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Liverpool University Press Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the
Book SynopsisIn order to better understand the political conditions of the Arabic language in Israel, a comparison with the political conditions of Arabic in the Levant as well as the Diaspora is necessary. Comparison consists of macro factors, such as nation-state building, and at the micro level, the daily public usage of Arabic. While the relationship between language and nationhood is well documented, study of the unique socio-political situation of the use of Arabic in the Jewish state, and in particular language usage in East Jerusalem, has hitherto not been addressed. The removal of Arabic as an official language in Israel in 2018 has major implications for IsraeliPalestinian accommodation. Research for the book relied on ethnographic fieldwork as well as sociolinguistic literature. Investigation is wide-ranging: distinguishing the different public presences of language; the state of literacy (publishing, education); and (formal and informal) interviews with students, teachers and journalists. Linguists often consider the Levant to belong to one dialect group but post-1918 people in the Levant have had to deal with separate political realities, and language differences reflect their unique political and social circumstances. The history of European colonialism is but one influencing factor. Diaspora comparison engages with the US city of Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest Arab American community in one locality. How does this community find meaning in both being American and a threat to national security? This dilemma is mirrored in the life of Palestinians in Israel. Security and securitisation are relational concepts (Rampton and Charalambous 2019), and language plays a large part in personal sense of belonging. Analytical tools such as the concept of seamline (Eyal 2006), and indexicality (Silverstein 1979), assist in coming to terms with the metapragmatic meanings of language. This important book reaches far beyond linguistic difference; it goes to the heart of political, social and economic despair faced by multiple communities.Trade ReviewBuilding on long term and wide-ranging ethnographic explorations of language and politics in the Middle East, Professor Camelia Suleiman incorporates situated understanding of people and place, cross-disciplinary scholarship, and insightful theoretical links to account for the use and role of Arabic in the Jewish state, with a comparison to the diaspora in the US a key feature. It is an important, revealing, thought-provoking book, which illuminates facets of a complex history of language, politics, and identity. Colleen Cotter, Professor in Media Linguistics, Queen Mary University of LondonCamelia Suleiman’s Arabic between State and Nation is a vitally important and many-sided study on the position and development of Arabic in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. It even discusses Arabs and Arabic in Michigan, with the highest concentration of Arabs in the US. Through language, it tackles a myriad important questions such as identity, position of minorities in a settler-colonial state, and the role of education systems. This diligently researched book is an essential reading for anybody wishing to learn what has happened to Levantine Arabic, once common to the whole region but now separated by modern borders and competing nation-building projects. Hannu Juusola, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Helsinki, FinlandThe author discusses the role of language in various Arab contexts and leads the reader to the special situation of the language development in Jerusalem. I found the book interesting, well organized, and comprehensive. In my opinion, this book should be part of linguistics studies, as well as Middle East Studies. Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Vice President of Strategy and Diversity, Professor of Social Work, Hebrew University of JerusalemIt is a fascinating, comprehensive and enlightening research work on the interplay between the Arabic language and the social and political developments in the Levant states, notably Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Based on a variety of sources, personal observations and interviews, this original study uniquely contributes to our knowledge and understanding of the crucial role of Arabic on the national identities of important Middle Eastern entities. Moshe Ma'oz, Professor Emeritus, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Liverpool University Press Twenty-First Century Yiddishism: Language,
Book SynopsisDrawing on sociolinguistics and cultural studies, this book examines transnational critical debates about teaching Yiddish over the last hundred years. It looks at the ways a contested pedagogical terrain comes to define a minority language's on-going resources of cultural and ideological resilience. From the inaugural international academic conference on the language held in 1908 in the Austro-Hungarian empire to the rise of Yiddish home-schooling and the surge of interest as a subject of secondary language study in recent years, the status, turf-sharing conflicts and pedagogical frictions surrounding the shuttling of Yiddish back-and-forth reveal a fraught yet surprisingly dynamic situation. Through historical and comparative analysis -- including archival work, surveys, interviews, close textual reading, discourse analysis, and ideological critique -- the author reports on three critical case-studies for the language's futurity: ultra-orthodox Jewry in the UK, "heritage" learners in the US, and "multi-cultural" non-Jewish learners in Germany. The volume addresses several timely preoccupations in the fields of both Jewish Studies and Linguistics, pulling together multiple strands from the humanities and the social sciences concerning the evolving politics of language, pedagogy, transnationalism and diaspora, the meaning of heritage languages, and religious and ethnic identity in the modern era. This book will be of keen interest to all who study these disciplines academically, as well as other readers in literary and cultural studies, literary and cultural theory, anthropology, and history.
