Mediating Chicana/o Culture
Multicultural American Vernacular
Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular covers an unconventional array of topics—from handkerchiefs, votives, and graffiti to food, fútbol, and the Internet—as well as cutting edge literature, cinema, photography, and more. In its cross-disciplinary approach, this collection makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on Chicana and Chicano culture and provides engaging readings for courses in race/ethnic studies, media studies, and American studies. Collected chapters critically interrogate the underlying tensions between personal expressions and public demonstrations in their on-going negotiation of Chicana and Chicano identity. Drawing on the revolutionary work…
This collection explores Chicana/o culture through topics from graffiti and food to literature and cinema. It interrogates the tensions between personal and public expression in negotiating identity, laying bare how we define ourselves as individuals and communities.
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Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
Collaborative Research on Africa
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context from various perspectives. These range from large-scale surveys to specific analyses on aspects of language, literature and education. Contributions are very original and based on a common denominator: Multiculturalism. Despite the numerical dominance of contributions from Cameroon (one of the most multilingual countries in the world), this book brings together views from specialists in the different domains from several parts of the world (Africa, Europe and the United States of America). These…
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
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Undescribed and Endangered Languages
the Preservation of Linguistic Diversity
The book is devoted to linguistic and phonetic analysis of some undescribed and endangered languages. It collects the Proceedings of the international conference on “Undescribed and endangered languages: the preservation of linguistic diversity” held in University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), on September 29, 2005. Papers are by Roberto Ajello (Pisa), Amedeo De Dominicis (Viterbo), Maurizio Gnerre (Napoli), Antonino Melis (N’Djamena). It will appeal to linguists, phoneticians and phonologists as a contribution to the debate it discusses and it will be welcomed by a wide range of students and researchers as…
This book offers a linguistic and phonetic analysis of undescribed and endangered languages. A contribution to the debate on linguistic diversity, it is an ideal overview for linguists, phoneticians, students, and researchers.
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This volume provides new insights into the diverse and complex contexts of legal discourse and activity performed across a variety of socially and culturally informed digital media transformations. It addresses topical issues of legal discourse performed by Web-mediated technologies and (social) media usage in professional and institutional contexts of communication. Its analyses rely on specific perspectives, varied applications, and different methodological procedures, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
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Indigenous languages are endangered and questions of revitalization are topical in today’s climate. This book deals with adult education and the topic of adults reclaiming their ancestral language. The themes addressed here cover indigeneity, and identification with, and membership in, indigenous groups on an individual level. The volume contemplates the preconditions of belonging to an indigenous people and the definitions of indigeneity. It also contains discussions of indigenous research, and provides new perspectives on methods suitable for recording indigenous people’s voices and experiences. The text uses the Sámi people in…
This book explores adults reclaiming their ancestral language and what it means to be indigenous. It covers identity, belonging, and new methods for recording indigenous voices and experiences, using the Sámi people in Finland as an example of political identity and status.
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Reflections
New Directions in Modern Languages and Cultures
Mirroring, doubling, imitation, parody, intertextuality. The contributors to this volume — all postgraduate researchers at the time of writing — engage with some of these familiar words to produce articles that deal with the concept of “reflections” in literary and visual culture. Ranging from Italian Golden Age theatre to contemporary French literature and from Cuban film to German fiction, the twelve essays in this volume provide a fresh look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting in particular, the interdisciplinary nature of this field. On one level, the volume speaks to those…
Twelve essays explore “reflections” in literary and visual culture—from Italian theatre to Cuban film. For students and scholars, this volume provides a fresh, interdisciplinary look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting the dialogue between language and culture.
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The title of this collection, Culture-bound Translation and Language in the Global Era, suggests the wide scope and spirit of our culture and times. The essays gathered here are divided under two headings: Translation and Language, five on each area, making up Part One and Part Two of this book. They examine in detail some of the problems implied by the interaction between translation, language and culture while providing both breadth and depth to the cultural dimension, an area which has strangely been neglected together with translation studies, despite their…
These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
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Readings in Language and Identity
“I Am What I Say”
This edited collection studies the complex and multifaceted relations between language and identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It brings together researchers from a range of fields to broach and shed light on crucial but tricky aspects of the relationships between language and identity. The contributors here employ different theoretical and methodological approaches to evince the discursive formations that emerge out of the encounters and conjectures of language and identity and their manifestations in various theories and practices. As such, this collection will serve to inform and advance debates…
This collection studies the complex relations between language and identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It brings together researchers from a range of fields to advance debates about the meanings of language and identity in contemporary cultural contexts.
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Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
Current Paradigms and Practices
This collection explores the changing nature of health discourse in different digital environments. It offers sustained discourse analyses of a number of interactions generated through the affordances and constraints of these new social contexts, which are affecting health communication in subtle and profound ways.
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
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This book presents six related studies that shed light on hateful speech, both verbal and multisemiotic, in a postcolonial setting relevant to countries of the Global South, such as Brazil. It offers a body of rich empirical analysis of linguistic, discursive and political-ideological data. Analytical results show how online and offline attacks and related forms of resistance occur and how they involve a complex tangle of national and international flows, intersecting and re-twining themes, narratives, and images in the public arena. Thereby, the book provides insights into how disruptive global…
This book analyzes hateful speech in postcolonial settings like Brazil. Through empirical analysis of online and offline attacks and resistance, it shows how global and local flows fuse into tangled issues, such as the sexist violence permeating contemporary political struggles.
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Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Culture vs Speech
Language is an essential feature of societies, and there are five distinctive language styles which are commonly used in conversations. It is only natural that people switch between these styles, and, as a result, they speak in different styles in different situations. Furthermore, based on distinctive factors influencing people’s speech, we tend to employ different degrees of politeness and directness in different situations. This work identifies, analyses, and compares the language styles and degrees of directness and politeness used in the English and Slovak languages by presenters of a number…
This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.
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Given the economic, social and historical changes of recent years, education today needs a re-thinking of its methodologies and goals. This book presents an innovative approach to language and culture teaching and learning in a context of full-immersion: EUFICCS (European Use of Full-Immersion, Culture, Content and Service) . Only thanks to a comprehensive and holistic way of conceiving the educational path, based on the practice of reflection, can students be empowered with those intercultural and democratic competences necessary to function as future global citizens. The EUFICCS approach offers some guidelines…
Education today needs a re-thinking. This book presents EUFICCS, an innovative, full-immersion approach to language and culture teaching. This holistic path empowers students with the intercultural and democratic competences necessary to function as future global citizens.
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Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and entire worldviews. This book analyses issues related to both specific and common variations in folklore and language as signifiers of culture and worldview. The articles here are dedicated to different genres and forms, including spoken and written language, dancing and singing, and festivities, and involve different aspects of variation. Variation is conceptualised here as the main basis of folklore dynamics and a major issue of typology. A significant part of the volume is dedicated to variations of myths and motifs, creativity,…
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
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Journalistic Translation
Procedures and Strategies in English-Kurdish Translation of Media Texts
This volume painstakingly formulates a composite model of translation procedures that covers both linguistic and cultural aspects inherent in translation. The model is based on an integration of three classic taxonomies of translation procedures proposed by influential translation scholars, namely Vinay and Darbelnet (1995), Newmark (1988), and Dickins, Hervey and Higgins (2002/2016). The book combines these three taxonomies into an integrated model and extends it, effectively, to identify patterns of translation procedures and overall strategies in English-Kurdish translation of journalistic texts. The book is a breakthrough in the…
A breakthrough in the field of journalistic translation between English and Kurdish, this volume painstakingly formulates a composite model of translation procedures that covers both the linguistic and cultural aspects inherent in translation.
