The Persistence Of Language

Author : Shannon T. Bischoff,Deborah Cole,Amy V. Fountain,Mizuki Miyashita
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272249

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The Persistence of Language by Shannon T. Bischoff,Deborah Cole,Amy V. Fountain,Mizuki Miyashita Pdf

This edited collection presents two sets of interdisciplinary conversations connecting theoretical, methodological, and ideological issues in the study of language. In the first section, Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, the authors connect historical, theoretical, and documentary linguistics to examine the crucial role of endangered language data for the development of biopsychological theory and to highlight how methodological decisions impact language revitalization efforts. Section two, Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies, connects anthropological and documentary linguistics to examine how discourses of language contact, endangerment, linguistic purism and racism shape scholarly practice and language policy and to underscore the need for linguists and laypersons alike to acquire the analytical tools to deconstruct discourses of inequality. Together, these chapters pay homage to the scholarship of Jane H. Hill, demonstrating how a critical, interdisciplinary linguistics narrows the gap between disparate fields of analysis to treat the ecology of language in its entirety.

Author : Rob Kroes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252019318

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The Persistence of Ethnicity by Rob Kroes Pdf

Author : Glick, Danny,Cohen, Anat,Chang, Chi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799850755

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Early Warning Systems and Targeted Interventions for Student Success in Online Courses by Glick, Danny,Cohen, Anat,Chang, Chi Pdf

Online learning has increasingly been viewed as a possible way to remove barriers associated with traditional face-to-face teaching, such as overcrowded classrooms and shortage of certified teachers. While online learning has been recognized as a possible approach to deliver more desirable learning outcomes, close to half of online students drop out as a result of student-related, course-related, and out-of-school-related factors (e.g., poor self-regulation; ineffective teacher-student, student-student, and platform-student interactions; low household income). Many educators have expressed concern over students who unexpectedly begin to struggle and appear to fall off track without apparent reason. A well-implemented early warning system, therefore, can help educators identify students at risk of dropping out and assign and monitor interventions to keep them on track for graduation. Despite the popularity of early warning systems, research on their design and implementation is sparse. Early Warning Systems and Targeted Interventions for Student Success in Online Courses is a cutting-edge research publication that examines current theoretical frameworks, research projects, and empirical studies related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of early warning systems and targeted interventions and discusses their implications for policy and practice. Moreover, this book will review common challenges of early warning systems and dashboard design and will explore design principles and data visualization tools to make data more understandable and, therefore, more actionable. Highlighting a range of topics such as curriculum design, game-based learning, and learning support, it is ideal for academicians, policymakers, administrators, researchers, education professionals, instructional designers, data analysts, and students.

Author : Gabriel R. Ricci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351477550

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The Persistence of Critical Theory by Gabriel R. Ricci Pdf

The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical theory, which challenges the limits of positivism and materialism. We may question how the theoretical framework of Marxism fails to coordinate with the conditions that defined labor forces, as did Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, or deliberate on the conditions that justify the claims we make through public discourse, as did Jurgen Habermas. Or, like Axel Honneth, we may reflect on recognition theory as a means of addressing social problems. Whatever our objective, the focus of critical theory continues to be the consciousness of established "positive" interests that, without debate, may sustain injustices or conditions which the public may not have chosen to impose. Throughout the hardship of punitive dismissal and exile in the 1930s and 40s, and the shock of the New Left in the 1960s and 70s, and finally the later linguistic and pragmatic turn, the Frankfurt School has sustained the idea that people escape disaffection and alienation when their knowledge of the social and political world is dialectically mediated through creative interaction. This new volume in the Culture and Civilization series continues the tradition of critical thought.

Author : H. Samy Alim,Angela Reyes,Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190846015

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The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race by H. Samy Alim,Angela Reyes,Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity. But while research traditions that explore the linguistic complexities of gender and sexuality have long been established, the study of race as a linguistic issue has only emerged recently. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race positions issues of race as central to language-based scholarship. In twenty-one chapters divided into four sections-Foundations and Formations; Coloniality and Migration; Embodiment and Intersectionality; and Racism and Representations-authors at the forefront of this rapidly expanding field present state-of-the-art research and establish future directions of research. Covering a range of sites from around the world, the handbook offers theoretical, reflexive takes on language and race, the larger histories and systems that influence these concepts, the bodies that enact and experience them, and the expressions and outcomes that emerge as a result. As the study of language and race continues to take on a growing importance across anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, education, linguistics, literature, psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, and the academy as a whole, this volume represents a timely, much-needed effort to focus these fields on both the central role that language plays in racialization and on the enduring relevance of race and racism.

