John M Kirk
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3661559 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John M Kirk |
| PRENOMES | John M |
| SOBRENOME | Kirk |
| ASSINATURA | KIRK J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7792-3191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Irish English as a World English
The objective of this chapter is to apply a synthesis of models for world Englishes to Irish English, for which data from ICE-corpora, the Handbook of Varieties of English , the Mouton Atlas , eWAVE, and the GloWbE corpus are used, and to which many approaches are applied: geo-political, dynamic-model, corpus, statistical, and multi-functional factor analysis. The chapter's relevance lies in its bringing together wide-ranging and seemingly dispar…
The Strange Case of the Havana ‘Sonic Attacks’
This article analyses the saga of the alleged ‘sonic attacks’ directed against US diplomats between 2016 and 2018. It summarises the key developments, and examines the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon. Analyses by major science- and medicine-based journals are evaluated, and inconsistencies highlighted. The background of troubled US–Cuba relations during the Trump administration is also assessed as a contributing factor to t…
Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
This collection of ten essays is published in memory of Alistair Hennessy, an extraordinary influence in the 1960s on a generation of specialists in the study of Cuban and Spanish history in Europe. His death in 2013 resulted in the annual conference of the Cuba Research Forum at the University of Nottingham focusing on Hennessy's work. The resultant festschrift brings together these essays.Hennessy (whom this reviewer had the pleasure to meet 20…
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
The International Corpus of English project
This article begins by introducing the International Corpus of English project and proceeds to summarize the findings and outcomes of an extensive review by written questionnaire conducted by the present authors (Kirk & Nelson, 2017). Although critically concerned with practice hitherto, the review also discusses possible second generation components, and the issues in need of addressing before they should begin. The report contains many comments…
The present perfect in Irish English
This article begins with an introduction to language corpora and the approach to linguistic description arising from corpus linguistic approaches to the description of varieties. It stresses the importance of a well‐balanced, representative corpus for general language description and demonstrates the benefits of a quantitative as well as a qualitative approach. It introduces the International Corpus of English: Ireland Component ( ICE‐Ireland ) a…
Alternatives–The Cuban (alternative) approach to health care
Although Cuba is much poorer than many nations, its health data rival those of industrialized countries. This article analyzes the basic elements of the Cuban health care system, explaining why it compares favourably to models of developed countries. The article argues that the model is not exclusively sui generis, and assesses those aspects of the Cuban approach that could be exported elsewhere
Developments in the spoken component of ICE corpora
This article considers the evolution of spoken components within the International Corpus of English. It begins with the classic orthographic transcription which has long been taken as a written means for representing what was said. Following a critique, the article suggests ways in which the representation of the spoken language in corpora could be better achieved: through the availability of recordings, through the alignment of recordings with …
Cuban Medical Internationalism
This article examines the Cuban response to Ebola in West Africa, specifically in the three countries where the Cuban medical personnel focused their efforts – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It analyses the situation in West Africa as the disease rapidly spread, the international response and the Cuban reaction. In particular, it assesses the impact of Cuba's contribution and concludes with some thoughts about what can be learned from this sho…
Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora
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The Pragmatic Annotation Scheme of the SPICE-Ireland Corpus
This paper builds on the paradox whereby transcriptions are the object of study for investigations into the spoken language but yet omit so much of “what is heard” when an utterance is made. Transcriptions are agnostic with regard to Searlean notions of illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect. The paper proposes that the enhancement of transcriptions with pragmatic and prosodic annotation overcomes that paradox and captures the original utt…
Mais Médicos
In 2014, at the request of the Brazilian government and under the sponsorship ofPAHO, the Cuban government sent 11,400 doctors to work in underserved areas. This article examines the origins and development of this programme,Mais Médicos. The significance of this programme is explored, as well as what it illustrates about south-south cooperation as a whole
Healthcare without Borders
Over the course of the last five decades, Cuba has been a leading force in the developing world via medical internationalism, providing humanitarian aid and initiating programs for preventative care and medical training. In this book, John Kirk argues that Cuba's medical internationalism is one of its best-kept secrets, and he explores the philosophical underpinning about access to medical care at the core of Cuba's medical internationalism progr…
Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland
Studies in Linguistic Geography
Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays in this volume, by contributors to the linguistic atlases and other dia…
From Cooperation to Capacitation
This article analyses Cuba's medical missions in the South Pacific and specifically in Timor-Leste (East Timor), the largest outside of Latin America. Here, the adaptation of Cuba's low-technology and low-resourced preventive-focused medical model (based on the development of human capital) is used to highlight lessons regarding effective medical cooperation. This article finds that these lessons should be drawn from the dynamic and creative adap…
The structure of Cuban history
Representing Identity and Work in Transition
