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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisThe second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume set.Trade Review"this Blackwell volume is the best volume for specialists because of its breadth and clear aim to write for professional linguists." (Exegetical Tools 2016) ‘The 2nd edition of The Handbook of Discourse Analysis boasts chapters by major figures (e.g. Gumperz, Holmes, Johnstone, Labov, Lakoff, Schegloff, Ochs, Shuy, Tannen, van Dijk, Wodak) and its reconfiguration of chapters captures important scholarly trends in discourse analytic research and reflects a fairly substantive reconceptualization of the field.’ (Susan Ehrlich, Journal of Sociolinguistics 20/2, 2016).Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Preface to the Second Edition xix Introduction to the First Edition 1 VOLUME I I Linguistic Analysis of Discourse 9 1 Discourse and Grammar 11MARIANNE MITHUN 2 Intertextuality in Discourse 42ADAM HODGES 3 Cohesion and Texture 61J. R. MARTIN 4 Intonation and Discourse 82ELIZABETH COUPER-KUHLEN 5 Voice Registers 105MARK A. SICOLI 6 Computer-Mediated Discourse 2.0 127SUSAN C. HERRING AND JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS 7 Discourse Analysis and Narrative 152ANNA DE FINA AND BARBARA JOHNSTONE 8 Humor and Laughter 168SALVATORE ATTARDO 9 Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context 189YAEL MASCHLER AND DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN 10 Historical Discourse Analysis 222LAUREL J. BRINTON 11 Discourse, Space, and Place 244ELIZABETH KEATING 12 Gesture in Discourse 262DAVID MCNEILL, ELENA T. LEVY, AND SUSAN D. DUNCAN II Approaches and Methodologies 291 13 Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis 293ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF 14 Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective 309JOHN J. GUMPERZ 15 Framing and Positioning 324CYNTHIA GORDON 16 Conversational Interaction: The Embodiment of Human Sociality 346EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF 17 Transcribing Embodied Action 367PAUL LUFF AND CHRISTIAN HEATH 18 Constraining and Guiding the Flow of Discourse 391WALLACE CHAFE 19 Imagination in Narratives 406HERBERT H. CLARK AND MIJA M. VAN DER WEGE 20 Oral Discourse as a Semiotic Ecology: The Co-construction and Mutual Influence of Speaking, Listening, and Looking 422FREDERICK ERICKSON 21 Multimodality 447THEO VAN LEEUWEN 22 Critical Discourse Analysis 466TEUN A. VAN DIJK 23 Computer-Assisted Methods of Analyzing Textual and Intertextual Competence 486MICHAEL STUBBS 24 Register Variation: A Corpus Approach 505SHELLEY STAPLES, JESSE EGBERT, DOUGLAS BIBER, AND SUSAN CONRAD VOLUME II III The Individual, Society, and Culture 527 25 Voices of the Speech Community: Six People I Have Learned From 529WILLIAM LABOV 26 Language Ideologies 557SUSAN U. PHILIPS 27 Discourse and Racism 576RUTH WODAK AND MARTIN REISIGL 28 Code-Switching, Identity, and Globalization 597KIRA HALL AND CHAD NILEP 29 Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication and Discourse Analysis 620SCOTT F. KIESLING 30 Discourse and Gender 639SHARI KENDALL AND DEBORAH TANNEN 31 Queer Linguistics as Critical Discourse Analysis 661WILLIAM L. LEAP 32 Child Discourse 681AMY KYRATZIS AND JENNY COOK-GUMPERZ 33 Discourse and Aging 705HEIDI E. HAMILTON AND TOSHIKO HAMAGUCHI 34 Discursive Underpinnings of Family Coordination 728ELINOR OCHS AND TAMAR KREMER-SADLIK IV Discourse in Real-World Contexts 753 35 Institutional Discourse 755ANDREA MAYR 36 Political Discourse 775JOHNWILSON 37 Discourse and Media 795COLLEEN COTTER 38 Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context 822ROGER W. SHUY 39 Discourse and Health Communication 841RODNEY H. JONES 40 Discourse in Educational Settings 858CAROLYN TEMPLE ADGER AND LAURA J. WRIGHT 41 Discourse in theWorkplace 880JANET HOLMES 42 Discourse and Religion 902MICHAEL LEMPERT Author Index 921 Subject Index 939
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Penguin Random House India Father Tongue Motherland
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University of Arizona Press Mexican Americans and Language Del Dicho Al Hecho
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The University of Alabama Press Game Work Language Power and Computer Game
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA serious look at a growing business. - Communications Booknotes Quarterly ""McAllister has a clear vision of the medium, a vision that spans the technological, generational gap. In this book, he analyzes and investigates the historical forces that brought video games from concept to market, and he does this with economic, technical, and sociological perspectives in mind.... Stands as one of the finest studies of its kind."" - Choice
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Georgetown University Press Language Acquisition after Puberty German Perez
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, this title explores what theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Applied Linguistics and Politics
