Amadeu Viana San Andrés


Facultat de Lletres
Universitat de Lleida

Historiographia sociolinguistica. Sociology of knowledge. Philosophy of Language. Pragmatics.
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aviana@filcat.udl.es


November 2009

  There will be no more INFO provided through this web. FINGESI is not hosted by Geocities anymore from October 2009.


March 2003

  FÍNGESI, new web site from May 2003. Hosted by Geocities. Please refer to FÍNGESI when you search for new stuff here in this website.

  Postil.les a Acròbates de l'emoció, a dialogue about the recent (finished) research on humour and conversation.

Laudatio of Václav Havel, in his first Catalan and Spanish Honoris Causa, Lany Castle, December 3th, 2002. Published in Revista de Catalunya, desembre, 179 (2002), ps. 11-23. Published also in J. Porta (ed.), Václav Havel, una trajectòria, una investidura, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, 2003. [Text]

Introduction to Cicero: De Senectute & De Amicitia, translated by A. Febrer i Cardona. Minorica, February 21th, 2003. [Text]

The gratuitous page. How everybody sees what she/he really wants to see according her/his imagination and deep desires. Still in use.


Books & Papers

Aspectes del pensament sociolingüístic europeu (Barcelona, Barcanova 1995). A reading on historical sociolinguistic thinking combining language politics, literacy issues, experience and discourse meditations, language shift history, ordinary conversation approaches and definitions of linguistic communities. The book is now out of print, but I keep a fair stock of copies that I can distribute just on email request.

  Papers in Sintagma: The use of Latin and Marks and mirrors.

Quina llengua? Quina ciència? (9/5/97). A critical view of public sociolinguistic discourse about Catalan language in Valencia. Also in French.

Lectures en contacte (1997). An approach to world wide web communication problems considering Weiner's pioneering book and humanistic issues.

Raons relatives, published by the UdL (1997). Take a glance at the abstract, or browse the summary. Read the whole introdution or mail me if you are interested in a printed version of the book.

  Writings on G. B. Vico. Relazione for the International Conference Pensar para el nuevo siglo. Giambattista Vico y la cultura europea held in Sevilla in October, 1999. Text & Notes. Paper (in Spanish) for Cuadernos sobre Vico on puns, rhetoric and linguistic knowledge. Text & Bibliography. Review of La mort humana, by Ll. V. Aracil, for the Bolletino di Studi Vichiani (Nàpols). Text (and Spanish longer version).

Cicero's De Amicitia & De Senectute. A double consideration of friendship and experience through an account of discourse practices. A first edition of Febrer i Cardona translation into Catalan. (Coedited with Maria Paredes in Biblioteca Sanchis Guarner, Institut de Filologia Valenciana, desember 2002.)


Personal Knowledge

Notebook in California, including some fun, non published papers and intellectual routes (1995-1998). Check new notes in Les meues universitats & Misproposals.

La mà i l'esperit. Comments on Brun's lucid reflexion upon the source and the practice of human thinking.

Valencian loops; a nostalgic record and some literature. Little bangs in Valencia.

Oracions finals I. A (too much) ironical reprise of my PhD theme.

Diàlegs virtuals (work in progress). Sobre la frontera. Sobre els números. Check also the Diàleg sobre la conversa.

  El Club d'amics de la Sàtira X de Juvenal. An invitation to read and recite.


Lewis Carroll Centennial


Discourse & Conversation

Perspectives on Pragmatics. Description and critical overview on Discourse Analysis presented as part of my academic project and research.

Colloquial registers. A historical report of research carried out on colloquial registers from 1982 until now; and a survey of the project of conversational transcriptions (explanation and samples of conversational transcriptions carried out by different Conversation Analysis Seminars of the Department of Catalan Philology). Starting web page of the Unitat de narrativa i conversació [UNiC].

El diàleg al teatre de Joan Brossa (Llengua & Literatura, vol 11, 2000, 139-197). Brossa's creative dialogues used to build up a comprehensive theory of adjacency, metaphor and topic finding in everyday conversation. Text. A much more elaborated topic about Joan Brossa dialogue (in a poetic scenary), in La paradoxa de l'acord, at the UOC.

Joking with doctors. A proposal to analise wordplaying in critical situations with doctors; it has now became an introductory study to medical humor, and includes practical analyses of doctors and nurses' humorous narrative. Presented at the last International Conference on Pragmatics, in Hungary, summer 2000 (Text in English [also in Catalan]; take a glance at the conversational data used in the study; a Catalan short and modified version has already appeared in Discurso y Sociedad, sept. 2001.)

Humor & Conversation. A research that started in spring 1998 and has been transformed into a book at Berkeley in 2001. A comparative and narrative approach both to humor and human conversation. (To be published.)



S'adreçà finalment a Belacqua.
--Places per al Cel --digué ella amb una veu blanca--; a dos penics; quatre per mig xíling.
--No --va dir Belacqua.
Va ser la primera síl.laba que li vingué als llavis. Perquè
no era la seua intenció refusar.

 Samuel  Beckett, Belacqua a Dublín.


Seminars & Proposals

Seven readings on Latin Humanism. Cicero, Varro, Saint Augustin, Saint Isidor, J.L. Vives, Petrarca & Vico.

Ulisses The old research server of the Faculty of Letters.


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