Language and identity : discourse in the world / / Edited by David Evans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511660403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-567-56614-5; 1-4742-4203-0; 1-4742-9494-4; 0-567-04779-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: Anthropological linguistics; Discourse analysis - Social aspects; Identity (Psychology); Language and culture; Sociolinguistics - 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: Part 1. Theoretical overview -- Introduction -- 2. The identities of language -- 3. How language shapes social perception -- Part 2. Languages, discourses and identities in the world -- 4. Quebec's shift from ethnic to civic national identity: implications for language attitudes amongst immigrants in Montreal -- 5. Trilingualism and Uyghur identity in the people's Republic of China -- 6. "Queensland for ever & Augus un Ballybug go braugh": the expression of identity in 19th century Irish emigrant letters -- 7. Indigenous languages, cultures and communities in the Amazon: strengthening identities -- Part 3. Critical pedagogies -- The language of leisure and physicality: constructing and re-constructing identity --Chapter 9. Drama and the identity of the language learner -- 10. Towards a cultural paradigm of alterity in modern foreign language (MFL) learning -- 11. English language teacher identity: A framework for teacher learning and professional development -- 12. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings. Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more powerful meanings, colonize other discourses and marginalize or silence the least powerful languages and cultures. Language and culture death occur in extreme cases of marginalization. This book also demonstrates the socio-economic opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries. Language can be a 'double-edged sword' of opportunity and marginalization. Language and Identity argues that bilingualism and in some cases multilingualism can both promote socio-economic opportunity and combat culture death and marginalization. With sound theoretical perspectives drawing upon the work of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Gumperz, Foucault and others, this book provides readers with a rationale to redress social injustice in the world by supporting minority linguistic and cultural identities and an acknowledgement that access to language can provide opportunity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The selected poems of Ted Berrigan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787557703321
• Autore: Berrigan Ted
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-520-94814-9; 1-283-27743-3; 9786613277435
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BerriganAnselm; BerriganEdmund <1974->; NotleyAlice <1945->
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I -- From The Sonnets -- From The Sonnets -- From A Certain Slant Of Sunlight -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index of Titles and First Lines
• Sommario/riassunto: Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates the breadth of Ted Berrigan's poetic accomplishments by presenting his most celebrated, interesting, and important work. This major second-wave New York School poet is often identified with his early poems, especially The Sonnets, but this selection encompasses his full poetic output, including the later sequences Easter Monday and A Certain Slant of Sunlight, as well as many of his uncollected poems. The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan provides a new perspective for those already familiar with his remarkable wit and invention, and introduces new readers to what John Ashbery called the "crazy energy" of this iconoclastic, funny, brilliant, and highly innovative writer. Praise for The Collected Poems of Ted ; Berrigan: "This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and heart."-Robert Creeley "Thanks to this invaluable Collected Poems, one can hear, as never before, Ted Berrigan dreaming his dream." -The Nation "The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan is not only one of the most strikingly attractive books recently published, but is also a major work of 20th-century poetry. . . . It is a book that will darken with the grease of my hands. There is no better way to praise it than by saying, 'If you enjoy poetry, you should have it.'" -Bloomsbury Review "It's a must-have, a poetic knockout."-Time Out New York