Sociolinguistics Books

Book SynopsisThe Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can play in our lives, reminding us of reading's enduring, and sometimes surprising, ability to help us through times of illness, grief, and uncertainty.Interweaving fragments from his own experience of reading, Harvey takes us on a fascinating tour of reading for therapeutic effect, exploring the rise of shared reading and other uses of bibliotherapy in various social and personal contexts. He argues, through a series of compelling stories and life experiences, that reading not only benefits physical and emotional wellbeing, but that it also humanises the care process, particularly in institutional settings where personhood can be threatened or undermined completely.Whether he's writing about the drama and delight of reading aloud to other people, the humane magic of the public library, or the loss of his beloved brother and his improvised attempt to read through grief, Harvey offers us an engaging take on the solace of reading and the gift of the written word. Entertaining, highly accessible, and teeming with illuminating observations and ideas, The Literary Lifeline is a book that will appeal to both scholars and general readers alike.

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Book SynopsisSince its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot’s Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. This anticipated third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated for the era of #MeToo, genderqueer, Trump, and cyberhate. The book is organized into three parts. An introductory section provides grounding in early ‘classic' studies in the field. In the second section, Talbot examines language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres. The last section considers the construction and performance of gender in discourse, reflecting the interest in mass media and popular culture found in recent research, as well as the preoccupation with social change that is central to Critical Discourse Analysis. Maintaining an emphasis on recent research, Talbot covers a range of approaches at an introductory level, lucidly presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, enabling students to further their interests in various topics. Language and Gender will continue to be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural and media studies, gender studies and communication studies.Trade Review"The author moves smoothly and coherently from more traditional approaches to language and gender through to very recent research in areas such as discourse and consumerism, and language, gender and sexuality. Different approaches, including Critical Discourse Analysis and social constructionism, are demonstrated, and difficult concepts are clearly and comprehensibly presented. Mary Talbot's own research enriches and enlivens the discussion throughout. The text is extensively illustrated with interesting examples, many of which are taken from recent published research, thus introducing students to relevant and authentic material." Janet Holmes, Victoria University of WellingtonTable of Contents 20 years on... Preface to the third edition Acknowledgements Transcription conventions PART I: Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models 1 Language and gender 2 Talking proper 3 ‘Women’s language’ and ‘man made language’ PART II: Interaction among Women and Men 4 Telling stories 5 Conversation 6 Difference-and-dominance and beyond PART III: Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance 7 Critical perspectives on gender identity 8 Consumerism 9 New men and old boys 10 Professionally speaking 11 Language, gender and sexuality 12 Reclaiming the language References Index

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Book SynopsisLexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper speech." Lexicon of the Mouth aims for a viscous, poetic and resonant discourse of subjectivity, detailed through the "micro-oralities" of laughing and whispering, stuttering and reciting, eating and kissing, among others. The oral cavity is posed as an impressionable arena, susceptible to all types of material input, contamination and intervention, while also enabling powerful forms of resistance, attachment and conversation, as well as radical imagination. Lexicon of the Mouth argues for the revolutionary promise of the laugh, the spirited mythologies of the whisper, the schizophonics of self-talk, and the primal noise of gibberish, suggesting that the significance of voicing is fundamentally bound to the exertions of the mouth. Subsequently, assumptions around voice and vocality are unsettled in favor of an epistemology of the oral, highlighting the acts of the tongue, the lips and the throat as primary mediations between interior and exterior, social structures and embodied expressions. LaBelle makes a significant contribution to currents in sound and voice studies by reminding that to hear the voice, and to consider a politics of speech, is first and foremost to assume the mouth.Trade ReviewLaBelle shows how the mouth envelops and develops bodies, languages and subjectivities. He constructs what he calls the ‘oral imaginary’, the forms of figuration and function that define the role of the mouth as a cultural artefact … the many choreographies of the mouth that he presents and the many ways in which those choreographies envelop and inflect voice, culture and politics leaves us in a dizzying, vertiginous space of possibility and potentiality. -- John Melillo * Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies *An artist and a sound culture theorist, LaBelle offers a wide-ranging epistemology of oral gestures, arguing for the mouth as a contested space in which the politics and psychology of speech and the body are embodied. In a dozen chapters, he explores the oral cavity (and some associated physiology), illustrates its verbal and nonverbal productions, and connects them to topics in cultural theory such as decolonization and transgression …The exemplification favors critical theory (Butler, Kristeva, Lacan, Cixous, Freud) and performance art, and the book will be of special interest to art historians, cultural theorists, and performers. There are also many intriguing observations about such topics as ear and neck biting, kissing protests, and hysterical laughter… Summing Up: Optional. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- E. L. Battistella, Southern Oregon University * CHOICE *In the decade since, a stunning range of new offerings from a variety of publishers has become readily available, and sound studies is a far more expansive discipline. This fact is nowhere more evident than in Bloomsbury Academic’s excellent sound studies catalog ... the scholarship here shows how adept the cultural study of sound can be at unearthing the thorny political and social tensions that define contemporary culture. -- Nicholas C. Laudadio, University of North Carolina Wilmington * Journal of Popular Music Studies *Future studies will now be able to explore the more hidden cavities and diaphragms of the humanoid body, which oscillate and resonate. Brandon LaBelle's volume is a perfect start and an ideal reference point for these journeys. -- Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen * Seismograf *To simultaneously emancipate the ear and the mouth is a great accomplishment. To do so with care and love a gift. Lexicon of the Mouth offers erudite ruckus, expansive erotics, destabilizing poetics, liberatory politics. By revealing how 'the drama of the mouth' is greater than that of the word, Brandon LaBelle opens new horizons for performance, music, and the sound arts. * Allen S. Weiss, Performance Studies and Cinema Studies, New York University, and author of Phantasmic Radio (1995), Breathless (2002), and Varieties of Audio Mimesis (2008) *Tuning his ear to the poetics and politics of the mouth, Brandon LaBelle makes a highly original and significant contribution to our understandings of voice in its various modalities and performativities. This is a breathtaking transdisciplinary accomplishment, beautifully written and deeply scholarly; it deftly re-focuses our attention on the multiform assemblages of the mouth -- from the individual to the inter-subjective, from the social to the political, from the bodily interior to public spaces –- and thus evokes a vital new cartography of auditory culture. * Norie Neumark, Professor and Chair in Media Studies, Director of the Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University, Australia *Table of ContentsPreface: Associative Introduction: Movement 1. Bite, Chew, Eat 2. Burp, Choke, Cough, Gag, Spit, Vomit 3. Cry, Scream, Shout, Sing 4. Gasp, Growl, Grunt, Sigh, Yawn 5. Gibberish, Gobbledygook 6. Inner voice, Self-talk 7. Kiss, Lick, Suck 8. Laugh 9. Murmur, Whisper 10. Lisp, Mute, Stutter 11. Recite, Repeat, Vow 12. Whistle Conclusion: Dirty Etc. Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, which takes the form of a graphic novel, looks at political activism in the public landscape. It has a particular focus on the UK activist group Led By Donkeys which has, since late 2018, been running a campaign to expose hypocrisy in the political classes. Their approach to activism involves the use of large posters and other forms of public display, which highlight the gap between the rhetoric and actions of politicians, and how language and communication is used to manipulate opinion. The activism discussed in the book includes four major issues: Brexit, Trump, Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book is both an innovative visual approach to the presentation of academic research and thought, and an exploration of how the linguistic landscape can be a key resource for the communication of political activism.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant non-academic academic book. An afternoon of deeply pleasurable reading is guaranteed for anyone who picks it up. In an act of public service the authors allow the reader to become immersed in a highly innovative style of visual and discursive representation revealing the power of semiotic landscapes in political dissent and democratic activism. * Angela Creese, University of Stirling, UK *In a truly multimodal treatment of a multimodal subject matter, Seargeant grapples with the complex questions of political activism in the public space and presents them here in both a sophisticated and accessible way. This book not only critiques recent torrid political events but also slakes the public’s thirst for understanding visual communication in protest and activist movements. * Robert Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK *Table of ContentsSetting the Scene A: Accountability B: Brexit C: Covid D: Democracy E: Emplacement F: Freedom of Expression G: Grassroots Campaign H: Hypocrisy I: Intertextuality J: Just Joking L: Law M: Metalinguistic Landscape N: Narrative O: Online–Offline Nexus P: Place (and Space) Q: Quotation R: Rule of Law S: Social Media T: Twitter U: Urban Environments V: Victory? Z: Zed Afterword A Second, More Word-Based Afterword Appendix A Model of Context for Grassroots Political Protest Bibliography Cast and Crew

