8.542, Qs: Article, Metaphor, Syntax measure

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Subject: 8.542, Qs: Article, Metaphor, Syntax measure

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1)
Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:43:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  Pia.Kohlmyr at eng.gu.se (Pia Kohlmyr)
Subject:  ESL errors

2)
Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:57:39 -0500
From:  deanbush at digitalexp.com (Bush, Dean)
Subject:  Ontological metaphor...

3)
Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:13:25 GMT0BST
From:  "Christine Raschka" <Christine.Raschka at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  syntactic proficiency measure for SLA data

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:43:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:  Pia.Kohlmyr at eng.gu.se (Pia Kohlmyr)
Subject:  ESL errors

I'm working on a PhD on Swedish learners' errors in English compositions
and I'm trying to find an article by J. Hendrickson (1979) "Systematic
Correlation and Analysis of Composition Errors" in Hendrickson , 1979 pp
25-43. It seems this article is part of a collection of papers edited (?)
by Hendrickson called "Error Analysis and Correction in Language Teaching"
in Seameo Regional Language Centre Occasional Papers # 10, 1979
(Singapore). I've tried our library but they just can't help me. Is there
anyone out there who knows about this article and perhaps where I could get
hold of a copy? Please e-mail me directly on Pia.Kohlmyr at eng.gu.se

Thanks in advance...

Pia Kohlmyr

Mrs Pia Kohlmyr (PhD student)           Phone:  Int +46 (0)31 773 17 67
Gothenburg University                   E-mail: Pia.Kohlmyr at eng.gu.se
Department of English                   Fax:    Int +46 (0)31 773 47 26
S-412 98 Gothenburg
Sweden


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:57:39 -0500
From:  deanbush at digitalexp.com (Bush, Dean)
Subject:  Ontological metaphor...

   I'm hoping someone can clarify the concept of ontological metaphor.
After reading Chapter 6 in METAPHORS WE LIVE BY, Lakoff and Johnson, I
don't feel confident in identifying such metaphor in discourse.  Two
examples they give are:  (1) He went to New York to SEEK FAME AND FORTUNE.
(2) INFLATION IS LOWERING our quality of living.  I would guess and say
that these are ontological metaphors based on the idea that "fame and
fortune" and "inflation" don't have definite boundaries as physical
entities; hence, they are classified as ontological metaphors.  Is my guess
correct?
   I would greatly appreciate your comments.
Dean Bush, deanbush at digitalexp.com


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:13:25 GMT0BST
From:  "Christine Raschka" <Christine.Raschka at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  syntactic proficiency measure for SLA data

I am currently transcribing a large corpus of naturally occurring
conversational English second language data by Chinese/ English
bilingual adults. We are aiming to carry out an analysis of salient linguistic
features at lexico-semantic and morpho-syntactic levels which would
allow comparisons between individual speakers and speaker groups.
Could anybody recommend a manageable (standardised) syntactic
proficiency measure that can be used to analyse such data?

Many thanks in advance,

Christine Raschka


Department of Speech,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
UK
Email: christine.raschka at newcastle.ac.uk

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