
Language and Culture (BAAL 7)
Multilingual Matters (Publisher)
Published on 13. February 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-85359-207-2 (ISBN)
Description
These papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of BAAL (University of Durham, September 1991), have been selected for the diversity of perspective which they offer on the theme of language and culture, and on the way in which they reflect current thinking on the interdependence of language use and situational context.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-207-2 (9781853592072)
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Linda Thompson was a primary school teacher for many years before becoming a teacher educator. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham, UK, on leave to the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. Her main research interests are in the field of young children learning language(s). Books include: The Teaching of Poetry: European Perspectives (Cassell, 1996) and Children Talking: The Development of Pragmatic Competence (Multilingual Matters, 1997).
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.
Content
Linda Thompson: Preface
1. Gunther Kress: Cultural Considerations in Linguistic Description
2. Brian V. Street: Culture is a Verb: Anthropological Aspects of Language and Cultural Process
3. Norman Fairclough: Discourse and Social Change in the Enterprise Culture
4. Ana Barro, Mike Byram, Hanns Grimm, Carol Morgan and Celia Roberts: Cultural Studies for Advanced Language Learners
5. Jane Freeland: 'I am a Creole, so I Speak English': Cultural Ambiguity and the 'English'/Spanish Bilingual-bicultural Programme of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast
6. Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi: Cultural Orientation and Academic Language Use
7. Susan Hunston: Projecting a Sub-culture: The Construction of Shared Worlds by Projecting Clauses in Two Registers
8. Romy J. Clark: Developing Practices of Resistance: Critical Reading for Students of Politics
9. Tope Omoniyi: 'Song-lashing' as a Communicative Strategy in Interpersonal Conflicts in Yoruba Land: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal
10. Kay Richardson: What is the Russian for Perestroika?
11. Janet Maybin: Dialogic Relationships and the Construction of Knowledge in Children's Informal Talk
1. Gunther Kress: Cultural Considerations in Linguistic Description
2. Brian V. Street: Culture is a Verb: Anthropological Aspects of Language and Cultural Process
3. Norman Fairclough: Discourse and Social Change in the Enterprise Culture
4. Ana Barro, Mike Byram, Hanns Grimm, Carol Morgan and Celia Roberts: Cultural Studies for Advanced Language Learners
5. Jane Freeland: 'I am a Creole, so I Speak English': Cultural Ambiguity and the 'English'/Spanish Bilingual-bicultural Programme of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast
6. Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi: Cultural Orientation and Academic Language Use
7. Susan Hunston: Projecting a Sub-culture: The Construction of Shared Worlds by Projecting Clauses in Two Registers
8. Romy J. Clark: Developing Practices of Resistance: Critical Reading for Students of Politics
9. Tope Omoniyi: 'Song-lashing' as a Communicative Strategy in Interpersonal Conflicts in Yoruba Land: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal
10. Kay Richardson: What is the Russian for Perestroika?
11. Janet Maybin: Dialogic Relationships and the Construction of Knowledge in Children's Informal Talk