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Main description: This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The first part of the volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena.

Preliminary Material /Bruce Fraser and Ken Turner -- On the Definition of Non-Cooperation /Salvatore Attardo -- Apologies Across the U.S.A. /Anne Barron -- Is Nothing Something, or isn't it Anything? Zeroes in Danish Prosodic Morphology /Hans Basbøll -- The Sign Cascade – A Basic Format of Semiotic Apperception /Per Aage Brandt -- Shouting Teresa or: Beyond Co-operation /Claudia Caffi -- 'Thank You': How Do Conversationalists in Hong Kong Express Gratitude? /Winnie Cheng -- Figurative Pragmatics: From Structure to Social Status /Herbert L. Colston -- When Voices Really Clash: A Tribute to Jacob Mey /François Cooren -- The Force of Language and its Temporal Unfolding /Alessandro Duranti -- How Do Children Acquire Honorifics? /Susan M. Ervin-Tripp -- Whose Language? Memory, the Body and Discursive Practices /Kerstin Fischer -- The English Contrastive Discourse Marker on the contrary /Bruce Fraser -- The Borderline Area Between Zeugma and Normal Usage /Thorstein Fretheim -- Things, Bodies, and Language /Charles Goodwin -- Pragmatic Acts in Fine Art: A Question /Barbara Gorayska -- 'Another Way of Saying the Same Thing': Gricean Nondetachability and Translation /Annjo Klungervik Greenall -- An Institutional Anniversary Ceremony as Systemic Behavior in Chinese Context /Yueguo Gu -- Pragmatics, Mind-Reading, and Children's Use of Referring Expressions /Jeanette K. Gundel -- The Fundamental Significance of Information Structure /Eva Hajičová and Petr Sgall -- Face Construal from Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Perspectives /Takuo Hayashi -- Language and Memes: A Preliminary Account /Ziran He and Chaoqun Xie -- Food for Thought: CONDUIT versus FOOD Metaphors for Communication /Masako K. Hiraga -- The Wonders of Narrative /Marianne Horsdal -- Pragmatics: Chasing the Sky or Another Way of Seeing /Leo Francis Hoye -- Criticisms in English and Japanese in Academic Writing /Hiroko Itakura and Amy B. M. Tsui -- Toward a Postcolonial Pragmatics /Richard W. Janney -- Storm in a Teacup: What Exactly are Default Interpretations? /Katarzyna Malgorzata Jaszczolt -- Advancement of Pragmatics: Open Questions /Asa Kasher -- Pragmatics and Technology /Elizabeth Keating -- Common Ground from a Socio-Cultural Perspective /Istvan Kecskes -- On Causality in Pragmatic Theory /Roman Kopytko -- Thematic Silence as Metaphor /Dennis Kurzon -- Audience Design in National and International News: The Case of BBC and CNN /Gerda E. Lauerbach -- Pragmatics Beyond Linguistics /Solomon Marcus -- On the Conceptual Grounding of the Social Meaning of Discourse /Sophia Marmaridou -- Pragmatics of Japanese Performative Honorifics in Subordinate Clauses /Yoshiko Matsumoto -- Creativity, Expressivity, and Pragmatic Meaning: Playing with Voices in a Japanese Essay /Senko K. Maynard -- Performativity1/Performativity2 /J. Hillis Miller -- Metaphors Wanted, Dead or Alive /Brigitte Nerlich -- Conjunctions in Final Position in Everyday Talk /Neal R. Norrick -- Situated Speech Acts: How are they Possible? /Etsuko Oishi -- Pragmatics Today: From a Component of Linguistics to a Perspective of Language /Kanavillil Rajagopalan.

IntroductionAt the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), we have been performing data linkage for over 25 years. Over time, the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository (MPRDR) has expanded to over 80 datasets. Data linkage methods are key to bringing all this data together for population-based research.
Objectives and ApproachThe presentation will include a detailed description of the individual steps involved in the data linkage process and provide information about the methods developed and knowledge gained over time at MCHP. We will present different scenarios linking health, education, social and justice data and the choices that are made prior to and during data linkage. The data linkage process and linkage methods, including data validation techniques, will be illustrated with examples from our work.
ResultsThe presentation will describe the different types of data we have in the MPRDR and illustrate how the data are processed in a de-identified manner so that privacy and confidentiality are maintained.
The presentation will provide details on the data linkage methods used, dependent on the type of data sources being linked. This involves identifying and describing a 5-step data linkage process, including:

pre-processing (gaining knowledge about the data and cleaning/standardization techniques);
searching for and selecting the appropriate linkage variables;
applying different linkage techniques (e.g.: deterministic, probabilistic, "fuzzy matching" and manual review) to the data,
"rules" for deciding when data linkage should occur, and
reporting and Interpreting linkage outcome metrics and quality.