This chapter explores the changing face of the former South Yorkshire coalfields.1 The place of coal mining in this area was essential to the economy of the region from the turn of the twentieth century, intensifying and consolidating its production following the Second World War. These developments powerfully transformed and shaped the region, embedding cultural traditions and social identities that defined South Yorkshire through the working of…
Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions
This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper unde
Cuban Medical Internationalism Under Raúl Castro
What is Irish Standard English
Standard English need not be a matter of prescriptivism or any attempt to ‘create’ a particular standard, but, rather, can be a matter of observation of actual linguistic behaviour. For Hudson (2000), standard English is the kind of English which is written in published work, which is spoken in situations where published writing is most influential – especially in university level education and so in post-university professions – and which is spo…
Resilience and loss in work identities
The article examines the importance of ‘emotional labour’ in the constitution of the ‘teacherly‐self’. Deriving from a research project on work and social identity, the article explores the ways teachers have negotiated the radical changes in the profession in recent years, and uses the notion of ‘teacher resilience’ to explore the ways teachers have reacted to the effects of neo‐liberal reforms to education; reforms that have powerfully impacted…
Cuban Medical Internationalism
While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in t
Class, Culture and Social Change
Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine
In response to Hurricane Mitch (1998) in Central America, which claimed over 30,000 lives, Cuba sent medical brigades to the affected region and constructed the Latin American School of Medicine just outside Havana. This medical school offers a free six-year medical education to students from rural and marginalized communities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States. This establishment is a logical continuation of a long-standing tr…
Cuba's Medical Internationalism
Since 1960, Cuba has been involved in providing medical support to the developing world, and at present has some 40,000 personnel in 74 countries - more than all of the G-8 countries combined. This article traces the evolution from its first (1960) mission to the current stage. The article also analyses various explanations for this extraordinary mixture of diplomacy and humanitarianism
Mais Médicos
In 2014, at the request of the Brazilian government and under the sponsorship ofPAHO, the Cuban government sent 11,400 doctors to work in underserved areas. This article examines the origins and development of this programme,Mais Médicos. The significance of this programme is explored, as well as what it illustrates about south-south cooperation as a whole
Resilience and loss in work identities
The article examines the importance of ‘emotional labour’ in the constitution of the ‘teacherly‐self’. Deriving from a research project on work and social identity, the article explores the ways teachers have negotiated the radical changes in the profession in recent years, and uses the notion of ‘teacher resilience’ to explore the ways teachers have reacted to the effects of neo‐liberal reforms to education; reforms that have powerfully impacted…
Cuban Medical Internationalism and its Role in Cuban Foreign Policy
Cuba's medical internationalism is extraordinary, and in many ways the extent of its outreach programme puts the developed world to shame. It is impossible to fit Cuba's actions into any neat theoretical box—quite simply the revolutionary process follows no established paradigm. This exceptionalism is seen both in its approach to foreign relations and in its medical internationalism policy. Indeed, even during the days when it was economically de…
The Pragmatic Annotation Scheme of the SPICE-Ireland Corpus
This paper builds on the paradox whereby transcriptions are the object of study for investigations into the spoken language but yet omit so much of “what is heard” when an utterance is made. Transcriptions are agnostic with regard to Searlean notions of illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect. The paper proposes that the enhancement of transcriptions with pragmatic and prosodic annotation overcomes that paradox and captures the original utt…
The International Corpus of English project
This article begins by introducing the International Corpus of English project and proceeds to summarize the findings and outcomes of an extensive review by written questionnaire conducted by the present authors (Kirk & Nelson, 2017). Although critically concerned with practice hitherto, the review also discusses possible second generation components, and the issues in need of addressing before they should begin. The report contains many comments…
Developments in the spoken component of ICE corpora
This article considers the evolution of spoken components within the International Corpus of English. It begins with the classic orthographic transcription which has long been taken as a written means for representing what was said. Following a critique, the article suggests ways in which the representation of the spoken language in corpora could be better achieved: through the availability of recordings, through the alignment of recordings with …
Marking the Moral Boundaries of Class
This article welcomes the recent renewed interest in the topic of class within sociology and cultural studies. This comes after a long period - from around the middle part of the 1980s and into the 1990s - during which social class was dismissed as a mode of understanding socio-economic and cultural conditions on the part of both academics and mainstream political organisations alike. Working-class formations in particular came under scrutiny, in…
Mapping the Remains of the Postindustrial Landscape
This article examines class and its relevance for contemporary cultural studies in Britain through a reading of a recent publication concerned with the current state of the British working class in the wake of rapid socioeconomic change occurring in the United Kingdom and across the developed world. Although the subject of social class in Britain has always been contentious, the past two decades have witnessed a retreat from class analysis in a w…
Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland
The structure of Cuban history
Cuban Medical Internationalism Under Raúl Castro
