Language across boundaries [electronic resource] : selected papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, September 2000 / edited by Janet Cotterill, Anne Ife.

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British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting (33rd : 2000 : Anglia Polytechnic University) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : British Association for Applied Linguistics in association with Continuum, c2001.
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1 online resource (253 p.)

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Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the book reflects a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learni
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • Contents; Introduction; 1 Pushing at the boundaries: the expression of alternative masculinities; 2 The effect of social class and ethnicity on the discursive negotiation of femininities in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls; 3 'I'm glad you're not a knitting gran': non-normative family and locale discourses; 4 Exploring language, culture and identity: insights from sign language; 5 Global politics and the Englishes of the world; 6 Panjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: a case study of language maintenance and language loss
  • 7 Cross-language metaphors: parents and children, love, marriage and divorce in the European family8 Making sense across cultures: the establishment of coherence in translated texts; 9 Cultural resonance in English and Malay figurative phrases; 10 Translating sociolects: a paradigm of ideological issues in translation?; 11 Mother culture impact on foreign language reading comprehension; 12 A corpus-based analysis of academic lectures across disciplines; 13 Learning discourse; Contributors
ISBN
  • 1-281-29467-5
  • 9786611294670
  • 1-84714-235-4
OCLC
  • 290598290
  • 893333944
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