A Brief History of the Chinese Language VI
As the sixth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the influence of foreign culture on Middle Chinese lexicon and the development of synonyms, idioms and proverbs during the period.
Teaching Writing (Story Writing) Through TBLT Activities
Task-based language teaching is one of the widely discussed learner-centered approaches for the last few decades. It aims at developing students' communicative skills through their active engagement in various tasks focusing more on meaning than on form. This paper, however, focuses on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as a successful tool for tackling writing as one of the most difficult skills to develop. The entire study purposes a way forward to strengthen teachers' ability to bring TBLT theory into practice through story writing. It defines TBLT and examines its importance for enhancing the writing skills of EFL students, giving examples of tasks that have been successfully tried out in the classroom.
Composition Problems in the Structural Analysis of a Lyrical Work
In this book, lyrical composition is discussed as a compositional and important artistic act that will appear on the basis of the poet's creative intention. The work helps to recognize and define the individuality of the author, the author's style, and the author's skill in lyrics in common poetry.The book can serve as a scientific-theoretical experience and a practical manual for researchers dealing with the problem of poetry, poets who represent artistic practice, and all lovers of literature, as well as students and master's students of educational institutions.
Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America
This collection explores the critical decolonial practices of applied linguistics researchers from Latin America and the Latin American diaspora, shedding light on the processes of epistemological decolonization and moving from a monolingual to a multilingual stance.
The Representation of Teaching Subjects in Chico Bento Comics
The aim of this work is to analyze Chico Bento comic strips, observing the "wills to truth" that are present and how they underpin the stereotype of teaching subjects in rural areas, using methodological procedures inspired by French Discourse Analysis (hereafter AD), especially Foucauldian theoretical assumptions. The specific objectives are: to identify the stereotypes of the student subject and the caipira teacher subject present in comic strips; to list the "will to truth" that runs through Chico Bento's stories and underpins the place of the teaching subjects (teacher and student) in rural schools. The corpus of this research was delimited by adopting the characterization of rural areas as a distinctive feature. To this end, we used six comic strips published between 1982 and 2013.
Interculturality and the Munchausen Effect
This book offers a conceptual intervention for Language and Intercultural Communication studies by advocating for a critical interdiscursive approach to research on interculturality. The volume addresses two interrelated theses in research on interculturality; namely that the speaking subject in interaction reproduces the egocentrism and phonocentrism of the Munchausen Effect. In considering the first, the book traces the ways in which interculturality research has historically supposed the 'speaking subject'--that is, the research participant--as the basis of truth and knowledge, not giving context to the discursive layers or paratexts involved in analyzing the subject's speech. This notion of the 'speaking subject' being taken at face value prompts Simpson's second interrelated argument on representation and historical conceptualizations of community in interculturality research, whereby, in trying to represent their subjects, researchers often impose a sense of community affiliation onto their subjects and end up negating their subjective identities. The book serves as a conceptual and practical response to calls for epistemological diversity and plurality within Interculturality in proposing an approach that brings epistemology and ontology together.This book will be of interest to scholars in intercultural communication, language education, identity theory, and philosophy of education.
Semantic-Functional Characteristics of Non-Alternative Vocabulary
This study guide is intended for specialists in the field of philology in higher educational institutions. In the study guide non-reversible lexis and its linguistic features are mainly manifested in translated texts, non-replaceable lexis is used without translation in translated texts, national, local, historical related to the past, way of life, customs and values of a particular people, expression of religious color, having common and different aspects with non-alternative lexical acquisition words, acquisition of some of the non-alternative lexical units into another language under the influence of linguistic and non-linguistic factors, acquisition by active use in a foreign language have in common with words, some of them are not completely assimilated into another language, remain in the group of manual words, differ from native words by expressing national and local color, lexicon without alternative from one language to another more artistic, partial, scientific translation, mass media, internet access issues are researched.
Images of lover and beloved in the creation of Hafiz Khorazmi
The book is devoted to one of the urgent problems of Uzbek literary studies - the figure of lovers in the works of Hafiz Khorezmi. It consists of three chapters according to its goals and objectives. The first chapter is named the historical-literary environment of the XIV-XV centuries and Hafiz Khorezmi. It discusses the literary environment of the East in the 14th-15th centuries, and highlights the unique scientific and theoretical views on the personality and work of Hafiz Khorezmi. In the 2nd Chapter it is given "Hafiz Khorezmi - a creative owner", the genre features of Hafiz Khorezmi's collection, the main and secondary figure in it are taken as an vital object of interpretation. The role and functions of figure in the interpretation of the plot are discussed.
