Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 304 p. — (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics.)
During the last fifteen years, existing models of linguistic politeness have generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this new introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of current models and argues that...
Journal of Slavic Linguistics. 2009, 17(1–2): 247–274
In this article it is argued that the study of linguistic landscapes (public uses of written language) can benefit from viewing them as dynamic phenomena and examining them in a diachronic context. Based on the changes in the post‐Soviet space since 1991, five processes are identified and examined in with regard to language...
// Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 2006, 24(2); p. 151–163.
This paper provides a sociolinguistic (rather than an applied linguistic or political)
appraisal of policy-related language developments in South Africa, with a main focus on recent
trends in applied linguistic writing on the subject. The paper first briefly summarises the trends
leading to...
New York and London: Routledge, 2009. 640 p.
Media Today puts students at the center of the profound changes in the twenty-first century media world – from digital convergence to media ownership – and gives them the skills to think critically about what these changes mean for the role of media in their lives.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — viii, 188 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-6040-7; ISBN: 978-1-4051-6041-4. The Media and the Public is a critical exploration of the ways the mass media have over years constructed, constituted and represented the public to suit their own paradigms and purposes. The public, as the authors posit, is actually an entity that is never fully witnessed but endlessly...
// International Journal of Multilingualism. 2006, Vol. 3, No.
1. P. 67-80.
This paper focuses on the linguistic landscape of two streets in two multilingual cities in Friesland (Netherlands) and the Basque Country (Spain) where a minority language is spoken, Basque or Frisian. The paper analyses the use of the minority language (Basque or Frisian), the state language (Spanish...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 190 p.
Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing together twenty-five years of research on the sequential organization of laughter in everyday talk, Glenn analyzes recordings and transcripts to show the finely detailed coordination of human laughter. He...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 371 p. — ISBN: 9780521883122.
The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of inquiry. In this book Giovanni Bennardo discusses the relationship between language and the mental organization of knowledge, based on the...
Hove and New York: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2003 (2005). — 240 p.
Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social interaction in all cultures and the place where social and cultural meaning takes shape. Face-to-face conversation between children and...
Selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2003. 209 p.
Introduction: Language and the pursuit of the millennium (Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan).
Contexts and trends for English as a global language (Paul...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2008. — 359 p. — (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism). Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced. language change. Peter Siemund. Typology . Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference. to mixed languages. Bernard Comrie. Contact-induced word order change without word order change. Bernd...
Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger, 2003. — 295 p. Richard K.Blot. Language and Indians’ Place in Chiapas, Mexico: A Testimony from the Tzotzil Maya. Gary H.Gossen. The Deficits of History: Terms of Violence in an Arapaço Myth Complex from the Brazilian Northwest Amazon. Janet M.Chernela and Eric J.Leed. Giving Voice to the Hill Spirit: Mayan Visionary Testimony in Southern...
Автореф. канд. дис. на соиск. степени канд. филол. наук. Теория языка (10.02.19). Краснодар, 2011. 24 с.
Предмет исследования – лексико-семантические и когнитивно-прагматические особенности функционирования и адаптации англицизмов в структуре масс-медийного и официально-делового дискурсов современного русского языка.
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 208–225
This paper offers an insight into variation in subject-verb concord in Ghanaian English. An analysis of authentic data demonstrates that grammatical concord occurs variably in the written language of Ghanaians in the mesolectal through the acrolectal range of educated Ghanaian English. Moreover, the paper shows that the...
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 248–267.
This paper reports on a study into the reactions of ‘native’ speakers of British English to Dutch-English pronunciations in the onset of a telephone sales talk. In an experiment 144 highly educated British professionals who were either familiar or not familiar with Dutch-accented English responded to a slight Dutch English...
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 162–176.
This study uses corpus and media data to investigate cultural scripts in both spoken and written New Zealand English (NZE). The distinctiveness of words can be said to lie on a continuum, with some words being used exclusively in New Zealand and others used elsewhere but used more frequently in New Zealand. One aspect that...
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 143–161
This paper investigates cross-cultural and cross-register variation from four corpora of internet blogs and online opinion columns written in English by Filipino and American authors. A multi-dimensional analysis following established linguistic dimensions from Grieve, Biber, Friginal, and Nekrasova was used to compare the...
