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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: Daniel  Lees Fryer
Institution: University of Gothenburg
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Homepage: http://www.danielfryer.no
State and/or Country: Norway   
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
General Linguistics
Linguistic Theories
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Specialty: systemic-functional grammar, academic literacy
Subject Language(s): English
Norwegian Bokmål
Selected Publications: Fryer, Daniel Lees. 2012. Analysis of the generic discourse features of the English-language medical research article: a systemic-functional approach. Functions of Language 19(1), 5-37
Courses Taught: Systemic-functional grammar
Social semiotics
Academic writing
English grammar
Reviewer of: Scientific Discourse and the Rhetoric of Globalization (LL Issue 24.565)
Reading Visual Narratives (LL Issue 24.2565)
Academic Paper Abstract: Analysis of the Generic Discourse Features of the English-Language Medical Research Article: A systemic-functional approach


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