Sociolinguistics Books
Equinox Publishing Ltd Human Communication Across Cultures: A
Book SynopsisHuman Communication across Cultures is a highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place. Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this book employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Sociolinguistics explores how language is used in social interactions. There are differences in the way we speak due to where we live, gender, age, race/ethnicity, religious background and our social class and level of education. Pragmatics shows how we speak differently and understand one another in each situation we encounter. Each section of the book includes a brief introduction, a discussion of the topic, references for further research and an extensive collection of activities designed for both in-class usage and homework assignments. The book features numerous examples from a variety of current world cultures.Table of ContentsPreface to Instructors Preface to Students CHAPTER 1: LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE CHAPTER 2: THE STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF LANGUAGE CHAPTER 3: PRAGMATICS CHAPTER 4: SPEECH ACTS CHAPTER 5: ROUTINES CHAPTER 6: COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AND IMPLICATURE CHAPTER 7: POLITENESS STRATEGIES CHAPTER 8: CONVERSATIONAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 9: SOCIAL FACTORS CHAPTER 10: DIALECTS CHAPTER 11: ETHNICITY CHAPTER 12: GENDER CHAPTER 13: BILINGUALISM Glossary
£24.95
Jessica Kingsley Publishers How to start, carry on and end conversations:
Book SynopsisDo you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break conversations down into small chunks and help you to think of what to say, whether you are speaking to a fellow student, starting a conversation with a new friend, calling out bullies or answering a teacher's question. These small words will be a big help for all teenagers and young people with ASD.Trade Review[The author] has developed a simple strategy for facilitating conversation that can greatly enhance the quality of life of someone who has Asperger's syndrome. The art of conversation can be learned and achieved, and this valuable book explains how. -- From the foreword by Professor Tony Attwood PhD, Brisbane, AustraliaTable of ContentsForeword by Tony Attwood. Introduction. 1. Bullying. 2. Making friends. 3. Making conversations. 4. Special interest. 5. Thinking differently can be a problem.
£14.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Languages Are Good for Us
Book SynopsisThis is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and the 'book cemeteries' of medieval synagogues to the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their incredible capacity for language learning. Along the way, Hardach explores the role of trade in transmitting words across cultures and untangles riddles of hieroglyphics, cuneiform and the ancient scripts of Crete and Cyprus. This is a book about languages, the people who love them and the linguistic threads that connect us all. 'Impeccably researched and engagingly presented... Sophie Hardach tells wonderful stories about words that have travelled vast distances in space and time to make English what it is' David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of EverythingTrade ReviewSophie Hardach tells wonderful stories about words that have travelled vast distances in space and time to make English what it is. Impeccably researched and engagingly presented, this fascinating book shows how languages arise, grow, borrow, mix and blend. If you aren't sure what the point of learning another language is, then you need to read this book! -- David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
£999.99
Liverpool University Press Spanish Education in Morocco, 1912-1956: Cultural
Book SynopsisAfter establishing the Spanish Protectorate in Northern Morocco (1912-1956), Spain needed to create a system of colonial policies for the territory it was now to govern. Education became one instrument among many at the service of colonization. Spain created its own colonial educational model based on Spanish schools, Spanish-Arab schools and Spanish-Jewish schools, which coexisted with Koranic madrasas and Talmudic, Alliance Israelite Universelle and nationalist schools. The institutions created for Moroccans by the Spaniards united tradition the Arabic and Hebrew languages and Muslim and Jewish religions with the models and principles of the schools in Spain at the time. The end goal was to instruct the population according to a pro-Spanish, colonizer-friendly ideology in order to control the society and territory in a way that complemented military policies. The coup d'état led by General Franco in Spain in 1936 brought about a change in policy in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. The Franco government's innovation was to Moroccanize the teaching paradigm, which transformed the Spanish-Arab educational model into a Moroccan model. The Spanish-Arab concept gave way to a Moroccan concept, which entailed the recognition of a national identity based on linguistic and religious precepts on the part of Spain. This process of Moroccanization did not develop under the same terms in other parts of the country, which gave the Spanish Protectorate its distinctive traits. Spain developed a policy that combined educational and cultural aspects through a discourse of Spanish-Arab brotherhood. The establishment of cultural institutions was a sign of this symbiosis and the policy became an important part of how the regime presented itself abroad.
