Beyond Language

Author : Betsy Rymes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136473326

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Communicating Beyond Language by Betsy Rymes Pdf

This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell stories, the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make – and how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of identity. Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow over the course of a lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective can lead to a rethinking of cultural diversity and human interaction, from categorizing people’s differences to understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social spheres. Rymes affirms the importance of the communicative repertoires concept with highly engaging discussions and contemporary examples from mass media, popular culture, and everyday life. The result is a fresh and exciting work that will resonate with students and scholars in sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and education.

Author : Emanuele Severino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350285224

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Beyond Language by Emanuele Severino Pdf

Beyond Language (Oltre il Linguaggio) is one of Italian philosopher Emmanuele Severino's major works, wrestling with whether it's possible to think meaningfully outside of the restrictions of language. Increasingly recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory, Severino's ideas around self-expression, forms of communication and the limitations of language continue are brought to the fore in this book. Beyond Language specifically opens the door to the themes that Severino developed in his later works, including the concrete meaning of self-being and the decline of language. The depth and breadth of Severino's philosophical insight is as profound today as it was when first penned in 1992, making this first English translation of a key work in the history of continental philosophy crucial reading for those engaged with contemporary theory.

Author : Marta Fernández-Villanueva,Konstanze Jungbluth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110456547

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Beyond Language Boundaries by Marta Fernández-Villanueva,Konstanze Jungbluth Pdf

The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers. Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greetings and farewells. The contributions secondly focus on verbal features of language use in multilingual contexts related to self-representation and co-construction of identity through code-switching, deixis or argumentative reasoning in different communicative events based on multilingual data of languages including Croatian, English, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese and Polish. The findings call for a reviewed conception of grammar description with implications also for the conceptualization of deixis, for L2/foreign language acquisition and language teaching policies.

Author : Khay Tham Nehemiah Lim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272682

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Not Beyond Language by Khay Tham Nehemiah Lim Pdf

The problem of speaking about God arises from the presumed notion that God is utterly transcendent and is “wholly other” from human existence. Moreover, a profound sense of mystery is held to surround God’s being. Even so, Not Beyond Language maintains that it is still possible for human beings to express and describe God in words—that language can bring genuine disclosure and understanding of the divine. However, given that religious language is problematic because inadequate, those who engage in speaking about God must accept that the words they use cannot be pressed to yield precise definitions or complete explanations of the divine. The author proposes a nuanced approach to the use of religious language which revolves more around meaning and relevance of the discourse about divine reality, than objective claims about who or what God is.

Author : Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799819646

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Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators by Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A. Pdf

Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds. This task requires training, professional development, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility to promote positive outcomes. Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators is a critical research publication that bridges linguistics theory and practice and comprehensively addresses all fundamentals of linguistics through the English language learning lens. Featuring topics such as curriculum design, immigrant students, and professional development, this book is essential for educators, academicians, administrators, curriculum designers, instructional designers, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Author : Rodney B. Sangster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110838572

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Roman Jakobson and Beyond: Language as a System of Signs by Rodney B. Sangster Pdf

Author : Vern R. Walker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666701555

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Beyond Language by Vern R. Walker Pdf

Our use of everyday language should be mysterious, but familiarity hides the feeling of mystery. This book is a brief meditation on that mysterious activity. Building language outward from descriptions of the present moment, the meditation moves through our talk about space and time, to the realm of everyday thinking and science. But language enriches us further--through communities of meaning (morality, art, mysticism) to transcendence (the universe, God, and self). This meditation repeatedly cycles us from familiarity to wonder--about community, about consciousness, and ultimately about life itself.

Author : Helena Hargaden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000886382

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Beyond Language in Relational Psychotherapy by Helena Hargaden Pdf

This collection of articles by Dr. Helena Hargaden makes the case for the evolution of relational theory from a scientific and poetic knowledge base, expressing the different forms of human suffering. Journal articles, book chapters, and speeches spanning the course of 22 years trace the evolution of the author’s own mind alongside the evolution of relational theory. Drawing on her knowledge of science and poetry, Dr. Hargaden examines case studies tracing the relational process which involves the vulnerability of both therapist and client as change happens in them through complex relatedness. The author makes broad in depth theoretical links with humanistic and psychoanalytic perspectives which reveal the richness inherent in the term ‘Relational’. Themes explored include intersubjectivity, the use of the analyst’s subjectivity, mutuality, therapy as a two-way street, dissociation, enactment, the use of ‘the third’, race, gender and sexuality. Blending approachable language and themes with highly intellectual ideas, this text will be of high value and intrigue to a wide range of readers, particularly transactional analysts and relational psychotherapists.