Book SynopsisChristian W. Chun is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.Trade ReviewThis excellent volume brings together an impressive assembly of scholars from around the world to explore a range of contexts relevant to the study of language and politics, from media, to economics, to education. Each contribution stands as a dramatic reminder of the relevance of Applied Linguistics to the precarious political moment we find ourselves in. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK *At a time when many of us are bewildered and dismayed by the political terrain we find ourselves navigating, Chun has assembled an international gathering of extraordinary, insightful scholars, including the now-late Jan Blommaert, who offer analyses of languaging and discourse practices across a shockingly broad array of (often under-researched) communities and realms and shed much-needed clarity on the crucial question of how the work of applied linguists can change the political conditions of lives.” * Suhanthie Motha, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Washington, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Part I. Media 1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Part II. Economy 3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism’s Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK) 4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria) 5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore) Part III. Culture and Identity 6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Part IV. Affect 8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Part V. Education 10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong) 11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Pennsylvania Dutch
Book SynopsisDrawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents-most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers-this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story.Trade Review[ Pennsylvania Dutch] is written in a very accessible style and provides good information about the Pennsylvania Dutch language. Canadian Mennonite Louden captures the spirit of the folk-cultural narrative and remains engaging, accessible and entertaining to a wide range of audiences. Pennsylvania Heritage Mark Louden, author of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, surely has written the definitive guide to the subject. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Indeed, this is a one-of-a-kind, exceptionally valuable book... So, scrape your pennies together, and go buy this book-before it's sold out! Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Louden's interdisciplinary work, sweeping as it does through centuries of history and across a vast continent, draws on three decades of study into the language's evolution and social history. Mennonite World Review Louden successfully weaves a complex tapestry that provides an exhaustive historical account of this language and its speakers and is easily accessible to multiple audiences. Upon finishing this work the scholar is left curious as to what the future holds for Pennsylvania Dutch and its legacy. H-Net Reviews This book is the first attempt at researching and synthesizing the historical, cultural, and linguistic development of Pennsylvania Dutch across all the communities that speak it. It is a bold and broad goal. I'm happy to say that Louden has set the highest standard for any subsequent attempts... It is wonderful story to follow from 1683 to the present. Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story o f an American Language is a splendid addition to the discipline of linguistics and, more specifically, to the field of Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture. A language this remarkable-thanks to its Old Order speakers, it is one of only a few heritage languages in America that is not endangered-deserves a firstrate book, and this is it. It will likely be unsurpassed for years to come. Communal Societies...Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. What Is Pennsylvania Dutch?2. Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch3. Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800–18604. Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature5. Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye6. Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites7. An American StoryNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Massachusetts Press Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays from a variety of contributors focuses on the relationship between language and culture in Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the 21st century.
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community
Book SynopsisConventional wisdom dictates that individuals who learn American Sign Language (ASL) at a young age possess a higher level of proficiency than those who acquire ASL later, but Joseph Christopher Hall shows how diversity in the deaf community belies such generalization. Hall dissects affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to ASL, Signed English, and contact signing across variables of generation, race, and age of language acquisition to identify differing conceptions of a signing standard that, in turn, results in differing perceptions of language proficiency.
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities
Book SynopsisIncludes the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people, the assimilation of deaf children to surrounding communities, the role that society's view of deaf people plays in affecting how deaf people view themselves, the impact of bilingualism in deaf communities, and transliteration.
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Teaching and Learning in Bilingual Classrooms
Book SynopsisAn initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education by examining and assessing classroom interaction. This collection presents research by professors who adopted SoTL methodology to study their classrooms at Gallaudet University, an institution employing American Sign Language and written English. Their study intends to create an engaged learning community that investigates, reflects upon, and documents strategies that enhance learning for linguistically diverse, visually oriented populations.