£100.00
James Currey Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
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
£23.74
James Currey Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular
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
£72.03
James Currey Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources,
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
£35.87
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anatomy of Laughter
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a selection of the papers given at a major conference, The Anatomy of Laughter/Traduire le Rire, held in September 2001. It focuses on the latter aspect of observations of the situations in which laughter is expressed, and stresses the acoustic features of laughter.Trade ReviewAn accessible and educative collection... provides much more than a visitation of standard methodologies, and it does much more than merely celebrate laughter as cognitive, linguistic, or aesthetic function. An indispensable collection for the serious humour scholar. -- Tarez Samra Graban Canadian Review of Comparative Literature December 2010, 428-31Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Anatomie et étymologie: Ordre et désordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert 2. The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations 3. Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? 4. Belly Laughs 5. Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès 6. Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands 7. Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour 8. And What If They Don't Laugh? 9. Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable 10. Translating a Great Feast of Languages 11. Traduire le rire 12. Rire et désir dans les comédies américaines de Lubitsch: L’exemple de Ninotchka (1939) 13. What's So Funny? On Being Laughed At... 14. Laughing and Talking 15. Le Rire comme accident en peinture 16. La Couleur du rire: Peinture et traduction 17. Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter
£82.99
Nine Arches Press Spake: Dialect and Voices from the West Midlands
Book Synopsis"Examining regional accents and our attitudes to them are a way of peering into Britain's soul. I can't wait for this book" – Sathnam SangheraSpake: Dialect and Voices from the West Midlands with contributions from Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), Julie Walters, Liz Berry and many of the regions best known writers.Spake is a love letter to the West Midlands voice and a challenge to the preconceptions and prejudices that abound about dialect and non-standard English. Much maligned, frequently overlooked or simply left out altogether: the English West Midlands has for decades been diminished in the national conversation - and with it, the rich dialects and voices of the region are often misunderstood, ignored or worse – ridiculed and mocked. But who’s to say that the way we ‘spake’ isn’t every bit as vital and precious a part of the landscape as other accents and dialects? This anthology features contemporary writing that draws upon dialect in ways that explore the potential of the narrative and poetic voice, bringing to life the silent histories and harsh realities of a vanishing working-class way of life in what was once Britain’s industrial heartland. From contemporary re-imaginings of the interwar decades in Steven Knight’s TV series Peaky Blinders to Liz Berry’s prize-winning poetry and up and coming new talent, this book celebrates and gives voice to experiences rooted in the region that have largely lain at the margins.
£10.44
Goldsmiths, Unversity of London Experimental Translation: The Work of Translation
Book SynopsisThe history and future of an alternative, oppositional translation practice.The threat of machine translation has given way to an alternative, experimental practice of translation that reflects upon and hijacks traditional paradigms. In much the same way that photography initiated a break in artistic practices with the threat of an absolute fidelity to the real, machine translation has paradoxically liberated human translators to err, to diverge, to tamper with the original, blurring creation and imitation with cyborg collage and appropriation. Seven chapters reimagine seven classic “procedures” of translation theory and pedagogy: loan, calque, literal translation, transposition, modulation, equivalence, and adaptation, updating them for the material political and poetical concerns of the contemporary era. Each chapter combines reflections from translation studies and experimental literature with practical guides, sets of experimental translation “procedures” to try at home or abroad, in the classroom, the laboratory, the garden, the dance hall, the city, the kitchen, the library, the shopping center, the supermarket, the train, the bus, the airplane, the post office, on the radio, on your phone, on your computer, and on the internet.
£999.99
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language -
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.
£42.75
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Ears, Eyes, and Hands – Reflections on Language,
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£25.00
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Gesture in Multiparty Interaction
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£57.00
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape:
Book SynopsisThis book builds upon the growing field of Linguistic Landscape in order to demonstrate the power of a spatialized approach to language, culture, and literacy education as it opens classrooms and cultivates new competencies. The chapters develop major themes, including re-imagining language curricula, language classrooms, and schoolscapes in dialogue with the heteroglossic discourses of the local; developing L2 learners’ symbolic, translingual competencies through engagement with situated, multimodal texts; fostering critical social awareness through language study in the linguistic landscape; expanding opportunities for situated L2 reading and writing; and cultivating language students’ capacities for engaged scholarship and research in out-of-class contexts.By exploring the pedagogical possibilities of place-based approaches to literacy development, this volume contributes to the reimagining of language education through the linguistic landscape.Trade Review “The studies in this book offer interesting ways forward for language teaching and education research.” (Marion Mathier, Linguistic Landscape, Vol. 8 (1), 2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction by David Malinowski, Hiram Maxim, and Sébastien Dubreil.- Part I: Transforming Language Curricula and Learning Spaces.- Linguistic landscape projects in language teaching: Opportunities for critical language learning beyond the classroom by María Eugenia Lozano, Juan Pablo Jiménez Caicedo, and Lee Abraham.- Linguistic landscape images and Québec’s cultural narrative in French textbooks by Carol A. Chappelle.- Teaching with virtual linguistic landscapes: Developing translingual and transcultural competence by Sungwoo Kim and Michael Chesnut.- University exchange students’ practices of learning Finnish: A language ecological approach to affordances in linguistic landscapes by Tamas Peter Szabó and Hannele Dufva.- Classroom translanguaging through the linguistic landscape by Corinne Seals.- Part II: Fostering Critical Social Awareness.- Building language teacher awareness of colonial histories and imperialistic oppression through the linguistic landscape by Andrea Sterzuk.- Floating traffic signs and the ambiguity of silence in the linguistic landscape by Diane Richardson.- A geolocative linguistic landscape project in Korean as foreign language education by Hakyoon Lee and Bumyong Choi.- Using linguistic landscapes as stimuli for relevant EFL writing by Rawia Hayik.- Developing critical sociolinguistic awareness through linguistic landscapes in a mixed classroom: the case of Spanish in Texas by Idoia Elola and Josh Prada.- Part III: Language Students as Researchers and Linguistic Landscape.- Linguistic landscape as an antidote to the commodification of study abroad language programs: A case study in the center of Madrid by Alberto Bruzos Moro.- Taking the foreign out of language teaching: opening up the classroom to the multilingual city by Lourdes Hernandez-Martin and P. J. Skrandies.- Ethnographic language learning projects through the linguistic landscape by Peter Sayer.- Investigating bulletin boards with students. What can Citizen Science offer education and research in the linguistic landscape? Helle Lykke Nielsen, Tove Rosendal, Johan Järlehed and Christopher Kullenberg
£59.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language Use, Education, and Professional
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.
£999.99
Springer International Publishing AG Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy:
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.
£999.99
Springer International Publishing AG Chinese Language Use by School-Aged Chinese
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.
£999.99
Springer International Publishing AG Interface between English Language Education
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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Springer International Publishing AG Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational
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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Springer International Publishing AG Proverbs Are Never Neutral
Book SynopsisThis book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures. The authors bring together linguistic terms and typologies from Slavonic, Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugric and Somali proverbs (with their English parallels) to enrich contrastive paremiology. The book pushes the thematic boundaries of the paremiological minima of languages by drawing on fields including sociolinguistics, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of cultural linguistics, comparative cultural studies, sociolinguistics, social identity, anthropology, cognitive semiotics, and the history of words and concepts.Table of Contents
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Springer International Publishing AG Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health
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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Springer International Publishing AG Language Education Programs: Perspectives on
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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Palgrave Macmillan The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis
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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Springer International Publishing AG Language Policy as Practice