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypical language development. Placing the topic in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD), the book offers readers serious theoretical consideration of the topic and provides implications for multilingual educational and clinical practices. The content covers a wide range of topics related to multilingual language development in CALD: typical and atypical language development in CALD, and the interface between both; the relationship between multilingual competence and academic performance in CALD; providing unbiased speech and language measures in CALD; and heritage and minority languages education in CALD. Each chapter outlines the core theoretical and practical issues and explores both theoretical and pedagogical/clinical implications in the area and possible future developments. This volume is an essential resource for all those who study, research, or are interested in multilingual development, educational linguistics, and clinical linguistics in the CALD context.
ENGLISH LITERATURE (Major)
Easy Study Materials: English Literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age is designed to meet the needs of BA Semester I students at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, as part of the curriculum introduced under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. It provides an in-depth exploration of the social, cultural, and literary developments of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, with a specific focus on the analysis of significant texts and Shakespearean drama. The two papers, MT-1 and MT-2, are thoughtfully structured to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the era's key literary figures and works. The question-and-answer format is designed to enhance students' comprehension and analytical skills, allowing them to appreciate the breadth and depth of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. The first paper, English Literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age (ELT1MJ1), begins with a discussion of the social and literary characteristics that define these eras. A key aspect of this period is the sonnet, a popular poetic form used to convey personal emotions, particularly love.
Thornton Wilder and American Drama
The book is a study of the works of Thornton Wilder vis-?-vis American drama. It is a comprehensive analysis of the multiple dimensions of Thornton Wilder's experiment and contribution to the growing tradition of American drama. The Opening Chapter deals with a detailed scenario of Twentieth Century American Drama starting from the late Nineteenth Century to the middle of the Twentieth Century. The Second Chapter rather concentrates on one of the leading aspects of the Wilderean vision of life. It is the seeing life from a broader perspective with the concept of timelessness and eternity. A number of his plays are analyzed and explored to show the connection between the common place and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. The Third Chapter delves deep into the Humanistic aspects of Wilder's plays. The Fourth Chapter dwells upon in details the milieu of Thornton's Drama and endeavors to show how the background of small town life and the idyllic life are treated uniquely by Wilder to propagate his vision of life. The Fifth Chapter or the last chapter is rather a conclusion where the contributions of Thornton Wilder to the American drama are summed up.
Modern tragic theater
This is a study of the tragic in modern theater in the works of Eugene O'Neill and Nelson Rodrigues. Why Eugene O'Neill and Nelson Rodrigues? Firstly, because they are two playwrights I admire and have been interested in for many years. Secondly, specifically considering the subject of this work, they are authors who, for the first time in the dramaturgy of their countries, presented an original and revolutionary formulation of the tragic, transforming the archaic structures of the theater in force at the time of the premieres of their first plays. This is a work of great interest to lovers of theater, especially the works of these two great writers.
Migrant Workers' Narratives of Return
Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers' experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones.
The Vernacular
This book examines the validity of the notion of the 'vernacular' and the position of the so-called 'vernaculars' in colonial and postcolonial settings. It addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of South Asia in relation to English. The authors explore the range of meanings the term has assumed and trace a history of contestation since the colonial age. They contend that though the 'vernacular' in South Asia has, since the nineteenth century, often operated as a hegemonic category relegating the languages thus designated to an inferior status, those languages (and other cultural formations labelled as 'vernacular') have also received empowering impulses and vested with qualities like groundedness and strength. The book highlights the need for a critical discussion of the notion of the 'vernacular' in the context of the ongoing rise of Anglophonia in South Asia as a whole and post-liberalisation India in particular.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and culture studies, history, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.