Conclusion/ImplicationsOur ability to link different data sources provides the capacity to study questions and complex issues related to health, social, education and justice from a population perspective. The techniques and methods described in this presentation should be applicable to other organizations linking administrative data.

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy's Concept Dictionary and Glossary, and the Data Repository they document, broaden the analytic possibilities associated with administrative data. The aim of the Repository is to describe and explain patterns of health care and illness, while the Concept Dictionary and Glossary create consistency in documenting research methodologies. The Concept Dictionary alone contains detailed operational definitions and programming code for measures used in MCHP research that are reusable in future projects.
Making these tools available on the internet allows reaching a heterogeneous audience of academic and government health service partners, epidemiologists, planners, programmers, clinicians, and students extending around the globe. They aid in the retention of corporate knowledge, facilitate researcher/analyst communication, and enhance the Centre's knowledge translation activities. Such documentation has saved countless hours for programmers, analysts and researchers who frequently need to tread paths previously taken by others.

ObjectiveTo profile the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), a population health data centre located at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
ApproachWe describe how MCHP was established and funded, and how it continues to operate based on a foundation of trust and respect between researchers at the University of Manitoba and stakeholders in the Manitoba Government's Department of Health. MCHP's research priorities are jointly determined by its scientists' own research interests and by questions put forward from Manitoba government ministries. Data governance, data privacy, data linkage processes and data access are discussed in detail. We also provide three illustrative examples of the MCHP Data Repository in action, demonstrating how studies using a variety of Repository datasets have had an impact on health and social policies and programs in Manitoba.
DiscussionMCHP has experienced tremendous growth over the last three decades. We discuss emerging research directions as the capacity for innovation at MCHP continues to expand, including a focus on natural language processing and other applications of artificial intelligence techniques, a leadership role in the new SPOR Canadian Data Platform, and a foray into social policy evaluation and analysis. With these and other exciting opportunities on the horizon, the future at MCHP looks exceptionally bright.

Native vegetation of the NSW south coast, escarpment and southeast tablelands was classified into 191 floristic assemblages at a level of detail appropriate for the discrimination of Threatened Ecological Communities and other vegetation units referred to in government legislation. Assemblages were derived by a numerical analysis of 10832 field sample quadrats including 8523 compiled from 63 previous vegetation surveys. Past bias in the distribution of field data towards land under public tenure was corrected by extensive surveys carried out on private land. The classification revises and integrates the units described in recent vegetation studies of Eden, Cumberland Plain and Sydney-south coast into a single, consistent classification. Relationships between floristic assemblages and climate, terrain, substrate and vegetation structure were used to map the distribution of communities prior to clearing at 1:100 000 scale. The extent of clearing was mapped using interpretations of remote imagery (1991–2001) from previous work, standardised and merged into a single coverage and supplemented with additional work. Profiles for each assemblage, which we term 'communities' or 'map units', describe their species composition, vegetation structure, environmental habitat, the extent of clearing and conservation status. Lists of diagnostic species were defined using a statistical fidelity measure and a procedure for using these for community identification is described. Approximately 66% of the study area retains a cover of native vegetation, primarily in areas with low fertility soils and dissected topography. Communities subject to over-clearing (>70%) are concentrated in a few large areas characterised by clay/loam soils and flat to undulating terrain. These include the Sydney metropolis, Wingecarribee Plateau, Illawarra Plain, Shoalhaven floodplain, Araluen Valley and Bega Valley, and various smaller river valleys. Forty-one percent of remaining native vegetation is protected within conservation reserves while 31% occurs on private land, 20% in State Forests and 8% on other Crown lands. Forty-five Threatened Ecological Communities (TECs) were recorded in the study area. The majority of TECs are represented by a single map unit, although in some cases a TEC is included within a broader map unit. Twelve TECs are represented by combinations of two or more map units.