Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia

Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia

Author: K. Langston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1137390603

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Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity, focusing on the period after Croatian independence.


A Novel of London

A Novel of London

Author: Milos Crnjanski

Publisher: Dialogos / Lavender Ink

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 9781944884666

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Here at long last in English, almost five decades after the publication of the original, is the classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Milos Crnjanski as one of the great voices of the 20th century. The novel follows an aging Russian émigré, Nikolai Repnin, as he attempts to make a life in the British capital in the 1940s.


Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy

Author: Rod Ellis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1118291379

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This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in classroom settings. Offers an accessible overview of a range of research on instruction and learning in the L2 classroom Bridges the relationship between research, teachers, and learners Helps evolve the practice of dedicated current language teachers with research findings that suggest best practices for language teaching


DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone

DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone

Author: Joshua A. Fishman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 113678960X

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This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.The novelty of this volume i


Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe

Sustaining Language Diversity in Europe

Author: G. Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-11-10

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230514685

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Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of democracy and how the current changes in governmental discourses accommodate linguistic and cultural diversity.


Body Language for Competent Teachers

Body Language for Competent Teachers

Author: Chris Caswell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1134919492

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Clearly illustrated, this book aims to show new teachers how to use gesture, posture, facial expression and tone of voice effectively to establish a good relationship with the classes that they teach.


Metalinguistic Discourses

Metalinguistic Discourses

Author: Viviane Arigne

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 144388314X

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This book was born from the desire to conduct an inquiry into the heterogeneity and variety of linguistic theories in order to assess their descriptive and explanatory power. The first part of the volume brings together contributions addressing formal and theoretical issues. It focuses on the specific questions of metalinguistic discourses, representations and formal symbols, and considers the case of representations pertaining to different metalinguistic levels and their possible translation from one level to another. The essays compiled in this section also examine how generative semantics paved the way for current trends in cognitive linguistics, and provide an analysis of the historical and epistemological context of the notion of metafunction found in Systemic Functional Grammar. The contributions gathered in the second part of the book evaluate the results of a certain number of linguistic studies, putting various theories to the test. They specifically discuss the notion of intersective gradience, analyse modality and the question of irony within two different theoretical frameworks, and deal with parenthetical verbs in the light of an utterer-centred approach. This book will appeal to all linguists with an interest in linguistic theories, to advanced students in linguistics, as well as to scholars in cognate fields such as epistemology, philosophy of language, psychology and neurosciences.


Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

Author: Nils Langer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 3110901358

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Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.