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Author: Luciano Valadares (part 3) |
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Date Posted: 14:58:55 08/28/10 Sat In part three, you and your group members should become familiar with one of the keynote speakers of the conference you will write a simulated proposal for. Try to find out more information about this person on the Internet? Where does this person work? Why is her or his work significant to the academic community the conference is targeting? There are 7 keynote speakers in AAAL Conference: Frank Boers, Associate Professor, Victoria University in Wellington Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to L2 Vocabulary: Assessment and Integration James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University Language, Literacy, and Learning in a Digital Age Charles Goodwin, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles Locating Language Within Public, Interactive Fields: Insights From Aphasia Leanne Hinton, Professor Emerita, University of California at Berkeley Learning an Endangered Language Without a Classroom: A Progress Report on the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor, New York University Why Don’t Theories of Globalization Think About Language? Michael Silverstein, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago The Elementary Forms of Culture in a Post-‘culture’-al World: Signification – Circulation - Emanation From the six keynote speakers the one that is more connected to the article we are simulating a proposal is Mary Louise Pratt. Specially by the fact that she is talking about theories of globalization. She is a Silver Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Known as a scholar of Latin American literature written since 1800, Pratt studies postcolonial criticism and theory, cultural studies, women and print culture, literary discourse and ideology, travel literature, and modern prose fiction. Specifically, the topics of her research have concerned verb forms in the African Kikuyu language, ideology and speech-act theory, new visions in culture and citizenship and the “traffic in meaning.” Pratt’s published work includes Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse; Linguistics for Students of Literature; and Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Professor Pratt has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, the Pew Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences. Check her complete Curriculum Vitae in the following link: http://silverdialogues.fas.nyu.edu/docs/CP/306/pratt_cv.pdf Other References: http://www.ifcs.ufrj.br/~habitus/3pratt.htm http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbh/v20n39/2990.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Louise_Pratt [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |