Dr Siobhan Chapman
Reader
Chair of the English Language Group
PhD (University of Newcastle)
BA (University of Newcastle)
Research interests & supervision
My research interests are in the areas of pragmatics, the philosophy of language, and the pragmatics of literature. In my recent work I have explored the relevance of ideas from the philosophy of language, particularly analytic philosophy of the mid twentieth century, to issues in present-day linguistics. I have also considered possible applications of philosophical theories of language to the analysis, and indeed the definition, of 'literary' texts. I would be interested in supervising dissertations on topics in pragmatics and related disciplines, on the philosophy of language and on the interface between the study of language and of literature.
| Undergraduate teaching
ENGL101 Word to Text |
Postgraduate teaching
ENGL687 Approaches to Linguistic Enquiry (convenor) |
Select recent and forthcoming publications
Books and editions
/Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language/, co-edited with Christopher Routledge (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)
Language and Empiricism, After the Vienna Circle (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008)
Thinking about Language: Theories of English (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, co-edited with Christopher Routledge (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
Paul Grice, Philosopher and Linguist (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
Journal articles and book chapters
' "How could you tell how much of it was lies?": the controversy of truth in George Orwell's /Nineteen Eighty - Four/', Journal of Literary Semantics, 38 2009, 71 - 86
'“Meaning”: philosophical forebears and linguistic descendants', Teorema, 36 2007, 59-75
‘Reading “great books”: non truth-committed discourse and silly novel readers’, with Christopher Routledge, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 39 2003, 1-14
‘“From their point of view”: voice and speech in George Moore’s Esther Waters’, Language and Literature, 11 2002, 307-323
‘In defence of a code: linguistic meaning and propositionality in verbal communication’, Journal of Pragmatics, 33 2001,1553-1570
‘The pragmatics of detection: Paul Auster’s City of Glass’, with Christopher Routledge, Language and Literature, 8 1999, 241-253
‘Some observations on metalinguistic negation’, Journal of Linguistics, 32 1996, 387-402
‘Utterance accent: a representational approach’, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, 2 1994
‘Metalinguistic negation, sentences and utterances’, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, 1 1993, 74-94