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Book SynopsisOf interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya. The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena. The coexistence of speakers of many different languages, further differentiated by socio-economic status, age and ethnicity provide conditions for the development of a mixed code such as Sheng, an urban variety of Kenyan Swahili which has morphed from a "youth language" into a vernacular of wider use. Sheng is a unique phenomenon in the study of linguistic change and innovation in an African context, a reflection of the ethnolinguistic diversity of Kenya, and language asymmetry created by socio-economic disparities. It also provides a window into understanding the processes of urban multilingualism, within the specific space structuring of Nairobi city. This book is a detailed account of the rise and development of Sheng, its linguistic structure, social functions, and possible future directions. The author's analysis ofits presence in newspapers, TV, radio and online, makes it clear that Sheng functions as a particularly useful lens through which to explore contemporary Kenya.Trade Review[A] major contribution to the study of (urban) multilingualism, the dynamic nature of language, and African oral narratives. The book will be of interest and immense utility to linguists, researchers, policy makers, students and others interested in historical linguistics, language contact and change, language policy in education, urban studies, and youth identity and culture, as well as serve as an invaluable collection of sociocultural information about Nairobi, and Kenya in general. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *The linguist will find much of interest in the book's middle, more technical chapters - and Githiora keeps even the non-linguist on board with multiple clearly explained examples and lucid prose throughout. Githiora's study emphasizes the undeniability of Sheng: the language is here to stay, and it is time that policymakers, educators, and commentators catch up to that reality. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE DES ÉTUDES AFRICAINES *The one definitive thing about the book is that Githiora attempts to demystify the language by emphasising its 'Swahiliness'. [.] Kenyan politicians and policymakers at the Ministry of Education should read Githiora's Sheng. * DAILY NATION *'Sheng uses Kiswahili grammar and the lexicon of African and other languages, and for this reason Professor Githiora has identified Sheng as a variety of Kiswahili which has affected the teaching of Standard English, Kiswahili and other languages in East Africa, but especially in Kenya. This is the first book devoted wholly to various aspects of Sheng and it will greatly help the reader to understand this Kenyan linguistic phenomenon.' - -- IRERI MBAABU, Professor of Kiswahili and Linguistics, Kenyatta University.'...a book length study of Sheng is overdue, and it is refreshing to see that a respected scholar and linguist, as the author is widely regarded to be, has decided to undertake this task. Chege Githiora's book is a very important addition to the literature on the linguistic construction of youth identities, especially under conditions of cultural mobility ... of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.' - -- ALAMIN MAZRUI, Professor of Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies at Rutgers University'How to create national unity in a multilingual postcolonial state with two colonially inherited standard languages? Githiora's important book draws a compelling picture of Sheng, through which Kenyans agentively appropriate English and Standard Swahili into a fluid register that also integrates their multilingual repertoires, creating the real national language of this East African country.' - FRIEDERIKE LUPKE, Professor of Language Documentation and Description, University of London * SOAS *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Sheng as Kenyan Swahili An Overview of Language in Kenya: Power vs Solidarity Nairobi: A Linguistic Mosaic and Crucible of Sheng 'Kenyan Swahili': Complex and Multifaceted Some Features of Sheng Expanded Domains and Global Influences Sheng in Practice Conclusion: The Rise of a Swahili Vernacular Appendix Sheng Glossary

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Book SynopsisA unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets. Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source for the reconstruction of the manners, characteristics, and worldviews of societies. While only a few hundred Kamba proverbs have ever appeared in print, thousands have circulated over time, from the monsoon exchange era of the Roman Empire through the advent of Islam, European imperialism and colonialism to independence. Today, a resurgence of interest in the form has been generated via social media, songs and vernacular radio programmes. This book provides the first, comprehensive collection of Kamba proverbs from Eastern Kenya in their original Kĩkamba language and in translation. Analysing 2,000 proverbs drawn from oral interviews, archival collections, museum artefacts and published sources, the author traces the origins of each and explores their meaning, interpretation and use. Covering a diverse range of subjects that ranges from plants, animals, birds and insects, to weather, land, the roles of men and women, cosmology, ritual and belief, healing, trade, politics and peacemaking, the book offers new insights into Kenya's rural world and the expansion of Kamba society, East African history, language and culture of vital significance for the social sciences. A valuable comparative work for societal change elsewhere in Africa and beyond, the book also suggests an innovative, alternative approach to the study of the African past.Trade ReviewRecommended for lovers of proverbs and those interested in East African history and Kamba culture. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction PART II: THE NATURAL WORLD 2. Atmosphere and Biosphere 3. Wild Plants 4. Wild Game 5. Wild Birds 6. Predators and Vermin 7. Insects and their role in Kamba History 8. Amphibians and Reptiles PART III: KAMBA AT HOME 9. Farm, Hearth, and Home 10. Crops and Other Plants 11. Domesticated Animals 12. Men and Masculinity 13. Women and Motherhood 14. Children and Adulthood PART IV: KAMBA SOCIETY 15. Place names and Ethnic names 16. Beliefs, Rituals, and Cosmology 17. Wealth and Poverty 18. Cuisine and Consumption 19. Health, Healing, and the Body 20. Trade, Markets, and Industries 21. Politics, Conflict, and Peacemaking

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to enable clinicians and clinicians in training to become sensitive to a wide range of language phenomena that are important for the diagnosis, treatment and research of psychiatric disorders. The introductory chapters assume no prior knowledge of linguistics and outline an approach to language that focuses on meaning and communication ranging from cultural issues to syntax and intonation. The volume deals in turn with the major categories of syndromes in psychiatry which have language as an important characterizing feature. Linguistic concepts are keyed to diagnostic criteria to make the material accessible to the practitioner. For each disorder, the diagnostic criteria that are related to language are outlined in specific linguistic terms. Thus the familiar diagnostic criteria are enriched with linguistic description that ranges from aspects of culture that constrain what can make sense in the society to aspects of intonation and wording. The volume is supplemented with appendices that link the diagnostic criteria to the language features that are heard. Over 50 tables and diagrams provide summary information linking psychiatric categories, language features and language examples.Trade Review'Fine has a high reputation for publishing across a range of clinical conditions from anxiety states to the Pervasive Developmental Disorders and is possibly the most currently highly qualified professional to write this handbook. He has used everyday language and clear examples of normal and deviant texts to describe and explain problems of intonation, meaning, phonology, grammar and pragmatics. The clinician and general practitioner (general practitioner or Psychiatrist) could open this book and find out forthwith why his/her patient sounds odd.' Bill Fraser, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wales College of MedicineTable of ContentsForeword by Professor Bill Fraser; Preface; 1 Listening for meaning in context; 2 The kinds of meanings to be heard; 3 Meaning oddly: How a speaker can sound strange; 4 Communication disorders; 5 Pervasive developmental disorders; 6 Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder; 7 Psychotic disorders; 8 Mood disorders; 9 Personality disorders; 10 The partnership of language and psychiatry; Glossary; Appendices:; A: Language systems grouped by the metafunctions of ideational,; interpersonal, textual meaning; B: DSM-IV diagnostic categories with language systems that are at risk; References

