Call for Papers

[zmaalej]

Hi Ray,

Thanks for sending in the call for papers, and I wish I could contribute.
Last month Bernard Comrie was in Tunisia, and gave a series of lectures on
typologies and universals. What actually amazed me while he was talking of
relative clauses and the passive is the kind of ambiguity that Japanese has
in this respect with regard to interpretation. This is all I know about
Japanese. Oh, there is something else I suppose I know, which is that it is
a head-last language (please correct me).

Regards,
Zouhair
-----Original Message-----
From: R.Donahue <rtd at NGU.AC.JP>
To: DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu <DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu>
Date: 28 ãÇÑÓ, 1999 14:04
Subject: Call for Papers


>                       CALL FOR PAPERS for
>---------------------------------------------------
>JAPANESE ENACTMENTS OF CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
>
>Edited by Ray T. Donahue    <rtd at ngu.ac.jp>
>for ABLEX Publishing (USA & UK)
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>ABOUT THE EDITOR:
>
>Ray T. Donahue (PhD, University of Virginia), professor of
>intercultural communication, Institute for  Japanese
>Studies at Nagoya Gakuin University in Japan, has had over
>ten years experience teaching Japanese studies. An applied
>linguist and communications specialist, he has taught at
>universities in Japan, the United States, and China. He
>specializes in discourse analysis and is the author of
>several books:  JAPANESE NON-LINEAR DISCOURSE STYLE
>(Applied Linguistics Research, 1990); DIPLOMATIC
>DISCOURSE: INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AT THE UNITED
>NATIONS, with Michael H. Prosser, (Ablex, 1997); and
>JAPANESE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: CRITICAL
>CULTURAL ANALYSIS (University Press of America, 1998).
>
>PURPOSE:
>
>JAPANESE ENACTMENTS OF CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
>intends to describe how Japanese discourse reflects or
>reproduces Japaneseness.
>
>AUDIENCE:  interdisciplinary
>
>TOPICS
>
>conversational speech, popular culture, mass media,
>political speech, corporate culture, rhetoric, minority
>affairs, etc., etc. PROPOSALS FOR OTHER TOPICS OR AREAS
>ARE GREATLY ENCOURAGED.
>
>DUE DATES:
>Abstract & Biograph. - June 15 (email, fax or by mail)
>Manuscript & disk- September 15 (by mail only)
>
>Use APA (4th. ed.) style and format in Word Perfect or
>ASCII for MAC or PC; also for Japanese use Hepburn style
>and macrons.
>
>Request the document GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS:
>
>Ray T. Donahue
>Higashiyama Motomachi Jutaku 2-305
>Higashiyama Motomachi 4-53-1
>Chikusa-Ku
>Nagoya, Japan 464-0804
>
>email:  rtd at ngu.ac.jp
>Fax +81-561-41-1953 (Dept. office)
>