David S. Danaher
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature Degree: Ph.D., Brown University, 1995
email | phone: 262-9765

David's current CV with downloadable pdf's of his publications

The teaching of Czech at UW-Madison is supported in part by the November Fund. Contributions to the fund are greatly appreciated!   The fund's site also contains detailed information about the Czech program at UW-Madison.  

Research Interests:   Cognitive Linguistics;   Metaphor; Václav Havel; Tolstoy

Courses Regularly Taught:   Czech, The Writings of Václav Havel: Critque of Modern Society, Structure of Russian, Metaphor

Selected Publications:

Books

Kris van Heuckelom and David Danaher (eds).   Perspectives on Slavistics: Literature .   Amsterdam:   Pegasus, 2006 (forthcoming).

The Semantics and Discourse Function of Habitual-Iterative Verbs in Contemporary Czech .   Munich:   Lincom, 2003.  

Articles

"Cognitive Poetics and Literariness:   Metaphorical Analogy in Anna Karenina ," in Perspectives on Slavistics , Amsterdam:   Pegasus, 2006.

"The Relevance of Václav Havel for American Undergraduates," Czech Language News 21 (2003): 4-7.   A version of this publication is also available in the proceedings of the 2003 SVU North American Conference (June 2003, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) at <http://www.svu2000.org/conferences/papers.htm>.

" Using the Film Lásky jedné plavovlásky [ Loves of a Blonde ] in Intermediate Czech," Czech Language News 20 (2003), 6-7.

"Conceptual Metaphors for the Domains TRUTH and FALSEHOOD in Russian and the Image of the Black Sack in Tolstoi's The Death of Ivan Il'ich ," in American Contributions to the 13th International Congress of Slavists, Volume 2: Literature , eds. R. Maguire and A. Timberlake, 61-75, Bloomington: Slavica, 2003.  

"A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor in Prose:   Truth and Falsehood in Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Il'ich'," Poetics Today 24:3 (2003), 439-69.

Entry on 'The Death of Ivan Il'ich' for The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying , NY: Macmillan, 2002.

"The Semantics of Pity and Zhalost' in a Literary Context," Glossos 3 (2002), <http://seelrc.org/glossos/issues/3/>.

"Czech Habitual Verbs and Conceptual Distancing," Journal of Slavic Linguistics 9:1 (2001), 3-24.   

David Danaher and C. Ott.   "A Pedagogical Approach to the Design and Use of Multimedia in Russian Instruction," in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures , eds. O. Kagan and B. Rifkin, 327-40.   Bloomington:   Slavica, 2000.

"Iteration and the Peircean Habit," in The Peirce Seminar Papers:   Essays in Semiotic Analysis (Volume Four) , ed. M. Shapiro, 563-87.   NY:   Berghahn Books, 1999.

"The Function of Pain in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'ich," Tolstoy Studies Journal 10 (1998), 20-8.  

"Peirce's Semiotic and Conceptual Metaphor Theory," Semiotica 119: 1/2 (1998), 171-207.

"A Semiotic Approach to the Semantics of Czech Verbs of the Type rikavat ," The Slavic and East European Journal 40:1 (1996), 118-33.

"Light and Dark Imagery in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'ich ," The Slavic and East European Journal 39:2 (1995), 227-40.

David Danaher, S. Tempest, and C. Ott.   "Chukovsky's Limpopo and Lenin's What Is Soviet Power?," in Virtual Connections:   On-Line Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners , ed. M. Warschauer, 339-43.   Honolulu:   University of Hawaii Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center, 1995.