Reworking English in rhetoric and composition : global interrogations, local interventions / / edited by Bruce Horner and Karen Kopelson

• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 808/.0420711
• Soggetto topico: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching; English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching; Report writing - Study and teaching; Language and languages - Study and teaching; Rhetoric - Social aspects; Language and culture; English language - Globalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): HornerBruce <1957->; KopelsonKaren <1967->
• Note generali: Many of the ideas and insights presented in this volume emerged out of work accomplished at the University of Louisville English Department's 2010 Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition on 'Working English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global/local Contexts, Commitments, Consequences'.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition-Global Interrogations, Local Interventions by Bruce Horner; I. REWORKING LANGUAGE; 1. THE BEING OF LANGUAGE by Marilyn M. Cooper; 2. MULTILINGUALITY IS THE MAINSTREAM by Jonathan Hall; 3. ENGLISH ONLY THROUGH DISAVOWAL: Linguistic Violence in Politics and Pedagogy by Brice Nordquist; 4. CRITICAL LITERACY AND WRITING IN ENGLISH: Teaching English in a Cross-Cultural Context by Weiguo Qu; II. LOCATIONS AND MIGRATIONS: GLOBAL/LOCAL INTERROGATIONS ; 5. FROM THE SPREAD OF ENGLISH TO THE FORMATION OF AN INDIGENOUS RHETORIC by LuMing Mao6. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE: Localizing Transrhetorical Texts in Gl/Oklahoma Classrooms by Rachel C. Jackson; 7. WORKING ENGLISH THROUGH CODE-MESHING: Implications for Denigrated Language Varieties and Their Users by Vivette Milson-Whyte; 8. U.S. TRANSLINGUALISM THROUGH A CROSS-NATIONAL AND CROSS-LINGUISTIC LENS by Nancy Bou Ayash; III. PEDAGOGICAL/INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS; 9. TOWARD "TRANSCULTURAL LITERACY" AT A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE by Patricia Bizzell ; 10. IMPORT/EXPORT WORK?: Using Cross-Cultural Theories to Rethink Englishes, Identities, and Genres in Writing Centers by Joan Mullin, Carol Peterson Haviland, and Amy Zenger11. THE ARKANSAS DELTA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: Youth Culture, Literacy, and Critical Pedagogy "in Place" by David A. Jolliffe; 12. RETHINKING MARKEDNESS: Grammaticality Judgments of Korean ESL Students' Writing by Junghyun Hwag and Joel Hardman; 13. RELOCALIZED LISTENING: Responding to All Student Texts from a Translingual Starting Point by Vanessa Kraemer Sohan ; AFTERWORD: On the Politics of Not Paying Attention (and the Resistance of Resistance) by Karen KopelsonAPPENDIX: SURVEY; WORKS CITED; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: In Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition, editors Bruce Horner and Karen Kopelson gather leading scholars and new voices in the field of rhetoric and composition to offer a dynamic new perspective on English as it is used today. This provocative volume explores the myriad ways in which English is constantly redefined, revised, and redirected through specific, located acts of writing, rhetoric, teaching, and learning. Contributors provide insightful contributions to the study of English from both national and international perspectives, revealing the language as a fluid a
• Titolo autorizzato: Reworking English in rhetoric and composition
• ISBN: 0-8093-3339-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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