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Bridge21 Publications, LLC Memes, Communities and Continuous Change: Chinese
Book Synopsis"Chinese Internet Vernacular," a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. Focusing on the vernacular's most prominent character - meaning change, this book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes' meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes' diffusions on Chinese social media over four years. Through the discussion of four comprehensive case studies, what we experience as noticeable meaning change throughout a viral meme's diffusion may in fact be indexical to, under different circumstances, interpersonal communicative effects, collective identities, and community affiliations, as well as larger sociocultural values and ideologies, all of which can be reflexively performed, enacted, and calibrated in social media interactions. With such efforts, this book hopes to do justice to the complexities and dynamics of the "Chinese Internet Vernacular" as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Methodological Preliminaries Chapter 3 Meaning change in CIV neologisms: The case of three 'very X very XX' phrases Chapter 4 Meaning change in virality and viral diffusion as meaning-making: The case of 'duang' Chapter 5 Enregisterment of an innovated phrase: Languaging and identities of Chinese fans of Thai TV Chapter 6 Chinese Internet vernacular (re)defined Endless spinning of reflexivity: The case of sarcastic Chapter 7 Conclusion References Appendices
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Counterpoint The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the
Book SynopsisIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, a journalist and activist, seeking a new way to talk about racism in America, discusses the historical origins of ethnocide in the US, while examining the personal, lived consequences of existing within an ongoing erasure.
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Counterpoint The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the
Book SynopsisIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in AmericaAn NPR Best Book of the YearCan new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows Pitner’s journey to identify and remedy the linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term "genocide"), describes the systemic erasure of a people’s ancestral culture. For Black Americans, who have endured this atrocity for generations, this erasure dates back to the transatlantic slave trade and reached new resonance in a post-Trump world.
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University of Arkansas Press Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the community those newspapers served disappeared with assimilation in the ensuing decades-but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still exists, offering a lively picture of what life was like for this German immigrant community.'Das Arkansas Echo': A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South examines topics the newspaper covered during its inaugural year. Kathleen Condray illuminates the newspaper's crusade against Prohibition, its advocacy for the protection of German schools and the German language, and its promotion of immigration. We also learn about aspects of daily living, including food preparation and preservation, religion, recreation, the role of women in the family and society, health and wellness, and practical housekeeping. And we see how the paper assisted German speakers in navigating civic life outside their immigrant community, including the racial tensions of the post-Reconstruction South.'Das Arkansas Echo': A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South offers a fresh perspective on the German speakers who settled in a modernizing Arkansas. Mining a valuable newspaper archive, Condray sheds light on how these immigrants navigated their new identity as southern Americans.Trade ReviewKathleen Condray shines a light on Arkansas’s mostly Roman Catholic German immigrants, a group generally left out of the broader narrative about a state that was overwhelmingly Protestant and native-born. Not only does the book fill a gap but it also shows us how these German speakers viewed the issues the state faced in the late 1800s." —Kenneth C. Barnes, author of Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas
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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.
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Gallaudet University Press Signed Language Corpora: Volume 25
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Classiques Garnier Les Metropoles Francophones Europeennes
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Classiques Garnier Neologica 202418
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Brepols N.V. Spoken and Written Language: Relations Between
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Brepols N.V. Language and History in Viking Age England:
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Brepols N.V. Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of
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Brepols N.V. Pursuing a New Order II: Late Medieval
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Harrassowitz Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der
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Harrassowitz Discourse and Practice of Bilingualism:
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Harrassowitz Ideologies of Multilingualism in Contemporary
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Harrassowitz Fremdsprachenlehrwerke in Der Fruhen Neuzeit:
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Harrassowitz Temonit: The Jewish Varieties of Yemeni Arabic
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Harrassowitz Die Gesellschaftliche Stellung Des Schwedischen
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Dietrich Reimer Storibuk Pairundu: Tales and Legends from the
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Tolstoj Und Die Sprache Der Weisheit
