From Cindy Gallois I am writing to bring you the very sad news of the death from cancer of Emeritus Professor Christopher N. Candlin, on May 10th. Chris was a senior research professor in linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where he started as Professor and Department Chair in 1987. He was the Founding… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: May 2015
Presidential Post – Where We Are, May 2015
A very warm welcome to the new IALSP blog posts! Please watch this space for updates from our Association’s executive and general membership. As I write, IALSP is currently in the exciting space between conference past and conference to come. It is nearly a year since our last International Conference on Language and Social Psychology,… Read more »
Focus Publication – May 2015
Our focus publication for this month (randomly selected) by an IALSP member is: Bull, P.& Miskinis, K. (2015) Whipping it up! An analysis of audience responses to political rhetoric in speeches from the 2012 American presidential elections. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 34. ABSTRACT: In the context of Hofstede’s distinction between collectivist and individualist… Read more »