DISCOURSE AND COMMUNITY. DOING FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTCS.
Language in Performance 21.
Edited by Eija Ventola.  Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000


C o n t e n t s

Part I

1 Doing forensic linguistics: endangered people in the community
Michael Gregory

2 Legal victims
Elissa Asp

3 Bueaucratic planning and resemiotisation
Rick Iedema

4 Cross-cultural variation in multilingual instructions: a study of
speech
act realisation patterns
Julia Lavid

5 It's not what you do, it's how you construe (yourself and the
other), or
the construction of an institutional
Rachel Whittaker


Part II

6 The choice of directive expressions in English and Spanish
instructions:
a semamtic network
Susana Murcia-Bielsa

7 Textual variation in travel guides
Wiebke Ramm

8 Telling stories: textanalysis in a museum
Emily Purser

9 Plans but no scripts: planning, discourse, and interpretation in
the
step aerobics workout
Judy Delin

10 Variation in (silent) discourse and music
Anna Danielewicz-Betz


Part III

11 Interpreting French theme as a bi-layered structure: discourse
implications
Alice Caffarel

12 Problems of language use in the translation of tourist brochures:
the
systemic functional grammar as a serviceable tool for translational
decisions
Patricia Martinez

13 Translation evaluation - some methodological questions arising
from
the
German translation of Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners"
Erich Steiner

14 The subtitling of film: reaching another community
Christopher Taylor


Part IV

15 The inference of given information in written text
Michael Cummings

16 Nominalization and topic management in leads and headlines
Angela Downing

17 Media objectivity and the rhetoric of news story structure
Peter R.R. White


The aim of this collected volume is to demonstrate how the community
may benefit from linguist's work in functional discourse
analysis. Most of the authors share a concern for applying their
linguistic expertise to 'real life' problems. How can language be used
as evidence in court? Why are bureaucratic forms often hard to
understand? How is language efficiently used in written guidelines and
instructions? Why are so many translations insufficient? How are
newspaper texts shaped by hidden ideologies?  These and other
questions are tackled by experienced linguists.

Their analysis, though, will not only be instructive for their
professional colleagues. Even non-expert readers may find helpful
insights into understanding their own linguistic behavior better and
maybe improving their communicative skills.

Prof. Dr. Eija Ventola
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Universität Salzburg
Akademiestraße 24
A-5020 Salzburg

email (Salzburg): eija.ventola@sbg.acat