Language Culture And Communication In Contemporary Europe

Author : Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853593604
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture and Communication in Contemporary Europe written by Charlotte Hoffmann and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the consideration of aspects of Europe's linguistic and cultural heritage. The ten contributions explore the relationship between language, culture and modern communication, either taking Europe as a whole or looking at specific countries. The authors' backgrounds and expertise span a number of disciplines, from linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies to information technology and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Alison Phipps
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761974185
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Languages written by Alison Phipps and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book is written by teachers of modern languages and tackles the specifics of the discipline while situating it within the literature on teaching Modern Languages in Higher Education.

Author : Fred L. Casmir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136484701
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication in Eastern Europe written by Fred L. Casmir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a clear attempt to learn something from the events in Eastern European countries. It does not start with simplistic or old assumptions based on convenient Western communication models, but instead takes a new approach. If chaos theory could fundamentally change how physicists looked at order in the universe, then it may be of value for communication scholars to attempt to understand the diversity of chaos or order in the human universe, rather than attempt to force existing models on it for their own explanatory purposes. This book is not merely based on the study of select groups of university students or on laboratory settings created in the minds of social scientists. It seeks to understand some of the "real world," including the historical backgrounds and the theoretical assumptions brought to studies of intercultural conflicts. Using personal and professional insights developed during firsthand contacts with existing situations, chapter authors illustrate some of the realities by using the complexity of changes in Eastern European states during the final decade of the 20th century. From education to business, from the role of women to the role of mass media, from the impact of political systems to the impact of history, communication between those who are culturally diverse, though they may have been arbitrarily forced to live under the same "political roof," is the theme of these scholarly studies. The editor's reason for developing this volume of original essays is his belief that diversity rather than assumed similarity or even sameness -- based on the use of inadequate terminology -- is necessary for learning from contemporary human experiences. He further believes that diversity and the significant roles of cultural values as well as of history need to become key concepts in the model with which to begin when it comes to the study of various aspects of intercultural communication. It is therefore vital that scholars who represent various points of view and backgrounds contribute to that process. After all, understanding what is happening in the world is centrally anchored in or related to effective and successful "intercultural" communication between scholars who have different academic and personal backgrounds.

Author : European Centre for Modern Languages
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287146779
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Together written by European Centre for Modern Languages and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) works to promote innovations in the teaching and learning of modern languages. This volume contains the proceedings of the third international colloquy which was attended by experts from over 30 countries and was organised in co-operation with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture.

Author : Michael Gorham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317810740
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Russia written by Michael Gorham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian-language internet.

Author : Geneviève Zarate
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287152594
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching written by Geneviève Zarate and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project attempts to tackle several challenges: - to experience the variety of different teaching cultures as a source of innovation rather than as an obstacle; - to adopt a pluridisciplinary approach by introducing references taken from the social sciences in order to develop reflection on the role of languages in social cohesion; - to try and provide answers to a question hitherto rarely raised in the didactics of languages and cultures, namely the place of cultural mediation itself. [CoE website]

Author : David Newby
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287164285
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages for Social Cohesion written by David Newby and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ECML's Languages for social cohesion programme (2004-2007) involved approximately 4500 language professionals from Europe and beyond. This publication focuses on key developments in language education promoted through the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe (ECML). It serves three main functions. Firstly, it summarises the ECML's contributions to fostering linguistic and cultural diversity in European societies. Secondly, it contains the proceedings of the ECML Conference, held in September 2007 at the University of Graz, to communicate the results of this programme to the wider public. Thirdly, it provides a preview of the projects which comprise the next programme of the ECML (2008-2011): 'Empowering language professionals: competences - networks - impact - quality'. In this way the publication both provides an overview of current issues and trends in European language teaching and indicates perspectives for the future.

Author : Freeman G. Henry
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479596
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Modern France written by Freeman G. Henry and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic study, Freeman Henry chronicles the rise to prominence of French language and culture. He meticulously analyzes the protracted government-sponsored efforts to foster and maintain that status and--ultimately--the latter-day challenges to France's national linguistic identity posed by Anglocentric globalization and a multicentric European Union. The internal history of the language is closely intertwined with its external history: phonology, morphology, lexicography, and orthography come alive against a backdrop of political, cultural, and institutional manifestations. A felicitous blend of documentary evidence and critical analysis serves to elucidate crucial stages, events, and concepts: 16th-century exuberance, 17th-century foundations, 18th-century expansionism, Revolutionary ideology. Restoration restructuring and commercialization, the advent of linguistic science, the coming of the media age, encroaching technocracy, and clamors for linguistic parity. Individual chapter focus on the plight of minority linguistic communities such as the blind and the deaf, language monitoring policies and legislation such as the Loi Toubon, as well as the feminization project legitimizing Madame la ministre. --Publisher description.

