Fwd: DeBeaugrande online

From: Jay Lemke (jaylemke@umich.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 09:54:17 PDT


I pass on for those who may be interested, from my friend Robert
deBeaugrande, a leader and pioneer in discourse studies and text
linguistics, and professor emeritus of the university of vienna, this
generous offer to make some of his substantial works (he was a very
prolific and good writer) available online, and for scholars without online
access even on cdrom.

He references the important issue that academic publication has become
increasingly hostage to the high costs (and profits) of international
publishers, tying up too much of the scholarship of empowerment away from
those around the world whom we hope might find greatest use for it. It
really is our responsibility to do something about this, as I know many of
you have already begun to do. Robert sets us a good example.

Thanks, Robert!

JAY.

>>Please forward to anybody who might be interested
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>>FREEDOM TO THE BOOKS!!
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>>Robert De Beaugrande
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>>I'm glad to announce the free distribution of my 'big' books to be
>>downloaded gratis from my website, which has become
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>>beaugrande.bizland.com
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>>(no www. for some reason)
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>>If I advocate 'freedom of access to knowledge and society' (see
>>especially my newest book listed below), I cannot address people in
>>expensive or hard-to-find books. The following are already available,
>>scanned, edited, reformatted, and broken down into webpages under 300 kb
>>for easy download and free use. They may be quoted, translated, or
>>downloaded onto CD without the author's permission. An occasional
>>thank-you note would be appreciated, though, to
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>> <mailto:beaugrande@terra.com.br>beaugrande@terra.com.br
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>>1. A New Introduction to the Study of Text and Discourse:
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>> Discursivism and Ecologism (2004)
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>>I. <../FTP/NEWINTRCHONE.htm>Theory and Practice
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>>II. <../FTP/NEWINTROIIPart1.htm>Theory and Practice in Studies of
>>Language
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>>III. <../FTP/NEWINTROIII1.htm>Lexicogrammar in the Study of Text and
>>Discourse
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>><../FTP/NEWINTROIVPart1.htm>IV. Prosody in the Study of Text and
>>Discourse
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>>V.<../FTP/NEWINTROVPart1.htm> Visuality in the Study of Text and
>>Discourse
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>><../FTP/NEWINTROVIPart 1.htm>VI. Style in the Study of Text and Discourse
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>>VII. <../FTP/NEWINTROVIIPart1.htm>Discursive Themes of Social Division
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>>The 'New Racism'
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>>Worker safety
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>>Consumer health
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>>Environmentalism
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>>American "interests'
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>>The 'Patriot
>>Acts'
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>>VIII. <../FTP/NEWINTROVIII.htm>The Standards of Textuality
>>Revisited
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>>IX. <../FTP/NEWINTROIX.htm>A Final Word
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>>2. <../FTP/introduction_to_text_linguistics.htm>Introduction to Text
>>Linguistics<../FTP/introduction_to_text_linguistics.htm> (1981)
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>>3. <../FTP/text_production.htm>Text Production (1984)
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>>4. <../FTP/critiical_discourse.htm>Critical Discourse: A Survey of
>>Contemporary Literary Theorists (1991)
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>>Rene Wellek and Austin Warren
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>>Northrop Frye
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>>Leslie Fiedler
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>>Wolfgang Iser
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>>E.D. Hirsch
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>>Hans Robert Jauss
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>>Norman Holland
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>>David Bleich
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>>Bernard Paris
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>>Jonathan Culler
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>>Paul de Man
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>>Harold Bloom
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>>Geoffrey Hartman
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>>Kate Millett
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>>Luce Irigaray (new inclusion)
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>>4. <../FTP/LINGTHERLinguistic Theory Title.htm>Linguistic Theory: The
>>Discourse of Fundamental Works
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>>Ferdinand de Saussure
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>>Edward Sapir
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>>Leonard Bloomfield
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>>Kenneth Lee Pike
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>>Louis Hjelmslev
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>>Noam Chomsky
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>>John Rupert Firth
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>>Michael Halliday
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>>Terry Winograd (previously unpublished)
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>>Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch
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>>Peter Hartmann
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>>5. <../FTP/new_foundations_for_a_science.htm>New Foundations for a
>>Science of Text and Discourse (1997)
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>>I'd be even more glad to hear of colleagues following suit by giving
>>away their books to those whose social, economic, and educational
>>interests they propose to champion.
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>>If you or someone you know lives in a region where internet use is hard
>>or even dangerous and wants a book, get me an e-mail and a safe postal
>>address, and I'll mail them the a CD for free. Contact:
>><mailto:beaugrande@terrra.com.br>beaugrande@terrra.com.br
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Jay Lemke
Professor
University of Michigan
School of Education
610 East University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Tel. 734-763-9276
Email. JayLemke@UMich.edu
Website. www.umich.edu/~jaylemke



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