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Book SynopsisThe chapters of this volume explore the intimate relations of society, language and mind: the development of each of these depends on the contribution of the other two. In this sense they are co-genetic: mind has recently been described by the famous neuro-scientist, Susan Greenfield, as 'personalized brain.' The development of human mind depends on what it experiences; for human beings, experience goes beyond sensation: it is made of meaning, and interpretation/meaning, in turn, is construed by the various semiotic modalities, of which language is perhaps the most flexible and most pervasive. But language has itself evolved in the course of attempts to reach an 'other.' By shaping the nature of communication, human relations shape also the nature of language; meanings exchanged in verbal interaction become a major force in shaping forms of consciousness; and our consciousness reveals itself in our cultural practices, our ways of being, doing and saying.Trade Review'Ruqaiya Hasan's Language, Society and Consciousness is a powerful demonstration of the need for a unified framework, bringing together linguistics, sociology, and biology for understanding the social semiotic nature of minded beings. This volume provides subtle and revealing readings from a galaxy of other leading thinkers at the same time that she poses questions and provide answers that will impact on our future thinking about linguistic and social development and change for years to come. This book is a must for all those who are interested in these arguments.' Paul J. Thibault, professor in linguistics and media communication, Hogskolen I Agder, Kristiansand, NorwayTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Language, society and consciousness: transdisciplinary orientations and the tradition of specialization; Section One; Editor's Introduction: The socio-semiotic mediation of mind; 1. Basil Bernstein: an exceptional 1924 - 2000; 2. Society, language and the mind: the meta-dialogism of Basil Bernstein's theory; 3. Speech genre, semiotic mediation and the development of higher mental functions; 4. On the social conditions for semiotic mediation: the genesis of mind in society; 5. Semiotic mediation and three exotropic theories: Vygotsky, Halliday and Bernstein; Section Two; Editor's Introduction: Coding orientations and forms of consciousness; 6. Code, register and social dialect; 7. Semiotic mediation and mental development in pluralistic societies: some implications for tomorrow's schooling; 8. Ways of meaning, ways of learning: code as an explanatory concept; 9. Reading picture reading: a study in ideology and inference; 10. The ontogenesis of ideology: an interpretation of mother child talk; Section Three; Editor's Introduction: Language and society: conflict or co-genesis?; 11. The disempowerment game: Bourdieu on language; 12. Bourdieu on linguistics and language: a response to my commentators; Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe sociolinguistic turn of the 60's has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistic, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a number of serious problems, foremost among them a mis-conception of the nature of sociolinguistics itself. By examining the possibility of systematic variation at the level of meaning, the volume makes a positive contribution to opening up a debate about the possibility of the neglected/misrepresented notion of semantic variation.Most chapters of the volume present an account of certain aspects of an empirical research which strongly supports the view that systematic variation in the choice of semantic features occurs across different social groups. Mothers and their young children less than four years old showed in their naturally occurring conversation a highly systematic, statistically significant, orientation to distinct styles of meaning, which correlated with their social positioning, and/or with the gender of the children. The comparison of kindergarten teachers' ways of meaning with those of mothers' provides empirical proof that teacher talk is an exaggerated version of middle class mothers' talk. The volume is relevant on the one hand to theoretical issues in linguistics and sociolinguistics and on the other, to any serious discourse about equitable education.Trade Review"'This collection of papers all of them lucid, all of them thorough, all of them replete with either fundamental theoretical arguments or significant empirical results (or both), should be required reading for anyone interested in the future of sociolinguistics.' Frans Gregersen, Director, the LANCHART Centre at the University of Copenhagen"Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction; Section 1: Language and sociolinguistic theory; 1 Wanted a theory for integrated sociolinguistics (first published in this volume); 2 On Semantic Variation (first published in this volume); Section 2: Questions and answers in sociolinguistic studies; 3 A sociolinguistic interpretation of everyday talk between mothers and children (with Carmel Cloran, 1990); 4 Language in the processes of socialization: Home and School (1988); 5 Semantic variation and sociolinguistics (1989); 6 Questions as a mode of learning in everyday talk (1991); Section 3: Social hierarchies and the concept of rationality; 7 Meaning in sociolinguistic theory (1992); 8 Rationality in everyday talk: from process to system (1992); Section 4: The world and the world of meanings; 9 Contexts for meaning (1993); 10 Two social factors in semantic variation (with Carmel Cloran, first published in this volume); 11 The ontogenesis of decontextualized language: some achievements of classification and framing (2001); 12 The world in words: Semiotic mediation, tenor and ideology (2004); This volume is accompanied by a CD containing; A Brief Summary of the Research on Semantic Variation; Conventions for Dialogue Transcription in the Included Sample; Sample of Mother-child Dialogues; Sample of Analysis; Identify Patterns in Linguistic Behaviour by Carmel Cloran; Semantic Networks: the Description of Linguistic Meaning in SFL by Ruqaiya Hasan, Carmel Cloran, Geoffrey Williams, and Annabelle Lukin (2007).

