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* Features/Benefits o Uniquely provides both a conceptual framing
and a methodological approach to the research process in
intercultural communication in new and unfamiliar multilingual
settings, written in a straightforward style designed for start
novice researchers, instructors, and students on the path of
research and analysis. o Offers many examples from contemporary
media and pop culture, essential for a book on variation and
diversity in language today. * Demand/Audience o Meets the need of
advanced students and novice researchers for works that help them
engage practically with research and fieldwork in intercultural
communication and interactional sociolinguistics not provided in
the core textbooks for these courses or other supplementary texts.
* Competition o Unlike the closest competing texts, this book
invites readers to engage more deeply with an approach to
intercultural communication and sociolinguistics that is deeply
informed by contemporary understandings of multilingualism like
translanguaging, mass-mediated communication, and repertoire,
concepts that afford engagement with massive global mobility and
the effects of Internet-circulated social media. o Unlike some of
the most competitive texts, this book is authored rather than
edited and therefore focused and written in a unified authoritative
voice. Readers can follow a single trajectory without shifting from
one voice to another, facilitating student and classroom use.
* Features/Benefits o Uniquely provides both a conceptual framing
and a methodological approach to the research process in
intercultural communication in new and unfamiliar multilingual
settings, written in a straightforward style designed for start
novice researchers, instructors, and students on the path of
research and analysis. o Offers many examples from contemporary
media and pop culture, essential for a book on variation and
diversity in language today. * Demand/Audience o Meets the need of
advanced students and novice researchers for works that help them
engage practically with research and fieldwork in intercultural
communication and interactional sociolinguistics not provided in
the core textbooks for these courses or other supplementary texts.
* Competition o Unlike the closest competing texts, this book
invites readers to engage more deeply with an approach to
intercultural communication and sociolinguistics that is deeply
informed by contemporary understandings of multilingualism like
translanguaging, mass-mediated communication, and repertoire,
concepts that afford engagement with massive global mobility and
the effects of Internet-circulated social media. o Unlike some of
the most competitive texts, this book is authored rather than
edited and therefore focused and written in a unified authoritative
voice. Readers can follow a single trajectory without shifting from
one voice to another, facilitating student and classroom use.
This second edition of Classroom Discourse Analysis continues to
make techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis
accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their practical
application in the study of classroom talk, ideal for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students in discourse analysis, applied
linguistics, and anthropology and education. Grounded in a unique
tripartite "dimensional approach," individual chapters investigate
interactional resources that model forms of discourse analysis
teachers may practice in their own classrooms while other chapters
provide students with a thorough understanding of how to actually
collect and analyse data. The presence of a number of pedagogical
features, including activities and exercises and a comprehensive
glossary help to enhance students' understanding of these key tools
in classroom discourse analysis research. Features new to this
edition reflect current developments in the field, including:
increased coverage of peer interaction in the classroom greater
connecting analysis to curricular and policy mandates and
standards-based reform movements sample excerpts from actual
student classroom discourse analysis assignments a new chapter on
the repertoire approach, an increasingly popular method of analysis
of particular relevance to today's multilingual classrooms
This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept
of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we
are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and
illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but
rarely think about - not only the multiple languages we use, but
how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell stories,
the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make - and
how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of
identity. Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow
over the course of a lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective
can lead to a rethinking of cultural diversity and human
interaction, from categorizing people's differences to
understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with
other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in
increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social
spheres. Rymes affirms the importance of the communicative
repertoires concept with highly engaging discussions and
contemporary examples from mass media, popular culture, and
everyday life. The result is a fresh and exciting work that will
resonate with students and scholars in sociolinguistics,
intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and education.
This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept
of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we
are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and
illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but
rarely think about - not only the multiple languages we use, but
how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell stories,
the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make - and
how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of
identity. Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow
over the course of a lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective
can lead to a rethinking of cultural diversity and human
interaction, from categorizing people's differences to
understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with
other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in
increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social
spheres. Rymes affirms the importance of the communicative
repertoires concept with highly engaging discussions and
contemporary examples from mass media, popular culture, and
everyday life. The result is a fresh and exciting work that will
resonate with students and scholars in sociolinguistics,
intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and education.
