WRITING VS SPEAKING

Language, Text, Discourse, Communication
Proceedings of the Conference held at the Czech Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic, Prague, October 14-16, 1992




Contents
 



Preface from the editors 


PLENARY PAPERS


Robert de Beaugrande (Vienna and Gainesville)
Speech and writing in theory and in data 


František Daneš (Prague)
Feedback dynamics between written and spoken


Nils Erik Enkvist (Åbo)
Problems raised by Old English
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Paul L. Garvin (Buffalo)
The analysis of spoken and written data in
the light of language data processing


Elisabeth Gülich (Bielefeld)
Formulierungsarbeit im Gespräch


Winfried Nöth (Kassel)
Symmetry in oral and written language


Wolfgang Raible (Freiburg)
Literacy and language change


Roger D. Seli (Åbo)
Literary pragmatics and speech act theory of literature


Petr Sgall (Prague)
Sociological issues of spoken language


Sorin Stati (Bologna)
Sequencing of argumentation moves in written dialogues 


Yishai Tobin (Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva)
a unified analysis of contractions in English
in spoken and written discourse



SECTION I
General questions of speaking and writing


Deborah Du Bartell (Edinboro)
Language and technologieal media:
Devising parameters for the relationships
between speech and writing


Reinhard Fiehler (Bielefeld)
Analyse- und Beschreibungskategorien für geschriebene
und gesprochene Sprache. Alles eins?


Roz Ivanič (Lancaster)
Characterizations of context for describing
spoken and written discourse


Jan Kořenský (Prag)
Dimensionen der Beziehung von Schriftlichkeit und
Mündlichkeit in der sprachlichen Kommunikation


Nikolaj Savický (Prag)
Geschriebene Sprache, gesprochene Sprache im Lichte der philo-
sophischen Kategorie der Vergegenständlichung



SECTION II
Mutual relations between writing and speaking, monologue and dialogue


Martin Davies (Stirling)
Intonation Is visible in written English


Eva Hajičová (Prague)
Cognitive prerequisites of anaphoric relations and
topic-focus articulation (TFA)


Jana Hoffmannová (Prag)
Zitate und Allusionen – zwischen mündlichen
und schriftlichen Texten


Галина Hещименко (Mocквa)
Дихотомии “монологическая – диалогическая речь” и
“писменная – устная речь” и их значимость для
моделирования строения национального языка


František Štícha (Prag)
Intonatorische Wiedergabe der impliziten
Thema-Rhema-Gliederung beim Lesen


Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (Turku)
Variation in lexical cohesion in spoken and written English


Bärbel Techtmeier (Berlin)
Handlungsstrukturen in monologischen und dialogischen Texten



SECTION III
Speaking and listening, writing and reading


Ronald Geluykens (Antwerp)
Interactional and topical coherence in conversation


Maria Langleben (Jerusalem)
Scanning and digesting the text:
The direction of text and the direction
of interpretation


Kristyan Spelman Miller (Reading)
a new mode of spoken interaction?
The case of the telephone answer-machine


Ludmila Uhlířová (Prague)
Talk at a PC


Ann Williams (Reading)
Talk written down?
The sociolinguistics of school writing



SECTION IV
Writing and speaking in academic setting


Ulla Connor (Indianapolis)
Text linguistics and the study of contrastive rhetorics 


Světla Čmejrková (Prague)
Non-native (academic) writing


Stanisław Gajda (Opole)
Speaking and writing in scientific communication


Ann-Charlotte Lindeberg (Helsinki)
Rhetorical conventions in scholarly articles in economics and
busines sciences: a study of introductions with a special
reference to knowledge claims 


Nicola Owtram (Florence)
Writers and speakers as social actors:
The notion of norm as a pedagogical instrument
within academic discourse communities


Eija Ventola (Helsinki)
Abstracts as an object of linguistic study



SECTION V
Literary text on the background of speaking and writing


Martina Björklund (Åbo)
Participant reference in spoken and written Russian narratives 


George Cummins (New Orleans)
Intercodal collision in narrative:
Spoken and written language in literary narrative


Dennis Kurzon (Jerusalem)
Character silence and narrator silencing


Jaromíra Rakusan (Ottawa)
a case of Chicago Czech: On the bookshelf and on the stage


Brita Wårvik (Turku)
In search of orality in the history of English:
a study in signals of textual organization



SECTION VI
Norms of writing and speaking


Anne Betten (Eichstätt)
Normenwandel im gesprochenen Deutsch des 20. Jahrhunderts 


Zdeněk Hlavsa (Prague)
Writing vs speaking from a prescriptive point of view


Oldřich Leška (Prague)
Some remarks on semiotic aspects of written language


Philip A. Luelsdorff (Regensburg) – Sergej V. Chesnokov (Moscow)
Determinacy → Experience
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