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Book SynopsisThe concept context of situation introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim it is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining, and changing human relationships.Table of ContentsEditor's Preface I LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFE IN SOCIETY Editor's introduction1 Language and society in a systemic functional perspective [2005] 2 Meaning, context and text - fifty years after Malinowski [1982] 3 What's going on?: A dynamic view of context in language [1981] 4 Wherefore context?: the ontogenesis of context in the system and process of language [2001] II TOWARDS A SYSTEM BASED ACCOUNT OF CONTEXT Editor's introduction 5 The conception of context in text [1995] 6 Speaking with reference to context [1999] 7 The place of context in a systemic functional model [2008] 8 Towards a paradigmatic description of context: systems, metafunctions, and semantics [2014]

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Book SynopsisA focus on learner individuality in Applied Linguistics has been considered a mark of theoretical weakness from several perspectives. One branch of second language acquisition research has systematically discounted individual characteristics in favour of a search for universal acquisition processes. Another has adopted 'individual differences' as its object of inquiry, but emphasises psychological and sociological group characteristics over those of individuals. At the other end of the spectrum, critical researchers have viewed these approaches as 'individualistic' and have emphasised instead the deeply social character of second language acquisition. More recently, however, the qualitative approaches favoured by socially-oriented researchers have begun to bring issues of individuality to the fore. Autonomy, agency and identity have emerged as important constructs through which researchers are seeking to understand relationships between individuals and the social contexts in which they learn and use languages, and case studies of individuals have become a preferred approach to Applied Linguistics research. These developments raise important questions about the relationship between the social and individual, which has now become a key philosophical and methodological issue in research. This volume addresses this issue through contributions from researchers who carry out their work in a variety of settings in Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. The authors explore how individuality is conceptualised in socially-oriented approaches to Applied Linguistics research, including Sociocultural Theory, Situated Learning, Imagined Communities, Complexity Theory, and Autonomy Theory. Is there a tension between the social and the individual in these approaches, and if so, how is it manifested and resolved in empirical research?Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. The Social and the Individual in Applied Linguistics Research Phil Benson and Lucy Cooker Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Sociocultural Theory and the Dialectics of L2 Learner Autonomy/Agency James P. Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University 3. The Struggle to Belong: Individual Language Learners in Situated Learning Theory Martin Lamb, University of Leeds 4. Individuality, Imagination and Community in a Globalizing World: An Asian EFL Perspective Tomoko Yashima, Kansai University, Japan 5. Chaos and the Complexity of Second Language Acquisition Vera Lucia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva 6. Drifting In and Out of View: Autonomy and the Social Individual Phil Benson Part 3: The Individual in Research 7. A Social-Ecological Exploration of Autonomy, Beliefs and Identity Jane Kehrwald, Massey University, New Zealand 8. Teenagers Making Senses of Their Foreign Language Practices: Individual Accounts Indexing Social Discourses Anne Pitkanen-Huhta and Tarja Nikula, both at University of Jyvaskyla 9. Individuality in L2 Identity Construction: The Stories of Two Chinese Learners of English Gu Mingyue, The Hong Kong Institute of Education 10. The Ideal Sexual Self: The Motivational Investments of Japanese Gay Male Learners of English Ashley Moore, Kanda University, Japan 11. Using Dynamic Systems/Complexity Theory in Linguistic Data Analysis: A Language Ecology Approach to the Study of Individual and Social Process Anne Whiteside, City College of San Francisco 12. A Tale of Two Teachers: Teachers Identity and the Care of the Self in an Era of Accountability Matthew Clarke, University of New South Wales Part 4: Conclusion 13. The Applied Linguistic Individual: Gaining Perspective Phil Benson and Lucy Cooker

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Book SynopsisEthiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it remains an under-researched language of Ethiopia. In this work, Eyasu Hailu Tamene presents a groundbreaking study of EthSL that touches on multiple aspects of Deaf people's lives in Ethiopia. Tamene collects data from three principal groups of people: deaf participants, teachers of deaf students, and parents of deaf children. He examines EthSL use within families, in formal and informal settings, and in various community spaces. He documents the awareness among different groups of the services available for deaf people, such as sign language interpreters and Deaf associations. He finds that members of the Deaf community show positive attitudes toward the use of EthSL and investigates the factors that impact those attitudes. His work indicates that there are still critical gaps in recognition and support for the use of EthSL, which can pose a threat to the vitality of the language. The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language will help to advance public understanding of EthSL and contribute to improved educational and social outcomes for the Deaf community in Ethiopia.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy – the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others. It investigates a broad range of case studies of languages and dialects which have for various reasons been considered 'low-status' including: African American English, Spanglish, American Sign Language, Yiddish, Esperanto and other constructed languages, indigenous languages in post-colonial neo-European societies, and Afrikaans and related language issues in South Africa. Further, it discusses the implications of the ideology of linguistic legitimacy for the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the US. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book provides a readable and pedagogically useful tool to help readers comprehend the nature of human language, and the ways in which attitudes about human language can have either positive or negative consequences for communities and their languages. It will be of particular interest to language teachers and teacher educators, as well as students and scholars of applied linguistics, intercultural communication, minority languages and language extinction.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Language and Other Myths: ‘Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt’.- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing the Ideology of Linguistic Legitimacy: ‘Primitive people have primitive languages and other nonsense’.- Chapter 3: African American English, Race and Language: ‘You don’t believe fat meat is greasy’.- Chapter 4: Spanglish in the United States: ‘We speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids’.- Chapter 5: Sign Language and the DEAF-WORLD: ‘Listening without hearing’.- Chapter 6: Yiddish, the Mame-Loshn: ‘Mensch tracht, Gott lacht’.- Chapter 7: Created and Constructed Languages: ‘I can speak Esperanto like a native’.- Chapter 8: Afrikaans, Language of Oppression to Language of Freedom: ‘Dit is ons erns’.- Chapter 9: Why Language Endangerment and Language Death Matter: ‘Took away our native tongue … And taught their English to our young’.- Chapter 10: Foreign Language Education in the US: ‘But French isn’t a real class!’.- Chapter 11: Linguistic Legitimacy, Language Rights and Social Justice: ‘No one is free when others are oppressed’.