This second edition of Classroom Discourse Analysis continues to
make techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis
accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their practical
application in the study of classroom talk, ideal for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students in discourse analysis, applied
linguistics, and anthropology and education. Grounded in a unique
tripartite "dimensional approach," individual chapters investigate
interactional resources that model forms of discourse analysis
teachers may practice in their own classrooms while other chapters
provide students with a thorough understanding of how to actually
collect and analyse data. The presence of a number of pedagogical
features, including activities and exercises and a comprehensive
glossary help to enhance students' understanding of these key tools
in classroom discourse analysis research. Features new to this
edition reflect current developments in the field, including:
increased coverage of peer interaction in the classroom greater
connecting analysis to curricular and policy mandates and
standards-based reform movements sample excerpts from actual
student classroom discourse analysis assignments a new chapter on
the repertoire approach, an increasingly popular method of analysis
of particular relevance to today's multilingual classrooms
The Canadian Political Science Association's 1964 Conference on
Statistics was held in Charlottetown on June 13 and 14. The general
theme of the Conference was Regional Statistical Studies. Twelve
papers were presented and of these nine are included in this
volume.
The most important challenges humans face - identity, life, death,
war, peace, the fate of our planet - are manifested and debated
through language. This book provides the intellectual and practical
tools we need to analyse how people talk about language, how we can
participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them
about both language and our society. Along the way, we learn that
knowledge about language and its connection to social life is not
primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or
even language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line
arguments, creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms -
any place language grabs people's attention and foments more talk.
An essential new aid to the study of the relationship between
language, culture and society, this book provides a vision for
language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language
expertise.
The most important challenges humans face - identity, life, death,
war, peace, the fate of our planet - are manifested and debated
through language. This book provides the intellectual and practical
tools we need to analyse how people talk about language, how we can
participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them
about both language and our society. Along the way, we learn that
knowledge about language and its connection to social life is not
primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or
even language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line
arguments, creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms -
any place language grabs people's attention and foments more talk.
An essential new aid to the study of the relationship between
language, culture and society, this book provides a vision for
language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language
expertise.
This book presents estimates of the sources of economic growth in
Canada. The experimental measures account for the reproducibility
of capital inputs in an input-output framework and show that
advances in technology are more important for economic growth than
previously estimated. Traditional measures of multifactor
productivity advance are also presented. Extensive comparisons
relate the two approaches to each change and labour productivity.
The book will be of interest to macroeconomists studying economic
growth, capital accumulation, technical advance, growth accounting,
and input-output analysis.
Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown
how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language
functions as one medium through which this socialization is
accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of
social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has
created useful characterizations of variations in communicative
competence.
The present work builds on the strengths of prior work, showing
how new theoretical concepts and empirical methods developed in
linguistic anthropology over the last decade can further illuminate
educational settings. The authors introduce an updated Linguistic
Anthropology of Education which recognizes that, in the rapidly
changing field of cultural production within which children and
teachers operate today, the exploration of multiple, pre-existing
forms of communicative competence is not enough. This volume
elaborates theory and illustrates the tools and practices of the
Linguistic Anthropology of Education to account for today's
research context in which the multiplicity of identity, and the
multiple ways language can be used to represent it, have important
ramifications for how learning and social reproduction emerge
within educational contexts.
This book presents estimates of the sources of economic growth in
Canada. The experimental measures account for the reproducibility
of capital inputs in an input-output framework and show that
advances in technology are more important for economic growth than
previously estimated. Traditional measures of multifactor
productivity advance are also presented. Extensive comparisons
relate the two approaches to each change and labour productivity.
The book will be of interest to macroeconomists studying economic
growth, capital accumulation, technical advance, growth accounting,
and input-output analysis.
This groundbreaking study of an innovative charter school is the
first to look closely at adolescent identity by analyzing the
language of narratives told in school. The author helps us to
understand why adolescents sometimes make choices that seem
incomprehensible to the adults who work with them. This unique book
links issues of school reform with close analysis of language and
interaction within a school to help us understand the needs and
desires of some of today's diverse adolescent students. Both
compelling and illuminating, this important book is essential
reading for anyone seeking to understand the human effects (and not
just the resultant test scores) of school reform.
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