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The essays and research papers in this collection explore current
issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes,
Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning,
and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied
linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution
of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.
This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in
postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on
some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a
class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as
well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and
unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general
positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. The
author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system.
This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities
of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of
citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences
of immigrants/outsiders and the media's interpretation of this
process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of
specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often
remain unarticulated or masked in the media. The contributors
highlight how governmental policies and practices affect
native-born citizens and residents differently on the basis of
legal status. Furthermore, the authors observe that many issues
that are typically seen as affecting immigrants (such as language
policies, nationalist identities and feelings of belonging) also
impact first-generation native-born citizens who are seen as, or
see themselves as, outsiders.
This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in
late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical
sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who
lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the
1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common
citizens and were committed to India, their voices and
contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective
memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended
language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as
letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient
facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger
officialised understandings of the past. Using previously
unpublished corpus of archival material and interviews with English
private citizens from that period, this volume on historical
sociolinguistics will be of interest to scholars and researchers of
language and linguistics, South Asian studies, post-colonial
literary studies, culture studies, and modern history.
This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that
it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the
ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be
inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a
nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground
how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language
backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful
demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual
agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as
'under what local conditions does "dis-citizenship" happen?'; 'what
role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what
kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'?
The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and
passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation.
This book critically addresses the role of language in our
collective construction of 'normal' bodies. Addressing a range of
concerns linked with visible and invisible, chronic and terminal
conditions, the volume probes issues in and around patient and
caregiver accounts. Focussing on body conditions associated with
breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, (type-1) diabetes, epilepsy,
partial hearing and autism, the book draws on a range of critical
theories to contest collectively assembled notions of
'abnormality,' 'disability' and 'impairments.' It also addresses
the need for applied sociolinguists to take account of how our
researching practices - the texts we produce, the orientations we
assume, the theoretical grounds from which we proceed-- create
'meanings' about bodies and 'normalcy,' and the importance of
remaining ever vigilant and civically responsible in what we do or
claim to do.
This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in
late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical
sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who
lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the
1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common
citizens and were committed to India, their voices and
contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective
memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended
language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as
letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient
facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger
officialised understandings of the past. Using previously
unpublished corpus of archival material and interviews with English
private citizens from that period, this volume on historical
sociolinguistics will be of interest to scholars and researchers of
language and linguistics, South Asian studies, post-colonial
literary studies, culture studies, and modern history.
This edited volume brings together scholars from various
disciplines to discuss how language is used by, for, and about
refugees in the United States in order to deepen our understanding
of what 'refugee' and 'resettlement' mean. The main themes of the
chapters highlight: the intersections of language education and
refugee resettlement from community-based adult programs to
elementary school classrooms; the language (of) resettlement
policies and politics in the United States at both the national
level and at the local level focusing on the agencies and
organizations that support refugees; the discursive constructions
of refugee-hood that are promulgated through the media,
resettlement agencies, and even the refugees themselves. This
volume is highly relevant to current political debates of
immigration, human rights, and education, and will be of interest
to researchers of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics,
anthropology, and cultural studies.
This edited book addresses ways in which 'bodies' conceived broadly
- get languaged, and ways in which ideas of 'normalcy' and 'normal'
bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it
is through this medium that people with ailments or 'unusual'
bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present
volume represents a departure from other works in at least two
ways. First, it brings in discourses around bodies per se into
language-related research, a realm that previous research has not
directly engaged. Second, it ushers in discussions about bodies by
critically addressing the language by which experiences around
bodily breakdowns and ailments occur. Calling attention to a host
of discourses - biomedical, societal, poststructuralist - and
drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, critical
theories, ethnographically gathered materials, and extant data, the
chapters pierce the general veil of silence that we have
collectively drawn regarding how some of our most intimate body
(dis)functions impact our everyday living and sense of "normalcy".
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