeth (2006). The Spiral of 'Anti-Other Rhetoric': Discourses of<BR>identity and the international media echo. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.<BR>Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli (2005). world culture: origins and<BR>consequences. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Litosseliti, Lia (2006). Gender and language: theory and practice. London,<BR>Hodder Arnold.<BR>Locher, Miriam A. (2006). Advice online. amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR>Lowe, Gregory Ferrell and Per Jauert, Eds. (2005). Cultural dilemmas in<BR>public service broadcasting. Goteborg, Nordicom Goteborg University.<BR>Mair, Christian (2006). Twentieth-century English: history, variation and<BR>standardization. Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.<BR>Memmi, Albert (2006). Decolonization and the decolonized. Minneapolis, MN,<BR>University of Minnesota Press.<BR>Middleton, David and Steven D. Brown (2005). The social psychology of<BR>experience: studies in remembering and forgetting. London, Sage.<BR>Morita, Emi (2005). Negotiation of contingent talk: the Japanese<BR>interactional particles ne and sa. Amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR>Moscovici, Serge and Ivana Markova (2006). The making of modern social<BR>psychology: the hidden story of how an international social science was<BR>created. Oxford, Polity.<BR>Nayar, Pramod K. (2006). Reading culture: theory, praxis, politics. New<BR>Delhi, Sage.<BR>Nunes, Mark (2006). Cyberspaces of everyday life. Minneapolis, MN,<BR>University of Minnesota Press.<BR>O'halloran, Kay L. (2005). Mathematical discourse: language, symbolism and<BR>visual images. London, Continuum.<BR>Outhwaite, William (2006). The future of society. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Page, Ruth E. (2006). literary and
linguistic approaches to feminist<BR>narratology. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.<BR>Paveau, Marie-Anne (2006). les prédiscours: sens, mémoire, cognition. Paris,<BR>Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.<BR>Pavlenko, Aneta, Ed. (2006). Bilingual minds: emotional experience,<BR>expression and representation. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.<BR>Perrin, Andrew J. (2006). Citizen Speak: the democratic imagination in<BR>American life. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press.<BR>Pinxten, Rik and Ellen Preckler, Eds. (2006). Racism in metropolitan areas.<BR>New York and Oxford, Berghahn.<BR>Poster, Mark (2006). Information please: culture and politics in the age of<BR>digital machines. Durham and London, Duke University Press.<BR>Povinelli, Elizabeth A. (2006). The empire of love: towards a theory of<BR>intimacy, genealogy, and carnality. Durham and London, Duke University<BR>Press.<BR>Rendle-Short, Johanna (2006). the academic presentation: situated talk in<BR>interaction.
Aldershot, Ashgate.<BR>Reyes, Angela (2007). Language, identity and stereotype among Southeast<BR>Asian American Youth: the other Asian. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum.<BR>Richards, Keith (2006). Language and professional identity: aspects of<BR>collaborative interaction. London, Palgrave.<BR>Sauntson, Helen and Sakis Kyratzis, Eds. (2007). Language, sexualities &<BR>desires: cross-cultural perspectives. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.<BR>Schechet, Nita (2005). narrative fissures: reading and rhetoric. Cranbury,<BR>NJ, Associated University Presses.<BR>Sharma, Aradhana and Akhil Gupta, Eds. (2006). The anthropology of the<BR>state: a reader. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Shi-Xu, Ed. (2007). Discourse as cultural struggle. Hong Kong, Hong Kong<BR>University Press.<BR>Shuy, Roger W. (2005). Creating language crimes: how law enforcement uses<BR>(and misuses) language. Oxford, Oxford University Press.<BR>Silverman, David (2006). Interpreting qualitative data. London,
Sage.<BR>Sinclair, John Mch. and Anna Mauranen (2006). Linear unit grammar:<BR>integrating speech and writing. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.<BR>Tolson, Andrew (2006). Media Talk: Spoken discourse on TV and radio.<BR>Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.<BR>Warren, Martin (2006). Features of naturalness in conversation. Amsterdam,<BR>John Benjamins.<BR>Watts, Richard (2005). packaging post/coloniality: the manufacture of<BR>literary identity in the francophone world. Lanham, Lexington Books.<BR>Webster, Jonathan J., Ed. (2006). M.A.K. Halliday: Studies in Chinese<BR>Language. London, Continuum.<BR>White, Mimi and James Schwoch, Eds. (2006). Questions of method in cultural<BR>studies. Oxford, Blackwell.<BR>Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton, Eds. (2006). Devolution and identity.<BR>Aldershot, Ashgate.<BR>Wooffitt, Robin (2006). The language of mediums and psychics: the social<BR>organization of everyday miracles. aldershot, Ashgate.<BR>Wray, Matt (2006). Not quite white: white
trash and the boundaries of<BR>whiteness. Durham and London, Duke University Press.<BR>Zerubavel, Eviatar (2006). The elephant in the room: silence and denial in<BR>everyday life. Oxford, Oxford University Press.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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