// World Englishes, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 198–207
This paper investigates the use of got in interrogative sentences and their corresponding answers in Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). Lee, Ling, and Nomoto analyze CSE got as a realis marker from which several different meanings are derived, including temporal location, aspect, and emphasis. While following in their...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 226–247
This paper studies the Indian English use of clause-final focus particles also and only in sentences such as ‘He doesn’t listen only’ (ICE-IND) in order to see if this use has spread to Singapore, Philippine or Hong Kong English. The data for these Asian varieties was obtained from the International Corpus of English and the...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 292–311
In the thirty-two years since the Islamic Revolution occurred in Iran, economic and cultural globalization have affected the role of English in multiple domains in the country. Within the domain of advertising, shifts have occurred throughout the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Persian scholars have attributed the...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 279–291
Although the study and description of the structural levels of Sri Lankan English as a variety of English in its own right have so far been in the centre of a limited number of small-scale investigations only, the sociolinguistic scenery in Sri Lanka has attracted more national and international scholarly attention. In this...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 312–330
The population of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rose from 1.6 million in 1990 to 8.2 million in 2010, mainly as a result of immigration, and foreigners now constitute about 88 per cent of the population. English is the second or third language for many of the expatriates, and it is used as an acrolectal lingua franca. As...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 351–365.
Drawing on research on China’s path to individualization, this paper deconstructs a nationally renowned Chinese individual’s construction of his success in learning English in China. By deconstructing his success, this paper illustrates how he skilfully integrates traditional cultural discourses into his messages, calling...
World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 386–403
This paper reports on a comprehensive corpus-based study of regional and stylistic variation in the distribution of the English present perfect. The data represents ten English varieties of both the Inner Circle and Outer Circle, covering four major text types: conversation, news reportage, academic and fictional writing. The...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 366–385
The major objective of the study is to develop a framework allowing for the systematic investigation of the institutionalised varieties and performance varieties of English (also known as learner Englishes). This involves a detailed description of the forms of English spoken in India and in Russia as well as discussion of...
// World Englishes. 2012. Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 331–350
The status of English in the Expanding Circle has been of significant interest in recent years. The use of English by Slavic speakers in Post-Communist space, especially in light of the EU enlargement, has nevertheless been largely ignored. This paper aims to present evidence of the emergence of Eastern European English...
// World Englishes. – 2001. – Vol. 20, No.
2. – P. 119-131.
Spreading at the present rate, English will further increase its importance as the global lingua franca in this century. At the same time, the rapid localization and nativization will accelerate the ramification of English into varieties in the ESL region. Our challenge then will be how to maintain common standards...
// TESOL Quarterly. – 1989. – Vol. 23, No.
3. – P. 447-467.
The author provides for the explanation for the difference between a variety of English as a dynamic social phenomenon and interlanguage as a static psycholinguistic phenomenon.
// World Englishes. – 1998. - Vol. 17, No
.1. - P. 1-14.
The article describes the status of innovation in the nativization process, the factors of accepting and recognizing new norms in non-native Englishes.
// Nordic Journal of English Studies. 2006, vol.5, N
2. P. 9-40
This paper analyses the attitudes and motives of students studying English at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and suggests that changing opinions on national (US and UK) standards and the emergence of the ‘New Europe’ represent mutually reinforcing conditions of possibility for the deliberate adoption of a...
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2. // The English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language. / Jasone Cenoz, Ulrike Jessner (Editors) - Multilingual matters, 2000. P. 22-38.
Allan James takes a microlevel look at the topic, using anecdotes to define terminology and exemplify the complex issues involved in investigations of L3 acquisition and use. He focuses on the untutored, informal English...
// Cadernos de Letras (UFRJ) n.27 – dez. 2010. P.85-92
This article explores issues connected to English as a lingua franca (ELF) from the point of view of the practising teacher preparing students to function in ELF contexts. It is claimed that the fully competent speaker of ELF is a more appropriate model than the native speaker for teachers and learners. Similarly, it is...
Wang You. Chinglish: an Emerging New Variety of English Language? // Journal of Cambridge Studies. 2009. 4 (1). P. 28-34
English, as a global language, is learned and used in China to fulfil the needs of international communication. In the non-Anglo-American sociocultural context, English language is in constant contact with the local language, Chinese. The contact gives birth...
// The Modern Language Journal, 2007. N
91. P. 923-939.
Firth and Wagner (1997) questioned the dichotomies nonnative versus native speaker, learner versus user, and interlanguage versus target language, which reflect a bias toward innateness, cognition, and form in language acquisition. Research on lingua franca English (LFE) not only affirms this questioning, but reveals what...
