Negotiating the “Presence of the Text”: How Might Teachers’ Language Choices Influence the Positioning of the Textbook?

2011 ◽  
pp. 154-171
Keyword(s):  
Language Choices

Irish Versions of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cillian O’Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Irish Identity

Irish versions of the Eclogues and Georgics serve as another salient example of how culture and nationhood define themselves through Virgil. This chapter explores how Virgil has provided a way of navigating Irish identity and looks at the language choices in Irish translations that lead away from British classically infused literature and towards an alternative classical tradition. In particular, by examining Seamus Heaney’s translation of Eclogue 9 and Peter Fallon’s translation of the Georgics, O’Hogan argues that both provide two aspects of Virgilian ‘repossession’: poets relocate Virgilian poems into familiar Irish landscapes replete with grim realities of rural life; and they make use of Hiberno-English, the everyday version of English used in Ireland.

Convivial linguistic practices: lived togetherness through language in the United Arab Emirates

Multilingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Robert Amilan Cook
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
The City

Abstract This paper takes up conviviality as an analytical tool to investigate everyday language choices made by foreign residents living in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It draws on recent work in human geography and cultural studies to understand conviviality in terms of practices rather than outcomes. Specifically, it investigates some of the linguistic dimensions of conviviality deployed by residents of the city in everyday situations of linguistic contact and negotiation of difference. The paper focuses on participants’ “small story” narratives (Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. 2015. Small stories research: Methods – analysis – outreach. In Anna De Fina & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), The handbook of narrative analysis, 255–272. Malden: John Wiley & Sons) that exemplify everyday language choices in the face of a highly ethnolinguistically diverse as well as racially and economically stratified society. Considering the multitude of ethnolinguistic and socioeconomic divisions in the city and the country as a whole, the paper unpacks how such cross-border contact is negotiated through everyday language practices. The paper identifies four types of convivial linguistic practices described by my participants: language sharing, benevolent interpretation, language checks and respectful language choices. In the process, I also probe the limits of what studying conviviality can tell us about everyday linguistic togetherness in highly segregated societies marked by stark inequalities.

scholarly journals Autistic children’s language imitation shows reduced sensitivity to ostracism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë L. Hopkins ◽  
Nicola Yuill ◽  
Holly P. Branigan
Keyword(s):  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Communication Impairments

AbstractIn dialogue, speakers tend to imitate, or align with, a partner’s language choices. Higher levels of alignment facilitate communication and can be elicited by affiliation goals. Since autistic children have interaction and communication impairments, we investigated whether a failure to display affiliative language imitation contributes to their conversational difficulties. We measured autistic children’s lexical alignment with a partner, following an ostracism manipulation which induces affiliative motivation in typical adults and children. While autistic children demonstrated lexical alignment, we observed no affiliative influence on ostracised children’s tendency to align, relative to controls. Our results suggest that increased language imitation—a potentially valuable form of social adaptation—is unavailable to autistic children, which may reflect their impaired affective understanding.

Firm performance, reporting goals, and language choices in narrative disclosures

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 380-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Scott Asay ◽  
Robert Libby ◽  
Kristina Rennekamp
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Performance Reporting

From phraseology to culture

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Manca
Keyword(s):  
Word List ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This paper aims to describe the phraseology associated with adjectives in the language of tourism. The adjectives appearing in the word list of a British farmhouse holidays corpus were grouped into three different semantic fields (‘description of rooms’, ‘description of surroundings’, and ‘description of food’) and from which their collocational profiles were then identified. In order to compare and contrast the Italian and the British languages of tourism, we searched an Italian comparable agriturismi corpus for items that are used to describe rooms, food, and surroundings. The results are discussed with reference to Sinclair’s theories on the influence of context and register on language choices (Sinclair 1991), and Hall’s theory of high vs. low context cultures (Hall 1976, 1989; Katan 2003). This analysis shows that the language of tourism is highly phraseological. It also gives insights into some differences and similarities between English and Italian in terms of ‘language systems’ and cultural orientations.

Scholarly publication of Brazilian researchers across disciplinary communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-29
Author(s):  
Laura Baumvol ◽  
Simone Sarmento ◽  
Ana Beatriz Arêas da Luz Fontes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
First Language ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Multilingual Scholars ◽  
Research Grant

Abstract This paper examines the context of scholarly knowledge production and dissemination in Brazil by comparing the publishing practices in both Portuguese and in English of Brazilian scholars who hold a research grant, across eight fields of knowledge. Data consists of 1,874 Curricula Vitae and the analysis focused on the language, number, and genres of publications over a three-year period (2014 to 2016). The study revealed a clear contrast regarding the more frequent use of English by researchers in the ‘harder’ sciences and the preference for Portuguese by those in the ‘softer’ sciences. The results also suggested an interconnection in which scholars who published the most tended to adopt English. Multiple factors involved in the genre and language choices made by academics were analysed, such as characteristics of the work produced by each disciplinary community, the audience of the research, the type of language used, and the need to obtain research funding. This investigation can potentially inform policies and investments in Brazilian higher education and research to provide continued support specific to the needs of different disciplinary communities, as well as foster the inclusion of multilingual scholars who do not have English as their first language in the global arena of knowledge production and dissemination.

scholarly journals Translating Interviews, Translating Lives: Ethical Considerations in Cross-Language Narrative Inquiry

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Multiple Languages

Through two narrative inquiries, in this article I explore the challenges for qualitative researchers in working with multiple languages in capturing, translating, analyzing, and representing narratives. I discuss the effect on research when we engage in these processes considering what was happening as we translated both texts and experience from one language into another. Woven into this discussion is attention to the effect that choosing one language or another might have on our research: the participants, the processes, and the findings. I consider how to remain awake to the ethical and relational issues regarding language choices that we make at every step of the research process.

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