[PN] Discourse Intonation (11 Dec. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for Online Conference Papers

TCC 2004: Ninth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges
Online Conference: SURFING THE BROADBAND WAVE:
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. April 20-22, 2004.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2004
[One of the first and largest online conferences;
pan-disciplinary, focused mostly on higher education - Ed.]
http://www.lists.pdx.edu/waoe-views/current/0766.html

* Reference Websites

Streaming Speech | Centre for Discourse Intonation Studies
[Technology based on Birmingham applied linguistics
work on language teaching with spontaneous speech - Ed.]
http://www.speechinaction.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

9th OECD/Japan Seminar On The Future of Universities:
Roles, driving forces of change, scenarios and policy challenges
Organised by CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION /
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (CERI/OECD)
and THE JAPANESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS, SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY (MEXT) and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, 11-12 December 2003
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/topics/oecd/japanseminar/001.htm

OneWorld Network (news and views)
http://www.oneworld.net/
Digital Opportunity Channel -
joint initiative of OneWorld.net and Digital Divide Network
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/
Learning Channel - promoting education for all
http://www.learningchannel.org/

* Periodical articles

China to Help Create Classes for U.S. Schools
By Jay Mathews, Washington Post, December 6, 2003
Chinese officials announced yesterday that they will help create
a nearly $1.4 million Advanced Placement program in Chinese
language and culture for U.S. high schools.
[Some concerns have been raised. I read elsewhere that the
President's brother Neil Bush is getting $2 million from the Chinese.
He also plans to marry his friend's wife who is already pregnant.
I didn't wish to gross out you readers, but it may have been hard to
believe before when the Bush family was called a vending machine
for special interests - Ed.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38312-2003Dec5.html

LEAVE NO FLYGIRL BEHIND
Farai Chideya, AlterNet, December 9, 2003
"Democrats have to reclaim the language of opportunity to
appeal to the acquisitive hip-hop generation, who want
immediate rewards for the fruits of their labor.... Democrats
have to reclaim the language of opportunity, enhanced by a
solid grasp of social justice ... The key to reinvigorating younger
voters, and the untapped 100 million non-voters, is to find an
aspirational, inspirational language for political change. The
Republicans have been very adept at creating a clear narrative
of power and self-determination that appeals not only to the
people they serve (the rich), but to anyone seeking to better
themselves. Thus the trend of the "NASCAR Dad," a demographic
whose economic interests should go clearly Democratic but
whose voting patterns are stubbornly Republican. Right now,
at least, the Republicans are better storytellers."
[Partisan, but highlights the role of language in politics - Ed.]
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17345

[Speaking of NASCAR, go easy on the environment, buddy:]

A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES
David Morris, AlterNet, December 8, 2003
"Japanese corporations invest in the future by developing
and commercializing hybrid cars" [absorbing losses at first]
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17333

Negotiating with the North
By Leon V. Sigal, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
November/December 2003, Volume 59, No. 6, pp. 19ミ25
"China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia are all doing their
part. Now the United States needs to get down to business.
After three years of doing what he could to repudiate his
predecessorユs Korea policy, President George W. Bush now
finds himself on the same precarious perch where President
Bill Clinton stood in 1994 and again in late 1998. North Korea
is developing nuclear arms and missile technology, but Bush
is doing nothing effective to stop it. He is hoping that North
Korea will collapse so he won't have to deal with it as it is,
but as he wishes it to be. In the meantime, heユs planning
air strikes while trying to line up support for an economic
embargo and naval blockade - a strategy that only alienates
allies South Korea and Japan and antagonizes China."
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/nd03/nd03sigal.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
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