A Reply
From "Inadaptado Sublime" to "Líder Revolucionario
The visitor to Cuba cannot help but be struck by the overpowering presence of José Martí. Indeed, from the moment one arrives at Havana's Aeropuerto 'José Martí,' references to Martí are constantly encountered: the drive from the airport to the city center passes by the Biblioteca Nacional 'José Martí,' situated in the Plaza de la Revolución, which itself is dominated by an enormous statue of Martí; commemorative monuments and plaques are widely …
José Martí and the United States
El hombre más puro de la raza'. This opinion of the Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral sums up the general feelings of all critics and historians who have studied Martí's life: both as a Cuban patriot and as a sincere human being Martí evokes admiration from all sides. The same cannot be said, however, about his copious writings - twenty-seven volumes in the latest edition (Editorial Nacional de Cuba) - which have led to many differences of interpr…
José Agustín habla sobre la literatura latinoamericana
From "Inadaptado Sublime" to "Líder Revolucionario
The visitor to Cuba cannot help but be struck by the overpowering presence of José Martí. Indeed, from the moment one arrives at Havana's Aeropuerto 'José Martí,' references to Martí are constantly encountered: the drive from the airport to the city center passes by the Biblioteca Nacional 'José Martí,' situated in the Plaza de la Revolución, which itself is dominated by an enormous statue of Martí; commemorative monuments and plaques are widely …
Language and the Scottish Literary Tradtion
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José Martí
Venerated as creator of Cuba's first republic, declared by Fidel Castro to be intellectual author of second revolution, revered by Cuban exiles as premier visionary of democratic Cuban state, Jose Marti (1853-95) was a prolific and eclectic writer and a practical philosopher. In Jose Marti: Mentor of Cuban Nation, John M. Kirk leads us to a better understanding of the purest man of Latin race and one of most underrated political thinkers of moder…
Cuba
On January 1, 1984, Cuba celebrated the 25th anniversary of its revolution. As the first socialist revolution both in Latin America and in the Western hemisphere, its progress over the years has been closely observed by diverse parties as well as by scholars and academics. In this volume a number of well-known scholars in the field offer an assessment of Cuba's achievments, lessons, problems, and innovative solutions over this period. These essay…
John Paul II and the Exorcism of Liberation Theology
The summer of 1984 has provided Vatican watchers of a Latin American bent with many important developments. The scene was set by the Pope's six-day visit to Switzerland in June (where he went to great lengths to demand obedience to papal authority, and to the Church hierarchy). That same month, the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, despite earlier pressure from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that they censure liberation theology and its best known propon…
Between God and the Party
While the role of organized religion in Latin America has become a fashionable research topic in recent years, comparatively little attention has been focussed on revolutionary Cuba. This paper seeks to address the development of the Cuban Church—“la más reaccionaria de Latinoamérica”—over the past sixteen years, a period in which Church leadership has come to terms with the revolutionary process in Cuba. Following an examination of the context o…
José Martí, Mentor of the Cuban Nation
Auxiliary verbs, frequencies, and the identity of Scots
This paper is based on a computerised corpus of dramatic texts in Scots. Following detailed analysis of frequencies of the primary auxiliary verb BE in several comparable corpuses, it will consider its findings for the typological relationship said to exist between different varieties of Scots, and between them and Standard English. In addition, other theoretical implications which will be considered include not only the speech realism of the dra…
Studies in Linguistic Geography
The essays in this volume describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimize them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and the of language in general
Advances in Cartographic Dialectology
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Central America
Introduction by John M. Kirk and George W. Schuyler Part I: Democracy El Salvador: to Halt the Insurgency by Guillermo Manuel Ungo Democratization in El Salvador: Illusion or Reality? by Liisa L. North Democracy, Military Rule, and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala by Jim Handy Consolidating Democracy Under Fire by H.E. Sergio Lacayo Honduras: National Identity, Repression, and Popular Response by Judith A. Weiss Part II: Development Central America: …
Between God and the Party
Between God and the Party
John Kirk's thorough look at the Cathlolic church, from colonial times to the present, shores up his argument that many influences in Fidel Castro's Cuba have pre-revolutionary roots. Kirk explores Castro's views on religion and their effects on the Cuban Revolution
Cuban Foreign Policy Confronts a New International Order
Dialectology in Britain. Where We've Been, Where We're Going
Conflict and Competition
The authors address the new, and more difficult, position of the Catholic Church in Latin America, looking in depth at Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru
Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
Guerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, the author writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the 40-year period…
Transformation and Struggle
Contesting Castro
Cuba in the International System
This book examines the evolution of Cuba's foreign relations since the demise of the USSR. It is divided into three sections: the first examines the nature of economic and political change that has ta
Cuba in Transition
Part 1 The search for political and organizational forms: introduction, Richard L. Harris Cuban socialism - rectification and the new model of accumulation, James F. Petras and Morris H. Morley the rectification process revisited - Cuba's defense of traditional Marxism-Leninism, Max Azicri democracy and socialist Cuba, Sheryl L. Lutjens bureaucracy versus democracy in contemporary Cuba - an assessment of 30 years of organizational development, Ri…
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