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The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive
Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural
perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts.
The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and
multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of
study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to
second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The
book is an important contribution to general linguistics,
pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language
acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.
The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD
Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of
Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment
through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of
power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of
language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual
communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in
the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies
involved in language policy and language planning situations, and
the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of
minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical
factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and
skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent
linguists from many countries who explore the exciting
interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic
empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical
and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in
language policy and language planning situations in multilingual
settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics.
Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and
language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts
(nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider
community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the
relationship between language and power. More particularly, it
offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of
language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other
perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This
interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics
and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an
important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics,
minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social
sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's
colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or
about him, this being one of them.
The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive
models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social
identity, political and economic manipulation, and more general
issues such as the genomic discourse. In line with the well-known
volume Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Holland and Quinn
(1987), the volume shows that Cognitive Linguistics has further
explored the idea that we think about social reality in terms of
models - 'cognitive/cultural models' or 'folk theories'. As in
cultural models, the present volume demonstrates that the technical
apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze the
various ways our conception of social reality is shaped by
underlying cognitive and/or cultural models or patterns of thought,
and also looks into how this is done. The new inroad the volume
wants to pursue is the deliberate and explicit orientation towards
a cognitive sociolinguistics, or more generally, a cognitive
semiotics.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students,
researchers and practitioners in all of the social and
language-related sciences carefully selected book-length
publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings
and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in
its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary
field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical,
supplement and complement each other. The series invites the
attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests,
sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians
etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering
and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift.
This volume brings together a selection of his recent writings on
these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of
sociolinguistics, along with an interview dialogue with the editors
in which Fishman reflects on his lifetime's work
As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is
predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as
language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language
pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to
carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to
the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to
deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive
linguistics.
As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is
predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as
language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language
pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to
carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to
the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to
deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive
linguistics.
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium,
which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in
Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts
that slightly more than half of today's 7,000 languages are under
severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years.
The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of
linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and
achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in
the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of
vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies
and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language
contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic
inequalities.
Die Finnische Grammatik versucht, sprachhistorische Ansatze fur
Finnisch-Lernende fruchtbar zu machen und dadurch die komplexe und
unregelmassige Formenlehre sowie die zuweilen unlogisch wirkende
Satzlehre verstandlicher und leichter erlernbar zu machen.
The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially
This book deals with the spread of English as an academic language
in Europe and in particular its use as a language of teaching.
First, it depicts the historical development of the rise of English
in academia in the course of the 20th century. Then it focuses on
its more recently acquired function as an additional language of
teaching at university level. This comprehensive survey of European
countries, but mainly the present and future member countries of
the European Union, shows to what extent English has made inroads
as a language of university teaching, but it also provides figures
on French and German and occasionally other languages in the
teaching function. An in-depth study into the new International
Study Programs in Germany reveals both. Contents: History of the
rise of English as the dominant language of science - Comprehensive
Survey of the use of English and other languages of university
teaching in non-Anglophone European Countries - In-depth
investigation of the new international study programs in Germany -
Problems and trends in the use of English and other languages of
university teaching.
This is a comprehensive descriptive grammar of Trio, a Cariban
language, spoken in the remote rainforest of Suriname and along the
border in Brazil. Typologically interesting features of Trio
include a basic word order Object-Verb-Subject and a system of
evidentiality that expresses whether or not the speaker was
eye-witness to an event. Trio has several grammatical morphemes
that mirror the group's conceptualization of the world of the
visible and the invisible in which they live; one is a fascimile
marker that expresses that the denotee of a noun is manifestly but
not intrinsically that denotee; the role of the individual in
contributing to a harmonious collective, recognized by
anthropologists as a salient aspect of Amazonian life, is expressed
by two « responsibility clitics. This grammar will be a valuable
source-book for linguists, anthropologists, and everyone interested
in the finer points of Guianan-Amazonian languages.
Media matters to politicians, celebrities, advertisers, teachers,
and to anyone who depends on media for information, or finds
themselves affected by their representations and images. A detailed
linguistic analysis of media enriches our understanding of the
power of language and informs readers how they are positioned by
such linguistic representations. This book is concerned with the
analysis of language in various media and textual examples from
talk-back television chat shows, advertisements, editorials and
news stories are used to provide a critical awareness of language
in the media. The linguistic elements examined encompass rhetorical
structures, semiotics, back channeling cues, and sequencing.
Readers will have a better understanding of media language analysis
and the theories that underpin it. Some of the papers were
originally presented at an International Conference on Language and
Communication in the Media and held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from
April 27-29, 2004. Other papers have been solicited.
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