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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457539303321

Titolo

Language policy [[electronic resource] ] : dominant English, pluralist challenges / / edited by William Eggington, Helen Wren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-42389-8

9786613423894

90-272-7420-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EggingtonWilliam

WrenHelen

Disciplina

306.44/9/09175

Soggetti

Language policy - English-speaking countries

Language and languages - Political aspects

English language - Political aspects

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.

Nota di contenuto

LANGUAGE POLICY DOMINANT ENGLISH, PLURALIST CHALLENGES; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; FOREWORD PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT; Introduction; Are the stated purposes viable?; Entry into the profession; The self-image of ESL/EFL teachers; Conclusion; References; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THE DOMINANCE OF ENGLISH AND NATIONAL LANGUAGE POLICIES: AN OVERVIEW; CHAPTER 1. MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN LANGUAGE POLICY AGENDAS; Overview; 1. Thinking globally, acting locally; 2. Helping the TESOL teachers' association work for students

3. Learning from the language policies and practices of other countries Thinking globally, acting locally: the teacher's role; Helping the TESOL teachers' association work for students; Learning from the language policies and practices of other countries; Where do we go from here?; References; CHAPTER 2. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE METAPHORS WE PLAN BY; Introduction; The impact of socially shared metaphors; English language related metaphors; Foundation metaphors; Expansion metaphors (17th - mid-20th century); Contemporary metaphors (Mid-



20th Century - ); Conclusion: metaphor and policy; References

PART II. LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE-IN-EDUCATION POLICIES IN ENGLISH-DOMINANT NATIONSCHAPTER 3. ""THE GROWN-UPS KNOW BEST"": LANGUAGE POLICY-MAKING IN BRITAIN IN THE 1990's; Linguistic profile of the United Kingdom; Provision for languages in the UK; Changes after the 1988 Education Bill; The appropriation of English; Language planning in Britain today; Implications for bilingual and bi-dialectal pupils; Back to the basics; References; CHAPTER 4. LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE USA: NATIONAL VALUES, LOCAL LOYALTIES, PRAGMATIC PRESSURES

A definition and framework: no official, but multiple, informal policies Educational governance: national or local?; Regional and ethnic influences, historical and contemporary; Ideological and structural tensions; Bilingual education: new federal-local connections; Bilingualism for all: moves toward the mainstream; Instruction in other languages: lofty visions, local realities; Some final thoughts; References; CHAPTER 5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE-IN-EDUCATION POLICIES IN CANADA; Francophone learners of English in Québec; First Nations learners of English; Prevalent issues and recent developments

1. Equity of access to language education2. Tensions between regional situations and differing levels of responsibility; 3. Relations of language education to other societal issues and cultural processes; 4. Maintenance of languages other than English or French; 5. Developing resources, research, theories, and facilitating structures; References; CHAPTER 6. ENGLISH AND PLURALISTIC POLICIES: THE CASE OF AUSTRALIA; Introduction; Overview of language planning in Australia; Language policies since the 1960's; Debates and issues on language policy today; English; Australian English

Aboriginal English

Sommario/riassunto

'Think globally, act locally' is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted - Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on the development of national language policies, the maintenance of minority languages, the ability to provide services in other languages, the efforts to promote first language and bilingual education programs, and the opportunities for adult and child second language and literacy training.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973578403321

Titolo

Commodifying everything : relationships of the market / / edited by Susan Strasser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-70692-5

0-415-93591-1

1-315-02360-1

1-136-70685-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p.)

Collana

Hagley Center studies in the history of business and technology

Hagley perspectives on business and culture ; ; Volume 4

Hagley perspectives on business and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

StrasserSusan <1948->

Disciplina

339.4/7

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - History

Commercial products - History

Relationship marketing - History

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; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; I: Boundaries of the Market; Introduction; 1. The Give-and-Take of Consumer Culture; Notes; II: Love and Money: Intimate Relationships and the Market; 2. Buying Your Friends: The Pet Business and American Consumer Culture; The Trade in Birds; The Trade in Aquarium Fish; Pets as Commodities; Notes; 3. The Commodity of Self: Nineteenth-Century Human Hair Jewelry; Transformation to a Commodity of Self; The Tension between "Style" and "Artistry"; Eighteenth-Century Hair Workers; The Case of Samuel Folwell, the "Real" Hair Worker

Nineteenth-Century Hair WorkKatharine Schmitt, Hair Worker; "Gums and Bobbins": The Dangers of the Marketplace; Notes; III: Goods and Services: Expanding Market Relationships; 4. An Undesired Necessity: The Commodification of Medical Service in the Interwar United States; Merchants of Service; A Commodity Unlike any other; Disorderly Consumers; A Troublesome Kind of Commodity; Notes; 5. "Preserving Their Form and Features": The Commodification of Coffins in the



American Understanding of Death; The Coffin in America: Gentility's Influence Established and Challenged

Respectability and the Commerce of DeathThe Metallic Burial Case: American Respectability and Modernity; Notes; IV: God and Mammon: Selling and the Sacred; 6. Healthcare as Product: Catholic Sisters Confront Charity and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925; Social and Medical Needs and the Hospital Marketplace; Entrepreneurial Enterprises; The Attraction of Scientific Medicine; Spiritual Agents of Care; Measures of Success; Spirituality as Commodity; Notes; 7. "Preachers and Peddlers of God": Ex-Slaves and the Selling of African-American Religion in the American South; Notes

8. The Politics of Ghee Adulteration and Its Public Resolutions in Calcutta, c. 1917The Role of Ghee in Indian Cuisine; "Unwelcome Middlemen": The Marwari Community in Calcutta; The Adulteration of Bengal; Legislating Adulteration; Marwari Adulteration of Ghee in 1917; Legislation and its Role in Making Adulteration Visible; Postscript; Notes; V: Village and Nation: Community, Identity, and the Market; 9. Marketing Community: State Reform of Indian Village Property and Expenditure in Colonial Mexico, 1775-1810; The Remaking of Indian Society, 1521-1700

The Bourbon Reforms and their Impact in the Tierra CalienteIndian Reactions to the Bourbon Reforms; Conclusion; Notes; 10. Commodifying Chinese Nationalism: MSG and the Flavor of Patriotic Production; Creating a Nationalistic Consumer Culture; The Place of Chinese Entrepreneurs in the Movement; National Products Movement Biographies; A Capitalist with Chinese Characteristics; "I am a Local Product"; Defeating "Enemy Products"; The Limits of Patriotic Production; Purifying National Products of their Foreign Components; Broader Patriotic Activities; Biographies as Patriotic Packaging; Notes

11. Packaging Skills: Calibrating Cheese to the Global Market

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.