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Book SynopsisThis present book addresses language and its diverse forms in an array of professional and practical contexts. Besides discussing the intricacies of specialized settings such as legal, medical, technical or corporate, the collection also focuses on the role of education in relation to professional contexts ranging from challenges in professional university teaching and translation didactics to business environment requirements.Table of Contents1. A Rational Activity or Rhetorical Practice? Evaluation Practices in Legal Argumentation.- 2. Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Specialized Terms in Corporate Culture.- 3. Word Association Measures, Collocation Networks and Medical English: a Corpus-assisted Study of Post-hospital Patient Information Booklets.- 4. Polish and Russian Geological Names in the Context of Linguistic Transfer – Selected Examples.- 5. Implementation of Professional Language Terminology in Polish Production Companies.- 6. Making University-Level foreign Language Education more Responsive to Professional Needs.- 7. Engineering Students' Views on ESP for Internationalization.- 8. Professional Contexts and Task-based American-Polish Student Online Cooperation.- 9. Professional Growth of EFL Teachers.- 10. Participatory Theatre as Development Tools for Higher Education during the Pandemic.-11. Challenges faced by the University Students during Covid-19 Pandemic in Poland.- 12.Linguistic Mediation in Practice - on the Professional Competencies of English Language Teachers and Translators.- 13. Translation Didactics Meets Machine Translation. 14. Directionality in Translation: Using Eye-tracking to look into the Cognitive Effort of StudentTranslators.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to expand the theoretical framework of and counter the Eurocentric narratives in language policy research, by comparing policies of EU and India and demonstrating the importance of taking a comparative perspective while studying language policies. This book challenges the notion of macro-level power in language policy research and offers evidence that, in democratic frameworks, macro-level power is not absolute. It is not uniform across policy domains, but rather susceptible to pressure, especially in the domains of healthcare and social welfare.This book makes three important contributions to the theory of language policy by: Arguing for the need to reconceptualise macro-level power Proposing ‘Categories of Differentiation’ as a new analytical tool for policy research Demonstrating that socio-political changes are reflected at the textual level This book is of interest to researchers working on language policies and those investigating language related legislation across different policy domains, to practitioners and policymakers in language policy, as well as to graduate students conducting comparative policy research.“This is a much valued and timely book making a strong case for the subject of language policy across Europe and India. The large comparative case studies of four distinctive states across Europe and India in a simple descriptive mode makes the reading of this book enjoyable. The domains of administration, legislation, healthcare and social welfare are undoubtedly novel ways to deal within the concept of language policy in a wider sense. The author uses discourse analysis to bring out the relationship between intention, explanation and interpretation of a phenomenon like language policy and its implementation. The social diversity as expressed in linguistic mapping is well captured in the novel idea of “categories of differentiation” both as a normative methodological tool and its historical-empirical manifestation.” — Asha Sarangi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Trade Review“In this ambitious book, Abhimanyu Sharma takes readers on an insightful and thought-provoking journey through the complex landscape of language policy in the European Union (EU) and India … . the key strengths of this book lies in the level of detail that is explored … . Sharma takes a holistic view and delivers on the promise of the title through the innovative comparative analysis that challenges existing frameworks and deepens our understanding of power dynamics in language policy.” (Veronica Costea, Language Policy, November 9, 2023)“The systematically designed comparative analysis with accessible language will enlighten scholars in the field of language policy as well as sociolinguists, language planners, and others interested in the topic.” (Yanyu Wang, Language in Society, Vol. 52 (2), 2023)Table of ContentsSeries ForewordDedicationBook AbstractAcknowledgmentPrefacePart I: IntroductionChapter 1. IntroductionPart II. European Union, Luxembourg and WalesChapter 2. Power and language policies in the EUChapter 3. Power and language policies in LuxembourgChapter 4. Power and language policies in WalesPart III. India, Manipur, and Tamil NaduChapter 5. Power and language policies in IndiaChapter 6. Power and language policies in ManipurChapter 7. Language Policies in Tamil NaduPart IV. ConclusionChapter 8. Conclusions and future prospects.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the use of Chinese by school-aged Chinese Australians from a dual-track culturalisation perspective. Drawing upon interviews, participant observations and documentary analysis, the author discusses why and how these children learn and use Chinese in multiple social settings, and how they construct their understanding of language and identities in doing so. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics, migration studies, sociology of education, language and communication amongst other areas in the social sciences.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Motivation Analysis: From Blind Followers to Diligent Cultivators.- Chapter 3: In-Between Chinese and English: Chinese Language Learning Process.- Chapter 4: Chinese Language Use in Different Social Contexts.- Chapter 5: Conflicting but Reflexive Language Ideologies.- Chapter 6: The Role of Chinese Language in Multiple Dimensions of Cultural Identity.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Experiencing Dual-Track Culturalisation via Language Use.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact. The case studies covered in the volume come from five continents (Africa, Europe, Asia, and South and North America) and cover 11 countries in total. The authors cover a wide range of themes and identify a number of issues at the interface between policy and practice. In some cases they also highlight local initiatives for navigating these issues, providing contextually-grounded guidance and experience which will be of use to teachers and teacher trainers in other settings. This book will be of interest to policy makers, EMI researchers, ELT practitioners, teacher trainers and trainees, and the broader Applied Linguistics research community.Table of Contents1. English Language Policies and Practice into the World: From Problems Towards Solutions (Eric Enogene Ekembe, Justina Njika, and Alan Mackenzie).- Part I: Change Process in ELT Policy.- 2. Teaching at—not to—the middle in Japan: Examining how ELT policies aimed at extremes influence mid-tier institutions (Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Beni Kudo, and Samuel Rose).- 3. The implementation of the 4+4+4 educational policy in Turkey: Reflections from English classrooms (Tuğba Birdal and Seniye Vural).- 4. Teachers’ appreciation of ELT policies and practices in Egypt (Islam M. Farag and Mohamed Yacoub).- 5. ELT policies in multilingual contexts: An analysis of rural-urban experience in Ghana (Raymond Karikari Owusu and Andrea Sterzuk).- Part II: Practice Steering the Wheel.- 6. Integrating communicative language teaching activities in overcrowded classrooms: Policy and practice issues in South Sudan secondary schools (Alex D. D. Morjakole).- 7. ELT policies and practices in superdiverse Central Ohio: From “flexible” to “English-centric” (Brian Seilstad).- 8. English Language Teaching in Colombia: From policy to reality (Daniel Ramírez Lamus).- 9. Broken promises? The Florida Consent Decree, emergent bilingual students in mainstream classes, and assimilationist practice (Eric Dwyer and Carolyn O’Gorman-Fazzolari).- Part III: Teachers’ Position in Policy Innovation.- 10. Policy on Global Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: A possible role for ELT from examples in Guinea Bissau, Senegal and DRC (Linda Ruas and Ali Djau).- 11. English language proficiency for all university graduates stipulated by law—a realistic or idealistic goal? An appraisal of a tertiary ELT policy from Montenegro (Vesna Bratić and Milica Vuković-Stamatović).- 12. Assessing teachers’ perceptions of relevant ELT Policies in Cameroon (Eric Enogene Ekembe).- Part IV: Conclusion.- 13. What’s the Interface? The specter of smush and poof (Eric Dwyer).

