04067nam 22008775 450 991077890300332120230802004717.01-280-12091-697866135247751-84769-615-510.21832/9781847696151(CKB)2550000000089185(EBL)922848(SSID)ssj0000649716(PQKBManifestationID)11378747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649716(PQKBWorkID)10608564(PQKB)11549884(DE-B1597)513496(OCoLC)777557668(DE-B1597)9781847696151(MiAaPQ)EBC922848(EXLCZ)99255000000008918520200707h20122012 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheSocial Construction of Age Adult Foreign Language Learners /Patricia AndrewBlue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2012]©20121 online resource (194 p.)Second Language AcquisitionDescription based upon print version of record.1-84769-614-7 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A First Glimpse of Age -- 1. The Age Factor and Second Language Acquisition -- 2. Present-Day Approaches to the Study of Age -- 3. Viewing Age through a Social Constructionist Lens -- 4. Constructing Age in Later Adulthood -- 5. Constructing Age in ‘Middle’ Adulthood -- 6. Constructing Age in Young Adulthood -- Final Reflections -- References -- IndexThis book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class.Second Language AcquisitionLanguage and cultureLanguage and languages -- Age differencesSecond language acquisitionSociolinguisticsSecond language acquisitionAge differencesLanguage and languagesSociolinguisticsLanguage and cultureLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCPhilology & LinguisticsHILCCEFL .L2 learners.SLA.Second Language Acquisition.age and foreign language learning.age and second language.age factor.impact of age on language learning.older language learners.Language and culture.Language and languages -- Age differences.Second language acquisition.Sociolinguistics.Second language acquisitionAge differencesLanguage and languagesSociolinguisticsLanguage and cultureLanguages & LiteraturesPhilology & Linguistics401/.93Andrew Patricia, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1557554DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910778903003321TheSocial Construction of Age3821201UNINA04744nam 22009615 450 991079365120332120231122163328.01-61811-980-X10.1515/9781618119803(CKB)4100000008416117(MiAaPQ)EBC5786844(DE-B1597)541091(OCoLC)1083691309(DE-B1597)9781618119803(EXLCZ)99410000000841611720200229h20192019 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCelestial Hellscapes Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions /Kevin ReeseBoston, MA :Academic Studies Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (278 pages)Real Twentieth Century1-61811-979-6 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --A Note on the Names of Our "Author" --The Strugatskiis' Pushkinian Cosmology --Introduction --Chapter 1. A Biography through Astronomy --Chapter 2. Minor Planets: The Strugatskiis' Earlier Experiments in Cosmology --Chapter 3. The Hell of the Ignorant: The Second Martian Invasion --Chapter 4. Poincaré's Starless Hell: The Inhabited Island --Chapter 5. Exceptions to the Laws of Thermodynamics: Roadside Picnic --Chapter 6. "Long live darkness!": A Billion Years until the End of the World --Chapter 7. The Island Universe and the Copper Doorknob: The Doomed City --Chapter 8. Chronic Bewilderment and Astronomical "Fact": Those Burdened by Evil --Coda. "Day and night my Man in Black gives me no peace...": The Yids of the City of Peter --Afterword --Bibliography --Appendix: The Altitude of Vega --IndexNeither Arkadii nor Boris Strugatskii had originally intended to make a living in writing. Arkadii dreamed of becoming an astronomer, but his wartime experience and training led him to work as a translator and editor of Japanese literature. Boris intended to become a physicist, trained as an astronomer, and ended up as a computer specialist at Pulkovo Observatory. This common thread of astronomy turns out to be fantastically important for understanding their works, as their most important ones are experiments in cosmology, and their shared expertise is instrumental in their construction of literary hellscapes. This book explores how the Strugatskiis' cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. It examines also how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition-particularly to the poetry of Pushkin.Real twentieth century.Science fiction, RussianSoviet UnionHistory and criticismCosmology in literatureAstronomy in literature20th century literature.A Billion Years Until the End of the World.Aleksandr Pushkin.Andrei Tarkovsky.Arkady Strugatskii.Arkady Strugatsky.Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.Astronomy.Boris Strugatskii.Boris Strugatsky.Cosmology.Literary studies.Post-WWII Soviet literature.Roadside Picnic.Russian authors.Russian literature.Russian science fiction.Science fiction.Soviet Union literature.Soviet authors.Soviet literature.Soviet science fiction.Strugatskii brothers.Strugatskii.Strugatsky brothers.Strugatsky.Svoiet art.The Doomed City.The Inhabited Island.The Second Martian Invasion.The Stalker.The Yids of the City of Peter.The Zone.Those Burdened by Evil.comparative literature.postmodern literature.postmodernism.twentieth century literature.twentieth-century literature.Science fiction, RussianHistory and criticism.Cosmology in literature.Astronomy in literature.891.7344Reese Kevinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1575808DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910793651203321Celestial Hellscapes3853098UNINA