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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (8)
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  • 2010-2014  (8)
  • Linguistics  (8)
  • English Studies  (8)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9783319035574
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 140 p. 16 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Second Language Learning and Teaching
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Klimczak-Pawlak, Agata Towards the pragmatic core of english for european communication
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Verkehrssprache ; Europa
    Abstract: English in Europe is not one language but many, and substantial differences in the way people from different countries communicate using it may cause misunderstandings. This book shows that, through research into the pragmatic behavior of non-native speakers of English from across Europe, it is possible to uncover the core shared strategies, which are proposed as the basis of a reference guide for learners who wish to successfully communicate in English in Europe. The content is based on the analysis of the speech act of apologizing as realized by 466 respondents from 8 European countries, all proficient users of English involved in teacher-training programs. The results provide a basis for practical teaching and in-class research ideas are included in the book
    Description / Table of Contents: The European Union: culture, identity and languagesEnglish as a means of communication by non-native Speakers -- Learning English for Intercultural Communication -- Linguistic pragmatic background for the study of the speech act of apologizing: from theory to practice -- Empirical study of the realisation of the speech act of apologizing in Euro-English.
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9783642548451
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 204 p. 52 illus., 51 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Deng, Liming Developing Chinese EFL learners' generic competence
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics ; China ; Englischunterricht ; Textsorte
    Abstract: This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in reading, writing, translation within the EFL contexts and offers an insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language learning and teaching. Its findings will be extremely valuable not only in local situations, but also more generally in a wider regional and global context as well. The book employs a series of research tools, including pre-research and post-research questionnaires, pre-test and post-test of reading/writing/translation, multi-faceted writing portfolios (including reflection reports), textual analysis and in-depth interviews. It involves 209 participants from a primary university in Wuhan, among whom 171 are undergraduates and 38 are postgraduates. And it draws on the analysis of such varied multi-sourced data both qualitatively and quantitatively. Genre-based teaching is playing a critical role in initiating EFL learners into the discourse community of the target language. Developing EFL learners’ generic competence is viewed as the ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning. This monograph effectively demonstrates that like genre-based English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogies, it is also possible to take advantage of already acquired genre knowledge for use in EFL learning contexts. It offers an impressive view of the direction in which genre-based applications are likely to take in the coming years
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsPreface -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two  Theoretical Framework -- Chapter Three  Fostering EFL Learners’ Genre Awareness: A Genre-based Approach -- Chapter Four Developing EFL learners’ Generic Competence in Reading and Writing: A Process Genre Approach -- Chapter Five  Developing EFL Learners’ Generic Competence in Professional Translation: A Genre-based Approach -- Chapter Six  Conclusions and Implications -- Appendices.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789400778801
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 213 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; African Languages ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Kamerun ; Englisch ; Französisch ; Mehrsprachigkeit
    Abstract: Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume-while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level-incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction-e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender-through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction1. Indigenisation and multilingualism: Extending the debate on language evolution in Cameroon -- Part I: Structural perspectives on indigenisation - Syntax and phonology. 2. ‘That-clauses’ in Cameroon English: A study in functional extension. 3. Pronoun-like usage in Cameroon English: The case of copy, resumptive, obligation, and dummy pronouns. 4. Les camerounismes: Essai d’une (nouvelle) typologie. 5. Intonation in Cameroon English. 6. Ethnolinguistic heterogeneity in Cameroon English pronunciation -- Part II: Sociolinguistic perspectives on indigenisation - Sociolinguistics and pragmatics. 7. Attitudes towards Cameroon English: A sociolinguistic survey. 8. Gender and the use of tags in Cameroon English discourse. 9.Ethnicité, politesse et représentations au Cameroun. 10. Address strategies in Cameroon Pidgin English: A socio-pragmatic perspective -- Author/Subject index.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9783642286070
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 444 p. 109 illus., 91 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Asian punches
