Language and Learning in the International University - From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity

Informationen zum Autor The editors are all affiliated with Roskilde University, Denmark, as well as the international research centre, 'Cultural and Linguistic Practices in the International University'?(TM) (CALPIU). Bent Preisler is Professor of English Sociolinguistics, and founder and director of CALPIU. His main research includes works on the functions of English in an international context. Ida Klitgård is Associate Professor in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Her work includes stylistics and rhetoric, currently focusing on the concept of plagiarism in student written assignments. Anne H. Fabricius is Associate Professor of English. Her main research area is sociophonetics, with wider interests in quantitative sociolinguistics, sociolinguistic methodology and the analysis of spoken language. Klappentext Based on a series of studies from universities around the world, this book suggests that internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, and instead represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new identities unfettered by traditional 'us-and-them' binary thinking. Zusammenfassung Based on a series of studies from universities around the world! this book suggests that internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English! and instead represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new identities unfettered by traditional 'us-and-them' binary thinking.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Not Available (NA)
• Mitarbeit: Anne Fabricius (Herausgeber), Anne H. Fabricius (Herausgeber), Ida Klitg?rd (Herausgeber), Ida Klitgard (Herausgeber), Ida Klitgård (Herausgeber), Bent Preisler (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 15.07.2011, verspätet
• EAN: 9781847694140
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-414-0
• Serien: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik