Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Responses to Language Varieties
Author: Alexei PrikhodkinePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027267936
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is about responses to language variety — their variability, shape, and content, as well as the variable cognitive and neural pathways underlying them. The chapters explore access to, processing of, and outcomes of that diversity and complexity. Many traditions are represented: from social psychology come classic experimental methods as well as more current discourse-based analyses; anthropology is represented in indexicality, iconization, recursivity, erasure, enregisterment, and ideologies; the sociolinguistic focus on specific rather than global elements that trigger responses is highlighted. The individual chapters address a variety of questions concerning language attitude, belief, and ideology, in some cases singly, in others with a more general focus, including attempts to relate one style of research to another. If we accept the fact that individuals house great variability in the underlying cognitive structures that inform responses, it follows that no single way of eliciting and studying them will do. This book provides a tour of the emerging tools that have been productive in such investigations.
Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec
Author: L. OakesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625495
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case study of how to foster a sense of belonging.
Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004486631
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Corpus-based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies presents readers with up-to-date research in corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies, showing the high degree of complementarity between the two fields in terms of research methodology, interests and objectives. Offering theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives, the articles show how translation and contrastive approaches to grammar, lexis and discourse can be harmoniously combined through the use of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual corpora and how contrastive information needs to inform translation research and vice versa. The notion of contrastive linguistics adopted here is broad; thus, alongside comparisons of Malay/English idioms and the French imparfait and its English equivalents, there are articles comparing different varieties of French, and sign language with spoken language. This collection should be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. In addition, the section on corpus-based teaching applications will be of great value to teachers of translation and contrastive linguistics.
Las lenguas de las Américas - the Languages of the Americas
Author: Paul DanlerPublisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN: 3832552790
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Las lenguas de las Américas - the Languages of the Americas takes the reader on a journey through twenty chapters addressing the languages of the Americas all the way from Canada and the USA to Argentina and Brazil. The authors are international experts who have written mainly in Spanish and English, but in a few cases also in French, Portuguese and German. The book deals with the languages of the descendants of the first Americans; it gives an insight into the American varieties of English, French, Portuguese and Spanish; it explores the outcome of the long-lasting coexistence of various autochthonous and European languages; it also looks into some very specific hybrid forms of locally or regionally unique varieties in the Americas, focusing on creolization, code-switching and translanguaging resulting from language contact. The languages and linguistic varieties dealt with in this book are numerous and so are the approaches and methods applied; most are mainly synchronic, but some are also diachronic. All in all, the book has managed to draw a succinct and representative portrait of the multifaceted linguistic landscapes of the Americas.
Canadiana
Author: Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary
Author: Braj B. KachruPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110957078
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.
Le Québec et les francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Author: Dean R. LouderPublisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763772738
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Bilan des recherches récentes et en cours de part et d'autre de la frontière canado-américaine, suivi de sept témoignages.
French Today
Author: Carol SandersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521396950
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
French Today is a profile of the French language in its social context. British and French linguists examine trends in French throughout the French-speaking world, and address issues around prescriptivism, gender and language, and regional languages and dialects. The collection includes overviews of work done in particular areas and deeper analyses of sociolinguistic questions. One theme is how to represent and interpret data relating to language varieties that have been marginalised. Another concerns the ways in which French is adapting to the future, whether as a language of new technology, or as a vehicular language on the continent. All chapters of this book are in English, with examples and quotations in French, and a mixture of references given in both languages. At the end of each chapter, there are also texts in French, serving as illustration and as pointers to further reading.
Quel québécois "importé" êtes-vous?
Author: Shéra APublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291016767
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 130
Book Description