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Book SynopsisLanguage is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language. However, there has been surprisingly little interest in the past linking social cognition and communication. This book presents the latest cutting-edge research from a select group of leading international scholars investigating the how language shapes our thinking, and how social cognitive processes in turn influence language production and communication. The chapters represent diverse perspectives of investigating the links between language and communication, including evolutionary, linguistic, cognitive and affective approaches as well as the empirical analysis of written and spoken narratives. New methodologies are presented including the latest techniques of text analysis to illuminate the psychology of individual language users, and entire cultures and societies. The chapters address such questions as how are cognitive and identity processes reflected in language? How do affective states influence language production? Are political correctness norms in language use effective? How do partners manage to accommodate to each other’s communicative expectations? What is the role of language as a medium of interpersonal and intergroup influence? How are individual and cultural identities reflected in, and shaped by narratives in literature, school texts and the media?The book is aimed at all students, researchers and laypersons interested in the interplay between thinking and communication, and should be required reading for all professionals who use language in their everyday work to interact with people. Trade Review"Social cognition and communication are intricately intertwined. Our thoughts are shaped by manifold of communications we receive from others with whom we shape the shared realities that lend meaning to our lives. This rare and truly important volume weaves together the strands of these fundamental processes as they manifest themselves in cutting edge research by leading investigators across the many domains where social cognition and communication interface. A fascinating read and a useful reference book for students and academics across the entire landscape of the social sciences" -- Arie W. Kruglanski, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park"This topical volume features 18 cutting-edge chapters on the interplay between thought and language, or cognition and communication. The chapters cover topics ranging from cognition and communication in dyads to the socio-political implications of cognition and communication. Masterfully edited, this promises to be a landmark volume in both social psychology and communication. It is suitable for researchers, PhD students, and advanced undergraduates alike." -- Constantine Sedikides, Ph.D., University of Southampton, United KingdomTable of ContentsI. Introduction Pennebaker, James W. & Chung, Cindy K, Counting little words in big data: the psychology of communities, culture and history. Giles, Howard & Gasiorek, J., Parameters of non-accommodation: refining and elaborating communication accommodation theory. Laszlo, J. & Ehmann, B., Narrative social psychology. Fiedler, K. & Mata, A., The art of exerting verbal influence through powerful lexical stimuli. II. Cognitive and affective influences on communication: Beukeboom, Camiel J., Mechanisms of linguistic bias: How words reflect and maintain stereotypic expectancies. Forgas, Joseph P., Feeling and speaking: affective influences on communication strategies and language use. Kissine, Mikhail & Klein, Olivier, Models of communication, epistemic trust and epistemi vigilance. Abele, Andrea A. & Bruckmuller, Suzanne, Are there systematic differences in describing self vs. others in terms of agentic and communal traits? Koch, Alex, Forgas, Joseph P. & Goldenberg, Liz, In the mood to break the rules: affective influences on linguistic abstraction and adherence to Grice's conversational maxims. III. Communication, identity and group processes Pearson, Adam R. & Dovidio, John F., Intergroup fluency: How processing experiences shape intergroup cognition and communication. Crano, William D & Alvaro, Eusebio M., Social factors that affect the processing of minority-sourced persuasive communications. Peters, Kim and Yoshihisha Kashima., Gossiping as moral social action: A functionalist account of gossiper perceptions. Vincze, Orsolya, Ilg, Barbara & Polya, Tibor., The role of narrative perspective in the elaboration of individual and historical traumas. Cooper, Joel & Trujillo,Matthew., Multiple meanings of communicative acts in the reduction of vicarious cognitive dissonance. IV. Social and cultural influences on communication: Maass, Anne, Suitner, Caterina & Merkel, Elisa., Does political correctness make (social) sense? Fulop, Eva, Cserto, Istvan Ilg, Barbara, Szabo, Zsolt, slugoski, Ben and Laszlo, Janos., Emotional elaboration of collective traumas in histporical narratives; Nencini, Alessio ,Narrative constructions in Italian identity: an investigation into literary texts over time; Catellani, Patrizia & Bertolotti, Mauro, Political communication, social cognitiuve processes and voters' judgments.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the astonishing achievements of John Angus Mackay – a man whose intelligence, humanity, political nous, people skills, wit, steely resolve and courage, were such that, what lesser beings regarded as impossible, he made possible. Through his efforts in concert with a small group of others, a thousand year process of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Gaelic language and culture was challenged and new means created to rebuild that which the powers-that-be had long sought to destroy. These efforts were so successful that now, the Scottish Gaelic language and culture has turned the corner and the number of young Gaelic speakers is increasing. How this was achieved, against a sustained barrage of negativity, is described, but perhaps his most obvious achievement is his long, dogged and forensically focused campaign, against huge establishment resistance, to win a Gaelic television channel. That channel now provides a fascinating range of programming at times attracting viewership figures well in excess of the total number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland. But that is only part of the story. John Angus was also a gifted teacher, pivotal in developing community co-operatives in his native Lewis, in paving the way for the creation of the Crofters’ Union and leading the development of the Gaelic Comunn na Gàidhlig, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, An Lanntair multi-arts venue, the University of the Highlands and Islands, and as its chairman, in turning round NHS Western Isles from crisis into a model small health board.

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Book SynopsisThis book delivers essential skills in “spoken” professional communications, presenting theoretical and applied frameworks for business talk using English as a lingua franca. Adopting a role-playing approach mimicking various professional settings, it assesses the strength of the well-reasoned argument, the logical links that convince the audience of the coherence of the speaker’s argument and the necessary linguistics competencies. This book centers on a variety of situations that commonly take place in business organizations (such as relational talk; call center talk; job application talk) and addresses key skills such as conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving through communication, which are key for both students and practitioners. In addition it analyses spoken business discourse data with the four main sources of communicative competence: grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence in order to highlight how they are used in business speaking practices. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisPresenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of ‘New Sinology’ by restoring the role of language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern China emerged.Trade ReviewThis is a richly researched and intelligently argued collection of studies that highlight a key methodological and interpretive issue in China studies and provides a considerable empirical detail that makes their point. The volume delivers on the promise of the editors to bring language/philology back in—to argue for and demonstrate the significance of "New Sinology": the careful attention to historical language and knowledge in texts both contemporary and earlier to illuminate the power of cultural habitus as well as conscious practice over time as expressed in the written version of Austin’s speech acts. These studies show that the tools of traditional Sinology, with a focus on linguistic and philological expertise, can and do contribute meaningfully to our understanding of the genesis and experience of modern China." - Timothy Cheek, The University of British Columbia