New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction
This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional linguistics research and its impact in surfacing new insights in conversation analysis and our understanding of Goffman's legacy.The volume outlines the theoretical foundations of Goffman's research across linguistics and the social sciences. Bringing together a crossdisciplinary group of scholars, the book is organized around these themes, with sections on self and identity, participation, and bodily practices in social interaction. Each chapter comprises three perspectives-- look back at Goffman's original texts, their correlation in contemporary empirical research in conversation analysis, and a discussion of conceptual implications in relevant fields such as interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, and related disciplines. Taken as a whole, the book not only offers a comprehensive critical overview of Goffman's legacy in empirical work in conversation analysis and the social sciences but also the conceptual grounding for new studies to investigate his continuing role in contemporary scholarship.This innovative collection will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis as well as sub-disciplines of sociology and psychology.Chapters 8, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
A Brief History of the Chinese Language VII
As the seventh volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Mongolian influence on neologisms in Modern Chinese and innovations in word formation and lexical meanings during the period.
Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition
This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies through her work. This book will be of interest to scholars in syntax, language acquisition, and theoretical linguistics.
Mother Tongue Prestige
This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. The author examines how and why education at the pre-primary, secondary, and higher education levels in India remains largely segregated by socioeconomic class and caste through the lens of language.
Relational and Multimodal Higher Education
This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analysed through three dimensions of relationality: social, technological and environmental.
Akɔ́s癡
Akis癡 Reader and Grammar presents findings of over ten years of research and development in writing Ak籀s癡. It is intended to facilitate the writing, reading, and speaking of Ak籀s癡, the three important elements in language teaching. It consists of twenty-five sections which deal mainly with the grammatical structure or composition of the Ak籀s癡 language, knowledge which is intended to assist the reader in reading or speaking Ak籀s癡 fluently and correctly. The book deals firstly with diacritics, which, if well mastered, would enable the reader to read easily and fuently. Diacritics indicate the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice in speaking. They play an important role in Ak's癡 in that they differentiate between tenses and pairs of words of similar spelling and, through that, give them grossly different meanings. Secondly, the book doesn't provide passages to serve as reading material but instead provides Ak's癡 words and sentences to be read or learnt. From the reading of words, the reader progresses to reading Ak籀s癡 sentences. This is achieved through the numerous sentence drill tables in the book. Numerous exercises have been provided in the book for oral or written work. Anyone who goes through the sentence drill tables and exercises provided will undoubtedly be able to write, read and speak Ak籀s癡 with comparative ease and fluently.
Space as a construction of meaning in The Case of Ch獺cara Ch瓊o
The purpose of this work is to analyse Domingos Pellegrini's novel O caso da ch獺cara Ch瓊o, looking at the space constructed by the movement of the characters, the language and the descriptions of the environment as elements that shape the work, emphasising the exterior space as a decisive aspect for the constitution of the characters and the action. This study shows how the author uses the relationship between the characters and the space to construct their identity and the action in the narrative. The intention is also to bring author and work closer together by analysing the references found in the text that reveal the relationship between the two. This is achieved by making comparisons between the experiences lived by the writer and those described by Manfredini, the narrator-character. Another aspect is to situate the work in the detective novel genre, from the point of view of critics and theorists who have dealt with this genre.
Manifestations of Consistent Referral in Qur'anic Texts
This book specifically explores the features of Consistent Referral identifiable on the sentential and textual levels in the Qur'anic texts by analyzing the texts selected from Surah Al-Baqarah and Āli-'Imrān, specifically (from 158 to 218) of surah al-Baqarah, and other verses (from 121 to 180) verses of al-'Imran. Elements of Consistent Referral in the sentences and texts are studied through the application of descriptive and analytic methodology.
Six Steps to a Long-Range Preservation Plan
This nuts-and-bolts approach prioritizes needs based on urgency and feasibility to ensure that the best use is made of valuable resources. The result is a practical document that will guide preservation activities and aid in fundraising for years to come.
Proficiency-Based Instruction
Unlock the secret to seamlessly integrating grammar into proficiency-based world language classrooms!Many world language teachers struggle with how to approach grammar in a proficiency-based classroom. This book provides clear, concrete, and easily applicable guidance on how to redefine your relationship with grammar and ensure it supports a proven proficiency-based approach to language learning.Using real-world exercises and examples, Proficiency-Based Instruction: Teaching Grammar for Proficiency gives you applicable strategies to incorporate grammar into your lesson plans. Discover how to integrate grammar seamlessly into your teaching and support proficiency-based language learning. Let's go!
