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WHERE EAST LOOKS WEST
Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast
Dennis Kurzon
Published by Multilingual Matters (Clevedon, UK)
Table of Contents
Introduction
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Part 1: Macro-linguistic Environment
Chapter 1
A Sociolinguistic Look at India
Chapter 2
The Status of Konkani
Chapter 3
The Konkani-Marathi Controversy – the 2000-1 version
Chapter 4
English in Goa
Chapter 5
Caste and Migration as Social Phenomena in Goa
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Part 2: Field Study and Analysis
Chapter 6
Language Acquisition
Chapter 7
Testing the Students
Chapter 8
Results from Questionnaire
Chapter 9
English in India
Chapter 10
Multilingualism
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Chapter 11
Appendix:
Conclusion
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Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language Act 1987
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References
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Index
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Prof. Dennis Kurzon
Department of English
Language and Literature
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Publications:
A Tale of Two Remedies |
Discourse of Silence | Where
East Looks West
Dennis Kurzon, professor in the Department of English
Language and Literature.
His main field of research has been in legal language. He has
written two books on legal language: His 1986 It is Hereby
Performed…: Explorations in Legal Speech Acts, partly based
on his PhD dissertation, analyzes legal acts as speech acts
according to the model set out in Austin's and Searle's
pioneering research.
In A Tale of Two Remedies: Equity, Verb Aspect and the
Whorfian Hypothesis (Deborah Charles Publications, 1998),
Kurzon looks at the growth of equity in the Anglo-American
legal system through the use of verbal aspect, especially the
distinction between the perfective and the imperfective. These
ideas were previously published in a number of articles (1995b,
1997b, 1997c; see bibliography).
In Discourse of Silence (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997),
Kurzon devotes a chapter to the right of silence in the legal
process, a topic which is also discussed in several articles
(1992a, 1992b, 1994b, 1995a, 1996).
Among his numerous articles on legal language are found one
on the essence of legal language (1997), on incitement (1998),
and on the politeness of American and English judges in
relation to their colleagues on the bench and to lawyers that
have appeared before them (2000), and on defamation (2002,
forthcoming). DELETE ", FORTHCOMING"
Following the sudden death in 1998 of Roberta Kevelson, one
of the leading Peircian philosophers, Kurzon edited a special
issue of International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (1999)
consisting of articles written by a number of scholars who work
within the field of legal semiotics and who have been inspired
by her work.
Kurzon's second major field of research is Indian
sociolinguistics. In 2003 his book Where East Looks West:
Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast was
published by Multilingual Matters. In this work, he examines the
success in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
among Konkani speakers (who live in Goa and on the Konkan
coast of India), who have constantly achieved the highest
average grade in the world in the test. See also Present
Research
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He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International
Journal for the Semiotics of Law and a member of the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Pragmatics. He is also a member of the
International Association of Forensic Linguistics, the
International Pragmatics Association and the International
Association of Applied Linguistics.
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Kurzon has also published in other fields. His book on silence,
mentioned above, looks at silence in answer to questions in the
context of conversation, in literary and biblical contexts, in
music, and finally in the cinema. Furthermore, applause as
audience response has been analyzed in two articles based on
recordings of various diplomatic ceremonies concerned with the
Arab-Israel peace process (1996, and an article in Hebrew in
1997).
He edited with the late Susanne Feigenbaum a collection of
papers on the pragmatics, semantics and grammar of
prepositions (published by John Benjamins of Amsterdam,
2002). The papers were presented at a conference on
prepositions which he co-organized (with Susanne
Feigenbaum) at Haifa University in June 2000. His paper was
on the multifunctional preposition long in the Melanesian pidgin
English, Bislama, spoken in Vanuatu.
He has also contributed the article on Adpositions for the
forthcoming Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics.
As well as analyzing pragmatically a Jane Austen novel in his
book on silence, he has also looked at Thomas Hardy's major
novels from a pragmatic perspective (1993, 1996c).
He regularly publishes book reviews for the journal Lingua.
