Language and culture : papers from the annual meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, held at Trevelyan College, University of Durham, September 1991
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Language and culture : papers from the annual meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, held at Trevelyan College, University of Durham, September 1991
(British studies in applied linguistics, 7)
British Association of Applied Linguistics, in association with Multilingual Matters, c1993
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These papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of BAAL (University of Durham, September 1991), have been selected for the diversity of perspective which they offer on the theme of language and culture, and on the way in which they reflect current thinking on the interdependence of language use and situational context.
Table of Contents
Linda Thompson: Preface
1. Gunther Kress: Cultural Considerations in Linguistic Description
2. Brian V. Street: Culture is a Verb: Anthropological Aspects of Language and Cultural Process
3. Norman Fairclough: Discourse and Social Change in the Enterprise Culture
4. Ana Barro, Mike Byram, Hanns Grimm, Carol Morgan and Celia Roberts: Cultural Studies for Advanced Language Learners
5. Jane Freeland: 'I am a Creole, so I Speak English': Cultural Ambiguity and the 'English'/Spanish Bilingual-bicultural Programme of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast
6. Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi: Cultural Orientation and Academic Language Use
7. Susan Hunston: Projecting a Sub-culture: The Construction of Shared Worlds by Projecting Clauses in Two Registers
8. Romy J. Clark: Developing Practices of Resistance: Critical Reading for Students of Politics
9. Tope Omoniyi: 'Song-lashing' as a Communicative Strategy in Interpersonal Conflicts in Yoruba Land: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal
10. Kay Richardson: What is the Russian for Perestroika?
11. Janet Maybin: Dialogic Relationships and the Construction of Knowledge in Children's Informal Talk
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