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    Keywords: South Asian Languages ; Regional planning ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; South Asian Languages ; Regional planning ; Konferenzschrift 2009 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Asien ; Satirische Zeitschrift ; Geschichte 1860-1918 ; Punch ; Rezeption ; Asien ; Naher Osten ; Rezeption ; Geschichte 1841-1920
    Abstract: Covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East, this book deals with Punches and other Punch-like satirical magazines as they emerged in the 19th and early 20th century. By tracing its transcultural trajectory, the book offers a largely unknown and unacknowledged history around the Punch, one of the most popular British periodicals at the time. Scrutinizing the spread of both textual and visual satire, it casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in Asia and Europe.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9783642274558 , 1299197507 , 9781299197503
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 293 p. 73 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Second Language Learning and Teaching
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Bielak, Jakub Applying cognitive grammar in the foreign language classroom
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; English language--Grammar--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers. ; Cognitive grammar. ; Englisch ; Grammatik ; Englischunterricht ; Kognitive Grammatik ; Englisch ; Grammatik ; Englischunterricht ; Kognitive Grammatik
    Abstract: The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be employed in the foreign language classroom with a view to aiding learners in better understanding the complexities of English grammar. Its theoretical part provides a brief overview of the main tenets of Cognitive Grammar as well as illustrating how the description of English tense and aspect can be approached from a traditional and a CG perspective. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to compare the effects of instruction utilizing traditional pedagogic descriptions with those grounded in CG on the explicit an implicit knowledge of the Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses. The book closes with the discussion of directions for further research when it comes to the application of CG to language pedagogy as well as some pedagogic implications
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Cognitive Grammar -- Traditional and Cognitive Grammar descriptions of the English present tense, progressive aspect, and stative and dynamic verbs -- Pedagogical options in grammar teaching -- Applying Cognitive Grammar in the classroom -- Conclusions and Implications.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9783642240195 , 1283934841 , 9781283934848
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 251 p. 31 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Second Language Learning and Teaching
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Teaching and researching English accents in native and non-native speakers
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Teaching and researching English accents in native and non-native speakers
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    Keywords: Phonology ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Phonology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Aussprache ; Native speaker ; Non-native speaker
    Abstract: Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume
    Abstract: Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
    Description / Table of Contents: Teaching and Researching English Accents in Nativeand Non-native Speakers; Preface; Contents; Part I Pronunciation:Production and Perception; 1 Teachability and Learnability of English Pronunciation Features for Vietnamese-Speaking Learners; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Teachability of Pronunciation; 3…Learnability of Pronunciation; 4…Vietnamese-Accented English; 4.1 Method; 4.2 Results; 5…Discussion; References; 2 On the Irrelevance of Sounds and Prosody in Foreign-Accented English; Abstract; 1…Introductory Remarks; 2…Sources of Local Errors; 2.1 Interference from Polish
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Interference from English3…A Local Phenomenon?; 4…The Experiment; 4.1 Goals; 4.2 Experimental Design: Part 1 and Part 2; 4.2.1 Diagnostic Passage; 4.2.2 The Recording; 4.3 Part 1; 4.3.1 Participants; 4.3.2 Evaluation; 4.3.3 Results; 4.4 Part 2; 4.4.1 Participants; 4.4.2 Evaluation; 4.4.3 Results; 5…Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Foreign Accent Ratings in Third Language Acquisition: The Case of L3 French; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Experiment; 2.1 Research Design; 2.2 Participants; 2.3 Hypotheses; 3…Results; 3.1 Foreign Accent Ratings; 3.2 L1 Identification
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Speakers Variables3.3.1 Accent Ratings Versus Proficiency Level and Performance Mode; 3.3.2 L1 Identification Versus Proficiency Level and Performance Mode; 3.4 Inter-Rater Variability; 3.5 Rating Consistency; 3.6 Foreign Accent Features; 4…Discussion; 5…Conclusions; References; 4 Acquiring Angma: The Velar Nasal in Advanced Learners' English; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Experimental Design; 3…Results and Discussion; 3.1 Progress and Ultimate Achievement in the Production of Angma; 3.2 Angma in Different Phonological Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Problems with Angma Versus Difficulties in the Pronunciation of Vowels4…Conclusions; A.x(118). Appendix 1; A.x(118). Appendix 2; References; 5 Vowel Quality and Duration as a Cue to Word Stress for Non-native Listeners: Polish Listeners' Perception of Stress in English; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Acoustic Correlates of Stress in English; 3…Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Polish; 