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Book SynopsisThis volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (ECRML) makes this book especially timely and relevant. Its numerous detailed empirical studies, one of which uses FCNM reporting as a benchmark, give a picture of the extent (or otherwise) to which international minority rights standards are actually being realized through various NTA arrangements. In keeping with the principles laid out in these foundational documents, the contributions to this volume acknowledge that when it comes to the effective delivery of linguistic, cultural and educational rights, NTA is best regarded not as an alternative but as a complement to territorially based arrangements.This is an open access book.Table of ContentsIntroduction David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski and Flavia Ghencea The Role of Law and Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in the Implementation of Linguistic Rights: A Comparative Perspective Vladimir Đurić and Vasilije Marković ‘Living the Same Full Life’? A Critical Assessment of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practice in the Vojvodina and Sápmi Contexts David J. Smith The Dilemma of Responsibility: The Role of Kin-States and Nation-States in Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy Models to Realise Minorities’ Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Martin Klatt The Evanescence of Autonomy for Minority Groups: The Hungarian Minority in Romania and the Complex Nexus of Dependence Andreea Udrea Illiberal Forms of Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Sudeten German Party Case Oskar Mulej The Implications of Administrative Decentralisation on the Development of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practices: The Case of Romania Valentina Cornea, Mirela Paula Costache and Andreea Elena Matic Linguistic Rights in Greece: Crossing Through Territorial and Non-Territorial Arrangements Konstantinos Tsitselikis Critical Analysis of the Linguistic Rights Strategies of the Hungarian National Minority Council in Serbia Katinka Beretka Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Rights: Impact of the Self-Governing National Communities on Minority Protection in Slovenia Ljubica Djordjević Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing? Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary Balázs Dobos Can Non-Territorial Autonomy Help to Enforce the Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights of the Roma? Natalija Shikova and Immaculada Colomina Limonero

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Book SynopsisThis textbook takes a broad perspective on multilingualism, using a sociolinguistics and acquisition-informed approach that treats multilingualism not solely as the mastery of two or more well-defined language systems, but rather as a continuum of linguistic repertoires and resources to be used in different settings and combinations. The authors introduce traditional aspects of multilingualism - including historical dimensions, societal and individual multilingualism, aspects of identities, ideologies, education, and language policies - before going on to examine newer manifestations such as multilingualism in migrant and refugee contexts, in new media, pop music and linguistic landscaping, as well as the notion of grassroots multilingualism. This textbook will be an ideal resource for postgraduate students of linguistics and multilingualism, as well as advanced undergraduate students who are looking for a nuanced and holistic approach to the topic. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Welcome to a multilingual worldChapter 2: Multilingualism then and nowChapter 3: The multilingual individual: who is multilingual and what is special?Chapter 4: Linguistic mechanisms, processes, and resultsChapter 5: Linguistic manifestations in a multilingual world: focus on EnglishChapter 6: Societal multilingualismChapter 7: Multilingualism between identities, ideologies, and language policiesChapter 8: Multilingual education and teachingChapter 9: Multilingualism in migrant and refugee contextsChapter 10: Multilingualism in new mediaChapter 11: Multilingual pop musicChapter 12: Linguistic LandscapesChapter 13: Investigating multilingualismChapter 14: Using existing data repositories and data analysis

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Book SynopsisThis edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime. The authors included in this volume approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, but, ultimately, focus on language seen as a fundamental tool for simultaneously subjugating and liberating, concealing and revealing truth, discouraging dissidence and fostering revolt. Readers are invited to discover the linguistic implications of the many shapes and forms that the 1989 anti-communist revolutions took. Equally interesting are the investigations of the revolution aftermath, in the first years of transition to democracy. Perceived as a whole throughout the Cold War (1947-1991), the so-called "Eastern Bloc" managed to reveal its heterogeneity, the singularity of each of its comprising states and the multitude of its internal contrasts, most vividly perhaps, in the manifold manifestations of the 1989 anti-communist fight. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers from various fields, including history, (socio)linguistics, political studies, and conflict studies. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Narratives of discord: misinformation, dissimulation, truth.- Voices from Below. Propaganda and Petitioning Power in Late Socialist Romania (Mioara Anton).- The Great Discursive Divide in Communist Romania (Veronica Manole).- “Words that Must Not Be Named”: Narratives of Language, Power, and Identity in Communist Romania (Réka Lugossy).- Compromise or Survival. Adapting the Religious Discourse and the Topics Covered in Publications of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Communist Regime (Călin Emilian Cira).- The Founding Texts of a Revolution. Romania 1989 (Kazimierz Jurczak).- Words at war: expressive forms of resistance, dissidence and protest.- The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller and Liiceanu before and after the Revolution (Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield).- The Rhetoric of Albanian Insurgency: Communism and Anti- Communism in Kosovo (Henrique Schneider).- The Change of Worlds and Words. The Language of Protest during and after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 (Dina Vîlcu).- Written, spoken, performed: archiving the memory of (post-)communism.- Humility and Hatred, Forgiveness and Hope. A Linguistic Approach on the Subjective Literary Experiences in the Romanian Communist Society (Maria-Zoica Eugenia Balaban).- Retrieving Memory via Desk-Drawer Literature: from Reality Escapism in Stories about Cadmav to Contemporary Reflective Writing in With My Woman’s Mind (Ioana Mudure-Iacob).- Surviving the Change, Adjusting the Language. Romanian Writers in the Cultural Media, December 1989-1990 (Magdalena Răduță, Oana Fotache).- The December 1989 Revolution in Post-Communist Romanian Drama (Anca Hațiegan).- Staging Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Matei Vișniec’s How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients (Alina Cojocaru).- The Language of the Velvet Revolution versus the Anti-Language of Post- Communist Crime. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Contemporary Czech Crime Historical Television Series (Luboš Ptáček).- Surprising Silence? Possible Reasons for Scarcity of Representation of the Velvet Revolution in Czech Film Adaptations in the 1990s (Radoslav Horák).- Comparing the Portrayal of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Two Spanish Newspapers: A Multimodal Analysis (Samira Allani, Silvia Molina-Plaza).- Borghesia and Laibach against the Socialist Regime of Yugoslavia: Insights from a Socio-Linguistic Analysis (Mitja Stefancic).- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses a wide range of communicative contexts, including online forums, interviews, advertising, sex education materials, migrant integration classes, and suicide notes. This book will appeal to linguists interested in health and gender (particularly masculinities), as well as scholars in fields such as psychology, media studies, cultural studies, and other humanities and social science disciplines with a focus on discourse.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Masculinities, discourse and men’s health (Gavin Brookes and Małgorzata Chałupnik).- 2. “I am a man but I can cry right now”: Representations of masculinity in an anxiety support forum (Paul Baker and Luke Collins).- 3. Men’s illness and suicide: Constructing context (Dariusz Galasiński and Justyna Ziółkowska).- 4. Opening a new space for health communication: Twitter and the discourse of eating disorders in men (Heike Bartel and James Downs).- 5. Shed Talk: Discourses of men and masculinities in the context of a men’s shed (Steven Markham and Esmée Hanna).- 6. “My husband struggled in his own way”: The construction of masculinities in cis-het female infertility blogs (Karen Kinloch).- 7. Healthy white nationalists: Far right Selbstbilder in a digital age (Scott Burnett).- 8. (Mental) Health in the manosphere (Mark McGlashan).- 9. The sexually abnormal male asylum-seeker: Regimes of normativities in a context of free-spiritedness (Kristine Køhler Mortensen and Tommaso M. Milani).- 10. “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans men’s life histories and the regulation of gender (Angela Zottola, Lucy Jones, Louise Mullany and Alison Pilnick).- 11. “5 ways to give your skin a fresh workout”: Semiotized and mediatized ‘consumer masculinity’ in UK branding and advertising for men’s skincare products (Laura Coffey-Glover).- 12. “Hi handsome, hi handsome!”: Masculinity and discourses of well-being in Indian male cosmetic advertisements (Mie Hiramoto and Shrutika Kapoor).- 13. New men? The medicalisation of men’s bodies on the Numan website (Emma Putland, Małgorzata Chałupnik and Gavin Brookes).- 14. “To be ‘a man’ is not easy!”: Masculinities and discourses of fear and anxiety among male COVID-19 survivors in Ghana (Grace Diabah, Dorothy Pokua Agyepong and Akua Asantewaa Campbell).

