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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457147003321

Titolo

Cross-language relations in composition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-299-39480-9

0-8093-8575-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HornerBruce <1957->

LuMin-Zhan <1946->

MatsudaPaul Kei

Disciplina

808/.04207

Soggetti

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Rhetoric - Social aspects

Language and culture

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

Linguistic memory and the uneasy settlement of U.S. English / John Trimbur -- Living-English work / Min-Zhan Lu -- Globalization, guanxi, and agency: designing and redesigning the literacies of cyberspace / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, with Yi-Huey Guo and Lu Liu -- The myth of linguistic homogeneity in U.S. college composition / Paul Kei Matsuda -- "English-only," African American contributions to standardized communication structures, and the potential for social transformation / Elaine Richardson -- Spanglish as alternative discourse: working against language demarcation / Kate Mangelsdorf -- There's no translation for it: the rhetorical sovereignty of indigenous languages / Scott Richard Lyons -- Discourse tensions, Englishes, and the composition classroom / Shondel J. Nero -- A rhetoric of shuttling between languages / A. Suresh Canagarajah --



Ownership of language and the teaching of writing / Shirley Wilson Logan -- Why don't we speak with an accent? Practicing interdependence-in-difference / LuMing Mao -- The challenges and possibilities of taking up multiple discursive resources in U.S. college composition / Anis Bawarshi -- Mapping the cultural ecologies of language and literacy / Michelle Hall Kells -- Language diversity and the responsibility of the WPA / Susan K. Miller-Cochran -- Resistance to the "English-only" movement: the implications for two-year college composition / Jody Millward -- In praise of incomprehension / Catherine Prendergast -- Sustainable writing / Marilyn M. Cooper -- Reflections / Victor Villanueva.

Sommario/riassunto

Cross-Language Relations in Composition brings together the foremost scholars in the fields of composition, second language writing, education, and literacy studies to address the limitations of the tacit English-only policy prevalent in composition pedagogy and research and to suggest changes for the benefit of writing students and instructors throughout the United States. Recognizing the growing linguistic diversity of students and faculty, the ongoing changes in the English language as a result of globalization, and the increasingly blurred categories of native, fore