4…English Vowel Quality and Duration as a Stress Cue in Non-Native Speech; 5…The Current Study; 5.1 Participants; 5.2 Stimuli; 5.3 Procedure; 5.4 Analysis and Results; 6…Discussion; Acknowledgments; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 An EMA Study of Articulatory Settings in Polish Speakers of EnglishAbstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Articulatory Setting; 3…Goals and Scope of the Study; 4…The Experiment; 4.1 Participants; 4.2 Experimental Setup; 4.3 Recorded Material; 4.4 Data Analysis; 4.5 Speech-Ready Postures; 5…Results; 6…Conclusions; A.x(118). Appendix A; References; Part II Pedagogy; 7 The Effect of Explicit and Implicit Corrective Feedback on Eliminating Pronunciation Errors; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Corrective Feedback and Pronunciation Instruction; 3…Research into Explicit and Implicit Corrective Feedback
    Description / Table of Contents: 4…Research Questions and the Design of the Study
    Description / Table of Contents: Teaching and Researching English Accents in Nativeand Non-native Speakers; Preface; Contents; Part I Pronunciation:Production and Perception; 1 Teachability and Learnability of English Pronunciation Features for Vietnamese-Speaking Learners; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Teachability of Pronunciation; 3…Learnability of Pronunciation; 4…Vietnamese-Accented English; 4.1 Method; 4.2 Results; 5…Discussion; References; 2 On the Irrelevance of Sounds and Prosody in Foreign-Accented English; Abstract; 1…Introductory Remarks; 2…Sources of Local Errors; 2.1 Interference from Polish
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Interference from English3…A Local Phenomenon?; 4…The Experiment; 4.1 Goals; 4.2 Experimental Design: Part 1 and Part 2; 4.2.1 Diagnostic Passage; 4.2.2 The Recording; 4.3 Part 1; 4.3.1 Participants; 4.3.2 Evaluation; 4.3.3 Results; 4.4 Part 2; 4.4.1 Participants; 4.4.2 Evaluation; 4.4.3 Results; 5…Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Foreign Accent Ratings in Third Language Acquisition: The Case of L3 French; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Experiment; 2.1 Research Design; 2.2 Participants; 2.3 Hypotheses; 3…Results; 3.1 Foreign Accent Ratings; 3.2 L1 Identification
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Speakers Variables3.3.1 Accent Ratings Versus Proficiency Level and Performance Mode; 3.3.2 L1 Identification Versus Proficiency Level and Performance Mode; 3.4 Inter-Rater Variability; 3.5 Rating Consistency; 3.6 Foreign Accent Features; 4…Discussion; 5…Conclusions; References; 4 Acquiring Angma: The Velar Nasal in Advanced Learners' English; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Experimental Design; 3…Results and Discussion; 3.1 Progress and Ultimate Achievement in the Production of Angma; 3.2 Angma in Different Phonological Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Problems with Angma Versus Difficulties in the Pronunciation of Vowels4…Conclusions; A.x(118). Appendix 1; A.x(118). Appendix 2; References; 5 Vowel Quality and Duration as a Cue to Word Stress for Non-native Listeners: Polish Listeners' Perception of Stress in English; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Acoustic Correlates of Stress in English; 3…Acoustic Correlates of Stress in Polish; 4…English Vowel Quality and Duration as a Stress Cue in Non-Native Speech; 5…The Current Study; 5.1 Participants; 5.2 Stimuli; 5.3 Procedure; 5.4 Analysis and Results; 6…Discussion; Acknowledgments; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 An EMA Study of Articulatory Settings in Polish Speakers of EnglishAbstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Articulatory Setting; 3…Goals and Scope of the Study; 4…The Experiment; 4.1 Participants; 4.2 Experimental Setup; 4.3 Recorded Material; 4.4 Data Analysis; 4.5 Speech-Ready Postures; 5…Results; 6…Conclusions; A.x(118). Appendix A; References; Part II Pedagogy; 7 The Effect of Explicit and Implicit Corrective Feedback on Eliminating Pronunciation Errors; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Corrective Feedback and Pronunciation Instruction; 3…Research into Explicit and Implicit Corrective Feedback
    Description / Table of Contents: 4…Research Questions and the Design of the Study
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9783642219948
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 530 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Second Language Learning and Teaching
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Crossroads in Literature and Culture
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Grenzüberschreitung ; Geschichte ; USA ; Literatur ; Grenzüberschreitung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture
    Abstract: The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Crossroads in Literatureand Culture; Preface; Contents; Part I Crossing Thresholds of Literary Theoriesand Critical Approaches; 1 I See a Voicehellip; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…The Figure of the Voice; 3…The Emergence of the Face; 4…Pro(zoo)popeia; 5…Conclusion; References; 2 A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Theory's Limits; 3…Reading Criticism as Literature; 4…Examples: Two Important Figures; 5…Conclusion; References; 3 Cutting into a New World: Reading The Cut Through Slavoj Zcaronizcaronek; Abstract
