Cultural Transformations In The English Speaking World

Author : Cécile Cottenet,Jean-Christophe Murat,Nathalie Vanfasse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443817899

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Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World by Cécile Cottenet,Jean-Christophe Murat,Nathalie Vanfasse Pdf

In a context where cultural transformations have become a basic feature of modern life as people and nations are brought closer together, this book tackles transformations occurring within and across cultures of the English-speaking world in the fields of literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It helps readers decipher these dynamic phenomena and situate them in a historical perspective. The articles move within and across cultures and mirror the broad range of approaches to cultural practices that have appeared in the past few decades. They provide readers with tools to work out the transformations these practices undergo and the new life and meaning this process infuses into cultures of the English-speaking world. This book will be useful to graduate and doctoral students as well as post-doctoral researchers working in film studies, cultural studies, art history, literature and creative writing. Its clear language and pedagogical approaches will also make it accessible to the general public.

Author : Thelma Barlow Blaxall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483664170

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Cultural Transformation in the Back Country by Thelma Barlow Blaxall Pdf

Whispers I hear the whispers of my ancestors; what are they saying? This continuous beat of memories not known, hammering to be let out of my head. The far away rumble of noise, disquieting in its persistent clang, as if a battle is being staged for my benefit, a battle of words and ideas. Hear me! Hear me! it says, I have much to say. Listen! Listen! there is much to learn of your past.

Author : Shen Chen,Thi Thuy Le
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351027168

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Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language by Shen Chen,Thi Thuy Le Pdf

The importance of integrating the teaching and learning of language and culture has been widely recognised and emphasized. However, how to teach English as an International Language (EIL) and cultures in an integrative way in non-native English speaking countries remains problematic and has largely failed to enable language learners to meet local and global communication demands. Developing students’ intercultural competence is one of the key missions of teaching cultures. This book examines a range of well-established models and paradigms from both English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. Exploring questions of why, what, and how to best teach cultures, the authors propose an integrated model to suit non-native English contexts in the Asia Pacific. The chapters deal with other critical issues such as the relationship between language and power, the importance of power relations in communication, the relationship between teaching cultures and national interests, and balancing tradition and change in the era of globalisation. The book will be valuable to academics and students of foreign language education, particularly those teaching English as an international language in non-native English countries.

Author : Nicholas M. Wolf
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780299302740

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An Irish-Speaking Island by Nicholas M. Wolf Pdf

This groundbreaking book shatters historical stereotypes, demonstrating that, in the century before 1870, Ireland was not an anglicized kingdom and was capable of articulating modernity in the Irish language. It gives a dynamic account of the complexity of Ireland in the nineteenth century, developments in church and state, and the adaptive bilingualism found across all regions, social levels, and religious persuasions.

Author : Alexander M Ervin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317261780

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Cultural Transformations and Globalization by Alexander M Ervin Pdf

Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and humanity s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions especially complexity and emergence theory, social movements, network analysis, and globalization. Ervin presents a rich legacy of theories and case studies accessible to both the established scholar and the beginning student. He considers how theories and insights can inform policy as humanity faces crises of globalization.Key Features of the Text Designed for scholars and students seeking a comprehensive analysis of the relation between anthropological theory and practice. Assesses big questions facing the social sciences: Do cultures and societies change or is it really individuals, families, and social networks? Are there prime movers of change environment, technology, economics, ideas, powerful leaders, or cultural contacts? Are there structures embedded within changes and changes built into structures? Original contribution of the book is the integration of sociological and anthropological theories, including networks, social movements, complexity, world systems, etc. Online appendices include resources for students on applied and practice anthropology."

Author : Linda Pillière,Wilfrid Andrieu,Valérie Kerfelec,Diana Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107191051

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Standardising English by Linda Pillière,Wilfrid Andrieu,Valérie Kerfelec,Diana Lewis Pdf

Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English.

Author : Don Chapman,Jacob D. Rawlins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788928397

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Language Prescription by Don Chapman,Jacob D. Rawlins Pdf

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

Author : Linda Pillière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350151895

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Intralingual Translation of British Novels by Linda Pillière Pdf

Shortlisted for the ESSE 2022 Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2022 SAES / AFEA Research Prize Building on an upsurge of interest in the Americanisation of British novels triggered by the Harry Potter series, this book explores the various ways that British novels, from children's fiction to travelogues and Book Prize winners, have been adapted and rewritten for the US market. Drawing on a vast corpus of over 80 works and integrating the latest research in multimodality and stylistics, Linda Pillière analyses the modifications introduced to make British English texts more culturally acceptable and accessible to the American English reader. From paratextual differences in cover, illustrations, typeface and footnotes to dialectal changes to lexis, tense, syntax and punctuation, Pillière explores the sociocultural and ideological pressures involved in intralingual translation and shows how the stylistic effects of such changes – including loss of meaning, voice, rhythm and word play – often result in a more muted American edition. In doing so, she reveals how homing in on numerous small adjustments can provide fascinating insights into the American publishing process and readership.

