Native Speakers Interrupted

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107133378
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers, Interrupted written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009302078
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Speakers, Interrupted written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study brings together three heritage languages – Hindu, Spanish and Romanian - spoken in the United States. It demonstrates how heritage speakers drive morphosyntactic change when certain environmental characteristics are met, and considers the relationship between social and cognitive factors and timing in language acquisition, bilingualism, and language change. It also discusses the implications of the findings for the language education of heritage speakers in the USA and considers how the heritage language can be maintained in the English-speaking school system. Advancing our understanding of heritage language development and change, this book is essential reading for students and researchers of linguistics and multilingualism, immigration, education studies and language policy, as well as educators and policy makers.

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195309804
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Interrupted written by John McWhorter and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Silvina Montrul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007240
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Heritage Languages written by Silvina Montrul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231522711
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Like a Native Speaker written by Rey Chow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named "Negro" in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast. In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.

Author : Valentina Canese
Publisher : ISL-FIL-UNA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book TEACHING ENGLISH IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS: Language, Learners and Learning written by Valentina Canese and published by ISL-FIL-UNA. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ikuko Nakane
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027254108
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence in Intercultural Communication written by Ikuko Nakane and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological – and fundamental levels of social organization – individual, situational and sociocultural - the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro- and micro- ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions, the stereotypes of the 'silent East' is reconsidered, and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.

Author : Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047641
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage Languages and Their Speakers written by Maria Polinsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

Author : Winnie Cheng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253606
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Conversation written by Winnie Cheng and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways in which culturally divergent conversationalists manage their organizational and interpersonal aspects of the unfolding conversations. The study focuses on five features of conversational interaction — disagreements, compliments and compliment responses, simultaneous talk, discourse topic management and discourse information structure — where cultural values and attitudes are particularly evident. For each of the features, hypotheses are formulated and tested through the detailed analysis of twenty-five intercultural conversations. This quantitative analysis is then followed by qualitative analysis of excerpts from the conversations to show the ways in which conversational interaction is performed and negotiated. The study shows in very revealing ways that intercultural conversations involve a complex, interactive and collaborative process of communication between the participants.

Author : Alan Juffs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136217207
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Language Sentence Processing written by Alan Juffs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition. The book begins with a broad overview of the core issues of second language sentence processing research and then narrows its focus by dedicating individual chapters to each of these key areas. While a number of publications have discussed research findings on knowledge of formal syntactic principles as part of theories of second language acquisition, there are fewer resources dedicated to the role of second language sentence processing in this context. This volume will act as the first full-length literature review of the field on the market.