Exploring Language In Global Contexts
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Author | : Jeffrey Gil |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000593878 |
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This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts. Bringing together leading specialists who are active researchers in the field of linguistics, this book introduces readers to major fields of language study by focusing on social, cultural and historical factors that show the dynamic nature of language. Topics explored include first and second language acquisition, grammar, meaning-making and pragmatics, language use and technology, language variation, and English as a global language. This book surveys major principles and shows how to apply them through structured discussion topics and activities to facilitate a greater understanding and appreciation of language. This is essential reading for undergraduate students taking courses in linguistics and language use, and a valuable resource for students of communication studies, media studies, sociology and anthropology.
Author | : Philip Seargeant |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136295453 |
Download Exploring World Englishes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative 'practice to theory' approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations. Additional features include tasks with commentaries, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated further reading section. In this book Philip Seargeant surveys varieties of English existing within the world today, and the debates and controversies surrounding its present forms, functions and status in diverse world contexts. It examines how English has evolved to become a ‘global language’ and looks at the political and cultural history that has influenced this evolution. Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals – particularly in the contexts of language education and language planning – the book explores and illustrates the ways in which the actual use and management of English, as well as the beliefs and ideologies associated with it, play an increasingly important role in contemporary globalized society.
Author | : David L. Hoyt |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739109557 |
Download The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In an age of rising nationalism and expanding colonialism, the science of language has been intimately bound up with questions of immediate political concern. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power. This is the common thread running through the seven individual studies gathered here. By deliberately juxtaposing the European, academic configuration of modern linguistic research with the more practical, extra-European activities of missionaries, colonial officials, or East Asian literati, the authors explore the tensions between forms of linguistic knowledge generated in different geopolitical contexts, and suggest ways of thinking about the role of social science in the process of globalization.
Author | : Lisya Seloni |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters Limited |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781788925853 |
Download Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book revisits second language (L2) writing teacher education by exploring the complex layers of L2 writing in non-English dominant contexts (i.e. English as a foreign language contexts). It re-envisions L2 writing teacher education by moving away from uncritical embracement of Western-based writing pedagogies.
Author | : Gary Goshgarian |
Publisher | : Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : College readers |
ISBN | : 9780321012197 |
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From the Publisher: Exploring Language features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. The text challenges the reader to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. Key topics include Gender and Language; Hate Speech; Language of War; Censorship.
Author | : Rani Rubdy |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783090871 |
Download The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The chapters in this volume seek to bring hybrid language practices to the center of discussions about English as a global language. They demonstrate how local linguistic resources and practices are involved in the refashioning of identities in a variety of cross-cultural and geographical contexts, and illustrate hybridity as an enactment of resistance and creativity. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and ideological perspectives, the authors use contexts as diverse as social media, Bollywood films, workplaces and kindergartens to explore the ways in which English has become a part of localities and social relations in ways that are of significant sociolinguistic interest in understanding the dynamics of mobile cultures and transcultural flows.
Author | : Gary Goshgarian |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780321457974 |
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This language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. The text challenges the reader to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. Gender and language Hate speech Language of war Censorship MARKET: General Interest
Author | : Mari Jones |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136522409 |
Download Exploring Language Change Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers’ intentions and attitudes. Presenting new or little-known data, the authors draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of individual languages, whilst the sections on "deliberate" change focus on issues of language planning, including the strategies of language revival and revitalization movements. There is also a detailed exploration of what is arguably the most extreme instance of "deliberate" change; language invention for real-world use. Examining an extensive range of language situations, Exploring Language Change makes a clear, but often ignored distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalization. Also featured are a number of case studies which demonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest. This is a key text for students on a variety of courses, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy and planning.
Author | : Clare Mar-Molinero |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 178892648X |
Download Researching Language in Superdiverse Urban Contexts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book contributes to understanding research approaches for studying multilingualism in the context of contemporary superdiversity, in environments that are being dramatically transformed by transnational migration and movement of peoples. It explores language in urban contexts: the city as a site for experimentation and creativity in language practices. This involves considering theoretical frameworks in which to examine these practices, but above all, it focuses on how we do, or could do, research into these language practices and their users. What methodologies are we using to understand urban linguistic contexts? What do we want to learn? The chapters explore complex and challenging situations, capturing the evolution of new forms of language practice and changing attitudes to language in the city.
Author | : David Levey |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527546357 |
Download Strategies and Analyses of Language and Communication in Multilingual and International Contexts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Covering a variety of themes and subject areas related to language and communication in international and multilinguistic contexts, this book offers an insight into the latest research in applied linguistics and language acquisition. Aimed at both scholars and language practitioners, it presents empirical findings from researchers from more than 10 countries. Rather than limiting its focus to one language and context as a source of research, the collection reports and applies findings from various languages and communities.