    Description / Table of Contents: 1…Exploring New Territories of the Political in Drama1.1 Taking Theoretical Bearings; 2…Political and Psychoanalytical Traces in The Cut; 3…Conclusions: The Cut and its Engagement with Politics-Laden Theory; References; 4 Internal (Post)Coloniality in Anglo-Irish Literature: Crossing the Boundaries in Postcolonial Comparative Studies; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…The Question of Internal (Post)Coloniality on the Example of Ireland; 3…Internal (Post)Coloniality in the Context of Postcolonial Studies; 4…Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and The CleftAbstract; 1…Introduction; 2…An Absent Centre; 3…A Return of the Repressed; 4…A Lost Object; References; Part II Remapping Women's/Men's Moral and Social Borders; 6 Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Sweet Thames; 2.1 The River of London; 2.2 The 19th Century London; 2.3 Found Drowned; 3…Borders in Dickens; 3.1 Real Borders for Nancy and Martha; 3.2 Nancy: ''If There Was More Like You, There Would Be Fewer Like Me''; 3.3 Martha: ''Take Me Out of These Streetshellip''
    Description / Table of Contents: 4…The Metaphorical Borders4.1 Prostitution as a Social Border; 4.2 Nancy's Performance; 5…Conclusion; References; 7 ''Women with Iron in'em. Women Who Wanted Land and a Home'': Female Pioneers Staking Out New Territories in the American Popular Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Social and Literary Background; 2.1 Emergence of New Genres; 2.2 Portrayal of Pioneer Women in American Culture and Women's Literature of the 1920s and 1930s; 3…Rose Wilder Lane's Young Pioneers and Free Land; 3.1 Young Pioneers; 3.2 Free Land; 4…Edna Ferber's Cimarron; 5…Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: References8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender; Abstract; 1…Introduction: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and 19th Century Conceptions of Gender; 1.1 Three Sonnets: Three Goddesses; 1.2 Sybilla Palmifera or Soul's Beauty: Is This Goddess Alive?; 1.3 Lady Lilith: The Femme Fatale or an Independent Woman?; 1.4 Astarte Syriaca's Unstable Gender; 2…Conclusion; References; 9 ''Outlaw Emotions'': Carol Ann Duffy's ''Eurydice'', Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets; Abstract; 1…Introduction: Women and the Dramatic Monologue; 2…Victorian Innovations: Amy Levy
    Description / Table of Contents: 3…Contemporary Dramatic Monologue: Carol Ann Duffy
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  • 8
    ISBN: 1282927884 , 9789048185665 , 9781282927889
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Educational Linguistics 10
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Englisch ; Japan ; Language attitude
    Abstract: This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of learner attitudes by employing a range of pioneering techniques of attitude measurement. These methods are largely incorporated from the strong traditions that exist in the fields of social psychology and second language acquisition and utilize both direct and indirect techniques of attitude measurement. The author locates the findings in the context of the wealth of literature on native speaker evaluations of languages and language varieties. The study is unique in that the results provide clear evidence of both attitude change and high levels of linguistic awareness among the informants of social and geographical diversity within the English language. These findings are analyzed in detail in relation to the global spread of English as well as in terms of the pedagogical implications for the choice of linguistic model employed in English language classrooms both inside and outside Japan. The issues examined are of particular interest to educators, researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, TESOL, second language acquisition, social psychology of language and sociolinguistics. The pedagogical and language policy implications of the findings obtained make essential reading for those with a specific focus on the role of the English language and English language teaching, both in Japan and beyond. TOC:From the contents 1.The Global Spread of English and the Role of English in Japan. 2.The Study of Language Attitudes. 3. Relevant Language Attitude Research. 4. The Research Design of the Study. 5.The Results and Discussion. 6.Wider Implications and Conclusions. References. Appendix.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; The Global Spread of English and the Role of English in Japan; 1.1 Globalisation, the Spread of English and World Englishes; 1.2 The English Language in Japan; The Study of Language Attitudes; 2.1 Attitudes in Social Psychology; 2.2 Language Attitudes; Relevant Language Attitude Research; 3.1 The Measurement of Language Attitudes; 3.2 Previous Language Attitude Research; The Research Design of the Study; 4.1 The Aims of the Study; 4.2 The Varieties of Speech Selected
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 The Choice of Background Variables in the Study4.4 The Choice of Informants; 4.5 The Research Instrument; 4.6 The Pilot Study; 4.7 Procedure: The Administration of the Research Instrument; Results and Discussion; 5.1 Description of Participants; 5.2 Overview of the Statistical Techniques Employed in the Data Analyses; 5.3 The Verbal-Guise Study: Results of the Speaker Evaluations; 5.4 Effects of Background Variables on Speaker Evaluations; 5.5 Effects of Perceptions of Non-standard Japanese on Speaker Evaluations; 5.6 Identification of (Speakers of) Varieties of English
    Description / Table of Contents: Wider Implications and Conclusions6.1 The Research Questions; 6.2 Final Remarks and the Future; Appendix A: Speech Collection: Map Task; Appendix B: Research Instrument; Appendix C: Post Hoc Test: Pairwise Comparisons for Speaker: All Traits; Appendix D: Principal Components Analysis. Scree Plot: Sum of Speakers; Appendix E: The Rotated Component Matrix: Sum of Speakers; Appendix F: Post Hoc Test: Pairwise Comparisons for Speaker Competence; Appendix G: Scree Plot of Mean Evaluations for Speaker Competence; Appendix H: Post Hoc Test: Pairwise Comparisons for Speaker Social Attractiveness
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix I: Scree Plot of Mean Evaluation Rankings for Speaker Social AttractivenessReferences; Index;
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