Multilingual Matters, 2001, — 272 p. — (Modern Languages in Practice 16. Series Editor: Michael Grenfell). ISBN: 1-85359-503-9 (hbk). ISBN: 1-85359-502-0 (pbk). This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural communication in language learning. The book argues that learners who have an opportunity to stay in the target language country can be trained to do an...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 218 p. Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 218 p. Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2017. — 148 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198724-99-5. The languages of the world can be seen and heard in cities and towns, forests and isolated settlements, as well as on the internet and in international organizations like the UN or the EU. How did the world acquire so many languages? Why can't we all speak one language, like...
7th Ed. — Routledge, 2018. — 466 p. Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology.
Ed. and with an intr. by John B. Carroll. Foreword by Stuart Chase. — New York; London: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. — 296 p. Foreword, by Stuart Chase Introduction, by John B. Carroll On the connection of ideas (1927) On psychology (date unknown) A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day, signs...
Ed. and with an intr. by John B. Carroll. Foreword by Stuart Chase. — New York; London: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959. — 296 p. Foreword, by Stuart Chase Introduction, by John B. Carroll On the connection of ideas (1927) On psychology (date unknown) A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day, signs...
Ed. by David. G. Mandelbaum. — Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. — 618 p. Language The Nature of Language Language Sound Patterns in Language The Psychological Reality of Phonemes A Study in Phonetic Symbolism The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield Dialect Language and Environment Communication The Function of an...
Ed. by David. G. Mandelbaum. — Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. — 618 p. Language The Nature of Language Language Sound Patterns in Language The Psychological Reality of Phonemes A Study in Phonetic Symbolism The Concept of Phonetic Law as Tested in Primitive Languages by Leonard Bloomfield Dialect Language and Environment Communication The Function of an...
Article. — Iberoamerican notebooks. — 2016. — Issue 2 (12). — pp. 127–131. El artículo examina la correlación entre los conceptos «mentalidad nacional» y «lengua nacional»: influencia mutua, manifestaciones en el habla castellana de los estereotipos etnoculturales propios de la mundivisión española, aplicación a la hora de traducir.
Lexington Books, 2018. — 306 p. — ISBN 9781498579278, ASIN 1498579272. — English, Italiano This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the...
Liveright, 2018. — 227 p. — ISBN 10 9781631495113, ASIN 1631495119. Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle,...
Open Society Institute, 2009. — 77 p. Police officers in Paris consistently stop people on the basis of ethnicity and dress rather than on the basis of suspicious individual behavior, according to a report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative. The report documents over 500 police stops over a one-year period and across five locations in and around the Gare du Nord...
В 2-х частях. — Учебно-методическое пособие для самостоятельной работы по дисциплинам лингвокультурологического цикла для бакалавров, аспирантов и магистрантов. — Бишкек: Кыргызско-Российский Славянский университет (КРСУ), 2014. — 165 p. — ISBN: 978-9967-19-090-0. Книга представляет собой сборник статей, посвященных реализации научно-методических установок инновационного...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 265 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319897365, 13 978-3319897363. This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 274 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319897365, 13 978-3319897363. This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 541 p. — ASIN B00GDF0J5M. Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 456 p. — ASIN B00GDF0J5M. Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in...
Routledge, 2017. — x, 231 p. — (Expanding Literacies in Education). — ISBN: 978-1-315-40086-0. Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts. Studies of everyday diasporic practices across places, spaces, and people's stories provide...
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University, 2012. — 97 p. Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism Multiculturalism Cosmopolitanism Differences or Similarities? Bridging the Gap Understanding Respect The Trouble with Empathy What is Understanding? Why Focus on Language? Language What Does Language Do? Language and Cultural Identity Language and Understanding Language and Social...
Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University, 1976. — xiii, 242. Research on bilingualism in a number of social science disciplines has reported an association between bilingualism, ethnic identity, and ethnic attitudes - causality has often been attributed to bilingualism. This research has been criticized on methodological grounds. There is a dearth of information concerning the...
Mouton, 1985. — xvi, 531 p. — (Contributions to the Sociology of Language). — ISBN: 3-11-010604-3. Contributions to the sociology of language brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the...
John Benjamins, 1991. — viii, 255 p. — ISBN: 90-272-2081-6 / 1-55619-117-0. An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various...
The Modern Language Journal, 97, 4, 2013. — p. 948 - 944. Using a framework of critical multiculturalism and contrasting it to liberal and conservative approaches to multiculturalism, this article offers a critical analysis of the representations of Swahili users and their cultures in five widely used introductory Swahili as a foreign language textbooks. Findings indicate that...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xxiv, 371 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-54081-3. The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of inquiry. In this book Giovanni Bennardo discusses the relationship between language and the mental organization of knowledge, based...
Method and Theory in Linguistics, Edited by Paul L. Garvin. — Mouton, 1970. — pp. 27 – 41. Events in the recent history of the field of linguistics have emphasized the autonomy of the discipline. New boundaries have been created by the extraordinary attention paid to theory, models and the form of rules for presenting the statement of an analysis. We use the term...
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 31, No. 4, July 2010. — pp. 403 – 419. Support for the use of local languages for learning and communication is currently in fashion among national policy-makers in Africa. This position has been promoted by UNESCO and other local-language advocates for years; more recently it is being seen favourably by a range of...