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Book SynopsisThis work presents a concise account of the history of the English language, from the point of view of current theories of language variation and change. It provides a socio-historical background for each period, followed by a discussion of its major linguistic developments.Trade Review"[Fennell] gives an excellent account of the global spread of modern English." Times Higher Education Supplement "Offers an excellent background in the history of the world's second language." GeolinguisticsTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures xii Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Time Periods of English 1 1.2 Language Change 3 1.3 Sources of Information on Language Change 7 1.4 Linguistic Preliminaries 9 1.5 The Sounds of English, and Symbols Used to Describe Them 11 1.5.1 Consonants 11 1.5.2 Vowels 12 1.5.2.1 Monophthongs 12 1.5.2.2 Diphthongs 12 1.6 Structure of the Book 13 2 The Pre-history of English 15 Timeline: The Indo-European Period 15 2.1 The Indo-European Languages and Linguistic Relatedness 17 2.1.1 The Beginnings 17 2.1.2 The Development of Historical Linguistics 18 2.1.3 Genetic Relatedness 19 2.2 Linguistic Developments: The Indo-European Language Family 23 2.2.1 Family-Tree Relationships 23 2.2.2 The Indo-European Family 23 2.2.2.1 Indo-Iranian 25 2.2.2.2 Armenian 26 2.2.2.3 Albanian 26 2.2.2.4 Balto-Slavonic 26 2.2.2.5 Hellenic 28 2.2.2.6 Italic 28 2.2.2.7 Celtic 29 2.2.2.8 Germanic 31 2.3 From Indo-European to Germanic 34 2.3.1 Prosody 35 2.3.2 The Consonant System: Sound Shifts 35 2.3.2.1 Grimm’s Law 36 2.3.2.2 Verner’s Law 37 2.3.2.3 The Second Consonant Shift 38 2.3.3 The Vowel System 40 2.3.4 Morphology 40 2.3.5 Syntax 41 2.3.6 Lexicon 41 2.3.7 Semantics 42 2.3.8 Indo-European/Germanic Texts 42 2.3.9 Neogrammarians, Structuralists and Contemporary Linguistic Models 43 2.4 Typological Classification 44 2.4.1 Universals 45 2.4.1.1 Syntactic Universals 45 2.4.2 Morphological Typology 46 2.5 Sociolinguistic Focus. The Indo-European Tribes and the Spread of Language. Language Contact and Language Change. Archaeological Linguistics 49 2.5.1 Language Contact 50 2.5.2 Archaeological Linguistics 51 2.6 Conclusion 53 3 Old English 55 Timeline: The Old English Period 55 3.1 Social and Political History 55 3.1.1 Britain before the English 55 3.1.2 The Anglo-Saxon Invasions 56 3.1.3 Anglo-Saxon Influence 56 3.1.4 Scandinavian Influence 57 3.2 Linguistic Developments: The Sounds, Structure and Typology of Old English 59 3.2.1 The Structure of Old English 59 3.2.1.1 OE Consonants 60 3.2.1.2 Vowels: from Germanic to Old English 62 3.2.1.3 Old English Gender 64 3.2.1.4Inflection in Old English 64 3.2.1.5 Old English Syntax 72 3.2.1.6 Old English Vocabulary 77 3.3 Linguistic and Literary Achievements 79 3.3.1 Texts 79 3.3.1.1 Prose 80 3.3.1.2 Poetry 82 3.4 The Dialects of Old English 85 3.5 Sociolinguistic Focus 86 3.5.1 Language Contact 86 3.5.1.1 Latin and Celtic 88 3.5.1.2 The Scandinavians 90 4 Middle English 94 Timeline: The Middle English Period 94 4.1 Social and Political History 94 4.1.1 Political History: The Norman Conquest to Edward I 94 4.1.2 Social History 96 4.1.2.1 The Establishment of Towns and Burghs and the Beginnings of Social Stratification 96 4.2 Linguistic Developments: Middle English Sounds and Structure, with Particular Emphasis on the Breakdown of the Inflectional System and its Linguistic Typological Implications 97 4.2.1 Major Changes in the Sound System 97 4.2.1.1 The Consonants 97 4.2.1.2 Consonant Changes from Old to Middle English 98 4.2.1.3 Vowels in Stressed Syllables 98 4.2.1.4 Vowels in Unstressed Syllables 99 4.2.1.5 Lengthening and Shortening 99 4.2.1.6 Summary Table of Vowel Changes from Old to Middle English 100 4.2.1.7 The Formation of Middle English Diphthongs 100 4.2.2 Major Morphological Changes from Old to Middle English 101 4.2.2.1 Loss of Inflections 101 4.2.2.2 Other Changes in the Morphological System 102 4.2.2.3 Verbs 103 4.2.3 Middle English Syntax 104 4.2.3.1 Word Order 106 4.2.4 The Lexicon: Loan Words from French 106 4.2.4.1 Numbers and Parts of the Body 107 4.2.4.2 Two French Sources 108 4.3 Middle English Dialects 108 4.3.1 Linguistic and Literary Achievements 114 4.3.1.1 Middle English Literature 114 4.3.2 Language 114 4.3.3 Genre 115 4.4 Sociolinguistic Focus: Social Stratification, Multilingualism and Dialect Variation. Language Contact: The Myth of Middle English Creolization 116 4.4.1 English Re-established 116 4.4.1.1 Language and the Rise of the Middle Class 120 4.4.2 The Development of Standard English 122 4.4.2.1 The Evolution of ME ‘Standard’ English 123 4.4.3 Middle English Creolization: Myth? 125 4.4.3.1 Definitions 126 4.4.3.2 Pidgins and Creoles in England? 128 4.5 Conclusion 133 5 Early Modern English 135 Timeline: The Early Modern English Period 135 5.1 Social and Political History 136 5.1.1 Historical and Political Background 136 5.1.1.1 Internal Instability and Colonial Expansion 137 5.2 Linguistic Developments: The Variable Character of Early Modern English 138 5.2.1 Phonology 138 5.2.1.1 Consonants 139 5.2.1.2 Vowels 140 5.2.1.3 The Great Vowel Shift 141 5.2.2 Morphology 141 5.2.2.1 Nouns 141 5.2.2.2 Pronouns 142 5.2.2.3 Adjectives and Adverbs 142 5.2.2.4 Verbs 143 5.2.2.5 The Spread of Northern Forms 143 5.2.3 Syntax 144 5.2.3.1 Periphrastic do 144 5.2.3.2 Progressive Verb Forms 145 5.2.3.3 Passives 145 5.2.4 Sample Text 146 5.2.5 Vocabulary 147 5.2.6 The Anxious State of English: The Search for Authority 147 5.2.6.1 Dictionaries and the Question of Linguistic Authority: Swift’s and Johnson’s View of Language 149 5.3 Linguistic and Literary Achievement 152 5.4 Sociolinguistic Focus 154 5.4.1 Variation in Early Modern English 154 5.4.2 Standardization 156 5.4.2.1 The Printing Press 156 5.4.2.2 The Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation 156 5.4.2.3 English Established 157 5.4.3 The Great Vowel Shift 158 5.4.3.1 Phonological Change 158 5.4.4 Case Study: Power and Solidarity Relations in Early Modern English 162 5.5 Conclusion 166 6 Present-Day English 167 Timeline: Present-Day English 167 Introduction 168 6.1 Social and Political History 169 6.1.1 The Age of Revolutions, Wars and Imperialism 169 6.1.2 Urbanization, Industrialization and Social Stratification 170 6.2 Linguistic Developments 172 6.2.1 Morphology and Syntax 172 6.2.1.1 Morphology 172 6.2.1.2 Syntax 173 6.2.2 The Lexicon 175 6.2.2.1 Colonialism, Contact and Borrowings 175 6.2.2.2 Neologisms 176 6.2.2.3 Illustrative Texts 178 6.3 Modern English Dialects 179 6.3.1 Traditional Dialects 180 6.3.2 Modern Dialects 182 6.3.3 Received Pronunciation (RP): The Social Background 185 6.3.3.1 Characteristics of RP 187 6.3.4 RP, Estuary English and ‘the Queen’s English’ 188 6.4 Sociolinguistic Focus: English in Scotland, Ireland and Wales – Multilingualism in Britain 191 6.4.1 English in the British Isles 191 6.4.1.1 English in Scotland 191 6.4.1.2 English in Wales 195 6.4.1.3 English in Ireland 198 6.4.2 Immigrant Varieties of English in Britain 200 6.4.2.1 Immigration to Britain in the PDE Period 200 6.4.2.2 Colonial Immigration and Language 202 7 English in the United States 208 Timeline: America in the Modern Period 208 7.1 Social and Political History 209 7.1.1 Settlement and Language 209 7.1.2 Settlement by Region 210 7.1.2.1 The Original Thirteen Colonies 210 7.1.2.2 The Middle West 213 7.1.2.3 The South and West 214 7.2 The Development of American English 216 7.2.1 The Strength and Maintenance of Dialect Boundaries 216 7.2.2 How, Why and When American English Began to Diverge from British English 217 7.2.2.1 Physical Separation 217 7.2.2.2 The Different Physical Conditions Encountered by the Settlers 218 7.2.2.3 Contact with Immigrant Non-Native Speakers of English 219 7.2.2.4 Developing Political Differences and the Growing American Sense of National Identity 219 7.3 Language Variation in the United States 222 7.3.1 Uniformity and Diversity in Early American English 222 7.3.2 Regional Dialect Divisions in American English 223 7.3.2.1 The Lexicon 223 7.3.2.2 Phonology: Consonants 226 7.3.2.3 Phonology: Vowels 227 7.3.3 Social and Ethnic Dialects 229 7.3.3.1 Social Class and Language Change 231 7.3.3.2 Ethnicity 231 7.3.3.3 African-American Vernacular English 232 7.3.3.4 Traditional Dialects and the Resistance to Change 237 8 World-Wide English 241 Timeline: World-Wide English 241 8.1 Social and Political History: The Spread of English across the Globe 243 8.1.1 British Colonialism 244 8.1.1.1 Canada 244 8.1.1.2 The Caribbean 245 8.1.1.3 Australia 246 8.1.1.4New Zealand 247 8.1.1.5 South Africa 247 8.1.1.6 South Asia 248 8.1.1.7 Former Colonial Africa: West Africa 250 8.1.1.8 East Africa 252 8.1.1.9 South-East Asia and South Pacific 253 8.1.2 An Overview of the Use of English throughout the World 255 8.2 English as a Global Language 256 8.2.1 The Industrial Revolution 256 8.2.2 American Economic Superiority and Political Leadership 257 8.2.3 American Technological Domination 257 8.2.4 The Boom in English Language Teaching 258 8.2.5 The Need for a Global Language 259 8.2.6 Structural Considerations 260 8.2.7 Global and at the Same Time Local 261 8.3 English as a Killer Language 264 8.3.1 Language Death 265 8.3.2 Language and Communication Technology 266 8.4 The Future of English 267 Bibliography 270 Index 280

