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UNINA9910780466303321 |
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Autore |
Kurzon Dennis |
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Where East looks West [[electronic resource] ] : success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast / / Dennis Kurzon |
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Clevedon [England] ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 |
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1-280-82824-2 |
9786610828241 |
9781853596751 |
1-85359-675-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (172 p.) |
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English language - Study and teaching - India - Goa (State) |
English language - Study and teaching - Konkani speakers |
Language and culture - India - Goa (State) |
Konkani language - India - Goa (State) |
Test of English as a Foreign Language |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Sociolinguistic Look at India -- Chapter 2: The Status of Konkani -- Chapter 3. The Konkani–Marathi Controversy – the 2000–01 Version -- Chapter 4. English in Goa -- Chapter 5. Caste and Migration as Social Phenomena in Goa -- Chapter 6. Language Acquisition -- Chapter 7. Testing the Students -- Chapter 8. Results from Questionnaire -- Chapter 9. English in India -- Chapter 10. Multilingualism -- Chapter 11. Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index |
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The aim of the book is to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. The evidence seems to point, although inconclusively, to historical and sociolinguistic factors, some of which pertain to India as a whole, while others are unique to the Konkani-speaking regions. |
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UNINA9910813470103321 |
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Autore |
Hamilton Roberta |
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Setting the agenda : Jean Royce and the shaping of Queen's University / / Roberta Hamilton |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
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1-282-02288-1 |
9786612022883 |
1-4426-7980-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Studies in Gender and History |
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College registrars - Canada |
Biographies. |
Electronic books. |
Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 'The Girls Got All the Charisma'""; ""2 Did She Run the Place?""; ""3 Keeping a 'Watching Brief'""; ""4 The Prime of Miss Jean Royce""; ""5 More Than a Registrar""; ""6 Ranging the Universe""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Illustrations"" |
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As Registrar of Queen's University, Jean Royce shaped the university's development, and personified the university for generations of students. Appointed in 1933 by men who sought to exclude women from positions of authority, Jean Royce navigated the precarious gendered environment of institutional life for thirty-five years. As gate-keeper and talent scout, she encouraged all who qualified, revealing herself out of sympathy with those who would preserve Queen's as Protestant men's club or English-Canadian enclave. Attentive to detail and internationalist in vision, she became the most powerful woman |
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ever to work at Queens. Her forced retirement at 64 devastated her, but following her election by alumni to the Board of Trustees she played a key role in expanding educational opportunities for women.Spanning the first eight decades of the twentieth century, Jean Royce's life provides a lens for looking at working-class family life before the Great Depression, social mobility through education, feminism's continuing presence in the twentieth century, and the constraints and possibilities for single women in work, relationships, cultural life, and international travel. Centrally, her life provides a close look at the development and politics of a major Canadian university. |
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