// International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2003. Vol. 13 #
2. P. 159-178.
The model originally promoted by Braj Kachru and representing English worldwide as Inner, Outer, and Expanding circles has helped valorize denigrated varieties by drawing attention to commonalities across old and new varieties and by altering perceptions of their communicative potential and...
// World Entlishes. 1990. Vol. 9, No. 3. pp. 255-268. This article derives from the internal discussions of the International Corpus of English (ICE). It concentrates on the problems which arise when the principles of corpus compilation, which were developed in native communities (ENL corpora) in the pre-sociolinguistic age, are applied to non-native communities (ESL corpora)...
Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 538 p. Foundations The concept of communicative competence Gert Rickheit, Hans Strohner †, and Constanze Vorwerg Acquisition Language and neurophysiological development Ralph-Axel Müllerand, Erica Palmer Cognitive foundations Katharina J. Rohlfing . First utterances Holly L. Storkel Discourse acquisition Clair Pondand, Michael Siegal...
Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publ., 2007. — 170 p. Gary B. Palmer and Farzad Sharifian. Applied cultural linguistics. An emerging paradigm. Debra J. Occhi. Using cultural linguistics to teach English language inferential schemas used in archaeology to Japanese university students. Farzad Sharifian. L1 cultural conceptualisations in L2 learning. The case of...
// Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 2012, N 5, p. 1733-1743 Models of communication may be classified into transmissional (linear, mechanistic, or ‘telementational’) and interactional (non-linear, dialogical, activity-oriented). Everyday conception is closer to the reification-transmissional metaphor of communication, although it admits some...
New York, London: Psychology Press. Taylor and Francis Group, 2009. - 530 p. Ying-yi Hong. A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture: Moving From Describing Culture to Explaining Culture. Daphna Oyserman and Nicholas Sorensen. Understanding Cultural Syndrome Effects on What and How We Think: A Situated Cognition Model. Yoshihisa Kashima. Culture Comparison and Culture...
// Journal of Sociolinguistics. 2005. 9/
4. P. 533-556
The narrative discursively analyzed in this paper is taken from a larger study involving life history interviews with Latina/o immigrants in California. It exemplifies a type of narrative among these interviews in which tellers recount how they or their family members have broken with cultural expectations. In this story,...
Статья. — Информационное общество. — 2005. — Выпуск 1. — С. 14-18. Агрессивное, с точки зрения автора, влияние информационного пространства на культуру, ее структуру, взаимоотношения высшей и низшей ее частей. Роль языка в диалоге культур. Необходимость адаптации не только разных культур друг к другу в межкультурной коммуникации, но и адаптации культур к глобальному...
Статья. — Знание. Понимание. Умение. — 2006. — №1. — C. 28-35. Интерпретация массовой культуры в аспекте ее функционирования. Акцент делается на формирование массовой культуры единого социокультурного пространства, на ее адаптивной функции.
Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2001. — 201 p. The study: background, context and methodology Executive summary and recommendations The challenge of diversity Diversity, citizenship, and cultural policy: comparative perspectives Culture, government and diversity: policy contexts Cultural policies and cultural diversity Conclusions: cultural diversity and cultural...
2009. - http://www.chronos.msu.ru/RREPORTS/mironov_izmenenie.pdf
Рассматриваются понятия "кризис культуры," "диалог культур", взаимодействие между высокой и низкой культурой, характеристика поп-культуры.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. - 422 p. Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early...
5th edition. Harlow a.o.: Pearson-Longman, 2009. - 280 p. This extensively revised and updated 5th edition of Storey's market-leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory. Popular culture is used to critically examine the theories and main approaches of cultural theory, and ensures that the accessible approach of previous editions is...
History and Theory. 2011 N50 P. 147-170.
The most common definitions of popular culture suffer from a presentist bias and cannot be applied to pre-industrial and pre-capitalist societies. A survey reveals serious conceptual difficulties as well. We may, however, gain insight in two ways. 1) By moving from a Marxist model (economic/class/production) to a more Weberian approach...
London and New York: Routledge, 2000. – 228 p.
John Fiske analyzes popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit, implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect. He examines the multitude of meanings lying beneath the cultural artifacts that surround us in shopping malls, popular music and television. Features: highlights the...
Malden, MA, a.o.: Blackwell Publ., 2003. – 148 p.
Theis is an account of the development of popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization, intellectualism, and consumerism, the book presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. It provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading...