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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.44
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages; Language and culture; Multiculturalism
• Altri autori: ChoiJulie NunanDavid
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language and culture
• ISBN: 1-135-15390-6; 1-135-15391-4; 1-282-57028-5; 9786612570285; 0-203-85698-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792358603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ESL and applied linguistics professional series.