Author : Irén Annus
Publisher : JATEPress Kiadó
ISBN 13 : 9633152666
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Encounters: Language, Culture and Identity written by Irén Annus and published by JATEPress Kiadó. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of studies that analyze cultural encounters in Europe from multidisciplinary perspectives. The book faithfully reflects the research conducted at various departments within the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Szeged, Hungary. The idea for the collection was conceived during a dissemination meeting for a four-year research project involving some of the authors known as Languages in a Network of European Excellence (LINEE), cofounded by the European Commission (FP6, contract 28388), whose generous support also made the publication of this volume possible—for which I would like to extend my gratitude here. Our contemporary world has been persuasively described in a wealth of literature as an era of postmodernity, characterized by a series of particular features, including the development of digital culture and mediation, an intricate interplay between globalization and localization, the compression of time and space, the rapid and constant movement of information and of people as well as the crossing of boundaries, both in symbolic and concrete terms (Lyotard, Harvey, and Appadurai [Modernity], among others). It has been depicted as a transitory period marked by a series of turns—linguistic, cultural and pictorial/visual (e.g. by Rorty, Jameson and Mitchell)—that have captured new mental frameworks for the comprehension of reality(-ies) and resultant principles and processes of knowledge production, also opening up avenues towards pluralism, the politics of identity and difference, and the centrality of issues concerning discourse, power and ideology (Calhoun, Gupta and Ferguson, Fairclough, etc.). Having investigated various aspects of globalization, Appadurai (“Disjuncture”) concluded that one way to understand this phenomenon is through the notion of cultural flows, a concept that captures the speed and dynamism with which particular cultural forms and practices may travel and gain recognition outside of the local cultures within which they appear. He proposed that these global cultural flows can best be explored through five imagined dimensions, often in disjunction with each other: ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes and ideoscapes. Of these, the studies in this volume focus primarily on ethnoscapes and ideoscapes: the cultural flow that both the movement of people, be they students, tourists, immigrants or artists, and that of ideas, from subcultures to teaching paradigms, bring about and the representation of the various encounters these entail in language use, cultural production and identity constructions. This collection of studies tackles some of these issues as they appear in Europe, particularly within the boundaries of Hungary, where they have received particular attention after Hungary joined the European Union in 2004. Hungary’s accession introduced not only EU rules, norms and expectations to the country but also encouraged the flow of people, cultural exchange and cooperation within the EU in numerous ways, such as research projects and academic exchange programs (e.g. Tempus and Erasmus) and cultural projects, such as the European Capital of Culture award program. In the implementation of the various programs and broad cooperation upon which a united Europe may emerge, it is imperative to ensure communication; thus, language teaching and learning and the attainment of a particular level of proficiency have received particular attention within the EU. All this, in a broader context, can be regarded as part of the problematization tied to the word “European,” including the construction and meaning of a European identity, particularly in relation to other, such as national, regional and local, identities, while not being blind to other powerful factors, such as ethnicity, religion and gender, that also shape self-identities in compelling ways. The authors in this volume represent a multiplicity of academic fields, from linguistics and literary criticism to cultural anthropology and cultural studies. They share the characteristic of reaching across traditional methods and disciplines, thus typically applying an interdisciplinary approach in their investigations, all of which focus on the construction, mediation, outcome or impact of cultural encounters in a variety of contexts. Except for one, all of these studies explore particular aspects of contemporary issues and practices. As reflected in the subtitle of the volume, the papers have been organized around three major themes: language use, cultural interaction and identity construction. The first set of studies investigates the significance of language in the postmodern age. Globalization is often associated with tendencies towards standardization and homogenization (e.g. Featherstone), in the course of which “English is becoming the global language, and culture is becoming more and more dominated by American and Western European models” (Smith 14). In this context, issues such as the way in which English is used in the global community, the forms of power English may represent in particular local communities, or the washback effect this global role may have on emerging techniques used in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, require further investigation.

Author : Ullrich Kockel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825866433
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicating Cultures written by Ullrich Kockel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating Cultures explores contemporary and historical issues. The title may be read in various ways, including cultures as communicative systems; cultures communicating with one another; or, communication about cultures. The contributors to this volume represent different fields within or related to European ethnology, such as anthropology, geography, folklore, linguistics, or area studies. ** "The editors have assembled a rich collection of papers. The questions that they address - migration and diasporas; the invention of traditions; education and language; media and representation - are at the very heart of today's agenda in cultural analysis." - from the Foreword