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Rennie Gonsalves

Professor   Department: English   Location: 1420 Ingersoll Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2781   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:   Rennie Gonsalves's Web site

Rennie Gonsalves received a Ph.D. in linguistics (1984) from the CUNY Graduate School. He also has an M.A. in Computer Science from Brooklyn College, an M.A. in linguistics from the CUNY Graduate School, and a B.A in English from Queens College of CUNY. He is originally from the island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies, where he attended the Saint Vincent Grammar School. He currently teaches linguistics, literature, composition and ESL in the English Department at Brooklyn College. Education: Master of Arts, Brooklyn College - 1989 (Computer Science) DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY CENTER & GRADUATE SCHOOL-CUNY - 1984 (LINGUISTICS) Master of Arts, University Center and Graduate School, CUNY - 1977 (Linguistics) Bachelor of Arts, Queens College of CUNY - 1972 (English) Areas of Expertise: His general area of expertise is linguistics, the scientific study of language; within this, his area is semantics, the study of meaning, and more particularly, the representation of word meaning. He is also a student of West Indian literature, and especially the West Indian novel. Books and Publications Constructional Meaning and Lexical Meaning, LACUS Forum XXXIV, 2009, 73-78. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 The liar or the mad dog(s)? another LACUS look at the Liar Paradox, in LACUS Forum, Vol. XXXV, 2009, 143-152. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 Investigating the Semantics-Semiotics Interface Through Textual Analysis. 2007. In LACUS Forum XXXIII, 275-283. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 The Verb Keep in Lexical Semantics; A Comparative Study,The Thirty-Second Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) Forum, 2006, 306-312. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Promises and Predictions; A Revised Model-Theoretic Approach, The Thirty-First LACUS Forum, 2005, 137-146. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums The Liar or the Mad Dog(s)? Another LACUS Look at the Liar Paradox, paper presented at the Thirty-Fifth LACUS Conference, at Université Laval/Laval University, Quebec, Canada, in June, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 Constructional Meaning and Lexical Meaning, a paper presented at the Thirty-fourth LACUS Forum, at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, on July 26, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 Situating Character in the Struggle for National Progress in Three West Indian Novels: In the Castle of My Skin, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, and Angel. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Conference of the Eastern Caribbean Islands Language and Culture Association, in Saint Martin. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 The Poet and the Politician; The Cultural Implications of a Semiotic Analysis of Two Conversations with Saint Vincent Caribs, 2006, at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Eastern Caribbean Islands Language and Culture Association, in Saint Vincent, West Indies. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 Investigating the semantics-semiotics interface through textual analysis, 2006, at the Thirty-Third LACUS Forum, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 Layers of Meaning in a Saint Vincent Carib Story, 2006, at the Sixteenth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, in Dominica, West Indies. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006