Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers / / Peter Sayer
| Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers / / Peter Sayer |
| Autore | Sayer Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. ; ; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 428.0071/07274 |
| Collana | ESL & applied linguistics professional series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Study and teaching - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)
English language - Study and teaching - Social aspects - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) English teachers - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) English language - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-68214-0
9786613659088 0-203-80371-X 1-136-63543-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Exploring The Contradictions of Language Teaching; 2 Three English Teachers; 3 Squeezing More Juice: Portraits of Local English Teaching in Oaxacan Communities; 4 Legitimacy, Symbolic Competence, and Teaching English; 5 So They Can Defend Themselves a Little: The Meanings and Contradictions of Teaching English; 6 Hey, Take it Easy!: Ambivalence and Language Ideologies; 7 I Lasted One Day and Then I Was Gone: Performing Legitimacy
8 Conclusions: (Re)legitimizing Through Tensions and AmbiguitiesAppendix Doing Ethnography with Language Teachers; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461917603321 |
Sayer Peter
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| New York, N.Y. ; ; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers / / Peter Sayer
| Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers / / Peter Sayer |
| Autore | Sayer Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. ; ; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 428.0071/07274 |
| Collana | ESL & applied linguistics professional series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Study and teaching - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)
English language - Study and teaching - Social aspects - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) English teachers - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) English language - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-136-63542-4
1-280-68214-0 9786613659088 0-203-80371-X 1-136-63543-2 |
| Classificazione | EDU000000EDU005000FOR007000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Exploring The Contradictions of Language Teaching; 2 Three English Teachers; 3 Squeezing More Juice: Portraits of Local English Teaching in Oaxacan Communities; 4 Legitimacy, Symbolic Competence, and Teaching English; 5 So They Can Defend Themselves a Little: The Meanings and Contradictions of Teaching English; 6 Hey, Take it Easy!: Ambivalence and Language Ideologies; 7 I Lasted One Day and Then I Was Gone: Performing Legitimacy
8 Conclusions: (Re)legitimizing Through Tensions and AmbiguitiesAppendix Doing Ethnography with Language Teachers; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790369503321 |
Sayer Peter
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| New York, N.Y. ; ; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American English(es) [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives / / edited by Roberto Cagliero and Anna Belladelli
| American English(es) [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives / / edited by Roberto Cagliero and Anna Belladelli |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 635 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CaglieroRoberto
BelladelliAnna |
| Soggetto topico |
English language
English language - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4438-4903-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. "Minority" and American English -- pt. 2. Spanish/Inglés -- pt. 3. Hunting for slang. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462951903321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American English(es) [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives / / edited by Roberto Cagliero and Anna Belladelli
| American English(es) [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives / / edited by Roberto Cagliero and Anna Belladelli |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 635 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CaglieroRoberto
BelladelliAnna |
| Soggetto topico |
English language
English language - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-4438-4903-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. "Minority" and American English -- pt. 2. Spanish/Inglés -- pt. 3. Hunting for slang. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786825303321 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad language [[electronic resource] ] : are some words better than others? / / Edwin L. Battistella
| Bad language [[electronic resource] ] : are some words better than others? / / Edwin L. Battistella |
| Autore | Battistella Edwin L |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Slang
Swearing Sociolinguistics English language - Slang English language - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-19-988383-1
0-19-533745-X 9786610428069 1-4237-3412-2 1-60256-499-X 1-280-42806-6 0-19-972141-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; One: Bad Language: Realism versus Relativism; Two: Bad Writing; Three: Bad Grammar; Four: Bad Words; Five: Bad Citizens; Six: Bad Accents; Seven: Images and Engagement; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465372003321 |
Battistella Edwin L
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad language [[electronic resource] ] : are some words better than others? / / Edwin L. Battistella
| Bad language [[electronic resource] ] : are some words better than others? / / Edwin L. Battistella |
| Autore | Battistella Edwin L |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Slang
Swearing Sociolinguistics English language - Slang English language - Social aspects Anglès Argot Sociolingüística |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN |
0-19-988383-1
0-19-533745-X 9786610428069 1-4237-3412-2 1-60256-499-X 1-280-42806-6 0-19-972141-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; One: Bad Language: Realism versus Relativism; Two: Bad Writing; Three: Bad Grammar; Four: Bad Words; Five: Bad Citizens; Six: Bad Accents; Seven: Images and Engagement; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792263403321 |
Battistella Edwin L
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Codes and consequences [[electronic resource] ] : choosing linguistic varieties / / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton
| Codes and consequences [[electronic resource] ] : choosing linguistic varieties / / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.41 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Myers-ScottonCarol |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Discourse analysis
English language - Social aspects English language - Variation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-52953-9
0-19-535407-9 1-4294-0445-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; I. OVERVIEW; 1 Introduction; 2 A Theoretical Introduction to the Markedness Model; II. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN LITERATURE; 3 Implicatures of Styleswitching in the Narrative Voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses; 4 Marked Grammatical Structures: Communicating Intentionality in The Great Gatsby and As I Lay Dying; 5 Markedness and References to Characters in Biblical Hebrew Narratives; 6 Literariness, Markedness, and Surprise in Poetry; 7 Villainous Boys: On Some Marked Exchanges in Romeo and Juliet; III. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN SPOKEN ENGLISH
8 Markedness and Styleswitching in Performances by African American Drag Queens9 Styleswitching in Southern English; 10 Marked Versus Unmarked Choices on the Auto Factory Floor; IV. STYLISTIC CHOICES AND SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 11 ""Not Quite Right"": Second-Language Acquisition and Markedness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450566403321 |
| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Codes and consequences [[electronic resource] ] : choosing linguistic varieties / / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton
| Codes and consequences [[electronic resource] ] : choosing linguistic varieties / / edited by Carol Myers-Scotton |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.41 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Myers-ScottonCarol |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Discourse analysis
English language - Social aspects English language - Variation |
| ISBN |
0-19-772138-9
1-280-52953-9 0-19-535407-9 1-4294-0445-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; I. OVERVIEW; 1 Introduction; 2 A Theoretical Introduction to the Markedness Model; II. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN LITERATURE; 3 Implicatures of Styleswitching in the Narrative Voice of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses; 4 Marked Grammatical Structures: Communicating Intentionality in The Great Gatsby and As I Lay Dying; 5 Markedness and References to Characters in Biblical Hebrew Narratives; 6 Literariness, Markedness, and Surprise in Poetry; 7 Villainous Boys: On Some Marked Exchanges in Romeo and Juliet; III. STYLISTIC CHOICES IN SPOKEN ENGLISH
8 Markedness and Styleswitching in Performances by African American Drag Queens9 Styleswitching in Southern English; 10 Marked Versus Unmarked Choices on the Auto Factory Floor; IV. STYLISTIC CHOICES AND SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; 11 ""Not Quite Right"": Second-Language Acquisition and Markedness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784851703321 |
| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola
| Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing English language - Variation - History English language - Social aspects Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6131-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794181303321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola
| Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Disciplina | 420.9 |
| Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Grammar - Data processing
English language - Research - Data processing English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing English language - Variation - History English language - Social aspects Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-6131-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819865103321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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