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Call for Papers
international symposium on The Native Speaker and the Mother Tongue Cape Town, Dec 11-13, 2008
The George Wolf Prize Fund
George Wolf taught Linguistics and French at the University of New Orleans, and was a founding member of the IAISLC. He was a kind and generous person who cared a great deal about linguistics and who valued Oxford University and his connection to it. He was a graduate student at Merton College and submitted his D.Phil thesis in 1985.
George died in 2002. The George Wolf Prize Fund is being established in the Committee for Comparative Philology, Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. The fund will award a prize of £50 to the student with the best results in the examination for the MPhil in Linguistics each year.
For information on how to contribute, please contact Daniel Davis davisdr@umich.edu
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hat is Integrationism?
Integrationism is a new development in the theory of communication. The integrationist approach emerged from the work of a group of linguists at the University of Oxford during the 1980s and has since been developed internationally.
Integrationism has far-reaching implications for many social, political, legal, philosophical and psychological issues of our time. It offers a radical departure from traditional Western assumptions about language and communication. it abandons the idea of communication as a 'sender-receiver' discards the notion of separate, independent 'channels' of communication
The radical integrationist alternative is to treat communication as an open-ended continuum of integrated activities, shaped by the initiative of individuals.This means From an integrationist perspective, the primary function of the sign is to integrate an individual's past, present and (anticipated) future experience. That is an essential prerequisite for making sense of any situation in which we are involved. Without it, there can be no question of communication.
The integrationist agenda for a modern literate society is a programme of demythologization. It includes the following interrelated