Discourse in the Novel

Preface Introduction 1. Fact and fiction in language learning 2. Researching identity and language learning 3. The world of adult immigrant language learners 4. Eva and Mai: Old heads on young shoulders 5. Mothers, migration and language learning 6. Second language acquisition theory revisited 7. Claiming the right to speak in classrooms and communities Afterword by Claire Kramsch

Identity and Language Learning: Extending the Conversation

The recent collection of articles, The Art of Translation [Masterstvo perevoda], follows publication of two other books on the subject, The Problems of Translation of Creative Writing [Voprosy khudozhestvennogo perevoda] and another work also bearing the title The Art of Translation.

The Theory and Practice of Translation

Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, " The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind's hidden complexities"

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and integrates a wide variety of contemporary sociolinguistic research as well as his own extensive research in this field. The emphasis is on how social meanings are made locally, in specific relationships, genres, groups and cultures, and on studying language variation as part of the analysis of spoken discourse.

Style: Language Variation and Identity

Part I 1 Introduction 2 Theoretical and methodological framework Part II: Multilingualism within and across languages 3 What is a language? 4 Language variation and the spread of global languages 5 Revitalization of endangered languages Part III: Societal and individual multilingualism 6 Societal multilingualism 7 Language and identities 8 The interplay between individual and societal multilingualism Part IV: Multilingual education 9 Flexible vs fixed multilingualism 10 Mother tongue education or literacy bridges? 11 Heritage language education Part V: Critical analysis of discourses 12 Institutional discourses on language and migration 13 Media representations of multilingualism 14 Linguistic landscape Part VI: Conclusion Notes on the Activities Author Index Subject Index

Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach

This paper advocates a concordance- and genre-based approach to academic essay writing for non-native students. It describes a project which aimed at teaching law undergraduates to write formal legal essays. As a first step, the students identified some structural characteristics of legal essays. Next, they used concordances to explore possible correlations between the generic structures and particular lexical items. Finally, as part of their work on the concordances they were asked to write mini-essays incorporating the generic features identified in Step 1, and some of the lexical items studied in Step 2

A Concordance- and Genre-Informed Approach to ESP Essay Writing.

This monograph describes the overall language situation in Luxembourg, a highly multilingual country in Western Europe, from a language policy and planning perspective. The first part discusses the social and historical contexts, including major societal changes and uncertainties about the future, which are bound up with Europeanisation and the accelerated processes of globalisation. It also deconstructs the notions of Luxembourgish as a ‘minority language’ and French as the ‘language of prestige’, and describes a two-pronged language ideology that allows for either monolingual identification with Luxembourgish or trilingual identification with the languages recognised by the language law of 1984 (Luxembourgish/ German/ French). The second part discusses the trilingual school-system, a system in which large numbers of romanophone students are forced to go through a German-language literacy programme. The third part provides an overview of language spread in the areas of the media and literary writing. The...

The language situation in Luxembourg

In the social sciences and humanities, researchers often qualify the period in which we are living as ‘late-modern’, ‘post-modern’ or ‘superdiverse’. These terms seek to capture changing conditions and priorities brought about by a new social order. This social order is characterized, among other traits, by an increased visibility of social, cultural and linguistic diversity, arising out of unprecedented migration and mobility patterns. It is also associated with the development of information and communication technologies, which in the digital era transform communication patterns, identities, relationships and possibilities for action.

Multilingualism and Multimodality: Current Challenges for Educational Studies

In line with recent calls for a historicising of discourse analysis, this paper provides an account of language-in-education policies in Luxembourg since the creation of the Luxembourgish state in the early nineteenth century. We briefly expound the Luxembourgish language situation and educational system, and critically discuss the contemporary discourse of impossibility of change, which is associated with it. We argue that the Luxembourgish/German/French trilingualism of Luxembourgish education and society needs to be clearly differentiated from the specific trilingual language regime currently applied within the educational system – indeed, the latter has changed and has been adapted over time, as we will show. Hence, there is no reason why it should not change again in an ongoing effort to meet the linguistic needs of a constantly shifting school population in the best possible way. We conclude that the multilingual nature of an educational system does not guarantee the absence of linguistic exclusion,...

Jean-Jacques Weber

Papers

Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach

A Concordance- and Genre-Informed Approach to ESP Essay Writing.

The language situation in Luxembourg

Multilingualism and Multimodality: Current Challenges for Educational Studies

The trilingual Luxembourgish school system in historical perspective: progress or regress?