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Book SynopsisAn engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the fieldWe face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats. In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, BaroTrade ReviewBaron's work provides a weighted and critical description of printed and digital environments from an educational point of view, focusing on those factors of improvement that each of them entails. One of its main contributions is the introduction of audio and video analysis as complementary forms of reading that are becoming more and more important as the platforms for their use expand, and the services offered increase. * José Antonio Cordón, University of Salamanca, Escola de Llibreria *Beyond being eminently readable, How We Read Now is also inspiring in terms of design. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals; general readers. * P. Finley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, CHOICE *A well-researched, accessible treatise on all the ways we experience and absorb words... Educating tomorrowâs generations is of urgent importance to all of us, and for that reason, How We Read Now is must reading. Baron does not prescribe particular reading platforms, but rather enables us to better assess all the possibilities... Baron's light, conversational style makes for enjoyable reading - whether in print or on a screen. * Bárbara Mujica, Washington Independent Review of Books *How We Read Now is a wonderful guide to the complicated landscape where our minds meet the written word; it helps us understand how we read, how we learn, and how we navigate a changing world of text, information, stories, and connection, for ourselves and for our children. * Perri Klass, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics, New York University, and author A Good Time to Be Born *Naomi Baron has done a huge service to everyone involved in the study, teaching, and practice of reading-which means all of us. Written in a friendly and informal style, with well-placed signposts and summaries, her succinct synthesis of research findings provides a wealth of timely and relevant advice for policy-makers, teachers, students, parents, and children. * David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University, and author of Let's Talk *Naomi Baron has done it again. She has enticed us to take a long, hard look at reading in this technological age. How We Read Now brings the advantages and disadvantages of each medium into the light, and guides us on what, when, or why to read in one medium or another. This eye-opening book is truly a 'must read' for educators, parents, and students. * Patricia Alexander, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland *Dr. Baron clearly synthesizes the issues surrounding how we read from printed and screen texts. Everyone needs to read this book. * Larry D. Rosen, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and co-author of The Distracted Mind *Naomi Baron expertly presents the latest research on the cognitive and behavioral facets of 'reading to learn' in multiple formats. She offers an accessible translation of points and strategies for policymakers and educators, including parents, to consider for readers at all levels. This book is essential reading in a time of transition to digital publishing. * Diane Mizrachi, UCLA Library, and Alicia Salaz, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries *Table of ContentsForeword by Maryanne Wolf List of Tables and Figures Introduction: The New Great Debate in Reading Part I Sizing Up Reading What's at Stake? Chapter 1: What Do We Mean by "Reading" and "Reader"? Chapter 2: What are You Reading? Chapter 3: Print Reading: A Gold Standard? Part II Reading in Print versus Onscreen What's at Stake? Chapter 4: What Research Tells Us: Single Texts Chapter 5: What Research Tells Us: Multiple Texts Chapter 6: Strategies for Effective Reading Onscreen Part III Reading with Audio What's at Stake? Chapter 7: What Research Tells Us about Audio (and Video) Chapter 8: Strategies for Effective Reading with Audio (and Video) Part IV What's Next? What's at Stake? Chapter 9: Strategizing Reading in a Digital World Chapter 10: The Road Ahead Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world''s most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco''s words, ''even errors can produce interesting side effects''. Eco''s book shows how:-- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America-- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward-- the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main chapters that focus on a specific period in the history of the language; they each begin with a discussion of the external history and position of the Irish language in the period, before moving on to investigate the important internal changes that took place at that time. A History of the Irish Language makes available for the first time material that has previously been inaccessible to students and scholars who cannot read Irish, and will be a valuable resource not only for undergraduate students of the language, but for all those interested in Irish history and culture.Trade Reviewthe historiography of the Irish language is vibrant at the moment, and Aidan Doyle has made a very constructive contribution to it. * Niall Ó Ciosáin, Historical Sociolinguistics *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Anglo-Normans and their heritage (1200-1500) ; 3. The Tudors (1500-1600) ; 4. The Stuarts (1600-1700) ; 5. Two Irelands, two languages (1700-1800) ; 6. A new language for a new nation (1800-1870) ; 7. Revival (1870-1922) ; 8. The modernization of Irish (1870-1922) ; 9. Conclusion ; Glossary ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisIt's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology - with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill - David Crystal explores the origins of regional accents, how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.Trade ReviewPrevious praise for David Crystal: Crystal's book is full of distractions and delights * Daily Express *Refreshing and briskly written ... Crystal shows that grammar is not nearly as tedious as it can seem * Sunday Times *If the history of language is a sort of labyrinth, David Crystal is an excellent guide * The Age, Australia *Delicious revelations ... Crystal does an excellent job, not just of tracing the etymology of a word, but of relating it to social history, painting a picture of our times through words * Independent on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisLanguage enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (19452020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures.Focusing not just on what people say buthowwe say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discoursefar exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity.Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau''spantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebearsin linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefinTrade Review'Brilliant, comprehensive, and always thought-provoking, Language in Culture is a truly singular contribution. Silverstein has brought his subtle and elegantly laid-out theoretical approach together with the acute and generative exploration of detailed exemplary cases - and always in his own distinctive and engaging voice. This is bound to be an immediate classic of lasting resonance.' Don Brenneis, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz'This treasure of a book lays out the total linguistic fact, with all of Silverstein's classic brilliance, erudition, and mischievousness.' Penelope Eckert, Albert Ray Lang Professor Emerita, Stanford University'It's difficult to find words to characterize adequately Michael Silverstein's genius, or the significance of his work. He is a singular figure. It's tempting to think of him as a kind of Saussure for our century, except that, as this elegantly constructed volume reveals, Silverstein disassembles Saussure's framework and uses the component parts - along with myriad elements from elsewhere (Peirce, Whorf, Sapir, Jakobson, Bakhtin, and many others) - to build a wondrous new construction that allows a breathtakingly rich view of how language works and of what happens when we use it.' Michael Lucey, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature and French, University of California, Berkeley'With his signature searing clarity and punning wit, Michael Silverstein at long last lays out in print what decades of students have heard - the detailed, layered, and at once remarkably robust and subtle semiotic mechanisms through which we co-construct our worlds, or wreck them, hold them in a precarious order or teeter off course.' Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Getting – and getting across – the message; Lecture 1: Text; Lecture 2: Event; Lecture 3: Context; Lecture 4: Enregisterment; Lecture 5: Variation; Lecture 6: Categoriality; Lecture 7: Relativity; Lecture 8: Knowledge; Editorial acknowledgments; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how countries make decisions about which language - and which variety or form of that language - should be used for key functions such as primary education, government administration, and the law. The book provides historical background to shed light on present-day policy disputes concerning language, and looks at how the resulting decisions are implemented in schools and other institutions. A common thread that runs through the chapters is the question of whether the involvement of the government in language regulation is a necessity, a blessing, or a curse. Written in a concise and engaging style, Language Policy: A Slim Guide is suitable for readers from all backgrounds who are interested in the interaction between language and politics.