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction Justyna Olko & Cynthia Radding 2. Flexible borders, permeable territories and the role of water management in territorial dynamics in Pre-Hispanic and Early Hispanic Peru Patrycja Prządka-Giersz , Miłosz Giersz & Julia M. Chyla 3. Ihuan yehhuan tlacuauh tlamauhtiah in ichcapixqueh. “And the shepherds are inspiring great fear”. Environment, control of resources and collective agency in colonial and modern Tlaxcala. Justyna Olko 4. Ñudzahui Custom, Contracts, and Territoriality in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca Yanna Yannakakis 5. The Yoreme creation of itom ania in northwestern Mexico: histories of cultural landscapes. Cynthia Radding 6. Gender Disparities in Guaraní Knowledge, Literacy, and Fashion in the Ecological Borderlands of Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century Paraguay Barbara A. Ganson 7. Combining Visions of Well-Being through the Generational Gap: The Views of Tlaxcala Old and Young on Environment, Tradition and Language Gregory Haimovich 8. “Amo kitlapanas tetl!”: Heritage language and the defense against fracking in the Huasteca Potosina, Mexico Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak 9. The Interrelation between Language, History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge within the Nahuat-Pipil context of El Salvador Ebany Dohle 10. Cenotes and placemaking in the Maya world: biocultural landscapes as archival spaces Khristin N. Montes, Dylan J. Clark, Patricia A. McAnany & Adolfo Iván Batún Alpuche 11. Nakua nukuu ini Ñuu Savi: Nakua jíno, nakua ka’on de nakua sa’on ja kuatyi Koo Yoso. Memory and cultural continuity of the Ñuu Savi People: Ancestral knowledge, language and rituals around Koo Yoso deity Omar Aguilar Sánchez 12. Tlaneltoquilli tlen mochihua ica cintli ipan tlalli Chicontepec: tlamantli chicahualiztli ipan tochinanco. Ceremonial practices relating to corn in the region of Chicontepec: local aspects of wellbeing Eduardo de la Cruz

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into the realm of effective language education programs, examining them from both macro and micro-policy-making perspectives. It unravels the distinguishing features of exemplary language programs and explores how these programs are implemented in diverse international contexts. The book comprehensively explores various facets of language education programs, encompassing well-crafted language education policies, robust curriculum and syllabus design, impactful teaching materials, effective approaches to English for specific purposes (ESP), English as a medium of instruction (EMI), content and language integrated learning (CLIL), and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)-informed instruction. The book also delves into fruitful school/institute-university partnerships, the judicious use of technology, strategies for teacher recruitment and professional development, as well as efficient policies for learner assessment, among other topics of significance. The contributions within this book are firmly grounded in data, incorporating findings from empirical studies. The insights provided draw upon valuable data obtained from a range of diverse contexts in which effective language education programs have been implemented.Table of ContentsSECTION ONE: POLICIES.- University-School Partnerships; Kayoko Hashimoto and Samantha Disbray.- State Language Education Systems; David Hayes.- Language Curriculum Evaluation; Jason Loh and Willy Renandya.- Teacher Education; Zia Tajeddin and Samaneh Eslamdoost.- Plurilingualism; Sarah Moore.- Intercultural Language Teaching; Zia Tajeddin and Neda Khanlarzadeh.- Minority Language Learners’ Needs; Eun Sung Park.- Language Assessment; Hassan Mohebbi.- SECTION TWO: PRACTICES.- English for Specific Purposes (ESP); Helen Basturkmen.- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Ronald Kemsies and Georg Hellmayr .- English-Medium Instruction (EMI); Vildan İnci Kavak & Yasemin Kirkgöz.- English as a Lingua Franca Pedagogy; Paul McBride and Glenn Toh.- Learner Agency Empowerment; Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui and Thom Thom Thi Nguyen.- Online Language Education Courses; Lu Yunru and Qing Ma.- Digital Technology in Language Teaching; I.G.A. Lokita Purnamika Utami and Sarah Prestridge.