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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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and
Book Synopsis Taboo in Discourse: Studies on Attenuation and Offence in Communication combines cognitive, multimodal, translation and (critical) discourse-related issues with the intent of widening the field of study of taboo in communication. This volume explores the complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of social contexts, cultural settings and real-world discourse types: from political speeches to television series through cartoons, novels, oral interviews or official advertisements. Through a selection of empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and contextualized language data, this book examines the communicative functions of the different categories of taboo naming, from euphemism (attenuation) to dysphemism (offence). By bringing together contrasting (yet complementary) examples of taboo-related research, this volume yields insights into the way taboo emerges in discourse and allows to have access to attitudes, stereotypes and value judgments regarding taboo which are more or less implicitly communicated in the public sphere. Table of ContentsEliecer Crespo-Fernández: Introduction. Taboo in Discourse: An Overview – Gérard Fernández Smith/Miguel Casas Gómez: From Lexicon to Discourse in the Linguistic Expression of Taboo: Configuring New Social Realities – María José Hellín-García: Politically Tabooed Measures: Sanitizing the Economic Crisis through Metaphor and Euphemism – Rosa M. López-Campillo: Political Discourse in John Tutchin: Hedges as Euphemistic and Persuasive Devices – María Muelas-Gil: The Victim or the Cause? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Cartoons Depicting PSOE’s Internal Political Crisis – María Jesús Pinar-Sanz: Offence Strategies in Political Cartoons – Isabel Negro Alousque: Attenuation and Strengthening in Road Safety Campaigns – Andrea Pizarro Pedraza: Pardon my Spanish: Attenuation of Taboo through Metapragmatic Euphemistic Formulae – Isabel López Cirugeda: "Please, Like Me": Coming out of the Closet in the Millennial Generation – Raquel Sánchez Ruiz: Taboo in Prison: X-phemistic Language in Orange Is the New Black – Roberto Martínez Mateo: Approaching the Translation of Dysphemistic Language: Swearwords and Offensive Terms in The Catcher in the Rye – Emilio Montero Cartelle: The Discourse-pragmatic Conditions of Sexual Interdiction in La Lozana. Masculine Sex and Escape from Vagueness
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De Gruyter Introduction to English Linguistics
Book SynopsisThe new and updated third edition of this highly successful textbook contains an additional chapter that presents modern empirical research methods in the form of exemplary small-scale studies. In these projects the authors invite the reader to develop and address research questions from phonetics/phonology, morphology and syntax. The pertinent experimental and corpus-linguistic techniques are introduced and students are familiarized with some basic statistical tools necessary for the analysis of the data.The major difference between this book and its potential competitors lies in its hands-on didactic orientation, with a strong focus on linguistic analysis and argumentation. Language and linguistic theory are approached from a strictly empirical perspective: given a certain set of data to be accounted for, theoretical and methodological problems must be solved in order to analyze and understand the data properly. The book is not written from the perspective of a particular theoretical framework and draws on insights from various research traditions. Introduction to English Linguistics concentrates on gaining expertise and analytical skills in the traditional core areas of linguistics, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The chapter on "Extensions and applications" widens the perspective to other areas of linguistic research, such as historical, socio- and psycholinguistics. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises and suggestions for further reading. A glossary and an index facilitate access to terms and topics.
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De Gruyter TV-Talkshows als Propagandainstrument Russlands
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De Gruyter Mehrsprachigkeit Und Identitätsbildung Im
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de Gruyter Sprachenpolitik in Österreich
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Harrassowitz Die Gesellschaftliche Stellung Des Schwedischen
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Harrassowitz Nomen Est Omen: Die Bedeutung Von Namen in
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Jugendsprache: Eine Einführung
Book SynopsisJugendsprache ist ein facettenreicher und spannender Gegenstand der Linguistik. Varianten der Jugendsprache in multikulturellen Gesellschaften und ihre Ausprägungen in den sozialen Medien sind aktuelle Phänomene. Die Merkmale und Funktionen der Jugendsprache – nicht nur in diesen Bereichen - sind vielfältig und in ständiger Veränderung begriffen. Ihre Analyse ist häufig Thema in universitären Seminaren. Der Band beschreibt zudem die Möglichkeiten, das Thema Jugendsprache im Unterricht einzubringen. Weitere Kapitel widmen sich der Geschichte der Jugendsprache sowie den methodischen Zugängen zu ihrer Erforschung. - In zweifarbiger Gestaltung mit zahlreichen Beispielen sowie mit Aufgaben (Lösungen als Download-Material).Table of Contents1. Einleitung: Jugend und Jugendkulturen.- 2. Historische Entwicklung der Jugendsprachforschung.- 3. Konzepte der Jugendsprachforschung.- 4. Merkmale von Jugendsprache.- 5. Jugendsprache und Medien.- 6. Jugendsprache und Sprachkontakt.- 7. Methoden.- 8. Jugendsprache im Unterricht.- 9. Anhang.