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Book SynopsisWriting a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark''s unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women ''did their bit'' on the Home Front. Lynda''s Mugglestone''s fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventionaTrade ReviewWriting a War of Words is scholarly, as a definitive study should be, but eminently readable. * E. L. Battistella, CHOICE *Writing a War of Words is an invaluable contribution both to lexicography and history 'from below', recording words and expressions which have been preserved thanks to Clark's immense efforts. It will certainly inspire future research which will provide new insights into the lexical impact of the Great War on the English language. The book will be of interest to lexicographers, language historians, historians and anyone interested in World War I and its discourse, which can be extended to the discourse of war in general. * Prof.Dr. Lelija Socanac, The LINGUIST *Lynda Mugglestone's "Writing a War of Words" is a fascinating account of the immense effort of Andrew Clark, a diarist, historian and philologist, to record in minute detail the fleeting existence of English words and shifting meanings which appeared during the Great War in a variety of unconventional sources such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front. This immense lexical richness vividly recreates different aspects of everyday life of ordinary people facing the harsh realities of war. * Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, Linguist List *Mugglestone has a shrewd understanding of the technical business and psychological climate of lexicography. Her research is scrupulous, and through her analysis Clark's catalogue of usage comes to seem an achievement of almost Johnsonian proportions - each page a time capsule, and the whole project an extraordinarily detailed map of the period's changing "langscape"... a generous tribute to his [Clark's] linguistic curiosity and curatorial intelligence. * Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement *The voluminous diaries and scrapbooks Andrew Clark compiled during World War One prove him alert to words and usage of the time and a skilled and prescient commentator on their significance. In her new book, Lynda Mugglestone reconstructs Clark's account of the 'war of words' amidst the war, his finger, as she puts it, 'on the pulse of words in time', equally an apt description of Mugglestone's historical touch. Anyone with an interest in the history of English, the Great War, or the Oxford English Dictionary, to which Clark contributed, must read Writing a War of Words. * Michael Adams, Indiana University Bloomington *Lynda Mugglestone's Writing a War of Words is a revelation. It tells the story of Andrew Clark, a diarist and philologist whose reflections on language and the Great War offer a wealth of information about English linguistic history and its social contexts. But more generally, it reveals the centrality of the Great War to the study of the English Language itself. Much has been made of Tolkien's war and its impact on his philology and fantasy. Clark is different: he is a personal, self-reflective writer, an acute observer of words and people, and a historian of the imagination. His diary is a true discovery, and Professor Mugglestone shows him standing on a par with Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Writing a War of Words will stand with Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory as a lasting, revisionary account of early twentieth-century personal writing, language change, and the wartime literary imagination. * Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego *Table of ContentsPreface: Writing a War of Words 1: Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles 2: Reading into Words 3: 'Doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription 4: The Langscape of War 5: Border Crossings 6: English in a Time of Total War 7: Writing the Woman's Part 8: Written on the Body 9: Last Words

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Book SynopsisThis Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics. The relationship between language and identity - whether of an individual or a group - is a strong thread linking all the topics covered in the book. The ordinary, instrumental, communicative aspects of language cannot be adequately understood without paying attention to the symbolic features that powerfully underpin feelings and attributions of groupness and belonging. The book therefore focuses more on macro sociological areas than to fine-grained analyses of variation in linguistic features (though the latter are not ignored).Edwards explains the differential social evaluations of languages and dialects, how names (and naming) are much more than simple designations, why some languages come to dominate others, as well as questions about the relationship between language and gender, sexist language, the language of poverty, the intertwining of language and religion, and politically driven language planning and policy. These matters have always been timely and of great social interest. The book demonstrates the connections and continuities that exist within the language arena in which we all participate, and about which all of us have opinions, preferences and prejudices. This is the first short treatment that acquaints the educated non-specialist with the social life of language. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Review"The author's degrees in psychology allow him to effectively examine the intersections between human behavior and language. Although the content of the book is introductory, the scholarly writing style makes it appropriate for advanced students in sociolinguistics courses." -K.C. Williams, Mercyhurst University, CHOICETable of ContentsList of illustrations ; Chapter 1: Coming to Terms ; Chapter 2: Variation and Change ; Chapter 3: Perceptions of Language ; Chapter 4: Protecting Language ; Chapter 5: Languages Great and Small ; Chapter 6: Loyalty, Maintenance, Shift, Loss and Revival ; Chapter 7: In a World of Language ; Chapter 8: Name, Sex and Religion ; References ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets.Trade Review“This book is richly illustrated and provides a careful account of the tools available, effectively demonstrating how they can be applied, as well as how Caple has developed them to apply more closely to news images. … this is a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of news discourse, which Caple has rightly demonstrated as, for all intents and purposes, multimodal.” (Helan A. Sissons, Communication Research and Practice, Vol. 3 (1), 2017)"[Caple's] knowledge base and experience make for some interesting research." - CHOICE "By presenting a systematic analysis of press photographs and providing a set of useful tools for their interpretation, Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach successfully redresses the imbalance between words and images in news discourse studies, and its insightful account of text image relations, in particular, constitutes a timely and valuable contribution to the area of multimodal discourse analysis." - Discourse & CommunicationTable of Contents1. Introducing the Multisemiotic News Story 2. News Values and the Multisemiotic News Story 3. The Multiple Functionality of News Images 4. Composition and Aesthetic Value in Press Photography 5. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 1: Image as Nucleus 6. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 2: Image as Satellite 7. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 3: Sequences of Images 8. Evolving Practices

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Book SynopsisA critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students. The product of the internationally renowned and trailblazing City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB), this book draws on a common vision of translanguaging to present different perspectives of its practice and outcomes in real schools. It tells the story of the collaborative project's positive impact on instruction and assessment in different contexts, and explores the potential for transformation in teacher education. Acknowledging oppressive traditions and obstacles facing language minoritized students, this book provides a pathway for combatting racism, monolingualism, classism and colonialism in the classroom and offers narratives, strategies and pedagogical practices to liberate and engage emergent bilingual students. This book is an essential text for all teacher educators, researcTable of ContentsForeword: Danling FuOverviewing with CUNY-NYSIEB Lentes y Emergent PasosOfelia García SECTION I: Foundations: Translanguaging Theory/Practice and a ProjectCHAPTER 1Conceptualizing Translanguaging Theory/Practice JuntosOfelia GarcíaRicardo OtheguyCHAPTER 2Constructing Translanguaging School Policies and PracticesKate MenkenOfelia GarcíaCHAPTER 3The Backdrop and Roadmap of a Translanguaging ProjectTatyana KleynMaite T. SánchezSECTION II: Evolving Juntos StructuresCHAPTER 4Different Leaderships: Different timesIvana EspinetNelson FloresMaite T. SánchezKate SeltzerCHAPTER 5Emergent Bilingual Leadership Teams: Distributed Leadership in CUNY-NYSIEB SchoolsMaite T. SánchezKate MenkenCHAPTER 6Working Juntos and Across: Bilingual Education, English as a Second Language, English Language Arts and Community Engagement Brian CollinsMeral KayaLiza PappasKaren Zaino[Teacher/Researcher Box #6.1: Lauren Ardizzone]SECTION III: Shifting Educational Spaces CHAPTER 7Developing Translanguaging Pedagogical MaterialSara VogelKate SeltzerKathryn CarpenterAnn E. EbeChristina CelicKahdeidra Martin[Teacher/Researcher Box #7.1: Elyn Ballatyne-Berry][Teacher/Researcher Box #7.2: Alexandra (Ali) Cabrera-Terry]CHAPTER 8Fostering Bilingual Reading Identities in Dual Language Bilingual ClassroomsGladys Y. AponteIvana EspinetKate Seltzer[Teacher/Researcher Box #8.1: Jason Horowitz and Tim Becker]CHAPTER 9Multilingual Ecologies in CUNY-NYSIEB schools Kate MenkenVanessa Pérez-RosarioLuis Guzmán Valerio[Teacher/Researcher Box #9.1]SECTION IV: Literacies Juntos: Instruction and AssessmentCHAPTER 10Translanguaging and Emergent Literacy in Early Childhood EducationZoila MorellDina López[Teacher/Researcher Box #10.1: Maeva López-Kaseem]CHAPTER 11Translanguaging Literacies: Children’s literature and literacy instructionCarla EspañaLuz Yadira Herrera[Teacher/Researcher Box #11.1: Hulda Yau]CHAPTER 12Building on Strengths: Translanguaging and WritingCecilia M. EspinosaLaura Ascenzi MorenoSara Vogel[Teacher/Researcher Box #12.1: Nicole Nichter]CHAPTER 13Leveraging the ‘Learning Edge’: Translanguaging, Teacher Agency, and Assessing Emergent Bilinguals’ ReadingLaura Ascenzi-Moreno[Teacher/Researcher Box #13.1: Andy Brown]SECTION V: Inquiry en ComunidadCHAPTER 14Interrogating Language Ideologies in the Primary Grades: A Community Language Inquiry UnitIvana EspinetGladys Y. AponteMaite T. SánchezDiane Cardenas FigueroaAshley Busone-Rodríguez[Teacher/Researcher Box #14.1: Annabelle Maroney and Rebeca Madrigal]CHAPTER 15Hand in Hand: Parent Collaboration in the Classroom ContextIvana EspinetKhánh Lê[Teacher/Researcher Box #15.1: Elizabeth (Liz) Menéndez and Sabrina Poms]SECTION VI: Transforming Teacher EducationCHAPTER 16Transforming Urban Teacher Education: The City University of New YorkCecilia M. EspinosaLaura Ascenzi-MorenoTatyana KleynMaite T. Sánchez[Teacher/Researcher Box #16.1: Olivia Mulcahy]CHAPTER 17Different Places, Different Issues: Teacher Education Reimagined through the CUNY-NYSIEB ExperienceHeather WoodleyMaría Cioè-PeñaSarah HessonCristian R. Solorza[Teacher/Researcher Box #17.1: Valentina Carbonara and Andrea Scibetta]CHAPTER 18Reimagining Teacher Education for Emergent Bilinguals: Going UpstateErin KearneyKate Mahoney[Teacher Box #18.1: János Imre Heltai and Bernadett Jani-Demetriou]

