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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisWhatever specific goal motivated people who study Chinese at first eventually dissolves into the larger Chinese world, and that world—its loves and joys, its stings and frustrations, in any case its incapability of being boring—takes over.This book collects essays from native speakers of English who studied Chinese, learned it unusually well, and then used it in very successful careers in journalism, business, government work, and academe. Many of essays show that answers to the question of “what difference is made?” can have a charming unpredictability. The ten essays converge on some important points: that speaking Chinese leads much more quickly to deeper trust with Chinese people than can be had through speaking English or by using translation; that thinking “inside” the Chinese language in some ways offers different ways to understand the world. This book is unique in the language-teaching field. It can also be an eye-opener for a general reader who believes that learning a second language is a simple matter of switching codes and does not realize how life-changing the embrace of a different language can be.

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Book SynopsisPolitical changes since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998 have had a significant impact on linguistic and discursive practices in Indonesia. The language policy of the state has become less restrictive than in the past, when Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) was vigourously promoted as one of the symbols of the unity of the country's diverse ethnic groups. Monolingualism in public space has given way to more fluid and pluralistic language use, and regional autonomy legislation enacted in 1999 has encouraged expressions of regional identities and aspirations, opening up a space for the promotion and use of regional languages in the media, education and the bureaucracy. Concurrently, technological development, in particular widespread access to the internet, has exposed Indonesian society much more directly than before to global flows of information, giving rise to changes in stemming in part from sources outside Indonesia, but interpreted and shaped according to local conditions and socio-cultural practices. The meeting of these two vectors, one generated internally and the other coming from exposure to global trends, is producing a situation of diversity, fluidity and change in language use and discursive practice in contemporary Indonesian society. While contributors to this volume discuss Indonesian-language expression at the national level, a particular focus on the collection is on regional, local and minority languages, where problems associated with decentralisation find their counterpart in the role that language plays in the workings of regional and national identity politics.

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