Christopher J. McKenna

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher J. McKenna plays a role.

Articles

McKenna, Christopher J. 2021 An invisible operational mortar: The essential role of speech acts within tri-segregated moviegoing Developing shared languages: The fundamentals of mutual learning and problem solving in transdisciplinary collaboration, Whitehouse, Marlies, Henrik Rahm and Séverine Wozniak (eds.), pp. 102–121 | Article

The contribution seeks to apply the principles of J. L. Austin’s speech-act theories to the study of local business segregation in the Jim Crow South. In particular, it borrows the notions of illocutionary and perlocutionary force when examining the seemingly bland and prosaic statements that are… read more

Whitehouse, Marlies, Henrik Rahm, Séverine Wozniak, Steven Breunig, Gianni De Nardi, Frédérick Dionne, Misa Fujio, Eva-Maria Graf, Igor Matic, Christopher J. McKenna, Felix Steiner and Silga Sviķe 2021 Developing shared languages: The fundamentals of mutual learning and problem solving in transdisciplinary collaboration Developing shared languages: The fundamentals of mutual learning and problem solving in transdisciplinary collaboration, Whitehouse, Marlies, Henrik Rahm and Séverine Wozniak (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Introduction

This issue of the AILA Review focuses on transdisciplinarity as the key to developing shared languages in and across domains and professional settings. The relationship and collaboration between researchers and practitioners have long been discussed within and across applied sciences and… read more