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Book SynopsisBuilding on Bobbie Kabuto's groundbreaking 2010 book Becoming Biliterate, this book explores how identity impacts the development of bilingual readers and how reading practices are mediated by family and community contexts. Highlighting bilingual readers from Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and English language backgrounds, Kabuto offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of these readers' behaviors and identities through the original approach of Biographic Biliteracy Profiles.The Profiles serve as a culturally relevant assessment tool for developing meaningful narratives and can reveal how bilingual readers make sense of texts in the context of their home and school environments. An ideal approach for unpacking the complexity of bilingual reading behaviors and how they change across time, the Profiles allow readers to explore what a bilingual reader's identity means to becoming biliterate; the roles of code-switching and translanguaging; the influences of readers' famiTable of Contents(Re)Introduction to Becoming BiliterateChapter 1: Culturally Relevant Assessment Practices for Linguistically Diverse ReadersChapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Biographic Biliteracy ProfilesChapter 3: Profiles of Reading in a Translanguaging ContextChapter 4: Profiles of Code-Switching in a Translanguaging ContextChapter 5: Profiles of Bilingual Reading Identities and AbilitiesChapter 6: Biographic Biliteracy Profiles: Implications for Creating Culturally Relevant Assessment PracticesAppendix AAppendix B

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Book SynopsisWhere accounts of the relation between language and mind often rest on the concept of representation, Brandom sets out an approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. It is the first attempt to work out a detailed theory rendering linguistic meaning in terms of use.Trade ReviewMaking It Explicit has already developed a justified reputation as a major contribution to the philosophy of language. It takes the traditional ill-fitting story of the relationship between language and the world and turns it upside down. Instead of starting with the existence of the world and explaining what it is for language to represent the world, it starts with language and explains what it is for the world to be represented by language...With tremendous panache, he launches into accounts of normativity, inference, meaning, truth, reference and objectivity, trying to show that the later concepts in that list are made intelligible by the earlier. -- Rowland Stout * Times Literary Supplement *Making It Explicit is a landmark in theoretical philosophy comparable to that constituted in the early seventies by A Theory of Justice in practical philosophy...Drawing upon the resources furnished by his intricate theory of language, Brandom succeeds in offering a thoroughly convincing description of the practices within which beings capable of language and action express their rationality and autonomy. -- Jürgen Habermas * Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung *Robert Brandom's magnificent book is an attempt to rework the whole of the philosophy of language in terms of normative, socially articulated pragmatics. His approach, inferentialism, which he traces through Kant and Frege to Wittgenstein and Sellars, is opposed to a more standard approach, representationalism...Making It Explicit is written with an exhilarating argumentative relish and tremendous assurance and thoroughness. -- Rowland Stout * Mind *Wilfrid Sellars described his project as an attempt to usher analytic philosophy out of its Humean and into its Kantian stage...Brandom's work can usefully be seen as an attempt to usher philosophy from its Kantian to its Hegelian stage...This sort of free and easy transition between philosophy of language and mind on the one hand, and world-historical vision on the other, is reminiscent not only of Mead and Dewey but also of Gadamer and Habermas. -- Richard Rorty, Introduction to Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of MindAn extraordinary philosophical book. Brandom has produced a work of great power, scope, and originality. He gives a plausible and powerful reading to the claim that "meaning is normative," or that the concept of meaning is a normative concept, and elucidates it at length. It turns out, in his hands, to be a claim of great philosophical fertility and power. -- Allan Gibbard, University of MichiganRobert Brandom's Making it Explicit is an unusual book on the Anglo-American scene...What Brandom achieves is a convincing elaboration of the view of intentionality as a linguistic, normative and social-pragmatic affair...Brandom's book is the first detailed elaboration of the position that it is normative attitudes which distinguishes us, insofar as we are thinking and acting beings, from the physical. It will hopefully contribute to giving that position the attention it deserves in contemporary philosophy of mind. -- Michael Epsfield * Erkenntnis *Table of ContentsPreface PART ONE Toward a Normative Pragmatics Introduction From Intentional State to Normative Status From Norms Explicit in Rules to Norms Implicit in Practices From Normative Status to Normative Attitude From Assessment to the Social Institution of Norms From Intentional Interpretation to Original Intentionality Appendix: Wittgenstein's Use of Regel Toward an Inferential Semantics Content and Representation The Priority of the Propositional Conceptual Classification and Inference Material Inference, Conceptual Content, and Expression Circumstances and Consequences of Application Conclusion Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment Intentional States and Linguistic Practices Deontic Status and Deontic Attitudes Asserting and Inferring Scorekeeping: Pragmatic Significance and Semantic Content Perception and Action: The Conferral of Empirical and Practical Conceptual Content Assertions as Knowledge Claims Reliability Observation Reports and Noninferential Authority Rational Agency Practical Reasoning: Inferences from Doxastic to Practical Commitments Intentions PART TWO The Expressive Role of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary: 'True' and 'Refers' From Inference to Truth, Reference, and Representation Truth in Classical Pragmatism From Pragmatism to Prosentences Reference and Anaphorically Indirect Descriptions The Function of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary Is Expressive, Not Explanatory Substitution: What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? Multivalued Logic and Material Inference Substitution, Sentential Embedding, and Semantic Roles Subsentential Expressions What Are Singular Terms? Why Are There Singular Terms? Objections and Replies Conclusion Appendix: From Substitutional Derivation of Categories to Functional Derivation of Categories Appendix: Sentence Use Conferring the Status of Singular Terms on Subsentential Expressions--An Application Anaphora: The Structure of Token Repeatables Frege's Grundlagen Account of Picking Out Objects Definite Descriptions and Existential Commitments Substitution, Token Recurrence, and Anaphora Deixis and Anaphora Interpersonal Anaphora and Communication Appendix: Other Kinds of Anaphora--Paychecks, Donkeys, and Quantificational Antecedents Ascribing Propositional Attitudes: The Social Route from Reasoning to Representing Representation and De Re Ascription of Propositionally Contentful Commitments Interpretation, Communication, and De Re Ascriptions De Re Ascriptions and the Intentional Explanation of Action From Implicit Attribution to Explicit Ascription Epistemically Strong De Re Attitudes: Indexicals, Quasi-Indexicals, and Proper Names The Social-Perspectival Character of Conceptual Contents and the Objectivity of Conceptual Norms Appendix: The Construction and Recursive Interpretation of Iterated Ascriptions That Mix De Dicto and De Re Content Specifications Conclusion Two Concepts of Concepts Norms and Practices We Have Met the Norms, and They Are Ours Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.Trade ReviewBarber provides the most throught study I have seen of this period. The book should be invaluable to any university with a strong program in English that includes teaching the history of the language. -- Catherine von Schon, SUNY at Stony Brook A handy introductory work for students of the English language, and suitable for class use in university departments of English. -- Matti Rissanen The author's own greatest contribution is undoubtedly to have put together an outline of thewhole period in all its aspects. -- Martyn Wakelin The only book-length study of its subject, Early Modern English fills a well-defined need, being more detailed than the general histories of the language can be, but comprehensive as the period studies of aspects the language are not. An eminently readable book. -- Manfred Gorlach, University of Cologne Barber provides the most throught study I have seen of this period. The book should be invaluable to any university with a strong program in English that includes teaching the history of the language. A handy introductory work for students of the English language, and suitable for class use in university departments of English. The author's own greatest contribution is undoubtedly to have put together an outline of thewhole period in all its aspects. The only book-length study of its subject, Early Modern English fills a well-defined need, being more detailed than the general histories of the language can be, but comprehensive as the period studies of aspects the language are not. An eminently readable book.Table of ContentsVarieties of early modern English; attitudes to English; phonology; morphology; syntax; the expanding vocabulary; changes of meaning.