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sprache Und Bullshit
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Universitatsverlag Winter Soziolinguistik
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sprachanfragen - Wer Fragt? Wer Wird Gefragt? Wie
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Universitatsverlag Winter Nachdenken Uber Sprache: Laienansichten Uber
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Brill Women, Gender and Language in Morocco
Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the complex but poorly understood relationship between women, gender, and language in Morocco, a Muslim, multilingual, multicultural, and developing country. The hypothesis on which the book is based is that an understanding of gender perception and women's agency can be achieved only by taking into account the structure of power in a specific culture and that language is an important component of this power. In Moroccan culture, history, geography, Islam, orality, multilingualism, social organization, economic status, and political system constitute the superstructures of power within which factors such as social differences, contextual differences, and identity differences interact in the daily linguistic performances of gender. Moroccan women are far from constituting a homogeneous group, consequently the choices available to them vary in nature and empowering capacity, thus ‘widening’ the spectrum of gender beyond cultural limits.
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Bloomsbury India Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian
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Amsterdam University Press Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking
Book SynopsisBordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into existence, and also how those borders speak to them and their identities. These ‘talking borders’ exist in a world where state borders are contested, and which is being irrevocably transformed by rapid social and economic change. This book offers a new perspective on this dynamic region by centring language, and in doing so, also offers new ways of thinking about how borders and language influence each other.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the Cover Image 1 Introduction: Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia, by Gerald Roche 2 Playing with Language Boundaries: Heteroglot Standard Language Ideology and Linguistic Belonging among Amdo Children, by Shannon Ward 3 The Role of Classical Tibetan (Choke) on the Development of Kurtop, a Language of Bhutan, by Gwendolyn Hyslop 4 Reimagining Rongring without Tibetan Buddhist Influence, by Charisma K. Lepcha 5 Glottonyms, Identity, and Language Recognition in the Eastern Tibetosphere, by Hiroyuki Suzuki 6 On the Yak Horns of a Dilemma: Diverging Standards in Diaspora Tibetan, by Dirk Schmidt 7 Changing Identity and Linguistic Practices in Nubri: Veiled Language Endangerment in the Nepalese Tibetosphere, by Cathryn Donohue 8 Borderline Dominance: Transnational Tibetan Language Politics in the Himalayas, by Gerald Roche 9 Borders: In Conclusion, by Gwendolyn Hyslop Tibetan Language Summaries Index
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Struggle for the National Narrative in
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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Springer Verlag, Singapore Stephen Harris—Writer, Educator, Anthropologist:
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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Springer Verlag, Singapore A Study of Macao Tertiary Students’ Attitudes
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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Springer Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Syrian
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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Oxford University Press Inc Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels
Book SynopsisInsulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called lazy, feeble, pusillanimous, and more. Our leaders have been derided as ignoramuses, idiots, morons, and fatheads, and have been compared to all manner of animals--worms and whales and hyenas, sad jellyfish, strutting crows, lap dogs, reptiles, and monkeys.Political insults tell us what we value in our leaders by showing how we devalue them. In Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels, linguist Edwin Battistella collects over five hundred insults aimed at American presidents. Covering the broad sweep of American history, he puts insults in their place-the political and cultural context of their times. Along the way, Battistella illustrates the recurring themes of political insults: too little intellect or too much, inconsistency or obstinacy, worthlessness, weakness, dishonesty, sexual impropriety, appearance, and more. The kinds of insults we use suggest what our culture finds most hurtful, and reveal society''s changing prejudices as well as its most enduring ones. How we insult presidents and how they react tells us about the presidents, but it also tells us about our nation''s politics. Readers discover how the style of insults evolves in different historical periods: gone are apostate, mountebank, flathead, and doughface. Say hello to moron, jerk, asshole, and flip-flopper. Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels covers the broad sweep of American history, from the founder''s debates over the nature of government to world wars and culture wars and social media. Whatever your politics, you''ll find Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels an invaluable source of invigorating invective-and a healthy perspective on today''s political climate.Trade ReviewThis is an easy-to-read, enjoyable book, accessible to every reader and particularly timely given the current political climate. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * P. J. Kurtz, Minot State University, CHOICE *Battistella takes readers on a delightful tour of US presidents, highlighting the names they were called and the insults and critiques they faced from their colleagues and the media of the day. Part linguistics text, part history, and part humor, this is an easy-to-read, enjoyable book, accessible to every reader and particularly timely given the current political climate. . . . A fascinating read for historians, linguists, and students of journalism in particular, but of interest to all. * CHOICE *It was a pleasure to read a book that made me laugh aloud. Edwin Battistella has done an impressive job of documenting and explaining the history of presidential ignominy. I suspect that readers will be sending him their favorite insults for the next edition. * Donald A. Ritchie, Senate historian emeritus *Though our Twitter-dominated era may seem uniquely venomous, this wise, witty and thoroughly entertaining history of American political insults proves otherwise. Word-lovers will delight in linguistEdwin Battistella's resurrection of once-deadly insults such as'mountebank' and 'dastardly poltroon.'More important is the compelling caseDangerous Crooked Scoundrelsmakes that our precious freedom of speech has always rested on the ability to openly criticize and even insult our highest elected officials. * Charles Slack, author of Liberty's First Crisis *Dangerous, Crooked Scoundrels takes a deep dive into America's long history of attacks on the president, not only exploring the insults themselves, but placing them in the context of their times. It's an engaging, thought-provoking look at a tradition as old as the republic and as immediate as the next election. * Rosemarie Ostler, author of Splendiferous Speech *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Insults and Politics Chapter 2: Founders, 1788-1824 Chapter 3: The Rise of the Common Man, 1824-1860 Chapter 4: A Nation Remade, 1860-1900 Chapter 5: The Modern Presidency, 1900-1945 Chapter 6: A World Power, 1945-1980 Chapter 7: Culture Wars, 1980-2018 A Catalog of Presidential Insults Acknowledgements Sources & Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Integration of Language and Society A
Book SynopsisThe volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. It draws on data from a range of diverse languages to examine how aspects of grammar such as honorifics and possessives relate to societal practices. It will be a valuable resource for typologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists.Trade ReviewOverall this is a very welcome book, and it contains abundant references to other writings by the co--editors and by others which evidently give fuller information on some of the phenomena discussed. I very much hope that these and other publications in a similar vein may represent a wider reorientation of linguistics towards the study of the real differences between human languages, and away from the vain efforts of linguists of the recent past to portray all languages as "underlyingly" alike. * Geoffrey Sampson, University of Sussex, Linguist List *a very welcome book * Geoffrey Sampson, The LINGUIST List *Table of Contents1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nerida Jarkey: The integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic view 2: Nerida Jarkey: The grammatical expression of social relations in Japanese 3: Stephen Watters: Honorification in Dzongkha 4: Pema Wangdi: Identifying who is who in Brokpa 5: R. M. W. Dixon: The semantics of the Dyirbal avoidance style: Adjectives 6: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The ways of speaking and the means of knowing: The Tariana of northwest Amazonia 7: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: Links between language and society among the Murui of Northwest Amazonia 8: Luca Ciucci: How grammar and culture interact in Zamucoan 9: Dineke Schokkin: The integration of languages and society: A view from multilingual Southern New Guinea 10: Maarten Mous: The Iraqw society reflected in their language 11: Anne Storch: Waiting: On language and hospitality
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Oxford University Press Learning Languages in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisIn 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was ''a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing''.Learning Languages in Early Modern England Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers'' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle,Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England''s ''educational revolution''. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel.Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England''s encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.Trade Review[Learning Languages] exemplifies the benefit of combining cutting-edge historical research with historical sociolinguistics ... [Gallagher] handles a wealth of multilingual manuscripts — language exercises, diaries, notebooks, and correspondence — that connect three layers: texts, oral speech and pronunciation, as well as social communication. ... This work comprehensively combines ideas and approaches from the histories of education, books, and travel with social and cultural history. ... From extracurricular education to conversation manuals and travellers' accounts, it illuminates the dynamics of language learning and multilingualism in early modern England and its encounters with continental Europe. * Weiao Xing, Journal of Historical Sciolinguistics *Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a fresh account both of the desire for foreign languages that animated early modern English culture and of some of the means pursued by the English in order to acquire them. It will be indispensable for readers interested in the histories of English foreign relations and travel as well as for those whose research treats the history of languages instruction more narrowly. * Rory G. Critten, Journal of British Studies *Gallagher... assembles a rich body of documentary evidence to illustrate the methods and social importance of instruction in vernacular languages. ... Gallagher's main point is simple but powerful: 'early modern England was multilingual.' ...