Suzanne Fleischman & Linda R. Waugh (eds.), Discourse pragmatics and the verb. Routledge, London, 1991; 220 pp.

Book Review: R. Dingwall and S. Frost (eds.), Health and Safety in a Changing World, Routledge, London, 2017

Discourse dynamics, pragmatics, and indefinites

Everyone agrees that conversations take place in a context. This is not to merely point out that conversations occur at a time and a place, or that there are particular speakers and hearers, though this is all of course true. Conversations take place against a background of mutually recognized facts: facts about the beliefs and presumptions of the participants, facts about the information conve...

Pragmatics 11:4.379-400 (2001) International Pragmatics Association RELATIONAL CLAUSES IN ENGLISH TECHNICAL DISCOURSE: PATTERNS OF VERB CHOICE

This paper reports on patterns of verb choice in identifying relational clauses (e.g. ‘X is Y, Y is X’) in English technical manuals. While it is obvious that specific lexical verbs will feature in identifying clauses of different functions, e.g. mean (defining), call (naming), exemplify (exemplifying), less transparent is the distribution of these more specific verbs and the general or neutral...

Arlene R . Wyman , Linda

The growth of clones of human genomic DNA fragments in a bacteriophage X vector has been examined in a number of different Escherichia coli hosts. A large proportion (8.9%) of the phages carrying different fragments of the human genome fail to grow on standard rec' hosts but will grow on hosts carrying mutations in the recB, recC, and sbcB genes. Heteroduplex analysis in the electron microscope...

Review of Economic pluralism , edited by Robert Garnett , Erik Olsen , and Martha Starr . London : Routledge , 2009 , 336 pp . I RENE

This volume brings together in twenty accessible chapters a large number of authors contributing previously unpublished work on economic pluralism. The editors present it as the collection of economic pluralism for the twenty first century. This sounds very ambitious but the table of contents is promising, because it reflects pluralism in themes and approaches as well as diversity in authors' g...