The native speaker concept [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic investigations of native speaker effects / / edited by Neriko Musha Doerr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781158403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-71490-2; 9783110220940; 9783110220957; 3-11-022095-4; 3-11-022094-6
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 390 pages
• Collana: Language, power and social process ; ; 26
• Altri autori (Persone): DoerrNeriko Musha <1967->
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetti: Native language; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1 Investigating “native speaker effects”: Toward a new model of analyzing “native speaker” ideologies -- Chapter 2 Toward a “natural” history of the native (standard) speaker -- Part II. Nation-states’ designs and people’s actions -- Chapter 3 “Native speaker” status on border-crossing: The Okinawan Nikkei diaspora, national language, and heterogeneity -- Chapter 4 The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the “native speaker” concept in Japan -- Part III. Standardizing impulses and their subversions -- Chapter 5 Being “multilingual” in a SouthAfrican township: Functioning well with a patchwork of standardized and hybrid languages -- Chapter 6 Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the “native Catalan speaker” in Barcelona -- Chapter 7 Uncovering another “native speaker myth”: Juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-Second-Language learners -- Part IV. Revisiting “competence” -- Chapter 8 “We ; don’t speak Maya, Spanish or English”: Yucatec Maya-speaking transnationals in California and the social construction of competence -- Chapter 9 Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: Toward a relational understanding of power -- Chapter 10 Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence and ideology: Language and community on Easter Island -- Chapter 11 Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker’s identity appears in computer-mediated communication -- Part V. Moving forward -- Chapter 12 Towards a critical orientation in second language education -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: "The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge its empirical accuracy and theoretical utility, the notion of the "native speaker" is still prevalent today. The Native Speaker Concept shifts the analytical focus from the second language acquisition processes and teaching practices to daily interactions situated in wider sociocultural and political contexts marked by increased global movements of people and multilingual situations. Using an ethnographic approach, the volume critically elucidates the political nature of (not) claiming the "native speaker" status in daily life and the ways the ideology of "native speaker" intersects and articulates, supports, subverts, or complicates various relations of dominance and regimes of standardization. The book offers cases from diverse settings, including classrooms in Japan, a coffee shop in Barcelona, secondary schools in South Africa, a backyard in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), restaurant kitchens, a high school administrator's office, a college classroom in the United States, and the Internet. It also offers a genealogy of the notion of the "native speaker" from the time of the Roman Empire. Employing linguistic, anthropological and educational theories, the volume speaks not only to the analyses of language use and language policy, planning, and teaching, but also to the investigation of wider effects of language ideology on relations of dominance, and institutional and discursive practices."--Publisher.

From promise to contract : towards a liberal theory of contract / / Dori Kimel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969435903321
• Autore: Kimel Dori
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2003
• ISBN: 9786610808175; 9781472562722; 1472562720; 9781280808173; 1280808179; 9781847310767; 1847310761
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 346.02; 346.4102
• Soggetti: Contracts - Philosophy; Promise (Law) - Philosophy
• 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 (pages [143]-145) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. On the Nature and Value of Promise -- 2. Normativity, Trust and Threats -- 3. The Nature and Value of Contractual Relations -- 4. Remedies -- 5. Freedom of Contract, Freedom from Contract -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Liberal theory of contract is traditionally associated with the view according to which contract law can be explained simply as a mechanism for the enforcement of promises. The book bucks this trend by offering a theory of contract law based on a careful philosophical investigation of not only the similarities,but also the much-overlooked differences between contract and promise. Drawing on an analysis of a range of issues pertaining to the moral underpinnings of promissory and contractual obligations, the relationships in the context of which they typically feature, and the nature of the legal and moral institutions that support them, the book ; argues for the abandonment of the over-simplified notion that the law can systematically replicate existing moral or social institutions or simply enforce the rights or the obligations to which they give rise, without altering these institutions in the process and while leaving their intrinsic qualities intact. In its place the book offers an intriguing thesis concerning not only the relationship between contract and promise, but also the distinct functions and values that underlie contract law and explain contractual obligation. In turn, this thesis is shown to have an important bearing on theoretical and practical issues such as the choice of remedy for breach of contract, and broader concerns of political morality such as the appropriate scope of the freedom of contract and the role of the state in shaping and regulating contractual activity. The book's arguments on such issues, while rooted in distinctly liberal principles of political morality, often produce very different conclusions to those traditionally associated with liberal theory of contract, thus lending it a new lease of life in the face of its traditional as well as contemporary critiques."--Bloomsbury Publishing.