Style-shifting in public [[electronic resource] ] : new perspectives on stylistic variation / / edited by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Juan Antonio Cutillas-Espinosa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457446203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-46930-8; 9786613469304; 90-272-7487-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Collana: Studies in language variation, , 1872-9592 ; ; v. 9
• Altri autori (Persone): Hernández CampoyJuan Manuel; Cutillas-EspinosaJuan Antonio
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetti: Rhetoric - Political aspects; Discourse analysis - Political aspects; Mass media and language; 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: pt. 1. Style and sociolinguistic variation in political discourse -- pt. 2. Style and sociolinguistic variation in media interaction.
• Sommario/riassunto: Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection.Traditional variationist conceptualizations of style-shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon seem unable to account for all stylistic choices. In contrast, more recent formulations see stylistic variation as initiative, creative and strategic in personal and

Knowledge society vs. knowledge economy [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power, and politics / / edited by Sverker So rlin and Hebe Vessuri

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784240503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 1-349-53430-7; 1-281-36298-0; 9786611362980; 0-230-60351-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Collana: Issues in higher education
• Altri autori (Persone): SörlinSverker; VessuriHebe M. C
• Disciplina: 306.432
• Soggetti: Education, Higher - Social aspects; Education, Higher - Economic aspects; Knowledge, Sociology of
• 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: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms; Introduction: The Democratic Deficit of Knowledge Economies; 1 Modes of Knowledge and Patterns of Power; 2 Universities and Society: Whose Terms of Engagement?; 3 Knowledge, Globalization, and Hegemony: Production of Knowledge in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Knowledge and Equity: Unequal Access to Education, Academic Success and Employment Opportunities: The Gender Balance in Algeria; 5 Knowledge, Culture, and Politics: The Status of Women in the Arab World; 6 Knowledge, Theory, and Tension Between Local and Universal Knowledge; 7 The Hybridization of Knowledge: Science and Local Knowledge in Support of Sustainable Development8 Remarks on the Relationship between Knowledge Functions and the Role of the University; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions, the book ; demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.