1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702802303321

Titolo

After action [[electronic resource] ] : a review of the combined federal state, and local activities to respond and recover from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike : hearing before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 23, 2008

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 153 pages) : illustrations

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 110-827

Soggetti

Hurricane Ike, 2008

Hurricane Gustav, 2008

Emergency management - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 13, 2009).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792358603321

Titolo

Language and culture : reflective narratives and the emergence of identity / / edited by David Nunan, Julie Choi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15390-6

1-135-15391-4

1-282-57028-5

9786612570285

0-203-85698-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

ESL & applied linguistics professional series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChoiJulie

NunanDavid

Disciplina

302.44

Soggetti

Language and languages

Language and culture

Multiculturalism

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Language, Culture, and Identity: Framing the Issues; Chapter 2 Coat Hangers, Cowboys, and Communication Strategies: Seeking an Identity as a Proficient Foreign Language Learner; Chapter 3 Speaking Romance-esque; Chapter 4 Collaborating on Community, Sharing Experience,Troubling the Symbolic; Chapter 5 Achieving Community; Chapter 6 Another Drink in Subanun; Chapter 7 Nonghao, I am a Shanghai Noenoe: How do I Claim my Shanghaineseness?; Chapter 8 Living on the Hyphen

Chapter 9 Negotiating Multiple Language IdentitiesChapter 10 Minna no Nihongo? Nai!; Chapter 11 Elaborating the Monolingual Deficit; Chapter 12 The Foreign-ness of Native Speaking Teachers of Colour; Chapter 13 Otra Estación - A First Spanish Lesson; Chapter 14 Bewitched: A Microethnography of the Culture of Majick in Old Salem; Chapter 15 Am I that Name?; Chapter 16 English and Me: My Language Learning Journey; Chapter 17 Adaptive Cultural Transformation: Quest



for Dual Social Identities; Chapter 18 On this Writing: An Autotheoretic Account; Chapter 19 The Festival Incident

Chapter 20 Changing Identities in Japanese-English Bicultural Names: From Parents to ChildrenChapter 21 Berlin Babylon; Chapter 22 Changing Stripes - Chameleon or Tiger?; Chapter 23 Vanishing Acts; Chapter 24 Dog Rice and Cultural Dissonance; Chapter 25 'Where Am I From': Performative and 'Metro' Perspectives of Origin; Chapter 26 Sweating Cheese and Thinking Otherwise; Chapter 27 Multilingual Couple Talk: Romance, Identity and the Political Economy of Language; Chapter 28 Transforming Identities In and Through Narrative; Chapter 29 A Short Course in Globalese; Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars' and teachers' narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity. What makes this book stand out is th