[He has] given us a picture of an early modern England made louder and more boisterous by print, not silenced by it. Printed books made foreign languages more accessible, even to those without a private teacher or the funds to travel. Overseas trade and global politics resulted in greater interest in foreign tongues, with books on Arabic, Malay and Narragansett as well as the Continental standards. Immigrants take their place here as teachers, authors of foreign-language manuals, and students of English in their own right. This is a story of England finding its many voices. * Irina Dumitrescu, London Review of Books *The methodological tools and historical contexts... will be of much use to both historians and literary scholars... Gallagher's concepts are clearly defined and arguments well developed... Learning Languages in Early Modern England is a significant contribution to scholarly conversations about historical multilingualism, education, language acquisition, and intellectual economies and networks; it will be found of much interest and importance not just to the student of English cultural history, but to anyone with an interest in textual production and/or social interactions in the early modern period, who will be inspired by its arguments about the role of languages and learning in people's lived experience in the period, and aided by its clarity of thought and organization. * Sjoerd Levelt, Renaissance Studies *Gallagher is meticulous in his work, and bases his narrative on early modern primary records. ...The sheer volume of Gallagher's sources is convincing, and the society that he describes is one where polyglot men and women of different classes delight in 'speaking tongues'. ...Gallagher also explains why learning another language was important in early modern England, and this may offer a different perspective to the one we have on that society. * Onyeka Nubia, Social History *How English men and women of the late 15th to the early 18th century went about doing so is the subject of John Gallagher's fascinating new book, a welcome attempt to show that the history of language encompasses much more than just the history of words. * Fara Dabhoiwala, The Guardian *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Extracurricular Economy: Language Teachers and Language Schools in Early-Modern England 2: Speaking Books: The Early-Modern Conversation Manual 3: To Be Languaged: Early-Modern Linguistic Competences 4: A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning and Educational Travel Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc Confronting the Death Penalty How Language
Book SynopsisConfronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors'', attorneys'', and judges'' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials. The analysis draws on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in diverse counties across Texas, including participant observation in four capital trials and post-verdict interviews with the jurors who decided those cases. Given the impossibility of access to actual capital jury deliberations, this integration of methods aims to provide the clearest possible window into jurors'' decision-making. Using methods from linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, and multi-modal discourse analysis, Conley analyzes interviews, trial talk, and written legal language to reveal a variety of communicative practices through which jurors dehumanize defendants and thus judge them to be deserving of death. By focusing on how language can both facilitate and stymie empathic encounters, the book addresses a conflict inherent to death penalty trials: jurors literally face defendants during trial and then must distort, diminish, or negate these face-to-face interactions in order to sentence those same defendants to death. The book reveals that jurors cite legal ideologies of rational, dispassionate decision-making - conveyed in the form of authoritative legal language - when negotiating these moral conflicts. By investigating the interface between experiential and linguistic aspects of legal decision-making, the book breaks new ground in studies of law and language, language and psychology, and the death penalty.Trade ReviewDr Riner's approach is a unique one that makes for a compelling read ... a lucid exposition of the contradictions and fallacies that capital jurors must wrestle with in their role within the American criminal justice system ... Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases would be an asset to the collection of any academic law library, as well as to legal practitioners searching for a deeper understanding of the link between language and the legal practice. * Erica Friesen, Canadian Law Library Review *There is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. * Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Great Nation of Futurity The Discourse and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Futurity National Identity and Foreign Policy Discourse Chapter 2 America's Most Precious Resource Chapter 3 Vistas to the Future Chapter 4 New Vistas of Opportunity Chapter 5 Alerting America Chapter 6 From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace Chapter 7 The Future of American Exceptionalism References
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