On Under-Reported Monolingual Child Phonology
This book compiles original studies investigating crosslinguistic child phonological development in typical and atypical settings, that is, protolanguage phonology. The chapters address topics and issues not widely or exhaustively reported in the literature, such as research on under-represented languages and foci of interest, as well as information that has remained little-known to the field. It documents recent developments on typically developing populations, and atypical developmental speech in children with autism, developmental language disorder affecting speech, childhood apraxia of speech, phonological assessment and intervention, phonological awareness in (a)typical contexts affecting literacy, and motor speech analysis in speech sound disorders. The book will be of interest to linguists and academic researchers, as well as postgraduate students who are investigating child language acquisition in monolingual settings.
The Colonial Bible in Australia
This book provides an extended introduction to the scripture translations of Biraban, an Awabakal man, and the missionary Lancelot Threlkeld. It examines Threlkeld's linguistic field work in Raiatea prior to coming to New South Wales. It places the translations he undertook in the context of Australian missionary linguistics and the rapid advance of the settler frontier, for which he was a key eyewitness. It analyses the motivation and collaboration between Biraban and Threlkeld in the light of discoveries of new manuscripts, including that of the Gospel of St Matthew, as well as Threlkeld's personal diary, neither of which have previously been analysed. The review includes a linguistic and ethnographic analysis of the complete corpus of Biraban and Threlkeld's collaboration. It includes a complete list of the Threlkeld manuscripts and the many printed editions, including those available online. For historical purposes, it includes a copy of the unique standalone edition of the Gospel of Saint Luke, presented by the editor, James Fraser, to the British and Foreign Bible Society. The original is now in Cambridge University Library. It also includes a full digitisation of Threlkeld's autograph manuscript, illuminated by Annie Layard, in Auckland City Library.
Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs
This book discusses multiple aspects of Chinese dual language immersion programs, focusing on the Utah model. Themes include how to build a supportive classroom, the views of those involved, teacher identities, strategy use, corrective feedback, Chinese-character teaching, and the translanguaging phenomenon.
Approaches to Discourses of Marriage
How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women forced to marry as children to those of older women who never married, from investigations of cross-border marriage applications to Christian pastors' sermons on divorce, from oppositional media discussions of same-sex marriage to pro-marriage equality protest signs: this collection presents research from across the globe addressing the often shifting, context-specific ways that we talk about marriage.Developed from the work of the UK-based Discourses of Marriage Research Group and a two-day conference drawing together scholars interested in talk of marriage and related topics, this interdisciplinary volume brings together linguists, psychologists, and film makers and draws on data from the UK, Germany, Taiwan, the US, Belgium, and Turkey. It is intended both as a survey of some contemporary trends in research on marriage and as a foundation for further research.The chapters in this book, except for chapters 1 and 7, were originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies. This volume comes with a new introduction.
Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean; Eric de Brabander's The Life Everlasting of Do簽a Lisa (Het hiernamaals van Do簽a Lisa)
Originally published in Dutch as Het hiernamaals van Do簽a Lisa, The Life Everlasting of Do簽a Lisa is a hard-boiled, minimalist, postmodern novel about the perennial problems of postcolonialism. This is a tale of a failed attempt to escape Trinta di Mei, the postcolonial revolt of May 30, 1969, on the Dutch Caribbean island of Cura癟ao. Edgar Raven, nicknamed Boyo, the central character, makes the fateful decision to abandon Cura癟ao temporarily during these chaotic events. He leaves behind the burned-out husk of his home and dental practice with nothing more than some cash in his pocket and a few essentials, bringing with him his two closest friends, Kai, a fisherman, and JonJon, a retired marine engineer now paralyzed and condemned to a wheelchair. Together they travel to Venezuela for a "little vacation" and to buy a new fishing boat. This choice unleashes an avalanche of consequences, described in a narrative style that seems like a digressive festival of ideas and philosophies, intellectual duets and arias, stitched together with the clipped and brutal realism of the narration. But the plot leaves Boyo in the company of Sophoclean tragic figures, as close to oblivion as one can come without giving in to it entirely. A major new contribution to Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean, and a landmark translation, The Life Everlasting of Do簽a Lisa will appeal to readers interested in the history of the Caribbean, lovers of postmodernist literature, and those teaching courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature.