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Language Planning and Policy
Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power
Language policy is heterogeneous and varies according to its object, levels of intervention, purpose, participants and institutions involved, underlying language ideologies, local contexts, power relations, and historical contexts. This volume offers unique cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including South Africa, Bahrain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Zambia, and Algeria. The African diaspora is also considered, as is the case of Brazil. By bringing together diverse contexts in Africa and the Middle East, this volume encourages a dialogue in the burgeoning scholarship on…
This volume offers cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including the diaspora in Brazil. It inspects the intersection between language policy and its social, political, and educational functions.
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Understanding the Discourse of Aging
A Multifaceted Perspective
There are a number of books and articles covering particular facets of the topic of aging, such as the image of the elderly in the media, cinema, TV series and commercials, and in literature, which of course provide useful background material and references. However, these studies on aging discourse predominantly focus on a single discipline. This book adds a fresh perspective, by addressing the communicative practices surrounding age, aging and the elderly from a multidisciplinary perspective. The volume addresses several issues related to the discourse on aging, from the problems…
While most studies on aging focus on a single discipline, this book adds a fresh perspective. It addresses the communicative practices surrounding age, aging, and the elderly from a multidisciplinary view, covering their image in media, definitions of age, and gendered issues.
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A Community at the Heart of Europe
Slovenes in Italy and the Challenges of the Third Millennium
Nestled in the heart of the “Old Continent”, along the border between Slovenia and the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenes in Italy form one of Europe’s national minorities. This volume presents an up-to-date overview of their efforts to preserve their cultural and linguistic heritage and distinctiveness. The Slovene national community in Italy has been affected by profound and at times devastating events, including both World Wars, the fascist period and the lengthy process of defining the border between Italy and Yugoslavia. The collapse of the Berlin…
This book offers an overview of the Slovene minority in Italy and their efforts to preserve their cultural and linguistic heritage. Shaped by devastating events like the World Wars and fascism, the community now faces new challenges and protections in a globalized world.
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A History of Women’s Contributions to Linguistics
Words Gone with the Wind
The author of this essay confesses that she has practised an exhumation exercise: an overwhelming work of research in which many names are hardly known (let alone recognised). The challenges of a work for which there is little precedent, and which was absolutely necessary, are numerous and varied: from the absence of documentation (or the difficulty of accessing it) to the over-representation of a large handful of linguists as opposed to the practical invisibility of the majority, to cite only the most obvious. Nevertheless, the result is an enjoyable and…
This enjoyable and pedagogical read documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women in language-related disciplines. Drawing on overwhelming research of Western and Eastern sources, it does justice to the many women who have been practically invisible—until now.
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Gender-Based Differences in Exposure to and Usage of Camfranglais in Yaoundé
The Power to Exclude?
This highly engaging and innovative book about the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais explores gender-based differences in exposure to, and usage of, the variety through a comparative study. It thus adopts a rare gender-based approach to the highly complex linguistic phenomenon Camfranglais, a mix of French, Verlan, English, Pidgin and Cameroonian languages. While youth language studies flourish in sociolinguistic research, this book’s explicit focus on female speakers, their linguistic attitudes and experiences of exclusion, is unique. It investigates which factors influence language choice among young, urban speakers and especially…
This book explores the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais—a mix of French, English, Pidgin and local languages—from a rare gender-based approach. It focuses on female speakers, their experiences of exclusion, and the factors that contribute to male dominance in its usage.
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Amid the growing trend of preserving ethnic languages within diverse ethnolinguistic communities in Greece and Cyprus, our understanding of heritage language education in these countries remains limited. The chapters in this collection undertake a thoughtful exploration of language education in the world’s two majority-Greek-speaking contexts. The volume brings together empirical studies that exhibit the array of heritage language education options available in Greece and Cyprus today, including community/complementary schools operating on weekends or after regular school hours, providing language and culture classes in a range of languages (e.g., Albanian, Czech,…
This collection explores the diverse landscape of heritage language education in Greece and Cyprus. Through empirical studies of community, day, and family schools, it establishes a novel evidence base to act as a catalyst for research and drive change in policy and practice.
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