Jim Miller

Biographic Data

ID3823862
NAMEJim Miller
GIVEN NAMESJim
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX5

  • Macleod, Rod. Sam Steele

    Jim MillerARTICLEInternational Journal of Canadian…2021

  • Examined lives

    Jim MillerBOOKExamined lives2011

    We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, it was the philosophers who offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. Here, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, this is a book that con…

  • Focus in the languages of Europe

    Jim Miller, J Dale MillerCHAPTERPragmatic Organization of…2006

  • Storytelling evolves on the web

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLEinteractions2005

    The ubiquity and immersive capabilities of the Web have only recently allowed substantive advances in the age-old art of storytelling. Exocog was a set of Web sites that provided a five-week experiment in this new realm. It illuminates the balance that occurs between new modes of storytelling on the Web and the more traditional narrative elements that remain, offering a unique view of this still-evolving process

  • Questions about constructions

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLEJournal of Child Language2002

    Ravid & Tolchinsky are to be applauded for proposing literacy as a central topic in first language acquisition. A synthesis of research in spoken language, in literacy and literacy practices and the lines of enquiry represented in MacWhinney (1999) has interesting consequences for theories of first language acquisition, not least the nativist ones. This response focuses on constructions but a brief list of controversial points in R&T's paper will…

  • What's Wrong with the Literacy Debate

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLEScottish Affairs2001References: 1

    To be literate is to control written language. Many people see literacy not just as the key to education and a career but as enabling members of a society to have access to information and the opportunity of playing a part in social institutions. Others see literacy as essential for the economic success of the country. The author shares the view that it is eminently desirable to have every member of our society literate, but an unpleasant possibi…

  • Bounty and Benevolence

    Arthur J Ray, Jim Miller et al.BOOKBounty and Benevolence2000

    Arthur Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough draw on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain how Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing First Nations' Hudson's Bay Company diplomatic and economic understandings, treaty practices developed in eastern Canada before the 1870s, and the changing economic and political realities of …

  • Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories

    Michael A Covington, Keith Brown et al.ARTICLELanguage2000

  • Post-Apocalyptic Hoping

    Jim Miller, J Philip MillerARTICLEScience Fiction Studies1998

    In this essay I argue that Octavia Butler’s work provides fine examples of what Tom Moylan has called the “critical dystopia, ” a narrative which points to the socio-historic causes of the dystopian elements of our culture rather than one which merely reveals symptoms. Butler works through the dystopian elements of the culture and then seeks to create new myths for the postmodern age. She does not offer a full-blown utopian “blueprint” in her wor…

  • Clefts, particles and word order in languages of Europe

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLELanguage Sciences1996

  • Language Attitudes and Scottish Inferiority

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLEScottish Affairs1996

  • Cleft constructions in spoken language

    Open AccessRegina Weinert, Jim MillerARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1996Cited by: 8References: 10

  • Does spoken language have sentences?

    Open AccessJim MillerCHAPTERGrammar and Meaning1995

    Many linguists working on spoken language abandon the sentence as an analytic unit as a result of data like the text in (1), which is the transcription of a conversation. The ' + ' signs mark brief pauses.

  • The function of Like in dialogue

    Open AccessJim Miller, Regina WeinertARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics1995Cited by: 20References: 5

  • The functions of tense in texts

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLELingua1994References: 6

  • The passion of Michel Foucault

    Jim MillerBOOKThe passion of Michel Foucault1993

    Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault defended his career as one of the most controversial thinkers of our time. "The philosophical life," he declared, "is the animality of being human, renewed as a challenge, practiced as an exercise - and thrown in the face of others as a scandal." Now, for the first time, here is a book that explores the true challenge - and "scandal"--Of Foucault's life and work. Based on extensive new research an…

  • Reaching Just Settlements

    J R Miller, Jim Miller et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1992

  • Richard Hudson, English Word Grammar. Oxford

    Open AccessJim Miller, J E MillerARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1992References: 3

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  • The Hcrc Map Task Corpus

    Open AccessAnne H Anderson, Miles Bader et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech1991Cited by: 74References: 15

    This paper describes a corpus of unscripted, task-oriented dialogues which has been designed, digitally recorded, and transcribed to support the study of spontaneous speech on many levels. The corpus uses the Map Task (Brown, Anderson, Yule, and Shillcock, 1983) in which speakers must collaborate verbally to reproduce on one participant's map a route printed on the other's. In all, the corpus includes four conversations from each of 64 young adul…

  • The Fabled Decade

    Fred Siegel, Jim Miller et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1989

  • Semantics and Syntax

    Michael A Covington, Jim MillerARTICLELanguage1987

    Preface Part I. On morphology and syntax Part II. Prepositions, particles, prefixes and adverbs: a semantic analysis Part III. Localism: a theory of semantic structure Part IV. GET Part V. On the connections between semantics and syntax Notes References Index

  • From Babbling to Speech

    Marilyn May Vihman, Marilyn Vihman et al.ARTICLELanguage1985Cited by: 24

    Controversy exists over whether there is any connection between children's babbling and the development of the adult sound system. The classic proponent of the discontinuity school is Jakobson 1941/1968, who claimed that the pairing of sound and meaning drastically alters the child's sound system. Jakobson's arguments for discontinuity are here evaluated on the basis of data on the transition from babbling to speech in a single set of children re…

  • Books in Review

    Open AccessJim MillerARTICLEPolitical Theory1984

  • Aspects of Scottish English syntax

    Jim Miller, Keith BrownARTICLEEnglish World-Wide A Journal of…1982

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  • History and Human Existence

    James Miller, Jim MillerBOOKHistory and Human Existence--From…1979

    From the Introduction: The present essay provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought. The work will be primarily concerned with two related topics: the evaluation by Marxists of individual emancipation and their assessment of subjective factors in social theory. By taking up these taking up these topics within a systematic and historical framework, I hope to generate some fresh light on severa…