Author : Elana Shapira,Daniela Finzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030517878

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Freud and the Émigré by Elana Shapira,Daniela Finzi Pdf

This book reconsiders standard narratives regarding Austrian émigrés and exiles to Britain by addressing the seminal role of Sigmund Freud and his writings, and the critical part played by his contemporaries, in the construction of a method promoting humanized relations between individual and society and subjectivity and culture. This anthology presents groundbreaking examples of the manners in which well-known personalities including psychoanalysts Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, sociologist Marie Jahoda, authors Stefan Zweig and Hilde Spiel, film director Berthold Viertel, architect Ernst Freud, and artist Oskar Kokoschka, achieved a greater impact, and contributed to the broadening of British and global cultures, through constructing a psychologically effective language and activating their émigré networks. They advanced a visionary Viennese tradition through political and social engagements and through promoting humanistic perspectives in their scientific, educational and artistic works.

Author : Lahoussine Hamdoune,Bouchra Benlemlih
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793624338

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Global Identities in Transit by Lahoussine Hamdoune,Bouchra Benlemlih Pdf

Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores the myriad aspects of identity formation and identity representation in an increasingly globalized world. Covering a variety of cultural and historical experiences in addition to several texts of world literatures, the contributors discuss the configurations of transnationality and transculturality in our postcolonial and globalized world. Acknowledging that nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class are continually shaped by historical processes, the contributors hone in on the ways that the increase in mobility via migration, diaspora, and exile render identities always in transit In the face of structural inequalities and social injustices predominant in this context, the chapters reflect on the moral obligations of representation. This collection will be of interest to scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature.

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134576975

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The Postcolonial Exotic by Graham Huggan Pdf

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

Author : Linda Pillière,Özlem Berk Albachten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003835141

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The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation by Linda Pillière,Özlem Berk Albachten Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation provides the first comprehensive overview of intralingual translation, or the rewording or rewriting of a text. This handbook aims to examine intralingual translation from every possible angle. The introduction gives an overview of the theoretical, political, and ideological issues involved and is followed by the first section which investigates intralingual translation from a diachronic perspective covering the modernization of classical texts. Subsequent sections consider different dialects and registers and intralingual translation from one language mode to another, explore concepts such as self-translating, trans-editing, and the role of copyeditors and investigate the increasing interest in the role of intralingual translation and second language learning. Final sections examine recent developments in intralingual translation such as the subtitling of speech for the hard-of-hearing, simultaneous Easy Language interpreting or respeaking in parliamentary debates. By providing an in-depth study on intralingual translation, the Handbook sheds light on other important areas of translation that are often bypassed including publishing practices, authorship, and ideological constraints. Authored by a range of established and new voices in the field, this is the essential guide to intralingual translation for advanced students and researchers of translation studies.

Author : José M. Faraldo,Carolina Rodríguez-López
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443837019

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Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project by José M. Faraldo,Carolina Rodríguez-López Pdf

This book explores an aspect of the complex cultural history of 20th-century exile: the influences of transnational experiences on the views of emigrants and exiles concerning their own academic, scientific and intellectual cultures. These essays focus on the reflections of people who left their countries during the period of 1933–1945. Many of them reconsidered their own past in the old country and compared it with their actual experiences in the adopted homeland. The individual cases presented here share a similar theoretical framework. The book is divided into two sections: the first one focuses on the German and Spanish lost project, and the second one deals with the East European projects – focused on Polish and Rumanian examples above all. From the perspective of transnational history, Merel Leeman analyzes the cases of two special exiles: George Mosse and Peter Gay. Spaniards’ American projects is the main topic of Carolina Rodríguez-López’s analysis of Spanish scholars in the US. Natacha Bolufer focuses on associations and newspapers like Liberación which paid special attention to Spanish leftists suffering from Franco’s political measures. José M. Faraldo looks at the cases of refugees from Eastern European countries – mainly from Romania and Poland – who escaped to Spain after the fall of the axis in 1945. Mihaela Albu describes the diversity and plurality of Romanian exiles in the Western world, in diverse countries of Europe and also in the US. This book aims to encourage the dialogue and comparison among diverse exiles.

Author : Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Composers in Context
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108496698

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Benjamin Britten in Context by Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers Pdf

A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000066767060

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Defense Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Pdf