Language Across Boundaries
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8264-5525-3 (ISBN)
Description
Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia, and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the papers in the proceedings reflect a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries, to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learning and language mediation in the form of translation. Included in the volume are the plenary papers given by Jennifer Coates, well known for her work on language and gender, on the expression of alternative masculinities, and by Bencie Woll, holder of the first chair of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the UK, on the insights to be gained from sign language in exploring language, culture and identity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5525-3 (9780826455253)
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Content
Introduction: language Across Boundaries Anne Ife and Janet Cotterril; 1. Pushing at the boundaries: the expression of alternative masculinities Jennifer Coates (University of Surrey): 2. The effect of social class and ethnicity on the discursive negotiation of femininities in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls Pia Pilcher (University of Surrey); 3. 'I'm glad you're not a knitting gran': non-normative family and locale discourses Joanne Winter (Monash University); 4. Exploring language, culture and identity: insights from sign language Bencie Woll (City University); 5. Global politics and the Englishes of the world Ruanni Tupas (National University of Singapore); 6. Panjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: a case study of language maintenance and language loss Mike Reynolds (University of Sheffield); 7. Cross-language metaphors: parents and children, love, marriage and divorce in the European family Andreas Musolff (University of Durham); 8. Making sense across cultures: the establishment of coherence in translated texts Martina Ozbot (University of Ljubljana); 9. Cultural resonance in English and Malay figurative phrases Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of Surrey); 10. Translating sociolects: a paradigm of ideological issues in translation? Ineke Wallaert (University of Edinburgh); 11. Mother culture impact on foreign language reading comprehension Denise Cloonan Cortez (Northeastern Illinois University); 12. A corpus-based analysis of academic lectures across disciplines Hilary Nesi (University of Warwick); 13. Learning discourse Rob Batstone (Institute of Education)