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As English gains prominence as the language of higher education
across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming
increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the
quality of university teaching and learning. With an innovative
approach in both theme and scope, this book addresses four major
competencies that are essential to ensure the effectiveness of
English-medium higher education: creativity, critical thinking,
autonomy and motivation. It offers an integrated perspective, both
theoretical and practical, which defines these competences from
different angles within ELT and Applied Linguistics, while also
exploring their points of contact and applications to classroom
routines. This approach is intended to provide practical guidance
and inspiration, in the form of pedagogical proposals, examples of
teaching practice and cutting-edge research by scholars and
university teachers from all over the world. To that end, a leading
specialist in the field introduces each of the four competencies,
explaining concepts accessibly and synthetically, exposing false
myths, presenting an updated state of the art, and opening windows
for future studies. These introductions are followed by
practitioner chapters written by teachers and scholars from
different cultures and university contexts, who reflect on their
experience and/or research and share effective procedures and
suggestions for the university class with English as a vehicle for
instruction.
As English gains prominence as the language of higher education
across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming
increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the
quality of university teaching and learning. With an innovative
approach in both theme and scope, this book addresses four major
competencies that are essential to ensure the effectiveness of
English-medium higher education: creativity, critical thinking,
autonomy and motivation. It offers an integrated perspective, both
theoretical and practical, which defines these competences from
different angles within ELT and Applied Linguistics, while also
exploring their points of contact and applications to classroom
routines. This approach is intended to provide practical guidance
and inspiration, in the form of pedagogical proposals, examples of
teaching practice and cutting-edge research by scholars and
university teachers from all over the world. To that end, a leading
specialist in the field introduces each of the four competencies,
explaining concepts accessibly and synthetically, exposing false
myths, presenting an updated state of the art, and opening windows
for future studies. These introductions are followed by
practitioner chapters written by teachers and scholars from
different cultures and university contexts, who reflect on their
experience and/or research and share effective procedures and
suggestions for the university class with English as a vehicle for
instruction.
This book provides practical help and guidance for non-native
English-speaking higher education lecturers faced with the need to
deliver lectures and seminars in English. It builds on the authors'
years of experience as researchers and teacher trainers in the area
of English Medium Instruction (EMI), combining practical advice and
research findings with useful case studies from different global
settings, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Spain,
the UK and the USA, and a range of subject areas, such as
philosophy, mathematics and genetics. The authors present an
overview of what generally happens when university teachers make
the transition to teaching in English. After dispelling some common
myths and setting out priorities, Ruth Breeze and Carmen Sancho
Guinda move on to explain how practitioners can prepare to give
lectures and interact with both local and international students
effectively in English, tackling difficult issues, such as
encouraging participation, promoting creativity and critical
thinking, and evaluating written student work. The final chapters
address good practices in EMI, proposing ways to achieve excellence
in global settings.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections
about discourse practises dealing with public health issues.
Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and
political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume
analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings.
Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the
public health crisis itself, this book focuses on the communicative
tasks and challenges for both speakers and their public audiences
in seven areas: - establishment of discursive and political
authority - official governmental and expert communication to the
public - public understanding of government communication -
legitimation of public health management as a ‘war’ - judging
and blaming a collective other - cross-national comparison and
rivalry - empathy and encouragement Covering global discourses from
Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and New
Zealand, chapters use corpus-based data to cast light on these
issues from a variety of languages. With crisis discourse already
the object of fierce national and international debates about the
appropriateness of specific communicative styles, information
management and ‘verbal hygiene', Pandemic and Crisis Discourse
offers an authoritative intervention from language experts.
This book provides practical help and guidance for non-native
English-speaking higher education lecturers faced with the need to
deliver lectures and seminars in English. It builds on the authors'
years of experience as researchers and teacher trainers in the area
of English Medium Instruction (EMI), combining practical advice and
research findings with useful case studies from different global
settings, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Spain,
the UK and the USA, and a range of subject areas, such as
philosophy, mathematics and genetics. The authors present an
overview of what generally happens when university teachers make
the transition to teaching in English. After dispelling some common
myths and setting out priorities, Ruth Breeze and Carmen Sancho
Guinda move on to explain how practitioners can prepare to give
lectures and interact with both local and international students
effectively in English, tackling difficult issues, such as
encouraging participation, promoting creativity and critical
thinking, and evaluating written student work. The final chapters
address good practices in EMI, proposing ways to achieve excellence
in global settings.
Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from
a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which
corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with
other collective entities and with the world at large. It is
concerned with understanding how language works in business
contexts and how corporate identity and personal and professional
relationships are configured through discourse. Using a range of
analytical techniques to examine different forms of textual
evidence from companies operating in many sectors, this book maps
out current developments in corporate discourse against the complex
background of globalization.
Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA
migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal
aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a
wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories
(or recreations) of “home”. The spaces that migrants occupy (or
not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with
local populations; and different conceptions of space and time
across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings
surrounding space and time are manifested within these different
narratives and their affective-discursive practices. Taking both a
traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear,
multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation
into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital
spaces.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections
about discourse practises dealing with public health issues.
Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and
political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume
analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings.
Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the
public health crisis itself, this book focuses on the communicative
tasks and challenges for both speakers and their public audiences
in seven areas: - establishment of discursive and political
authority - official governmental and expert communication to the
public - public understanding of government communication -
legitimation of public health management as a 'war' - judging and
blaming a collective other - cross-national comparison and rivalry
- empathy and encouragement Covering global discourses from Asia,
Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and New Zealand,
chapters use corpus-based data to cast light on these issues from a
variety of languages. With crisis discourse already the object of
fierce national and international debates about the appropriateness
of specific communicative styles, information management and
'verbal hygiene', Pandemic and Crisis Discourse offers an
authoritative intervention from language experts.
For centuries the people of African have been on the move, seeking
new opportunities, fleeing from dangers, or tragically uprooted
through human greed and cruelty. In the twenty-first century, with
over 40 million people migrating from and within Africa each year,
it is clear that migration still has a significant impact on every
aspect of African life. For this reason, Sarali Gintsburg and Ruth
Breeze in their new book, African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid
Landscapes, explore the hybrid landscapes of African migration and
provide new insights into the complexity of migratory movements and
migrant experiences associated with the African continent. Taking
the view that the only ecologically valid way to understand
migration is by looking at it through the eyes of the migrants
themselves, the authors draw on a wide spectrum of first-hand
evidence from a multitude of sources, including testimonies, media
artefacts, workplace experiences, interviews, and ethnographic
observations. The contributors reflect on a wide array of themes
linked to the African context, such as diasporic mapping of
landscapes, hybridity, heterotopia, métissage, cultural mixing,
and complementation. This book presents the African continent not
only in its cultural diversity but also to cover the complex and
wide trajectories of migrations to, from and within Africa.
Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA
migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal
aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a
wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories
(or recreations) of "home". The spaces that migrants occupy (or
not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with
local populations; and different conceptions of space and time
across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings
surrounding space and time are manifested within these different
narratives and their affective-discursive practices. Taking both a
traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear,
multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation
into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital
spaces.
The relationship between politics and digital media is currently a
focus of intense interest: the symbiosis between the two spheres is
such that political activity is now almost inseparable from media
communication. However, the implications of this development are
not fully understood. Digital media are a powerful tool in the
hands of mainstream parties, but also make it easier than ever
before for the public to express their reactions, or for new actors
to enter the political arena. This volume explores the intersection
between politics and new media, which involves crucial ideals,
values and aspirations, such as informed democracy, citizens'
empowerment and social debate, but also negative aspects like
manipulation and polarization.
Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there
is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect
and extend the evaluative paradigms previously observed in the
print and broadcast media. In this complex scenario, discourse
analysis offers a rich and varied methodology for understanding the
different types of evaluation conveyed through media texts and the
way these project, reflect and develop their relationships with
their audience. The chapters in this volume draw on a variety of
analytical tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation
theory, multimodal approaches and corpus linguistics, to address
the issue of evaluation in media discourse. The theoretical
underpinning for these chapters ranges from corpus-informed
discourse studies, through critical discourse analysis and
semio-communicative approaches, to Bakhtinian perspectives.
Although the chapters are all in English, the scope of the volume
is broadly European, covering aspects of the British, Spanish,
Dutch and German media in their traditional and online
manifestations, as well as contrastive studies.
Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate
and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This
construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be
viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a
variety of analytical tools and social perspectives. Studies on the
relationship between writer/reader and speaker/audience in the
legal field are still scarce, dispersed, and limited to a narrow
range of genres and a restricted notion of interpersonality, since
they are most often confined to modality and the Gricean
cooperative principles. This volume is meant to help bridge this
gap. Its chapters show the realisation and distribution of
interpersonal features in specific legal genres. The aim is to
achieve an expansion of the concept of interpersonality, which
besides modality, Grice's maxims and other traditionally
interpersonal features, might comprise or relate to ideational and
textual issues like narrative disclosure, typography, rhetorical
variation, or Plain English, among others.
Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from
a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which
corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with
other collective entities and with the world at large. It is
concerned with understanding how language works in business
contexts and how corporate identity and personal and professional
relationships are configured through discourse. Using a range of
analytical techniques to examine different forms of textual
evidence from companies operating in many sectors, this book maps
out current developments in corporate discourse against the complex
background of globalization.
This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation,
persuasion and power in the written texts of professional
communication, to go further into the understanding of how they are
constructed, interpreted, used and exploited in the achievement of
specific goals. Such texts are here contemplated from the stance of
genre theory, which starts from the premise that specialised
communities have a high level of rhetorical sophistication, the
keys to which are offered solely to their members. In particular,
the book investigates the communicative devices that serve the need
of such professions to exert power and manipulation, and to use
persuasion. The perspective adopted in this work does not envisage
power simply as a distant, alienated and alienating supremacy from
above, but as an everyday, socialized and embodied phenomenon. To
attain its goal, the volume brings forth studies on the language of
several professions belonging to various specialised fields such as
law and arbitration, engineering, economics, advertising, business,
politics, medicine, social work, education and the media.
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