Author : R. Thorp,M. Paredes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230293137

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Ethnicity and the Persistence of Inequality by R. Thorp,M. Paredes Pdf

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Investigating the case of Peru, this book explores how inequality is embedded in institutions that constitute the interface between the economy, the polity and geography of the country.

Author : John Rosenberg,J.Leslie Keedy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447131786

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Security and Persistence by John Rosenberg,J.Leslie Keedy Pdf

During a short visit to Bremen in December 1989 John Rosenberg had several discussions with me about computer architecture. Although we had previously worked together for more than a decade in Australia we had not seen each other for over a year, following my move to Bremen in 1988. Meanwhile John was spending a year on study leave at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with Professor Ron Morrison and his persistent programming research group. From our conversations it was quite clear that John was having a most fruitful time in St. Andrews and was gaining valuable new insights into the world of persistent programming. He was very keen to explore the significance of these insights for the MONADS Project, which we had been jOintly directing since the early 1980s. MONADS was not about persistent programming. In fact it had quite different origins, in the areas of software engineering and information protection. In an earlier stage of the project our ideas on these themes had led us into the world of computer architecture and even hardware deSign, in our attempts to provide an efficient base machine for our software ideas. The most important practical result of this phase of the project had been the development of the MONADS-PC, a mini computer which would be better compared with say a V tv

Author : D. Northrup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137303073

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How English Became the Global Language by D. Northrup Pdf

In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions.

Author : Paul Stasi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009223140

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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction by Paul Stasi Pdf

Demonstrates the persistence of realism's characteristic concerns - sympathy, melodrama, gender and class - in the most aesthetically innovative works of modernist fiction.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199641604

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The Oxford Handbook of the Word by John R. Taylor Pdf

The word is central to both naive and expert theories of language. Yet the definition of 'word' remains problematic. The 42 chapters of this Handbook offer a variety of perspectives on this most basic and elusive of linguistic units.

Author : Tore Langholm
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988-10-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0937073342

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Partiality, Truth and Persistence by Tore Langholm Pdf

In recent years, 'semantical partiality' has emerged as an important concept in philosophical logic as well as in the study of natural language semantics. Despite the many applications, however, a number of mathematically intriguing questions associated with this concept have received only very limited attention. Partiality, Truth, and Persistence is a study in spatial model theory, the theory of partially defined models. First, with the introduction of truth value gaps in semantics, there are many ways to generalize the classical truth definition for the sentences of a first order predicate language. We know what it means for a sentence to be true or false in a classical, complete model, but how do we extend this relation when partial models are introduced? Various alternatives exist, and a detailed comparison is carried out between them. Since these studies concern a full first order predicate language, many distinctions appear that do not arise in the case of pure propositional logic. A condition of monotonicity or 'persistence' of truth relative to partial models has a prominent position among conditions that are not expressible in the framework of standard, complete model theory. The final chapter investigates the relation between such conditions and expressibility properties in general. These discussions culminate with a combined Lindstrom and persistence characterization theorem. Tore Langholm is a research fellow in mathematics at the University of Oslo. He is a co-author of Situations, Language and Logic.

Author : Peter Messent,Louis J. Budd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119045397

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A Companion to Mark Twain by Peter Messent,Louis J. Budd Pdf

This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism

Author : Eliga H. Gould
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899878

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The Persistence of Empire by Eliga H. Gould Pdf

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Delphine Louis-Dimitrov,Estelle Murail
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783031409349

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The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov,Estelle Murail Pdf

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, spanning cultures and schools of thought. Drawing on philosophical, religious and psychological theories of the soul, it emphasizes the far-reaching and enduring epistemological function of the concept in literature, art and politics. The authors argue that the concept of the soul has shaped the understanding of human life and persistently irrigated cultural productions. They show how the concept of soul was explored and redefined by writers and artists, remaining relevant even as it became removed from its ancient or Christian origins.

Author : Robert Bayley,Richard Cameron,Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199344079

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The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics by Robert Bayley,Richard Cameron,Ceil Lucas Pdf

From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more broadly inclusive view of sociolinguistics. Hence there is a need for a handbook that will survey the main areas of the field, point out the lacunae in our existing knowledge base, and provide directions for future research. The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics will differ from existing work in four major respects. First, it will emphasize new methodological developments, particularly the convergence of linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. Second, it will include chapters on sociolinguistic developments in areas of the world that have been relatively neglected in the major journals. Third, its chapters are written by contributors who have worked in a range of languages and whose work addresses sociolinguistic issues in bi- and multilingual contexts, i.e. the contexts in which a majority of the world's population lives. Finally, it will include substantial material on the rapidly growing study of sign language sociolinguistics.