Book reviews (English)

Book reviews in scholarly journals (English)

Forceville, Charles (in press). Review of Gunther Kress, Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication (Routledge 2010). Journal of Pragmatics. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.06.013

--- (2011). Review of Lars Ellestrom (ed.), Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (Palgrave MacMillan 2010), Journal of Pragmatics: 3091-3094. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2011.04.015

--- (2010). Review of Carey Jewitt (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis (2009), Journal of Pragmatics 42: 2604-2608. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.03.003.

--- (2009). Review of Noël Carroll, On Criticism (Routledge 2009). Language and Literature 18: 405-408.

--- (2009). Review of Terry D. Royce and Wendy L. Bowcher (eds.), New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse. (Erlbaum 2007). Journal of Pragmatics 41: 1459-1463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.01.007

--- (2008). Review of Mark Johnson, The Meaning of the Body (University of Chicago Press 2007). Metaphor and Symbol 23: 292-297.

--- (2007). Review of Rosario Caballero, Re-viewing Space: Figurative Languagein Architects’ Assessment of Built Space (Mouton de Gruyter 2006). Metaphor and Symbol 22: 275-280.

--- (2007). Review of Anthony Baldry and Paul Thibault, Multimodal Transcription and Text Analysis: A Multimedia Toolkit and Coursebook(Equinox 2006). Journal of Pragmatics 39: 1235-1238 .

--- (2006). Review of Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation (Cambridge University Press 2005). Journal of Pragmatics 38: 1528-31.

--- (2006). Review of Jonathan Charteris-Black,Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis (Palgrave 2004). Language and Literature 15: 402-405.

--- (2004).Review of Gilles Fauconnier and MarkTurner, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities (Basic Books 2002). Metaphor and Symbol 19: 83-89.

--- (2003). Review of Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (Oxford University Press 2002). Journal of English Linguistics 31: 178-183.

--- (2003). Review of Yuri Engelhardt, The Language of Graphics: A Framework for the Analysis of Syntax and Meaning in Maps, Charts, and Diagrams (ILLC 2002). Document Design 4: 287-290.

--- (2002). Review of Lars Hermerén English for Sale: A Study of the Language of Advertising (Lund University Press 1999).Journal of Pragmatics 34: 341-344.

--- (2001). Review of Rick Altman, Film/Genre (British Film Institute 1999). Journal of Pragmatics 33: 1787-1790.

--- (2001). Review of Guy Cook, Language Play, Language Learning (Oxford University Press 2000). Language and Literature 10: 371-74.

--- (2001). Review of Adrian Pilkington, Poetic Effects (Benjamins 2000). Language and Literature 10: 374-377.

--- (1999). Review of Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning (Oxford University Press, 1996). Metaphor and Symbol 15: 189-195.

--- (1999). Review of Brian McFarlane, Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adap­tation (Clarendon 19996). In: Sara Martín (ed.) Links and Letters 6: 145-48.

--- (1998). Review of Keiko Tanaka's Advertising Language: A Pragmatic Approach to Advertisements in Britain andJapan. Word & Image 14: 317-318.

--- (1997). Review of Matthias Hurst, Erzählsituationen in Literatur und Film. Tijdschrift voor Litera­tuurwetenschap 2: 178-181.

--- (1997). Review of Louis Goossens, Paul Pauwels, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, Anne-Marie Simon-Vanden­bergen and Johan Vanparys, By Word of Mouth: Metaphor,Metonymy and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective (Benjamins 1995). Journal of Prag­matics 28: 637-644.

--- (1995). Review of Guy Cook's The Discourse of Advertising. Word & Image 11:1, 103-105.

--- (1993). Review [in Dutch] of Fred van Besien's Metafoor en Onderwijs (Communicatie & Cognitie, Gent 1992). Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire , 71: 763-65.

--- (1989). Signalement Braun. Review of Gerhard Braun, Grundlagen der visuellen Kom­munika­tion. Bulletin of the International Association of Word & Image Studies 3: 10.

--- (1987). Note brève. Review in Dutch of Beitrage zu einer Theorie des Sicht­baren in Bildern seit dem Amerikanischen Expressionismus by Maria Kreutzer. In Rapports 57: 192.

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Member advisory boards

2011-      Member editorial advisor board Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (chief editors: Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska), Mouton de Gruyter ( www.versita.com/lp ).

2010-   Member advisory board Review of Cognitive Linguistics. ISSN: 1877-9751 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=RCL  (chief editor: Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, University of Rioja , Spain ). 

2010-      Member advisory board of Benjamin series Cognitive Linguistic Studies of Language and Cognition in Cultural Contexts. ISSN: 1879-8047 (chief editors: Ning Yu, University of Oklahoma , USA ; Farzad Sharifian, Monash University , Australia ). http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=CLSCC&show=board  2009-   Digital Studies/Le champ numérique http://www.digitalstudies.org/index.php/digital_studies

2007- Metaphor and Symbol http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1092-6488.asp    

2007 –    Atlantis : Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. http://www.atlantisjournal.org/   

2006 –   Journal of Pragmatics. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/505593/editorialboard   

1999 – 2007  Book review editor Metaphor and Symbol.

2006 –  Public Journal of Semiotics. http://semiotics.ca/    

Various non-scholarly publications

Forceville, Charles(1987-2007). 200 book reviews of English-language fiction (originals and translations) in Trouw/Boeken (in Dutch).

--- (1999-2004). Various articles and book reviews in Skrien.

--- (1985-1995).Various translations of poems, essays, and short fiction in De Tweede Ronde and other publications.

--- (1987-2002). Various interviews in Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift, Bzzlletin, Trouw,and Skrien.

(Co)organization scholarly events

 

16-12-'94 Organization annual seminar­ Association of Canadian Studies in the Neth­erlands ("Euro­pean perspectives on English-Canadianlitera­ture"), VU Amsterdam.

24-2-'95   Member organizing commit­tee "Literature dayfor teach­ers," Eng­lish Dept. VU.

12-7-’05 Organization (with Eduardo Urios-Aparisi) of panel “The Pragmatics of Multimodal Representations.” 9th International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Riva del Garda, Italy, 10-15 July 2005 [+ paper on multimodal metaphor in this panel].

29 May ’08 Organization of workshop “Multimodal Metaphor” at Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7), University of Cácares, Spain, 28-31/5/08). Participants: Elizabeth El Refaie, Ning Yu, Charles Forceville.

4-5June ‘08 Organization (with Alan Cienki, Irene Mittelberg, and Raul Nino Zambrano, of the RaAM workshop Metaphor, metonymy & multimodality. Dept. of MediaStudies, University of Amsterdam.

11-12/9/08 Organization, with Kurt Feyaerts & Tony Veale of “contactforum”/workshop The Agile Mind: Creativity in Models and Multimodal Discourse at VLAC(Vlaams Academisch Centrum), the Royal Flemish Academy Brussels, Belgium.

4-5/6/09 Organization (with Alan Cienki, Irene Mittelberg, and Raul Nino Zambrano, of the RaAM workshop Metaphor,metonymy & multimodality. Dept.of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam.

25/11/’09 Afternoon devoted to “animation” at KNAW (Royal Academy of Science), Amsterdam (participants: Paul Driessen, Valentijn Visch, Mette Peeters, ChF).Org: Charles Forceville (with KNAW and NIAF).