Author : Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477320273

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My Shadow Is My Skin by Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery Pdf

The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a vast, global diaspora, with many Iranians establishing new lives in the United States. In the four decades since, the diaspora has expanded to include not only those who emigrated immediately after the revolution but also their American-born children, more recent immigrants, and people who married into Iranian families, all of whom carry their own stories of trauma, triumph, adversity, and belonging that reflect varied and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be Iranian or Iranian American. The essays in My Shadow Is My Skin are these stories. This collection brings together thirty-two authors, both established and emerging, whose writing captures the diversity of diasporic experiences. Reflecting on the Iranian American experience over the past forty years and shedding new light on themes of identity, duality, and alienation in twenty-first-century America, the authors present personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the news media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. My Shadow Is My Skin pulls back the curtain on a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.

Author : Mary R. Harmon,Marilyn J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135653538

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Beyond Grammar by Mary R. Harmon,Marilyn J. Wilson Pdf

Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom asks readers to think about the power of words, the power of language attitudes, and the power of language policies as they play out in communities, in educational institutions, and in their own lives as individuals, teachers, and participants in the larger community. Each chapter provides extended discussion of a set of critical language issues that directly affect students in classrooms: the political nature of language, the power of words, hate language and bullying, gender and language, dialects, and language policies. Written for pre-service and practicing teachers, this text addresses how teachers can alert students to the realities of language and power--removing language study from a “neutral” corner to situate it within the context of political, social, and cultural issues. Developing a critical pedagogy about language instruction can help educators understand that classrooms can either maintain existing inequity or address and diminish inequity through critical language study. A common framework structures the chapters of the text: * Each chapter begins with an overview of the language issue in question, and includes references for further research and for classroom use, and provides applications for classroom teachers. * Numerous references to the popular press and the breadth of language issues found therein foreground current thought on socio-cultural language issues, attitudes, standards, and policies found in the culture(s) at large. * References to current and recent events illustrate the language issue’s importance, cartoons address the issue, and brief “For Thought” activities illustrate the point being discussed and extend the reader’s knowledge and awareness. * “Personal Explorations” ask readers to go beyond the text to develop further understanding; “Teaching Explorations” ask teachers to apply chapter content to teaching situations. Beyond Grammar: Language, Power, and the Classroom is intended for undergraduate and master’s level courses that address literacy education, linguistics, and issues of language and culture.

Author : David Nunan,Jack C. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134675739

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Language Learning Beyond the Classroom by David Nunan,Jack C. Richards Pdf

This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts, from North and South America to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each provides principled links between theory, research and practice. While out-of-class learning will not replace the classroom, ultimately all successful learners take control of their own learning. This book shows how teachers can help learners bridge the gap between formal instruction and autonomous language learning. Although English is the primary focus of most chapters, there are studies on a range of other languages including Spanish and Japanese.

Author : Deena R. Levine,Mara B. Adelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125386004

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Beyond language : cross-cultural communication by Deena R. Levine,Mara B. Adelman Pdf

Author : B. Gasparov
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9780231157803

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Beyond Pure Reason by B. Gasparov Pdf

Conducting an analysis of Saussure's intellectual heritage, this book links Sassurean notions of cognition, language, and history to early Romantic theories of cognition and the transmission of cultural memory. In particular, several fundamental categories of Saussure's philosophy of language, such as the differential nature of language, the mutability and immutability of semiotic values, and the duality of the signifier and the signified, are rooted in early Romantic theories of 'progressive' cognition and child cognitive development.

Author : Karen Dakin,Claudia Parodi,Natalie Operstein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265715

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Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond by Karen Dakin,Claudia Parodi,Natalie Operstein Pdf

Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fresh empirical data from living and/or extinct Mesoamerican languages (from the Mayan, Uto-Aztecan, Totonac-Tepehuan and Otomanguean groups), neighboring non-Mesoamerican languages (Apachean, Arawakan, Andean languages), as well as Spanish. Language-contact effects in these diverse languages and language groups are typically analyzed by different subfields of linguistics that do not necessarily interact with one another. It is hoped that this volume, which contains works from different scholarly traditions that represent a variety of approaches to the study of language contact, will contribute to the lessening of this compartmentalization. The volume is relevant to researchers of language contact and contact-induced change and to anyone interested both in the historical development and present features of indigenous languages of the Americas and Latin American Spanish.

Author : Andrea Simitch,Val Warke
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781627880480

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The Language of Architecture by Andrea Simitch,Val Warke Pdf

DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines./divDIV /divDIVWhether you’re new to the field or have been an architect for years, you’ll want to flip through the pages of this book throughout your career and use it as the go-to reference for inspiration, ideas, and reminders of how a strong knowledge of the basics allows for meaningful, memorable, and beautiful fashions that extend beyond trends./divDIV /divDIVThis comprehensive learning tool is the one book you’ll want as a staple in your library./divDIV /div