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the ways in which corpora can be utilised in sociolinguistic enquiry.Trade ReviewCertainly the greatest achievement of this book is that it brings down barriers between linguistic approaches; the book clearly shows how CL and SL can learn from each other by improving their methods, re-evaluating findings and finally being able to better position themselves within linguistics. The book shows the possibilities and the limits of both approaches and how cooperation can increase these. Another helpful aspect in this book is that makes statistical basics easily accessible, by presenting these in such a simple way (e.g. the chi-square test, 35-36) that is enough to alleviate a lot of the fright for beginners. This, the concise shortness of the book, the richness of examples and samples (I especially like the CL analysis of the book's chapters 1-6 on pp. 146-147) together with a readable style makes it suitable as a course book for beginners. -- Michael Crombach LINGUIST list Whilst the volume's blurb suggests that the book is aimed primarily at students, the scope of reviewed literature and methodological principles Baker provides throughout the text are germane to research at all levels and clearly transcend the corpus based/driven divide. -- Daniel Hunt, University of Nottingham International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Certainly the greatest achievement of this book is that it brings down barriers between linguistic approaches; the book clearly shows how CL and SL can learn from each other by improving their methods, re-evaluating findings and finally being able to better position themselves within linguistics. The book shows the possibilities and the limits of both approaches and how cooperation can increase these. Another helpful aspect in this book is that makes statistical basics easily accessible, by presenting these in such a simple way (e.g. the chi-square test, 35-36) that is enough to alleviate a lot of the fright for beginners. This, the concise shortness of the book, the richness of examples and samples (I especially like the CL analysis of the book's chapters 1-6 on pp. 146-147) together with a readable style makes it suitable as a course book for beginners. Whilst the volume's blurb suggests that the book is aimed primarily at students, the scope of reviewed literature and methodological principles Baker provides throughout the text are germane to research at all levels and clearly transcend the corpus based/driven divide.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Corpus approaches to sociolinguistics; 2. Corpora and sociolinguistic variation; 3. Englishes around the World; 4. Diachronic variation; 5. Corpora and interpersonal communication; 6. Uncovering discourses; 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities. Bringing together the expertise of distinguished international scholars in specially commissioned chapters, the book provides a thematic reader and essential resource for advanced students and researchers in language and identity studies.Leading scholars consider:* Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language and identity* Individual identities* Group and community identities* National and supra-local regional identitiesDealing sequentially with both social and personal identities at various levels, the chapters use detailed empirical evidence to illustrate how the multi-layered, dynamic nature of identities is realised through linguistic behaviour. Several chapters in the collection focus on contexts in which a heightened sense of identity might be expected: cases in which identities may be disputed, changing, blurred, peripheral, or imposed. Such a focus on complex contexts allows clearer insight into the identity-making and -marking functions of language. The collection approaches these topics from a range of perspectives, with contributions from sociolinguists, sociophoneticians, linguistic anthropologists, clinical linguists and forensic linguists.Trade Review[This volume] has a much wider scope, since it addresses all aspects of identity, not just national identity. While the latter type is touched upon in several chapters, others deal with gender identity, social class, ethnicity, age, forensic linguistics, or language disabilities, such as Foreign Accent Syndrome. In this respect, this collection is unique, for it enables any student of linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics or linguistic anthropology to come to grips with a large collection of short and accessible articles written by leading academics in their fields. The volume succeeds in not being simply a collection of case studies, in that each chapter is an open gate to a wider field of study and research. The first section on "Theoretical Issues" is also a particularly welcome addition to this volume, with some excellent articles by leading scholars in contemporary sociolinguistics. This section fully succeeds in providing the reader with an adequate toolkit for the analysis of identity through and association with language. Finally, this volume is also unique in its bringing together studies on variationist and interactionist sociolinguistics in almost equal numbers, thus helping to demonstrate that both angles are not as far apart as can sometimes be heard! An extremely useful resource to students and confirmed academics alike. -- James Costa, Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France LINGUIST list This book is a tour de force, a rare combination of comprehensive scholarship, insight, fresh thinking and wisdom. The splendid editing has produced assured writing as well as authoritative views and analysis throughout, and this means that however complex the ideas, it is remarkably easy to read. This is, by far, the best book on this topic in the English language. Language and Identities provides a thematic reader and highly suitable source for postgraduate courses, and thus should influence a wide audience of future researchers in language and identity studies. -- Robert Bevan, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, Wales Discourse & Society [This volume] has a much wider scope, since it addresses all aspects of identity, not just national identity. While the latter type is touched upon in several chapters, others deal with gender identity, social class, ethnicity, age, forensic linguistics, or language disabilities, such as Foreign Accent Syndrome. In this respect, this collection is unique, for it enables any student of linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics or linguistic anthropology to come to grips with a large collection of short and accessible articles written by leading academics in their fields. The volume succeeds in not being simply a collection of case studies, in that each chapter is an open gate to a wider field of study and research. The first section on "Theoretical Issues" is also a particularly welcome addition to this volume, with some excellent articles by leading scholars in contemporary sociolinguistics. This section fully succeeds in providing the reader with an adequate toolkit for the analysis of identity through and association with language. Finally, this volume is also unique in its bringing together studies on variationist and interactionist sociolinguistics in almost equal numbers, thus helping to demonstrate that both angles are not as far apart as can sometimes be heard! An extremely useful resource to students and confirmed academics alike. This book is a tour de force, a rare combination of comprehensive scholarship, insight, fresh thinking and wisdom. The splendid editing has produced assured writing as well as authoritative views and analysis throughout, and this means that however complex the ideas, it is remarkably easy to read. This is, by far, the best book on this topic in the English language. Language and Identities provides a thematic reader and highly suitable source for postgraduate courses, and thus should influence a wide audience of future researchers in language and identity studies.Table of ContentsPART A: IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE; A1. Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological considerations, Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt; A2. Identity, John Joseph; A3. Locating Identity in Language, Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall; A4. Locating Language in Identity, Barbara Johnstone; PART B: INDIVIDUALS; B1. The role of the individual in language variation and change, Jane Stuart-Smith; B2. The identification of the individual through speech, Dominic Watt; B3. The ageing voice: changing identity over time, David Bowie; B4. Foreign Accent Syndrome - between two worlds, at home in neither, Nick Miller; B5. The disguised voice: impersonating accents or speech styles and impersonating individuals, Anders Eriksson; PART C: GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES; C1.The authentic speaker and the speech community, Nik Coupland; C2. Communities of practice and peripherality, Emma Moore; C3. Two languages, two identities? the bilingual community, Norma Mendoza-Denton and Dana Osborne; C4. Regional variation in ethnic varieties, Erik Thomas and Alicia Beckford Wassink; C5. Religion vs. geography: is there a hierarchy? Sue Fox; C6. Gender, sexuality and the 'third sex', Kira Hall, Lal Zimman and Jenny Davis; C7. Crossing into class: Language, ethnicities & class sensibility in England, Ben Rampton; C8. The glass ceiling? a female identity in the workplace, Louise Mullany; PART D: REGIONS AND NATIONS; D1. Convergence and divergence across a national border, Carmen Llamas; D2. Shifting borders and shifting regional identities, Joan Beal; D3. Supra-local regional dialect leveling, David Britain; D4. Migration, national identity and the reallocation of forms, Judy Dyer; D5. An historical national identity? The case of Scots, Robert McColl Millar; D6. Post-colonial identities: an African perspective, Tope Omoniyi.

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Book SynopsisIdentifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology. The book illustrates a representative range of methodological approaches used by researchers in the field and examines regional and local borders alongside the political borders that divide monoglossic and heteroglossic territories. Using international case studies and examples throughout, this book also looks to symbolic borders, which are often encoded in the semiotic manipulation of the linguistic landscape. It further assesses the linguistic implications of the presence of borders in applied contexts, including language planning and policy (e.g. in multilingual education or for the protection of minority languages) and border control. By casting its net wide, Language, Borders and Identity develops and refines models of how language is used to construct borders, and to indicate on which side of border speakers situate themselves. This book brings into focus the dual reactive and proactive functions that language serves in this respect, exploring the tensions between essentialist and constructionist approaches to identity, and offers a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.

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Book SynopsisThis Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them and to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising.Table of Contents1. Introducing Fiction and Pragmatics; 2. Participation Structure; 3. Performance; 4. Interaction; 5. Discourse and Ideologies through Character Creation; 6. Conclusions and Outlook; Acknowledgements; References.

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Book SynopsisLanguage contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on the linguistic and discursive practices employed by digital citizens to promote their causes on social media, that is to engage in digital activism, drawing attention to the growing importance of this phenomenon about gender identity and sexuality issues.

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Book SynopsisProfessor François Grosjean is a recognized world expert on bilingualism. In this fascinating book, he surveys the many contributions he has made to the field, gives follow-up comments, reviews how the field has responded, and stresses how important it is to inform the general public about bilingualism and biculturalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The setting; 2. A holistic view of bilingualism; 3. The bilingual's language modes; 4. The complementarity principle; 5. Spoken language processing; 6. Cross-linguistic influence; 7. Bilinguals who are also bicultural; 8. The bilingualism and biculturalism of the Deaf; 9. The statistics of bilingualism; 10. Special bilinguals; 11. A bilingualism researcher's social role; References.

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Book SynopsisThis Element shows how two social movements, lesbian separatism and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), reflect the changing and complex (anti-)feminist ideologies of their time. The authors outline the historical and political background of those discourses and how they are influencing contemporary gender relations.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Background to Forms of Gender-Based Separatism; 3. Social Movements and Manifestos; 4. Data and Methods; 5. Analysis: Lesbian Separatist Manifestos; .6 Analysis: Mgtow Manifestos; 7. Comparison and Discussion; 8. Conclusion; References.

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Book SynopsisThis Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change.Table of Contents1. Prologue: What this Element is about; 2. Growing up in New Jersey; 3. Martha's Vineyard: Donald Poole, Fisherman; 4. New York City: Rose Barisse, Garment Worker; 5. New York City: Michael Duffy, Fireman; 6. Rural Pennsylvania: Bill Peters, Farmer; 7. Rural Utah: Brad Anders, Dairy Farmer; 8. Hillsborough, North Carolina: Adolphus Hester, Farmer; 9. Knoxville, Tennessee: Louise Atkins, Domestic Worker; 10. East Atlanta: Henry Guyton, Railway Foreman; 11. Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Celeste Sweeney, Saleswoman; 12. Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Gloria Stein, Postal clerk; 13. Final Words; References.

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Book SynopsisBitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today ? after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word ? it''s not always entirely clear what it means. Bitch is a chameleon. There are good bitches and bad bitches; sexy bitches and psycho bitches; boss bitches and even perfect bitches. This eye-opening deep-dive account takes us on a journey spanning a millennium, from its humble beginnings as a word for a female dog through to its myriad meanings today, proving that sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks. It traces the colorful history and ever-changing meaning of this powerful and controversial word, and its relevance within broader issues of feminism, gender, race, and sexuality. Despite centuries of censorship and attempts to ban it, bitch has stood the test of time. You may wonder: is the word going away anytime soon? Bitch, please.

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Book SynopsisThis introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition â forgetting or loss of language proficiency that can take place in oneâs first or additional language, for different reasons, and at different life stages.Offering a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview, Michael T. Putnam and David Natvig define key concepts and the contemporary debates in the field, discussing a variety of structural/grammatical, societal, and psychological/cognitive aspects of this phenomenon and their implications for linguistic theory and language learning.Setting the future research agenda on this subject and with helpful features like discussion questions, this will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of theoretical & applied linguistics, bilingualism & heritage linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, education, and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the translation policies and practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), engaging in critical questions around the ways in which translation can redress power dynamics between INGOs and the people they work with, and the role of activist researchers in contributing to these debates.The volume examines the duality of translation and interpreting in INGOs, traditionally undervalued and under-resourced while simultaneously acknowledged as a powerful tool in ensuring these organisations work according to their own values of equal access to information, dialogue, and political representation. Drawing on over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data with a wide variety of INGOs, Tesseur offers unique insights into if and how INGOs plan for translation and interpreting needs while also critically reflecting on her own experience and the ways in which activist researchers like her can ensure social justice efforts are fully reflTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Introduction INGOs, language, and T&I Conceptual framework Engaged research and critical reflexivity A note on international development terminology Underpinning research Structure of the book References Chapter 2: Translation management in INGOs throughout history Introduction Save the Children UK: a history of language silence? Organisational growth and restructuring as an incentive for translation management Translation management choices and challenges: limitations of policies and internal services Translation as a resource, as risk management, or as inclusion? Concluding remarks References Chapter 3: Translating One Global Amnesty: Managing Amnesty’s message and voice in translation Introduction Becoming One Global Amnesty Amnesty press releases Diverging views on the role of translation in a changing Amnesty Discussion and concluding remarks References Chapter 4: Managing volunteer translation: On quality, risk, and ethics in Amnesty’s Urgent Action translations Introduction Amnesty’s global Urgent Action network Managing volunteer translation: Amnesty Flanders (AIVL) network of Urgent Action translators Translation output Volunteer translation, risk, and social justice Improving practice Discussion and concluding remarks References Chapter 5: Language and translation ideologies in international NGOs: Explaining the paradox between English as a lingua franca and social justice values Introduction Language and translation ideology Interview data Narrative 2: Encourage mutual language learning and translation Narrative 1: English as a lingua franca as the best possible solution Concluding remarks References Chapter 6: Informal translation practices as empowerment? Balancing the need for access and dialogue with risk reduction Introduction Case study 1: Multilingual staff as informal translators and interpreters Case study 2: Free machine translation at work: A tool for empowerment or risky business? Case study 3: Translating COVID-19 health information as part of humanitarian crisis response Concluding remarks References Chapter 7: Towards a more comprehensive approach to translating for social justice in international NGOs Introduction Key findings on T&I provision in INGOs in light of social justice values Ideas for a more socially just approach to language and translation in INGOs Key findings and implications for translation research and training Limitations of the research References Chapter 8: Influencing translation policies as an activist researcher: Evaluating research impact and learning from linguistic choices Introduction Evaluating Research Impact Linguistic reflexivity: a critical account of linguistic research choices Concluding remarks

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Robert J. Lowe introduces frame analysis, a qualitative research approach grounded in the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School and framing in the social sciences. Lowe sets out the principles of the frame analysis approach and provides a guide to conducting this kind of research in practice.Focused on identifying and challenging ideology through immanent critique, Lowe presents a methodological guide and research report. He begins by explaining early critical theory and the frame analysis approach, followed by a detailed example of its application. This example illustrates the key stages: identifying participants' ideological presuppositions through their âœmaster framing,â questioning the internal logic of this framing, and presenting contradictions to participants. Finally, the researcher observes reactions and documents emerging counter-framing, marking the first signs of resistance to dominant ideology.By applying this approach to issues in English language teaching, the book questions some of the ways in which the rhetoric of pluralism and diversity around English as an international language may stand at odds with the realities of a world in which some varieties of the language have more prestige than others. Through the frame analysis approach, the author suggests that researchers can play a role in empowering language learners and users to advocate for a world in which they can take true ownership of the language. Key reading for all qualitative researchers and advanced students in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, ELT/TESOL and linguistic anthropology.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today's classrooms and beyond. It brings the two constructs together in investigating the language and literacy experiences of multilingual learners across a range of sociocultural and educational contexts.The book features contributions from scholars across the Global North and Global South who embrace the importance of validating scholarly experiences from the Global South as a way to transcend geographical boundaries in creating more equitable knowledge spaces. The contributing authors share their innovative theoretical and methodological orientations to translanguaging and multimodality, informed by their considerable expertise as scholars and educators. They address conceptual questions such as issues related to cultural flow, civic and professional identities, entanglement, materiality, first-order languaging, and raciolinguistic ideologies.

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Book SynopsisThis third edition provides a comprehensive view of intercultural communication through its concise style and unique theoretical framework of ten interconnected principles.This edition engages students in active learning by showing how these principles come into play in their intercultural journeys. The new edition has been thoroughly revised, adding new side trips' and introducing focus in theory' boxes, chapter glossaries, and fresh examples with updated references. Each chapter again includes detailed case studies with question prompts that invite students to make connections between theory and their daily lives.This text is ideally suited for upper-level or graduate intercultural communication courses within communication, linguistics, and anthropology departments.New to this edition are online materials for instructors, including a test bank and suggested further readings and links to useful resources. Please visit

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a four-step framework to help English as a world language (EWL) learners successfully develop global competence, which is defined as the skills, values, and behaviors that prepare young people to thrive in diverse environments. The book showcases practical methods and strategies supported by autoethnography and empirical studies to detail the four elements of the framework towards developing global competence: English language proficiency, cross-cultural knowledge, adopting flexibility in oral communication, and embracing values beyond our horizons. While the English language and culture provide essential input for effective communication, developing flexibility in communication styles and viewing conflict as an opportunity for growth can help L2 learners navigate intercultural encounters more effectively and achieve cross-cultural adaptation. This text will be beneficial to language learners, intercultural communication majors, researchers, and educators in TESOL/EFL/ESL programs, as well as in-service teachers of English language learners (ELLs).

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