Present Research
Kurzon is now working on several projects. In the field of legal
language, he is co-editing the section on language and the law
of the second edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language
and Linguistics (due to be published in late 2005). TITLE IN
ITALICS
In research on India, Kurzon has been looking at the function of
transliteration of English into Indian alphabets (see Kurzon
2003). One such project is a contribution to the work of the
Israel-based research group on the globalization of English.
A major project he is working on is an examination why the
spread of the the Arabic alphabet, in the wake of the spread of
Islam, stopped on the border of Bengal in north-east India. The
Bengali language is spoken and written by many more
Muslims (in Bangladesh) than Hindus (in West Bengal), but
both communities use the same alphabet. This situation may
be contrasted with what has happened in north India, where
one language (once called Hindustani) is written in two
alphabets and are referred to as two separate languages –
Hindi and Urdu.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Legal language (comprehensive) :Books | Articles
Other works (a selection): Books | Articles
Legal language (comprehensive)
Books
1986. It is Hereby Performed…: Explorations in Legal Speech Acts.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
1998. A Tale of Two Remedies: Equity, Verb Aspect and the Whorfian
Hypothesis. Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications.
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'Clarity and word order in legislation'. Oxford Journal of Legal
Studies, 5:2, 269-275.
'The tales lawyers tell: Narrative aspects of a lawyer's brief'. Poetics,
14, 467-481.
'Latin for lawyers: Degrees of textual integration'. Applied Linguistics,
8:3, 27-34.
'Prolegomena to a speech act approach to hearsay evidence'.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 1:3, 264-273.
'Iconic syntax and rabbinical codes'. Jewish Law Annual, VIII, 71-83.
'Telling the truth: the oath as a test of witness competency'.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2:4, 49-63.
'Sexist and non-sexist language in English legal texts'. International
Journal of the Sociology of Language, 80:99-113.
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Sociology of Law. Onati International Institute for the Sociology of
Law, 297-332.
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23, 55-69.
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English legal development'. International Journal for the Semiotics of
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'To speak or not to speak: The comprehensibility of the revised police
caution (PACE)'. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law,
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Charles Publications, 123-137.
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the Semiotics of Law, 12(3), 237-239.
"The politeness of judges: American and English judicial behaviour".
2000
Journal of Pragmatics 33/1, 61- 85
'The right to understand the right of silence: a few comments'.
2000b
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'The reader of defamatory texts" International Journal for the
2002
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forthcoming 'The limits of pragmatics: The case of defamation'. Journal of
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Books
1997. Discourse of Silence Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
with Susanne Feigenbaum (eds.) Prepositions in their Syntactic,
2002.
Semantic and Pragmatic Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Where East Looks West: Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast.
2003. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. LINK TO TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
BOOK
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'Signposts for the reader: a corpus-based study of text deixis'. Text,
5:3, 187-200.
'Nomen rosae: Latin and "the ambience of the period" in Eco's novel'.
1989.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts, 17:36-51.
'Entrapped by words: Semiotic studies of Thomas Hardy's novels'.
1993.
Semiotica, 95:3/4, 261-323.
1994a. 'Character silence and narrator silencing'. In S. Cmejrkova, F. Danes
and E. Havlova (eds.) Writing vs. Speaking: Language, Text,
Discourse, Communication. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 367-371.
1994b. 'Age and the language learner: Some comments'. English Teachers'
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'The White House speeches: Semantic and paralinguistic strategies
for eliciting applause'. Text, 16:2, 199-224.
'The maxim of quantity, hyponymy and Princess Diana'. Pragmatics,
6:2, 217-227.
'The anatomy of two promises: The cases of "The Rash Bride" and
Bathsheba Everdene'. Thomas Hardy Year Book, 13-21.
'Deixis and background knowledge in the humor of car-bumper
stickers'. Semiotica, 113-3/4, 347-368.
'A case of a broken chain II'. Journal of Pragmatics, 33, 1173-1176.
'Preposition as functor: The case of long in Bislama'. In S.
Feigenbaum and D. Kurzon (eds.) Prepositions in their Syntactic,
Semantic and Pragmatic Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp.
231-248.
'Language choice as sign: The case of India'. Semiotica, 2003, 147-1/4, 457472. PLEASE MAKE FONT CONSISTENT