Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Publishing Office], , [2016]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1 unnumbered leaf)
Soggetto topico	Law - United States - Language English language Language and culture - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Statutes and codes.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910707388903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (312 p.)
Disciplina	810.9920693
Altri autori (Persone)	Manzanas CalvoAna Ma (Ana María)
Collana	Critical approaches to ethnic American literature
Soggetto topico	American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism Ethnicity in literature Language and culture - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	94-012-0477-2 1-4356-0077-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Border Dynamics: From Terminus to Terminator / Ana Mª Manzanas -- Circles and Crosses: Reconsidering Lines of Demarcation / Ana Mª Manzanas -- Up against the Border: A Literary Response / José Pablo Villalobos -- Dispelling the Border Myth: Zonkey Writers and the Black Legend / Édgar Cota-Torres -- Border Voices: Life Writings and Self-Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Frontera / Javier Durán -- Postcards from the Border: In Tijuana, Revolución is an Avenue / Santiago Vaquera -- “To Hear Another Language”: Lifting the Veil between Langston Hughes and Federico García Lorca / Isabel Soto -- The Brown/Mestiza Metaphor, or the Impertinence against Borders / Isabel Durán -- “A Wall of Barbed Lies”: Absent Borders in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction / Begoña Simal -- Ethnographies of Transnational Migration in Rubén Martínez’s Crossing Over (2001) / Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger -- Mapping the Trans/Hispanic Atlantic: Nuyol, Miami, Tenerife, Tangier / Manuel Martín-Rodríguez -- Resisting through Hyphenation: The Ethics of Translating (Im)pure Texts / África Vidal -- Trespassers of Body Boundaries: The Cyborg and the Construction of a Postgendered Posthuman Identity / Ángel Mateos-Aparicio -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452065303321

Autore	Bérubé Michael
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1997]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina	807
Collana	Cultural Front
Soggetto topico	Language and culture - United States English philology - Vocational guidance Interdisciplinary approach in education English teachers - Employment - United States English language - Political aspects - United States English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc English philology - Study and teaching - Political aspects - United States
ISBN	0-585-33777-2 0-8147-2342-X
Classificazione	HG 130
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL CAPITAL -- 2. THE BLESSED OF THE EARTH -- 3. PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND ACADEMIC STANDARDS -- 4. PEER PRESSURE -- 5. STRAIGHT OUTTA NORMAL -- 6. ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT -- 7. PROFESSIONAL ADVOCATES -- 8. FREE SPEECH AND DISCIPLINE -- 9. EXTREME PREJUDICE -- 10. CULTURAL CRITICISM AND THE POLITICS OF SELLING OUT -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910213822603321

Autore	Lippi-Green Rosina
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (375 p.)
Disciplina	306.440973
Soggetto topico	English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Political aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Speech and social status - United States Language and culture - United States Language policy - United States Discrimination - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-136-59730-1 0-203-34880-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; English with an Accent; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: language ideology or science fiction?; 1. The linguistic facts of life; All spoken language changes; All spoken languages are equal in linguistic terms; Grammaticality does not equal communicative effectiveness; Written language and spoken language are historically, structurally, and functionally fundamentally different creatures; Variation is intrinsic to all spoken language at every level; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes Suggested further reading2. Language in motion; Changes in progress; r-less in Manhattan; The Northern Cities Chain Shift (NCCS); Lexical variation; Variation in verb morphology: strong and weak verbs; Structured variation: the hidden life of language; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 3. The myth of non-accent; You've got one too; Perspective; The Sound House; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 4. The standard language myth; Standard (American) English; Words about words; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes Suggested further reading5. Language subordination; A model of the language subordination process; Rejecting the gift: the individual's role in the communicative process; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 6. The educational system: fixing the message in stone; The setting of goals; Appropriacy arguments; The results of appropriacy argumentation; Good enough English; Teacher talk; Summary; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 7. Teaching children how to discriminate: (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf); Storytellers, Inc. The ubiquitous mouseThe wolf's backstory; Talking the talk; Time and place; Disney feature films; Original study methodology; Getting the hang of Technicolor; Lovers and mothers; In short; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 8. The information industry; The voice of authority; Opinion, spin, propaganda; Bad is stronger than good; The 2008 presidential election; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 9. Real people with a real language: the workplace and the judicial system; The nutshell; The Civil Rights Act; The legal process Discrimination in the workplaceSelected court cases; Appendix: the U.S. civil court structure; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 10. The real trouble with Black language; Grammar: resistance is futile; Style, authenticity, and race; Defying the definition; Anglo attitudes toward AAVE; African American attitudes toward AAVE; Where we at; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 11. Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles: the language rebels; Defining the South; The Southern Trough; Sounds like home to me; The map in the mind Hostility with a smile
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457726603321

Autore	Lippi-Green, Rosina
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
Descrizione fisica	xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Soggetto topico	Lingua inglese - Stati Uniti d'America - Aspetti sociali Lingua inglese - Stati Uniti d'America - Aspetti politici Discriminazioni - Stati Uniti d'America English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Political aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Speech and social status - United States Language and culture - United States Language policy - United States Discrimination - United States
ISBN	0415114764 (hb) 0415114772 (pbk.)
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001309449707536