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Book SynopsisPart ?A. Political crisis/ disaster Communication.- Chapter 1. Maintaining a coherent corporate identity on the face of politically rooted crisis (Bhowa Jairos Kudakwashe and Rusere Misheck).- Chapter 2. Question Time: A Bonus or Pain in the Quest for Political Accountability in the Zimbabwean Parliament (Mutsvairo Jack and Dlali Mawande).- Chapter 3. A comparative analysis of government social media crisis and risk communication during the COVID-19 health crisis (Kembo Shupikai).- Chapter 4. Brand and reputation management during political crises (Shura Tawanda and Jakaza Ernest).- Chapter 5. Sanctions discourse and strategic communication: Re-imagining a new Zimbabwe from a social conflict paradigm (Marevesa Tobias).- Chapter 6. Ubuntu in Languaging From Politics of Rhetoric to The Second Republic: Re-reading Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns in Discourse of New Dispensation (Mavengano Esther).- Chapter 7. Mu

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to scholars and post-graduate students working across Language Policy and Planning, Language in Education Policy, and Family Language Policy, as well as those in adjacent fields including Education Policy, Classroom Discourse, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociologyof Education, and Multilingualism.

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Book Synopsis?This book looks at the development of language skills in Swedish as a second language in young adults, beginning from the first months of their second language instruction and ending after three years of intensive language courses. The focus is on three proficiency dimensions: complexity, accuracy, and fluency, and their interplay at group level and in individual students.At the beginning of the second language learning process, accuracy, complexity, and fluency are not integrated in the learner's mind and they tend to act in an arbitrary fashion. During second language development, integration of all dimensions proceeds steadily and after three years of learning the discrepancy between different aspects of proficiency is very low. The study traces the mutual impact of each dimension on particular aspects in order to identify four distinct learner profiles. The goal of this book is to provide a platform for further discussion of the dynamics of second language development and the interconnectedness of the systems involved in this development. Iwona Kowal calls for an individual approach to be taken with every learner and for development to be treated as a constant interplay between many factors.Trade ReviewThe monograph encourages reflection for second language researchers and teachers. It has stemmed from an observation of the development of the third language (Swedish) in young Polish adults, i.e. students at the Jagiellonian university... The application of dynamic systems theory in second language research enables to follow a way in which a new language emerges in persons who are learning it as a second, third or fourth language. That is, I think, the most important conclusion that can be drawn from the study. -- Zdzislaw Wawrzyniak

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Book SynopsisThe Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

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Book SynopsisAddresses the political, cultural and pedagogical issues of English in the age of globalization, this book not only presents valuable information about the English language in Hong Kong and China, it also treats theoretical concepts related to language and globalization and opens new perspectives on these issues.

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Book SynopsisVoices in Texts and Contexts presents different perspectives of 'voice', a concept emerging from language choices, social and cultural phenomena, and psychology. In weaving a tapestry of linguistic experiences, from analyses of language phenomena including localised English to explanations of human behaviour, this book offers insights into how we use language, construct discourse, and express ourselves in light of selected texts and specific contexts.Voice is a fundamental instrument to interpret human behaviour and the mind. In this book, readers will learn about uses of language, or perceptions of uses, and a wide range of messages enshrined therein.This book grew out of the 6th and 7th International Conferences on Discourse and Society organised by the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. It contains chapters that give special focus to Malaysia at the macro level - such as the naming of disabled people, mastery of the Malay language by migrants, loanwords of Sanskrit origin in Malaysian - as well contributions by invited scholars whose academic interests intersect with the theme of the volume. It is suitable for scholars, educators, researchers, and the interested general public.Table of Contents About the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction - Toshiko Yamaguchi Voices of Migrant Workers in a Community of Practice: A Study of Bangladeshi Migrants' Use of the Malay Language in Malaysia - Tanzeel Chowdhury & Lee Luan Ng Voices of Concern Amongst Teachers on the Academic Performance of Foster Children - Cherish How & Jariah Mohd Jan Understanding and Applying the Critical Academic Voice: Bridging Theory and Practice - Stephen J. Hall Multi-Ethnic Voices of Loanwords in the Malaysian Dailies - Manjit Kaur Balwant Singh Voices in the Naming of Disabled Persons in Print Media - Pei Soo Ang & Siang Lee Yeo Voices of Fear: Nightmare Landscapes in Western Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Painting - El?bieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska Translating English Political Discourse into Arabic: Roles of Translator, Context, and Voice - Kais Amir Kadhim Investigating the Shift in Voice and Rhetoric of United States Administrations Regarding the Middle East 2001–2016 - Mourhaf Kazzaz Critically Negotiating British and American Englishes: Voices from Indonesia - Ribut Wahyudi Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique analysis of how political representatives construct ideas about the nation in contemporary Indonesian politics. In their struggle to define what the authors call the ‘national narrative’, would-be national leaders seek to develop a story about the nation’s past, present and future. These stories feature a unique plot, set of characters, and a moral that the political narrator hopes will resonate. In contemporary Indonesia, the authors assess two prominent national narratives: the technocratic and populist national narratives. The book concludes with an analysis that considers other potential sources of ideas about the nation, as well as the potential implications for domestic politics and Indonesian grand strategy.Table of Contents1.Narratives and the Nation 2.The Technocratic National Narrative 3.The Populist National Narrative 4.Alternative National Narratives 5.The National Narrative, Indonesian Domestic Politics and Grand Strategy

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Book SynopsisThis book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative scaffolding but envisages it differently by identifying some of its polyphonic textures. China’s rich engagement with interculturality serves to support the importance of being curious about other ways of thinking about the notion beyond the ‘West’ only. As such, the issues of culture, identity, language, translation, intercultural competence and silent transformations (amongst others) are re-evaluated in a different light. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insights for readers with an interest in interculturality.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The idea of culture is worn out.- Language is not what we might think it is.- Facilitating interculturality by unthinking and rethinking our relation to language.- Translating is not treason.- Talking to each other about interculturality.- First steps towards interculturality.- Rethinking identity.- Listening to those who experience interculturality to learn about what it is and how to ‘do’ it.- Examining other ways of engaging with interculturality.- Silent transformations with China.- Debunking intercultural competence.

