{"product_id":"meeting-foreignness-9781498560504","title":"Meeting Foreignness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow is Foreignness defined by language? Who has the power to define the foreigner' as such, on which grounds, from which positioning, for which purposes? And within such premises, which is the role of foreign languages in defining, or challenging, Foreignness? This book reflects on the concept of Foreignness from a special lens, that of foreign languages and Foreign Language Education. Advancing that the experience of foreignness that foreign languages foreground opens up to a different apprehension of the self and the others, this work shows how such experience can problematize, question, and challenge meanings, assumptions, conceptualizations and representations ordinarily taken-for-granted, a much needed reflection at times when prevailing narratives essentialize individuals and groups according to their linguacultural backgrounds.Though with a global perspective, the book also addresses the Italian context in particular: after introducing a brief historical background, it examines \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaola Giorgis’ strength is praxis: she shows how to turn theoretical writings into informed applied choices. She presents the foreign language classroom as both a critical and an intercultural space – as indeed it is. -- Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue\u003cbr\u003ePaola Giorgis combined the doggedness of the white truffle hunter and the deftness of the master cook to prepare this highly original intercultural and interdisciplinary reflection on foreign languages and Foreign Language Education. -- Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London\u003cbr\u003ePaola Giorgis has created a written work of art bringing together contemporary ways of knowing within foreignness, interculturality, and linguistic diversity.  Moving seamlessly between classroom, philosophy, and scholarship, Giorgis has given us an emancipatory praxis which understands power, communication, and context. -- Shirley R. Steinberg, The University of Calgary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction The Missing Link: Presenting What, How, from Where and to Whom   Part One Within Praxis  1.\tThe Context \t1.1\tMade in Italies \t1.2\tNative or Foreign? \t1.3\tLanguages, Identities, Migrations 2.\tThe Educational Perspective \t2.1\tThe Activities \t\t2.1.1\tIntercultural Grammar \t\t2.1.2\tIntercultural Poetry \t\t2.1.3\tIntercultural Citizenship \t\t2.1.4\tA Comment on the Activities   Part Two Within Theory  1.\tIntroduction: What’s in a Word? 2.\tForeign 3.\tLanguage \t3.1\tmOther tongue \t3.2\tOther Languages \t3.3\tLanguage and Power 4.\tEducation \t4.1\tCritical Pedagogies 5.\tCritical 6.\tIntercultural \t6.1\tIntercultural Education 7.\tExperience   Part Three Within Research  1.\tIntroducing the Research Study 2.\tThe Contexts 3.\tThe Participants 4.\tMethodology and Data Collecting \t4.1\tGeneral Considerations on Methodology \t4.2\tData Collecting: Sampling \t4.3\tSome Issues Regarding Data Collecting \t\t4.3.1\tIn\/Out Issue \t\t4.3.2\tObjectivity\/Subjectivity \t\t4.3.3\tEthical Issues \t4.4\tInterviews and Back-talk Focus Groups \t\t4.4.1\tMotivation and Procedures \t\t4.4.2\tTheoretical References 5.\tAnalysis of Data \t5.1\tMain Principles \t\t5.1.1\tReflexivity \t\t5.1.2\tText Construction and Rhetorical Figures \t\t5.1.3\tDialogue Between the Data and the Framework \t\t5.1.4\tTriangulation and Accountability 6.\tThe Findings 7.\tDiscussion \t7.1\tOn the Study \t7.2\tOn the Research Methods  Part Four Meeting Foreignness. Foreign Language Education as a Critical (and) Intercultural Experience  1.\tMeeting Foreignness 2.\tForeign Language Education as a Critical (and) Intercultural Experience \t2.1\tEnglish and English Language Teaching \t2.2\tEnglish as a Foreign Language and English as a Lingua Franca \t2.3\tEnglish as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching. An Impossible Match? 3.\tForeign Languages and the Intercultural  4.\tWhat’s Next? \t4.1\tHow to Do It   A Final Note The Bigger Picture. A Few Remarks on Some fin-de-siècle Fascinations","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040781402455,"sku":"9781498560504","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498560504.jpg?v=1750947821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meeting-foreignness-9781498560504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}