Discourse Markers in Doctoral Supervision Sessions
Language is a complex system that transfers ideas, feelings, experiences, beliefs, and cultures to others. One of the interactional resources that are utilised to make this transmission more coherent and effective is Discourse Markers (DMs). This monograph analyses these markers in doctoral supervisions but uses a multimodal approach.
Translation Stories from Modern China
In Translation Stories from Modern China, Professor Bonnie S. McDougall gives readers a rare firsthand account of not just the career but the international life of a trailblazing translator. From the unexpected beginnings of her passion for modern Chinese literature when she accidentally enrolled in a Chinese class in Australia to being sent to Peking University, McDougall details the experiences that sparked a lifelong obsession with translating.This riveting book offers a rare glimpse into McDougall's work at the Foreign Languages Press and her encounters with some of the most avant-garde writers in China in the early 1980s. McDougall reveals what it was like to translate the works of Bei Dao, Chen Kaige, He Qifang, and Mao Zedong and to work with translators like Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi. She also discusses how she delved into the enthralling and previously overlooked love life and sexual history of literary giants Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, unraveling stories from the 1920s and 1930s that have been shrouded in mystery. McDougall's exploration doesn't stop there; she delves into the vibrant world of modern Hong Kong literature, bringing her narrative into the present day. The penultimate chapter unveils her thought-provoking ideas on literary translation, culminating in her latest obsession, "we own our own words," highlighting the profound connection between translators and their craft.This memoir is not just a chronicle of McDougall's extraordinary career but a thrilling adventure through modern Chinese literary translation and life, where she has been both a keen observer and an active participant. Insightful and humorous, readers will be enlightened and entertained by the vivid storytelling of a true pioneer.*Includes photos.
A Brief History of the Chinese Language V
As the fifth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the development of monosyllables and polysyllables in Middle Chinese and the overall evolution of lexical meanings during the period.
Language Policy and the Future of Europe
This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to reflect critically on the future of language policy and practices in post-Brexit Europe.
The Essential Guide for Self-Publishing
Diving into the world of self-publishing can be confusing and daunting. This guide can help springboard you forward, turning your dream into reality.Bryony Best released her first five books within two years, and three of them hit the bestseller list on Amazon. Bryony Best will guide you through the practical steps and technical requirements needed for self-publishing.Sit back and soak in the knowledge, tools, and techniques Bryony shares with you to help you reach your goal.Bryony usually supports both new and seasoned authors through her workshops and one to one coaching for attaining author success.Topics covered throughout this book include legal requirements, writing tips, technical tasks, social media platforms, and marketing strategies.As a bonus, Bryony will share the secret to what she feels is her winning recipe for success.
Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work
This book explores creative and conventional metaphor within a particular workplace.This book will appeal to researchers interested in better understanding metaphor, creativity, evaluation, and workplace cultures.
Muslim Identities in Contemporary Televangelists' Online Discourse
This book examines the discourse of Muslim televangelism in the West, particularly looking at the emergence of 'home-grown' televangelists who grew up in the West and deliver their sermons in English, addressing audiences in contexts such as the UK and the USA. In their sermons, televangelists address topics that are relevant to the everyday life of Muslims and Muslim youth such as friendship, marriage and the misrepresentation of Islam/Muslims in mass media. This book explores contemporary Muslim televangelism and its manifestations in other forms of digital religion, including YouTube, websites and social media which mediate religious content. Using a Critical Discourse Studies approach, the author explores the power structures underpinning the popularity of Muslim televangelism, investigates the linguistic strategies used by Muslim televangelists to construct their identities online, and analyses how Islam and Muslims are represented in their sermons. This book will be of interest to religious studies, media studies, and discourse studies scholars, and to anyone interested in the topic of Islam/Muslims in the West in the contemporary age.
Historical phonology of Mataguayan
This book discusses the phonological history of Mataguayan, a language family that includes no less than four distinct languages - Mak獺, Nivaĉle, Chorote, and Wich穩 - spoken by ca. 65.000 individuals in the Southern Chaco region in Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. The book starts by offering a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Mataguayan, with separate chapters dedicated to its consonants, vowels, word-level prosody, and morphophonological alternations. This is followed by an outline of the phonological evolution of each Mataguayan language all the way from Proto-Mataguayan to contemporary lects, with a special attention to the dialectal diversity of Nivaĉle, Chorote, and Wich穩. The study concludes with an etymological dictionary of Mataguayan, where known cognate sets are accompanied by comments on phonetic irregularities, semantic shifts, possible cognates in the neighbouring Guaicuruan family, and references to earlier studies.