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Liverpool University Press Language Attitudes, National Identity and
Book SynopsisThis book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, the focus of the study is three female generations, covering 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. What the Women Have to Say analyses the preservation of the Catalan language during Francos regime; how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining womens identities and as a nation-building tool. Additional analysis of a corpus of social media data explores the online Catalan discourses of nationalism and its gendered dimensions. A central interpretative tool is the concept of intersectionality, emphasising genders inter-connectedness with categories of class and ethnicity. An ntergenerational approach, and a focus on the local using a case study of a Catalan village outside the regions capital, opens new perspectives on the Catalan issue. By bringing together approaches from sociocultural linguistics and oral history, What the Women Have to Say provides important linkages between the economic, political and social circumstances pertaining today as they impact on the issue of nationalism in particular and in the wider discourses of nationalism, identity and migration in twenty-first century Europe.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice
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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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for
Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.Table of ContentsTables and figuresContributors1. Introduction (Wilson McLeod, Robert Dunbar, Kathryn Jones and John Walsh)Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation2. Language policy as a form of public policy(Huw Lewis and Elin Royles)3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat- Emyr Lewis4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics- Bernadette O’Rourke 5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value- François Grin Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales 6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots- Meirion Prys Jones 7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights?- Robert Dunbar 8. Networked territories of language and nation- Rhys Jones 9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving Welsh language- Kathryn Jones 10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales- Eleri Hedd James11. Canolfannau Cymraeg – a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning?- Steve MorriPart III: Language policy challenges in Canada 12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales- Linda Cardinal and Anastasia Llewellyn13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada- Graham Fraser14. The uncertain future of French in Canada- Charles Castonguay 15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec- Richard Y. Bourhis Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia 16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks- John Walsh 17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland- Janet Muller 18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland- Wilson McLeod 19. ‘Volunteering for the language in Catalonia’ (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic- mudes Maite Puigdevall 20. Afterword- Colin Williams
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Springer International Publishing AG Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of
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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Springer International Publishing AG Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia:
Book SynopsisThis book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland. In these countries and territories, modern descendants of Old Norse (North Germanic) are spoken today: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. In addition, there are regions of Scandinavia where speakers of minority languages were conquered or incorporated, with their languages suppressed or neglected, as well as recent developments in the status and use of English, and immigrant populations who do not speak a Scandinavian language as their native language. This book adopts a comparative approach to trace the development of language policies and rights in Scandinavia, and it will be of interest to students as well as scholars of European and Scandinavian studies, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, education, political science, and law.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Language Rights and the Law in Sweden 3 Language Rights and the Law in Denmark 4 Language Rights and the Law in Norway 5 Language Rights and the Law in Iceland 6 Language Rights and the Law in the Faroe Islands 7 Language Rights and the Law in Greenland 8 Summary, Conclusion, and Directions for Future Research
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De Gruyter I dialetti del Piemonte orientale
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Walter de Gruyter Speakers and Structures in Language Contact
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de Gruyter La Comunidad Mexicana En Granada
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de Gruyter Deutsche Mundartkunde
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de Gruyter Der Kaschubische Dialekt Von Gorrenschyn
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de Gruyter Der Wortschatz Der Fischer Im Kietz Von
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de Gruyter Hochsprache Und Mundart in Gebieten Mit
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Verlag D.Oesterreichische Endangered Language Varieties in Italy and the
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V&R unipress Schlagwörter und argumentative Topoi im
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Arco Libros - La Muralla, S.L. Comentario fnico de textos coloquiales Coleccin
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Amsterdam University Press Linguistic and Cultural Foreign Policies of
