04098nam 2200661 450 991046648440332120200917021826.01-5015-0056-21-61451-895-510.1515/9781614518952(CKB)3850000000000820(EBL)4714780(MiAaPQ)EBC4714780(DE-B1597)429624(OCoLC)958054594(DE-B1597)9781614518952(Au-PeEL)EBL4714780(CaPaEBR)ebr11279833(CaONFJC)MIL961929(OCoLC)958929526(EXLCZ)99385000000000082020170103h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierInvestigating English in Europe contexts and agendas /Andrew Linn ; with contributions from Ulrich Ammon, [and seventeen others]Boston, [Massachusetts] ;Berlin, [Germany] :De Gruyter Mouton,2016.©20161 online resource (336 p.)Language and Social Life,2364-4303 ;Volume 10Description based upon print version of record.1-61451-896-3 1-61451-890-4 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Series preface -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2.1 The study and teaching of English in the schools -- 2.2 English as a university subject -- 2.3 Lingua francas of Europe -- 2.4 English as a language of science -- 2.5 English in multilingual European economic space -- 2.6 Summary: The importance of a historical approach -- 3.1 English in the language ecology of Europe -- 3.2 Early approaches to conceptualizing English in Europe -- 3.3 Native speaker English -- 3.4 European Englishes -- 3.5 English as a Lingua Franca in Europe -- 3.5.6 English as a Lingua Franca in the business domain (BELF) -- 3.6 Pronunciation -- 3.7 English-medium instruction (EMI) -- 3.8 English in Europe and the postmodernist paradigm -- 3.9 Summary: No more standards? -- 4.1 Globalization and the contribution of Applied Linguistics -- 4.2 Language and social class in Europe -- 4.3 Language policy making -- 4.3.1 Overview and key issues -- 4.3.2 EU Language Policy and English -- 4.3.3 Policies in the European Higher Education Arena -- 4.4 Domain Loss: the rise and demise of a concept -- 4.5 Parallel Language Use -- 4.6 ‘Top down’ and ‘bottom up’ influences and behaviours -- 5.1 Quantitative and qualitative approaches to the use of English in Europe -- 5.2 Corpus analysis -- 5.3 Language policy and language planning [LPP]: the development of the discipline -- 5.4 Economic research on English in Europe -- 5.5 Language Management and Language Management Theory [LMT] -- 6. The Nordic experience -- 7. The way ahead -- References -- Index This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Europe. The status of English today is explained in its historical context before the authors present some of the key debates and ideas relating to the challenge English poses for learners, teachers, and language policy makers.Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ;Volume 10.English languageEuropeLanguage planningEuropeEnglish languageSocial aspectsEuropeSociolinguisticsEuropeElectronic books.English languageLanguage planningEnglish languageSocial aspectsSociolinguistics427Linn Andrew168361Ammon UlrichMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466484403321Investigating English in Europe2463848UNINA03901nam 2200661 450 991078929870332120230124192710.01-78316-018-7(CKB)3710000000093267(EBL)1650121(SSID)ssj0001212859(PQKBManifestationID)11732660(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212859(PQKBWorkID)11212217(PQKB)11753629(MiAaPQ)EBC1650121(Au-PeEL)EBL1650121(CaPaEBR)ebr10847953(CaONFJC)MIL665846(OCoLC)873141845(EXLCZ)99371000000009326720140328h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScientific Americans the making of popular science and evolution in early-twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture /John BruniCardiff :University of Wales Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (258 p.)Intersections in literature and scienceDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-34564-3 1-78316-017-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; ToC; List of illustrations; 1 Popular Science, Evolution and Global Information Management; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Reconstructing the social and scientific; II. Scientific and cultural narratives of expansion; III. Information and control systems; IV. Historicizing science; 2 Dirty Naturalism and the Regime of Thermodynamic Self-Organization; I. Social regulation and the power of art; II. Self-organization and energy flows; III. Ecocriticism and thermodynamics; IV. Social work and moral parasites; 3 The Ecology of Empire; I. The Call of the Wild and the national frontierII. Wild Fang and the ideology of domesticationIII. The multiplicity of animal bodies; III. 'Constitutional restlessness' and 'something not ourselves'; IV. Ghosts of American citizens; V. Where to draw the line? Biological kinshipand legal discourse; 4 After the Flood: Performance and Nation; I. Managing life; II. Business morality and Western water policy; IV. Systems of art: perception and communication; V. Pure fiction; I. Evolution as historical process; II. Thermodynamics and citizenship; III. The new American as techno-subject; IV. Beyond evolution: information, control and paranoiaV. 'The Rule of Phase Applied to History'VI. 'A Letter to American Teachers of History'; 5 The Miseducation of Henry Adams: Fantasies of Race,Citizenship and Biological Dynamos; Conclusion; I. Henry Adams: ecocritic?; II. 'Cyborg politics' and the technoscientific regime; III. The American System and global debt; IV. Biopolitics and posthuman life: the call of Jack London; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back CoverThe book challenges narrow readings of evolution as 'social Darwinism' by looking at evolutionary theory through the interrelated perspectives of science, North American naturalist literature, and popular journalism.Intersections in literature and science.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors, American20th centuryBiographyAmerican literature20th centuryBio-bibliographyScienceUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Authors, AmericanAmerican literatureScienceHistory.810.90052Bruni John1496464MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789298703321Scientific Americans3721150UNINA