Literacies of Migration
Drawing on the lived experiences of high school-aged young Black immigrants, this book paints imaginaries of racialized translanguaging and transsemiotizing, leveraged transnationally by teenagers across the Caribbean and the United States. The Black Caribbean youth reflect a full range of literacy practices - six distinct holistic literacies - identified as a basis for flourishing. These literacies of migration encapsulate numerous examples of how the youth are racialized transgeographically, based on their translanguaging and transsemiotizing with Englishes, both institutionally and individually. In turn, the book advances a heuristic of semiolingual innocence containing eight elements, informed by the Black immigrant literacies of Caribbean youth. Through the eight elements presented - flourishing, purpose, comfort, expansion, paradox, originality, interdependence, and imagination - stakeholders and systems will be positioned to better understand and address the urgent needs of these youth. Ultimately, the heuristic supports a reinscribing of semiolingual innocence for Black Caribbean immigrant and transnational youth, as well as for all youth.
Professionalising English Language Teaching
The issue of professionalisation of English Language Teaching (ELT) remains underexplored in academic discourse. Written by experienced teacher educators, this book presents a timely guide to professional teacher development in ELT, showing how teacher educators and classroom practitioners can develop their practice. It scrutinises key topic areas for teacher education, detailing the specific competences that professional teachers need to demonstrate in the 21st century, including transforming English language classrooms, engaging in ongoing debates that examine theory, research and practice, responding to managerial and policy discourses on English language instruction, and playing a leading role in regulating the entire teaching profession. It highlights how meaningful, impactful, transformative, and sustainable language education requires high-quality teachers who are lifelong learners, classroom ethnographers, and educational leaders. It is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators and professional development providers, educational researchers, as well as policy makers in the field of ELT.
Professionalising English Language Teaching
The issue of professionalisation of English Language Teaching (ELT) remains underexplored in academic discourse. Written by experienced teacher educators, this book presents a timely guide to professional teacher development in ELT, showing how teacher educators and classroom practitioners can develop their practice. It scrutinises key topic areas for teacher education, detailing the specific competences that professional teachers need to demonstrate in the 21st century, including transforming English language classrooms, engaging in ongoing debates that examine theory, research and practice, responding to managerial and policy discourses on English language instruction, and playing a leading role in regulating the entire teaching profession. It highlights how meaningful, impactful, transformative, and sustainable language education requires high-quality teachers who are lifelong learners, classroom ethnographers, and educational leaders. It is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators and professional development providers, educational researchers, as well as policy makers in the field of ELT.
Between the Fictional World of Gilead and Reality. An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in the Context of the Abortion Law Discussion in the United States
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, Karlsruhe University of Education (Fakult瓣t 1), course: Literary and Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper thoroughly examines the profound analogies between At-wood's dystopian universe and the ongoing debates over abortion rights in the U.S. It illustrates how the fictional world of Gilead functions as a reflection of real social anxieties and political controversies. To support this thesis, various sources and literary works are drawn upon to explore key features that will substantiate the argument throughout the paper. Since abortion laws in the United States are a highly controversial and dynamic issue, constantly subject to change, current developments must always be taken into account. By the time this work is read, new legal or societal changes may have already occurred. On June 24, 2022, news shook the United States (U.S): The Supreme Court had overturned the historic Roe v. Wade ruling. In an instant, the decades-long guarantee of the right to abortion was over. This led to massive protests, especially among women, who used the slogan "My body, my choice" as a powerful symbol of women's self-determination and bodily autonomy. Abortion, the medical termination of an unwanted pregnancy, is not only a legal issue but also deeply rooted in the feminist movement. Feminism, which advocates for "[...] social, economic, and political equality of the sexes", sees control over one's own body as a central human right. The overturning of the ruling seemed to call into question many of these hard-won women's rights and fueled the debate about gender equality as well as the role of women in American society. The withdrawal of this freedom and control over one's own body by the state is contrasted in Margaret Atwood's dys-topian society Gilead in her novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985). "The story follows Offred, a handmaid who is forced to bear chil
Watchmen and Semiotics
Comics present a wealth of material for study and research, with a very broad corpus that allows for countless sections and analyses. This book analyzes the symbols in the graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, based on Peirce's second trichotomy of signs and his semiotic approach. Four symbols were chosen that appear recurrently in the story: the smile, the Rorschach mask, the hydrogen atom and the doomsday clock.
The Haunted West
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history Drawing upon the mythic figure of William F. Cody, or "Buffalo Bill," the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (BBCW) is complex of five museums in Cody, Wyoming, that celebrate the "spirit of the West." The authors of The Haunted West use the BBCW as a prism through which readers can view the center's complex ethos: Anglo-American guilt along with a reverence for Native American culture, a sacred and sublime vision of the region embodied in Western art, a vexed celebration of the West's endangered natural resources, and the ever-presence of violence in the weaponry on display. The BBCW includes the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indian Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Museum of Natural History, and the Cody Firearms Museum. The Haunted Westexplores the way that the multiple histories of the American West in these installations disrupt and erupt into the present, like apparitions whose forgotten and suppressed stories return to contest and unsettle familiar contemporary narratives. Through the powerful interplay of presence and absence in its displays, the ethos of the center functions as a haunt for American identity even as it is haunted by horrors of the nation's colonial past. A product of two decades of work, The Haunted West offers a rich interpretive approach to memory spaces everywhere, and museums in particular.
The Semiotics of Toys and Games
Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play. It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses. Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen, as well as on the social semiotics of Halliday, Hodge, Kress, and others, the book introduces a framework for the multimodal semiotic analysis of physical objects, and the ways in which they are digitally translated into words, images and sounds. It also introduces a multimodal framework with a focus on designs for and in learning. It then applies these frameworks to a range of toys and games for young children including teddy bears, dolls, construction toys, war toys and digital games. Throughout it shows how the toy and games industry contributes to changing the nature of childhood and the way children learn about the world. Accessibly written, the book will not only be relevant to students and scholars of multimodality and semiotics, but also to early childhood educators and parents of young children.
Conversational Storytelling in Spanish-English Bilingual Couples
For more than three decades, the percentage of people who married someone of a different race, ethnicity, culture, or linguistic background has been on the rise in the United States, but the communication practices of such couples have remained understudied. Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores and describes the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each from different geographic and cultural backgrounds. Based on more than 900 minutes of conversations and interviews, the book offers a data-driven analysis of the ways in which language choices and gender performance shape the stories, conversations, and identities of bilingual couples, which in turn shape the social order of bilingual communities. Using a combination of methodologies to investigate how couples launch, tell, and respond to each other's stories, the book identifies seven main factors that the couples see as primary determinants of their choice of English and Spanish during couple communication. The use of conversation analysis highlights the couples' own practices and perceptions of their language choices, demonstrating how the private language decisions of bilingual couples enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared linguistic and cultural habits.
Insights from Moroccan authors
Mohsine KHROU brilliantly meets this challenge with his short essays on French-speaking Moroccan authors, published in 2024 by Editions Universitaires Europ矇ennes under the title "Regards d'auteurs marocains". Aimed at a wide readership in search of contemporary literary discoveries, as well as informed connoisseurs of this corpus, Mohsine KHROU's work offers a new and lesser-known voice in French-speaking circles. Reading this book promises an immersive experience, inviting inner and outer resonance with this literary constellation, with each author distinguishing his or her singularity within this diversity. Without artifice or complexity, the book avoids rigid classification or jargon, opting for clear, effective titles that leave room for unconstrained discovery. The culture of the Maghrebian writer, the fruit of a melting pot of knowledge, is nourished by encounters, influences and varied inspirations. While opening up to the French language, Maghrebi writers remain deeply rooted in their own culture, drawing inspiration from daily life and age-old traditions to enrich their writings.
Autobiographical narratives
I present this material as another means of studying teacher training in the scientific context, using qualitative/interpretative data analysis as a source to identify the most varied aspects of mother tongue teachers' identities through autobiographical narratives, emphasising grammar teaching, literature teaching, ICT applied to teaching and contemporary pedagogical trends.
