1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456952003321

Autore

Clark Julie Byrd

Titolo

Multilingualism, citizenship and identity [[electronic resource] ] : voices of youth and symbolic investments in an urban, globalized world / / Julie Byrd Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2009

ISBN

1-282-59074-X

9786612590740

1-4411-7875-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

306.446

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Canada

Second language acquisition - Canada

Language and culture - Globalization - Canada

Bilingualism - Canada

Linguistic minorities - Education - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Overlapping Identities, Symbolic Investments, and New Discursive Spaces; Chapter Two: Exploring Discourses and Interconnections between Globalization, Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Identity; Chapter Three: An ethnographie à géométrie variable: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; Chapter Four: Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments: A Unique Case Study; Chapter Five: Appropriating and Negotiating Symbolic Investments: Strategies across, between, and within Multiple Spaces

Conclusion: Implications and Future Directions for Interdisciplinary ResearchAppendix: Linguistic Participant Profiles; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and



discourse analysis, this groundbreaking book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities. This timely work is the first to consider the significance of multilingualism and its relationship to citizenship as well as the development of linguistic repertoires as an essential component of language education in a globalized world. While examining the discourses and in

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827620303321

Autore

Caplan David <1969->

Titolo

Questions of possibility [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary poetry and poetic form / / David Caplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-19-772575-9

0-19-971840-7

0-19-531325-9

0-19-534700-5

1-280-53447-8

1-4237-5663-0

1-60256-903-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CaplanDavid <1947-.>

Disciplina

811/.509

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism

English language - Versification

Literary form

Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: On Claimed Verse Forms; 1. "The Age of the Sestina"; 2. "In that Thicket of Bitter Roots": The Ghazal in America; 3. When a Form Comes Out of the Closet; 4. Why Not the Heroic Couplet?;



5. On the Contemporary Ballad; Conclusion: Prosody after the Poetry Wars; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the possibilities they discover, and the traditions they find unimaginable. The poetic forms discussed include: the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOTO01303758

Titolo

New technologies : Ascott, Bolognini, Forest, Kriesche, Mitropoulos : Museo del Sannio, Benevento ottobre 2003 / a cura di Mario Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salerno, : Artmedia, c2003

Descrizione fisica

62 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Disciplina

709.05

776

Soggetti

Ascott, Roy - Esposizioni - 2003

Bolognini, Maurizio - Esposizioni - 2003

Forest, Fred - Esposizioni - 2003

Mitropoulos, Mit - Esposizioni - 2003

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.F. CORTI                452

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Testo anche in inglese

Catalogo della mostra.