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Author | : Bernardo M. Ferdman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791418154 |
Download Literacy Across Languages and Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as well as to improving an educational process that has relevance beyond members of majority cultures and linguistic groups. The focus of the book is on the social and cultural contexts in which literacy develops and is enacted, with an emphasis on the North American situation. Educators and researchers are discovering that cognitive approaches, while very valuable, are insufficient by themselves to answer important questions about literacy in heterogeneous societies. By considering the implications of family, school, culture, society, and nation for literary processes, the book answers the following questions. In a multi-ethnic context, what does it mean to be literate? What are the processes involved in becoming and being literate in a second language? In what ways is literacy in a second language similar and in what ways is it different from mother-tongue literacy? What factors must be understood to better describe and facilitate literacy acquisition among members of ethnic and linguistic minorities? What are some current approaches that are being used to accomplish this? These are vital questions for researchers and educators in a world that has a large number of immigrants, a variety of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual societies, and an increasing degree of multinational activity. Beyond addressing applied concerns, attending to these questions can provide new insights into basic aspects of literacy.
Author | : Carol Lynn Moder |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230782 |
Download Discourse Across Languages and Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
Author | : Svenja Völkel |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2022-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110727153 |
Download Approaches to Language and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.
Author | : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2019-02-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3030049817 |
Download Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse. Different contexts are explored with rich empirical findings and authentic exemplifying materials. The book includes fifteen papers, divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses conceptual reflection on languages and cultures in contact and contrast, while Part 2 focuses on contact linguistics and borrowing. Part 3 discusses cultural and linguistic aspects of media discourses.
Author | : María de los Ángeles Gómez González |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2008-06-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027290520 |
Download Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
Author | : Mohammad Ali Jazayery |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 813 |
Release | : 2010-11-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110864355 |
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This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C. Polomé.
Author | : Karen Risager |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853598585 |
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The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The fundamental view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths and across national structures and communities.
Author | : Anuradha Dingwaney |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822974681 |
Download Between Languages and Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.
Author | : Bernardo M. Ferdman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1994-03-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780791418161 |
Download Literacy Across Languages and Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as well as to improving an educational process that has relevance beyond members of majority cultures and linguistic groups. The focus of the book is on the social and cultural contexts in which literacy develops and is enacted, with an emphasis on the North American situation. Educators and researchers are discovering that cognitive approaches, while very valuable, are insufficient by themselves to answer important questions about literacy in heterogeneous societies. By considering the implications of family, school, culture, society, and nation for literary processes, the book answers the following questions. In a multi-ethnic context, what does it mean to be literate? What are the processes involved in becoming and being literate in a second language? In what ways is literacy in a second language similar and in what ways is it different from mother-tongue literacy? What factors must be understood to better describe and facilitate literacy acquisition among members of ethnic and linguistic minorities? What are some current approaches that are being used to accomplish this? These are vital questions for researchers and educators in a world that has a large number of immigrants, a variety of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual societies, and an increasing degree of multinational activity. Beyond addressing applied concerns, attending to these questions can provide new insights into basic aspects of literacy.
Author | : Anna Wierzbicka |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1999-11-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780521599719 |
Download Emotions Across Languages and Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.