1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782533003321

Titolo

Third language acquisition and universal grammar [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Buffalo, NY, : Multilingual Matters, c2009

ISBN

1-78892-066-X

1-281-97346-7

9786611973469

1-84769-132-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Second language acquisition

Altri autori (Persone)

LeungYan-kit Ingrid

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Language acquisition

Language and languages - Study and teaching

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Acquisition of Spanish Middle and Impersonal Passive Constructions from SLA and TLA Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Language Transfer in the Acquisition of the Semantic Contrast in L3 Spanish -- Chapter 3. Multilingual Universal Grammar as the Norm -- Chapter 4. UG and L3 Acquisition: New Insights and More Questions -- Chapter 5. Transfer in L3 Acquisition: The Role of Typology -- Chapter 6. L3 Enhanced Feature Sensitivity as a Result of Higher Profi ciency in the L2 -- Chapter 7. Third Language Acquisition of Norwegian Objects: Interlanguage Transfer or L1 Infl uence? -- Chapter 8. Null Objects in L1 Thai–L2 English–L3 Chinese: An Empiricist Take on a Theoretical Problem -- Chapter 9. The L3 Acquisition of Cantonese Refl exives -- Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG) perspective. A variety of languages other than English are involved in the studies reported in the papers, including Cantonese Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese,



Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai, with acquisition cases taking place in a number of different geographical locations, such as Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Norway, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and the USA. This volume will appeal to those studying L3 acquisition from a variety of theoretical perspectives and should encourage scholarly exchange between the fields of bi-/multilingualism and SLA.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777313803321

Titolo

Walter Benjamin and art / edited by Andrew Benjamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2005

ISBN

1-4725-4781-0

1-281-29205-2

9786611292058

1-84714-454-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Walter Benjamin studies series

Disciplina

834/.912

Soggetti

Art and society

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 [248]-287) and index

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Reception in Distraction; 2 The Timing of Elective Affinity: Walter Benjamin's Strong Aesthetics; 3 Materialist Mutations of the Bilderverbot; 4 Is There an Answer to the Aestheticizing of the Political?; 5 Benjamin or Heidegger: Aesthetics and Politics in an Age of Technology; 6 The Work of Art in the Age of Ontological Speculation: Walter Benjamin Revisited; 7 The Mimetic Bond: Benjamin and the Question of Technology; 8 Aura, Still; 9 Walter Benjamin and the Tectonic Unconscious; 10 Aura, Face, Photography: Re-reading Benjamin Today

11 Benjamin on Art and Reproducibility: The Case of Music12 The Work of Art in the Age of its Electronic Mutability; 13 Rehearsing Revolution and Life: The Embodiment of Benjamin's Artwork Essay at the End of



the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance