Lewis Glinert

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
6191 Bartlett Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 646-0364 ~ (603) 646-3115 (Fax)
Email: lewis.glinert@dartmouth.edu
Office: 6191 Bartlett Hall

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Ph.D. London University, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1974

Research Interests

Pragmatics
Discourse analysis
Safety communications and labeling
The language of the corporate web site
Sociology of language
Hebrew and Yiddish linguistics

Courses Taught

Discourse Analysis
Semantics and Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Language in a time of revolution: The rebirth of spoken Hebrew
Topics in Modern Hebrew literature

Recent Lectures

'Quality written patient information: An international perspective.' National Council on Patient Information and Education, 12th National Conference, Washington D.C., May 1999. (Abstract)
'Speech act indeterminacy and drug information warnings', PRAGMA 99, Tel Aviv University, June 1999. (Abstract)
'The discourse of food labels: Conflicting influences on composition and design', Symposium on Food Labeling, 12th World Conference of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, August 1999. (Abstract)
'The language and rhetoric of Rx drug sites: What message are they sending?", Drug Information Association, Boston, July 2000.

Selected Publications

'The Grammar of Modern Hebrew', Cambridge University Press, 1989
(Editor) 'Hebrew in Ashkenaz': A Language in Exile, Oxford University Press, 1993.
'Inside the language planner's head: Tactical responses to a mass migration', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 16(5), pp. 351-372, 1995.
'Toward a sociology of Ashkenazi Hebrew', Jewish Social Studies 2(3), pp. 85-114, 1996.
At the seam of syntax and semantics: "as if" in Modern Hebrew' in M. Bar-Asher (ed.) Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shelomo Morag, Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, pp. 15-32, 1996.
'Product safety information and language policy in an advanced Third World economy: The case of Israel', Journal of Consumer Policy, 19(4), 411-438, 1996. (Abstract)
'We never changed our language: Attitudes of British Hasidic educators to Yiddish', Osnabrücker Beitrage zur Sprachtheorie, 54, pp. 60-88, 1997
'Scientific-technological discourse: The State of the Art', in J Rosenhouse, Y. Gitai & D. Porush (eds.), Future and Communication: The Role of Scientific and Technical Communication and Translation in Technology Development and Transfer, Bethesda, Md: International Scholars Publications, pp. 92-100, 1997
'Side effect warnings in British medical package inserts: A discourse analytical approach', International Journal of Cognitive Ergonomics, 2(1-2), 1998, 61-74 , 1998. (Abstract)
'Lexicographic function and the relation between supply and demand.' International Journal of Lexicography, 1998
'Apologizing to the nation', American Communication Journal, 2(2), 1999
'Occupational Safety Communication for Hazardous Goods: The Development of a Policy in Israel ', International Journal Of Occupational Safety And Ergonomics 8 (1), 99. 3-22, 2002. (Abstract)
'Sacred Voices: The Language of Ultraorthodox Jews'. Special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 138, 1999 (with Miriam Isaacs)
'Language, layout and links.' Pharmaceutical Executive, 21(3) March 2001
(with Kate Miriam Loewenthal and Vivienne Goldblatt) 'Guarding the tongue: A thematic analysis of gossip control strategies among Orthodox Jewish women in London.' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 24 (3), pp. 513-524, 2004 (Abstract)
'TV commercials for prescription drugs: A discourse analytic perspective', Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 1(2), pp. 158-184, 2005 (thematic issue on direct-to-consumer advertising) (Abstract)
(with Jon Schommer) 'Television Advertisement Format and the Provision of Rish Information about Prescriptive Drug Products', Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy 1 (2), pp. 185-210, 2005 (thematic issue on direct-to-consumer advertising) (Abstract)