Book SynopsisEnglish summary: In his last years, Leo Tolstoy has composed some compilations of aphoristic wisdom. The culmination of this last period of work was the way of life from the year 1910, the year of Tolstoy's death. Therein Tolstoy found a special language of wisdom, which has arisen out from his mystical religious thinking and the expressionistic extremes in his moralistic tracts, such as Truth and deception, God an man, Spirit and flesh, Women and man, Life and death. As wisdom Tolstoy's thinking has developed to some practice of religious meditation. Holger Kusse investigates Tolstoy's thinking in extremes, his language of moral, his mystical thinking and, as a result, his language of wisdom. It shows not only Tolstoy's particular philosophy, but also the forms of expression, in which the famous Russian writer proves himself as a provocative modern thinker for our times. In his second part, Kusse presents a selection of aphorisms, thoughts and ideas from The way of life. German description: In seinen letzten Lebensjahren verfasste Lev Tolstoj eine Reihe von Aphorismen- und Gedankensammlungen, in denen sich sein religios-moralisches Denken zur Sprache der Weisheit entwickelte. Ihr Hohepunkt ist die im Todesjahr des Dichters, 1910, entstandene Sammlung Der Weg des Lebens. Die Sprache der Weisheit bildet eine eigenstandige Welt im Werk Tolstojs, ist aber aus der mystischen Spiritualitat und den expressionistischen Gegensatzen hervorgegangen, in denen sich sein Denken in umfangreichen moralischen, kirchen- und institutionenkritischen Traktaten seit den siebziger Jahren des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts entwickelt hatte. Zu den Gegensatzen gehoren Wahrheit und Tauschung, Gott und Mensch, Geist und Fleisch, Mann und Frau, Tod und Leben. Als Moralist prangerte Tolstoj in langen Traktaten die Ubel der Welt und der menschlichen Gesellschaft an. Als Mystiker sprach er vom Licht Gottes, das in jedem Menschen leuchten will. Beides zusammen macht ihn zu einem aktuellen provokanten Denker auch fur unsere Gegenwart. Und beides trifft in der Sprache der Weisheit zusammen, in der sich die geschlossene Form des Traktats auflost in die offene Sammlung einzelner Gedanken. Ihre Lekture ist eine Meditationspraxis und Suche nach der richtigen Lebensregel fur jeden Lebensmoment. Holger Kusse stellt im ersten Teil in vier Kapiteln Tolstojs Denken in Gegensatzen, die Sprache seiner rigoristischen Moral und die Sprache seiner weisheitlichen Sammlungen vor. Die Darstellung ist nicht nur den Inhalten des Tolstojschen Denkens, sondern vor allem auch ihren Ausdrucksformen gewidmet. Der zweite Teil enthalt eine Auswahl von Gedanken aus Tolstojs Der Weg des Lebens von 1910.
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts
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Universitatsverlag Winter Flexible Schreiber in Der Sprachgeschichte:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Soziolinguistik
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Universitatsverlag Winter Historische Soziolinguistik Der Stadtsprachen:
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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH Language Contact and Language Policies Across
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V&R unipress GmbH A Study of Cultural Interaction and Linguistic
Book SynopsisThis study is an attempt to reorient the field of Chinese linguistics from the perspective of the new field of cultural interaction studies. The author, approaching Chinese linguistics from the periphery, examines such topics as the spread of Western learning and linguistic contact and Westerners' study of Chinese: He studies materials produced by Western missionaries and Ryukyuan materials to show the validity and usefulness of Chinese linguistics in the field of cultural interaction studies. In addition, he looks at cultural interaction through illustrations.
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V&R Unipress Sprache, Politische Okonomie Und Legitimitat:
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V&R unipress GmbH Sprache in kulturellen Kontexten / Language in
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V&R unipress GmbH Polyphonie in literarischen, medizinischen und
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V&R unipress GmbH VARIATIONist Linguistics meets CONTACT
Book SynopsisVariationist Linguistics and Contact Linguistics
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V&R unipress GmbH Bi- and Multilingualism from Various Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises 16 chapters both research papers and theoretical contributions grouped in three thematic sections. The chapters in the first part, entitled Discourse Communities: Languages in Contact, adopt a social and/or historical perspective on bi-/multilingualism. The contributions in the second part, entitled Languages in the Mind: Language Development and Language Use, view issues related to bi- and multilingualism from psycholinguistic and psychological perspectives. The chapters comprising the third part, Language Education: Supporting Multilingual Development, adopt a broadly understood didactic perspective on bi-/multilingualism.
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V&R unipress GmbH Sprache und Sprachen in der
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V&R unipress GmbH Turkisch-deutscher Kulturkontakt und
Book SynopsisText in German. Much research has been and is being done on Turkish-German relations. However, the individual disciplines rarely meet to discuss their results for intercultural practice in Germany and Turkey. This volume aims to help close this gap: It brings together contributions from the fields of linguistics, literature and media studies, sociology, political science and other Turkish -German contact fields. Scholars from Turkey, Germany and the USA address, for example, the EU accession negotiations, the God Warrior configurations in contemporary German-language literature and the image of Germany in Turkish films, German-Turkish brain drain, intercultural learning and literary didactics, Turkish schools in Germany, as well as multilingualism and literary translation. Controversial aspects in Turkish-German contact also come into focus, because neither an emphasis on supposedly insurmountable contradictions nor a harmonising suppression of conflicts is expedient when it comes to improving Turkish-German relations.
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Desde Santurce a Bizancio From Santurtzi to
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Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Language Change and Variation
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NUS Press Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post
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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