1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784125703321

Autore

Grzegorczyk Marzena

Titolo

Private topographies [[electronic resource] ] : space, subjectivity, and political change in modern Latin America / / Marzena Grzegorczyk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36407-X

9786611364076

1-4039-7863-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/358

Soggetti

Latin American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Creoles in literature

Space and time in literature

Literature and society - Latin America

Latin America History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-183) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Private Topographies, Grzegorczyk identifies and analyzes the types of postcolonial subjectivity prevalent among the Creole (Euro-American) ruling classes in post-independence, nineteenth-century century Latin America as articulated through their relation to their surroundings. Exactly how did creole elites change their self-conception in the wake of independence? In what ways and why did they feel compelled to restructure their personal space? What contradictions did they respond to? Where and how were the boundaries between public and private constructed? How were the categories of race and gender relevant to this process? For the first time, this book links together political transitions (the end of the colonial period in Latin America) with "implacements" - attempts that people make to reorganize the space around them. By looking at cartographies of states and regions, the structure of towns, and appearance and lay-out of homes in literature from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil from this nineteenth century period of transition,



Grzegorczyk sheds new light on the ways a culture remakes itself and the mechanisms through which subjectivities shift during periods of political change.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826001703321

Autore

Jafari Janin

Titolo

The role of elicitation questions in language learning : a function-based framework / / Janin Jafari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-674-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Disciplina

650.072

Soggetti

Business - Research - Methodology

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

The Role of Elicitation Questions in Language Learning; Table of contents; List of Tables; Transcription; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: Different Approaches to Questioning; 1.1 Definition of Question; 1.2 Structuralism; 1.3 Functionalism; 1.4 Pragmatics; 1.5 Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis; CHAPTER 2: Pragmatics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Speech Acts; 2.3 Speech Events; CHAPTER 3: Description of Conversation; 3.1 Approaches to the Description of Conversation; 3.2 Discourse Analysis; 3.3 Conversation Analysis; CHAPTER 4: Classification of Questions; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Quirk, et al.'s Classification of Questions4.3 Questions as Illocutionary Acts; 4.4 Questions as Requests; 4.5 Tsui's Classification of Questions; 4.6 Some Related Studies; CHAPTER 5: Investigating Elicitation Questions; 5.1 Definition of Key Terms; 5.2 Methodology; 5.3 Data Analysis; 5.4 Processing and Presentation of the Results; 5.5 Analysis of the Tables; 5.6 Concluding Remarks; Appendix; References

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a theoretical framework of Elicitation Questions. Elicitation questions are the most important aspect of second language learning ability. Understanding the purposes and the conditions in



which questions work best will help one master their use. Questioning is not only one of the most important skills in language learning, but also one of the main objectives of learning English in our schools. Although there are a number of definitions, it seems that the term 'question' has never been clearly defined. With the changes occurring within the linguistic theories, the term has be