Multiple Perspectives On Language Play

Author : Nancy Bell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503993

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Multiple Perspectives on Language Play by Nancy Bell Pdf

Interest in language play and linguistic creativity has increased in recent years, and the topic has been taken up from a variety of perspectives. In this book, disparate approaches to the topic are brought together, demonstrating that a number of phenomena whose similarities might not have been immediately recognized, have an academic home under the umbrella of language play and linguistic creativity. The contributions to this collection illustrate the variety of questions that can be asked regarding the social, cognitive, emotional, political, and cultural mechanisms and significance of innovative linguistic practices and point to new directions of inquiry. Furthermore, the work exemplifies a variety of ways in which this research can be carried out, as well as the range of contexts in which it might be investigated, including second language classrooms, online settings, and workplaces. Taken together, the chapters serve to illustrate the range of work that we will be accepting in the Language Play and Creativity series; viewed individually, each makes a unique contribution to some aspect of our understanding of creative language use.

Author : Olivia N. Saracho,Bernard Spodek
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791436152

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Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education by Olivia N. Saracho,Bernard Spodek Pdf

While teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational. This volume reflects current research in the child development and early childhood education fields.

Author : Leslie M. Beebe
Publisher : Newbury House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014194628

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Issues in Second Language Acquisition by Leslie M. Beebe Pdf

Author : Darren LaScotte,Elaine Tarone
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110787696

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Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech by Darren LaScotte,Elaine Tarone Pdf

The studies in this volume show how multilingual learners use language play in second language acquisition to internalize sets of ‘voices’ (rather than decontextualized linguistic systems), namely complexes of linguistic and non-linguistic features incorporating the personalities of significant others. In sociocultural terms, these internalized heteroglossic voices become tools that learners can adapt and use playfully to enact chosen roles, stances, and identities in subsequent oral interactions. Different chapters explore these sociocultural constructs using different approaches, including variationist sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, translanguaging, and positioning theory.

Author : Sarah Mercer,Marion Williams
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783091355

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Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA by Sarah Mercer,Marion Williams Pdf

This collection of papers brings together a diverse range of conceptualisations of the self in the domain of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The volume attempts to unite a fragmented field and provides a thorough overview of the ways in which the self can be conceptualised in SLA contexts.

Author : Kathleen A. Roskos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351553964

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Play and Literacy in Early Childhood by Kathleen A. Roskos Pdf

This volume brings together studies, research syntheses, and critical commentaries that examine play-literacy relationships from cognitive, ecological, and cultural perspectives. The cognitive view focuses on mental processes that appear to link play and literacy activities; the ecological stance examines opportunities to engage in literacy-related play in specific environments; and the social-cultural position stresses the interface between the literacy and play cultures of home, community, and the school. Examining play from these diverse perspectives provides a multidimensional view that deepens understanding and opens up new avenues for research and educational practice. Each set of chapters is followed by a critical review by a distinguished play scholar. These commentaries' focus is to hold research on play and literacy up to scrutiny in terms of scientific significance, methodology, and utility for practice. A Foreword by Margaret Meek situates these studies in the context of current trends in literacy learning and instruction. Earlier studies on the role of play in early literacy acquisition provided considerable information about the types of reading and writing activities that children engage in during play and how this literacy play is affected by variables such as props, peers, and adults. However, they did not deal extensively, as this book does, with the functional significance of play in the literacy development of individual children. This volume pushes the study of play and literacy into new areas. It is indispensable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of early childhood education and early literacy development.

Author : Howard Giles
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820467391

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Intergroup Communication by Howard Giles Pdf

Annotation This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of intergroup communication. Chapters apply Social Identity Theory and related perspectives to communication phenomena. Contributions from international scholars describe communication processes across cultures, gender and sexuality, disability, linguistic, and age groups. The important role that intergroup processes play in interpersonal, small group, organizational and mass communication is explicated, along with the implications for communication using new technology. The book will be invaluable for scholars in the areas of communication and intergroup social psychology, and is suited for upper division undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in those areas.

Author : Alison Mackey,Charlene Polio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135591021

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Multiple Perspectives on Interaction by Alison Mackey,Charlene Polio Pdf

This volume in honor of Susan M. Gass focuses on interaction in second language acquisition from multiple perspectives. International experts in the field of SLA contribute insights and explanations on the interaction approach's compatibility with other theoretical approaches, key empirical studies, interaction in specific contexts, and future directions. Readers will find an enriching discussion of how the interaction research tradition is viewed in a wide range of different approaches to learning and teaching second languages.

Author : Cristina Dozio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110725414

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Laugh like an Egyptian by Cristina Dozio Pdf

Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

Author : Bente A. Svendsen,Rickard Jonsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003811831

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture by Bente A. Svendsen,Rickard Jonsson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research. Young people are often seen to be at the frontline of linguistic creativity and pioneering communicative technologies. Their linguistic practices are considered a primary means of exploring linguistic change as well as the role of language in social life, such as how language and identity, ideology and power intersect. Bringing together leading and cutting-edge perspectives from thought leaders across the globe, this handbook: • addresses how young people’s cultural practices, as well as forces like class, gender, ethnicity and race, influence language • considers emotions, affect, age and ageism, materiality, embodiment and the political youth, as well as processes of unmooring language and place • critically reflects on our understandings of terms such as ‘language’, ‘youth’ and ‘culture’, drawing on insights from youth studies to help contextualise age within power dynamics • features examples from a wide range of linguistic contexts such as social media and the classroom, as well as expressions such as graffiti, gestures and different musical genres including grime and hip-hop. Providing important insights into how young people think, feel, act, and communicate in the complexity of a polarised world, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers in disciplines including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, multilingualism, youth studies and sociology.

Author : Herbert L. Colston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108421652

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How Language Makes Meaning by Herbert L. Colston Pdf

Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.

Author : Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351164061

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics by Naoko Taguchi Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades. Demonstrating the ways in which pragmatics has long served as a lens through which to examine patterns of L2 development, the volume is divided into six parts which reflect the field’s structure and evolution: • Constructs and units of analysis • Theoretical approaches • Methodological approaches • Pedagogical approaches • Contexts and individual considerations • L2 pragmatics in the global era The handbook has a particular focus on covering not only traditional topics in the field, such as constructs of pragmatic competence (e.g., speech acts, implicature), teaching and assessment, and pragmatics learning in a study abroad program, but also emerging areas of study, including interactional pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, usage-based approaches, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Each chapter introduces the topic and follows with a description of its theoretical underpinnings, an overview of existing literature, appraisal of current practice, concluding with a discussion of future directions for research and key readings. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and language teaching.

Author : Hanh thi Nguyen,Taiane Malabarba
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788922906

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Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts by Hanh thi Nguyen,Taiane Malabarba Pdf

This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an additional language. It covers three themes: learners’ development of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and testing practices, and sociocultural and ideological forces that may impact classroom interaction. With a decided focus on English-as-a-Foreign-Language contexts, the studies involve varied learner populations, from children to young adults to adults, in different learning environments around the world. The insights gained will be of interest to EFL professionals, as well as teacher trainers, policymakers and researchers.

Author : Sender Dovchin,Alastair Pennycook,Shaila Sultana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319619552

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Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity by Sender Dovchin,Alastair Pennycook,Shaila Sultana Pdf

This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the creative and innovative nature of their transglossic practices. Situated on the Asian periphery, these young adults roam widely in their use of popular culture, media voices and linguistic resources. This innovative and topical book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies and linguistic anthropology.

Author : Villy Tsakona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511523

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Recontextualizing Humor by Villy Tsakona Pdf

Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students’ social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various disciplines (such as linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, folklore) as well as to professionals or researchers in education.