Book SynopsisThe policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to filling that gap, distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policies. Such policies, the contributors show, tended not to be proclaimed officially, but they nonetheless had lasting effects on both language and culture in Europe and beyond.Table of ContentsIntroduction Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn 1. External linguistic politics and policies in the German-Speaking countries of Central Europe in early modern times and in the nineteenth century - with some references to the present age Konrad Schröder 2. German global soft power, 1700-1920 Nicola McLelland 3. French as a polemical language for Russian writers in the age of Nicholas I Derek Offord 4. The external cultural and linguistic policy of the Italian government in the Mediterranean region and the issue of the National Association for Aid to Missionaries (1886-1905) Paolo Pieraccini 5. Expansion du français et des manières françaises en Europe aux dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles : résultat d'une politique royale extérieure ou effet d'un certain prestige ? Henri Besse 6. Literary translation as a foreign language policy tool. The case of Russia, mid-eighteenth - early nineteenth centuries Vladislav Rjéoutski 7. L'usage diplomatique de la langue française, instrument de la puissance Lucien Bély 8. The political implications of the idea of 'génie de la langue' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Gilles Siouffi
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Amsterdam University Press Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe:
Book SynopsisThis multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups - ranging from the nobility to the peasantry - to develop, express, and mark their identities.Table of ContentsIntroduction Vladislav Rjéoutski & Willem Frijhoff Learning Vernaculars, Learning in Vernaculars. The Role of Modern Languages in Nicolas Le Gras' Noble Academy and in Teaching Practices for the Nobility (France, 1640 - about 1750) Andrea Bruschi Dutch Foreign Language Use and Education after 1750: Routines and Innovations Willem Frijhoff Practice and Functions of French as a Second Language in a Dutch Patrician Family: The Van Hogendorp Family (Eighteenth - Early Nineteenth Centuries) Madeleine Van Strien-Chardonneau Multilingualism Versus Proficiency in the German Language among Administrative Elites of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Eighteenth Century Olga Khavanova Introducing the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Grammar Schools. A Comparison Between the Holy Roman Empire and the Governorate of Estland (Estonia) Michael Rocher Voices in a Country Divided: Linguistic Choices in Early Modern Croatia Ivana Horbec & Maja Matasovi? Latin in the Education of Nobility in Russia: The History of a Defeat Vladislav Rjéoutski Latin as the Language of the Orthodox Clergy in Eighteenth-Century Russia Ekaterina Kislova Index
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Amsterdam University Press The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe
Book SynopsisThe introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the increasing dispersion of English as a means of communication in non-Anglophone contexts. Englishization is not undisputed: legal challenges have arisen in several countries. Nor is it uniform; universities across Europe embrace Englishization, but they do so in their own way. In this volume, authors from 15 European countries present analyses from a range of perspectives coalescing around core concerns: the quality of education, cultural identity, inequality of opportunities and access, questions of justice and democracy, and internationalization and language policy. This book will appeal to researchers in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, educational sciences, and political science, as well as policy makers and people with a concern about the direction of higher education.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Introduction : The tension between monolingualism and multilingualism Rene Gabriels and Robert Wilkinson 2 Higher Education in Flanders: English as the 'other' language Frank van Splunder 3 The Englishization of higher education in Estonia and Latvia: Actors, positionings, and linguistic tensions Josep Soler and Kerttu Rozenvalde 4 EMI in Spain: Striving to maintain a multilingual balance David Lasagabaster 5 An ambivalent picture: The Englishization of higher education in France Francoise Le Lievre 6 English in Swiss higher education: The pragmatic way Patrick Studer and Aisha Siddiqa 7 Englishization in Danish higher education: From critical to constructive conceptualizations Slobodanka Dimova, Anna Kristina Hultgren, and Joyce Kling 8 Internationalization vs Englishization in Italian higher education: Reframing the issue Amanda C. Murphy and Beatrice Zuaro 9 The place of English in the Russian higher education landscape Elena Belyaeva, Lyudmila Kuznetsova, Olga Nikiforova, and Svetlana Suchkova 10 Multiple dimensions of English-medium education: Striving to initiate change, sustainability, and quality in higher education in Sweden Magnus Gustafsson and Jennifer Valcke 11 Englishization of Dutch higher education: Divergent language policies and practices Robert Wilkinson and Rene Gabriels 12 The Englishization of Polish higher education Agnieszka Cierpich-Kozie. and El.bieta Ma.czak-Wohlfeld 13 Englishization 'under the radar': Facts, policies, and trends in Austrian higher education Monika Dannerer, Martina Gaisch, and Ute Smit 14 Englishization of Croatian higher education: Conceptualizations, manifestations, and implications Branka Drlja.a Margi. 15 Affect in EMI at a German university: Comparing insights from teachers, home, and international students Michelle Hunter and Ursula Lanvers 16 Englishization as trap and lifeline Philippe Van Parijs Contributors Index
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The Chinese University Press English and Globalization: Perspectives from Hong
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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Sunway University Press Voices in Texts and Contexts
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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Springer Cultural Linguistics and the Social World
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