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It was about one and a half years ago that I finally I arrived where I had always wanted to be and do what I had always wanted-- teach students, support small language communities and conduct research on African languages on my doorstep. The University of Cape Town and my new colleagues welcomed my efforts to establish the Centre for African Language Diversity-- CALDi as well as The African Language Archive-- TALA and I was recently appointed the Mellon Research Chair: African Language Diversity this initiative. The main aim of CALDi is to train young African scholars in descriptive linguistics and open up space for research into African languages at UCT with the hopes of countering the dominance of African linguistics outside the continent. It has been a great challenge for which my whole career has been a form of preparation...Read more



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Name: Chaoqun  Xie
Institution: Fujian Normal University
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State and/or Country: China   
Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Specialty: linguistic politeness, meaning and intention
Selected Publications: 1. Xie, C. 2007. Controversies about politeness. In: M. Dascal & H. Chang (eds.),Traditions of Controversy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 249-266.
2. Xie, C. Z. He & D. Lin. 2005. Politeness: Myth and truth. Studies in Language 29(2): 431-461.
Courses Taught: Pragmatics
Reviewer of: Translation: Ellis & Oakley-Brown, eds. (2001) (LL Issue 12.1990)
Pragmatics: Nuyts (2001) (LL Issue 12.2616)
Pragmatics: Bayraktaroglu & Sifianou (2001) (LL Issue 13.278)
Pragmatics: Verschueren, Ostman, Blommaert & Bulcaen, eds. (1995-2001) (LL Issue 13.2066)
Discourse Analysis: Fetzer & Meierkord, ed. (2002) (LL Issue 14.275)
Pragmatics: Verschueren, Ostman, Blommaert & Bulcaen, eds. (2002) (LL Issue 14.1179)
Cognitive Science/Pragmatics: Graumann & Kallmeyer (2002) (LL Issue 14.1605)
Discourse Analysis: Prevignano & Thibault (2003) (LL Issue 14.2177)
Pragmatics: Verschueren, Ostman, Blommaert and Bulcaen, eds.(2003) (LL Issue 14.3179)
Philosophy of Lang: Wittgenstein (2005) (LL Issue 17.1513)


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