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Book SynopsisThis book documents the impact of Stephen Harris’s works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education. It provides a summary and critique of Stephen Harris's key ideas, particularly those on bilingual-bicultural education. This book also profiles the man, his background, his beliefs and talents. It showcases contributions and personal reflections from Stephen’s family, wife, close colleagues, and many of those influenced by his work. This festschrift explores the professional life and work of Stephen Harris as an educator and anthropologist who worked in the Northern Territory of Australia.Table of ContentsForeword David McClay Preface Brian Devlin Acknowledgements Contributors Short timeline Part A Introduction: an Overview of the Life of Stephen Harris Jane Harris From Start to Finish: a Man of Many Parts Joy Kinslow Harris Nomo Munanga, Main Kantriman (‘no Longer Just a White Person, but my Regional Kinsman’) Terry Ngarritjin Kessaris Language, Heart, and Mind: Can Aboriginal Languages be Revived? John Harris My Uncle and his Place in History Jonathan Harris Some Personal and Professional Reminiscences Cos and Sue Russo A poetic tribute John Mukky Burke PART B Learning how to Learn in School Beth Graham Culture Domain Separation and Linguistic Interdependence: Correspondence with Stephen Harris 1982–1993 Jim Cummins You Only learn to Read Once: Stephen Harris’s Insights Frances Murray Different Roles, Similar Goals: Devlin and Harris, 1979–2020 Brian Devlin Milingimbi, 1970s Michael Christie A Pioneer, Mentor, Colleague and Friend Merridy Malin Code-mixing as a Means of Sustaining an Aboriginal Language: the Case of Ngarrindjeri in the Lower Murray Region of South Australia Mary-Anne Gale Opening Minds and Underpinning Cross-cultural Practices Glenys Waters Still Ahead of his Time Wendy Baarda PART C A Brief History of Linguistics in the Northern Territory Paul Black and Brian Devlin ‘Becoming Different’ in an Indigenous Education Context Kathryn Gale Carving out Domains for the use of a Re-awakening Language Rob Amery Muḻmuḻ—Flecks of Foam in an Everchanging Educational World: Community-Based Participatory Research Kathryn McMahon Stephen Harris and the Domain Separation Debate Brian Devlin and Paul Black The Enduring Voice of Harris in NT Aboriginal Education Policy Debates: Comments from an Aboriginal Scholar and Former Student Gary Fry Bibliography of Published and Unpublished work by Stephen Harris Brian Devlin and Joy Kinslow Harris Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe expression "one or two words" is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement, which denotes the meaningfulness of transient acts of speech, One or Two Words offers an analysis of the shifting power relations between centers and peripheries in one of the world's most linguistically diverse countries. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, this book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts of pigs and buffaloes, and the performance of elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. Aurora Donzelli describes the complex forms of cosmopolitan indigeneity that have emerged in the Toraja highlands during several decades of encounters with a variety of local and international interlocutors. By engaging wider debates on the dynamics of cultural and linguistic change vis-à-vis globalizing influences, the book sheds light onto a hitherto neglected dimension of post-Suharto Indonesia: the recalibration of power relations between national and local languages prompted by recent institutional transformations and the re-articulation of the relations between the central state and its peripheries through acts of speech.Trade Review"Alongside its rich historical and ethnographic accounts of relevance to Indonesianists–for example, of Toraja landholding disputes and post-Suharto regional autonomy reforms–One or Two Words is a valuable contribution to the linguistic anthropological study of sociality constituted through a politics of representation.” * Discourse and Society *Table of Contents List of Maps List of Photographs List of Tables Acknowledgements A Note on Orthography and Transcriptions Introduction Part I: The Politics of Language 1. Subjects of Discourse 2. Narratives of Distinction 3. Grammars of Exchange Part II: The Language of Politics 4. Hierarchies of Language 5. Modes of Power 6. Global Frictions and Local Crossovers Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA study of interlocutor reference that significantly deepens our understanding of the ways in which self-other relations are linguistically mediated in social interaction, based on the analysis of Southeast Asian languages. Terms used by speakers to refer to themselves and their interlocutors form one of the ways that language expresses, defines, and creates a field for working out social relations. Because this field of study in sociolinguistics historically has focused on Indo-European languages, it has tended to dwell on references to the addressee—for example, the choice between tuand vous when addressing someone in French. This book uses the study of Southeast Asian languages to theorize interlocutor reference more broadly, significantly deepening our understanding of the ways in which self-other relations are linguistically mediated in social interaction. As the authors explain, Southeast Asian systems exceed in complexity and nuance the well-described cases of Europe in two basic ways. First, in many languages of Southeast Asia, a speaker must select an appropriate reference form not only for other/addressee but also for self/speaker. Second, in these languages, in addition to pronouns, speakers draw upon a range of common and proper nouns including names, kin terms, and titles, in referring to themselves and the addressee. Acts of interlocutor reference, therefore, inevitably do more than simply identify the speaker and addressee; they also convey information about the proposed relation between interlocutors. Bringing together studies from both small-scale and large, urbanized communities across Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia, this is an important contribution to the regional linguistic and anthropological literature.Table of Contents Interlocutor Reference in Southeast Asian Speech Communities: Sociolinguistic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics Part 1: Systems Asymmetries in the System of Person Reference in Kri, a Language of Upland Laos Speaking of People in South-Central Java Part 2: Practices Vocatives in Javanese Conversation New Patterns, New Practices: Exploring the Use of English Pronouns I and you in Asymmetrical Relations in Kuala Lumpur (KL) Malay Talk Part 3: Intimacies "Respect those above, yield to those below": Civility and social hierarchy in Vietnamese interlocutor reference "Friends who don't throw each other away": Friendship, pronouns, and relations on the edge in Luang Prabang, Laos Interlocutor reference and deferential relations in Indonesian broadcast talk Part 4: Theories Interlocutor reference and the complexity of East and Southeast Asian honorific registers

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the attitudes of Macao tertiary students toward language after the handover. It shares the findings of a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews, which were conducted among freshmen of the University of Macao to investigate their attitudes toward Cantonese, Putonghua, English, and Portuguese, as well as their attitudes toward Macao's language planning and language policy. Utilizing a multidimensional and multilayered perspective in the study, this book also demonstrates the orientations of Macao tertiary students and the correlation between their social categories (gender and social class) and their attitudes toward language.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Literature Review.- Chapter 3 The Language Situation in Macao.- Chapter 4 Research Design.- Chapter 5 Questionnaire Survey Results.- Chapter 6 Interview Results.- Chapter 7 Discussion.- Chapter 8 Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Language Choice of Immigrants in a Multilingual Society.- Chapter 3: Syrian Working Parents' Language Choice in the Work Domain.- Chapter 4: Language Maintenance and Shift in the Syrian Community.- Chapter 5: Syrian Parents' Strategies in Language Maintenance.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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