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Zusammenfassung This text brings together scholars from a wide variety of linguistic orientations to describe language development from a relational perspective. The theme of ecology affords a fresh look into phenomena not encompassed by language acquisition or language socialization research alone.
List of contents
Introduction: How Can We Tell the Dancer from the Dance? Claire Kramsch
Part I: Language Development as Spatial and Temporal Positioning
1. Language Acquisition and Language Use from a Chaos/Complexity Perspective, Diane Larsen-Freeman, University of Michigan
2. Modelling the Acquisition of Speech in a 'Multilingual' Society: An Ecological Approach, Jonathan Leather, University of Amsterdam
3. Language Development and Identity: Multiple Timescales in the Social Ecology of Learning, Jay L. Lemke, City University of New York
Commentaries to Part I
Part II: Language Development as Mediated, Social Semiotic Activity
4. Becoming a Speaker of Culture, Elinor Ochs, UCLA
5. Cross-cultural Learning and Other Catastrophes, Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
6. An Ecological-semiotic Perspective on Language and Linguistics, Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Commentaries to Part II
Part III: Discourse Alignments and Trajectories in Institutional Settings
7. 'I'd Rather Switch than Fight': An Activity Theoretic Study of Power, Success and Failure in a Foreign Language Classroom, James P. Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University and Patricia B. Genung, The United States Military Academy
8. Discoursal, Misalignments in Professional Gatekeeping Encounters, Srikant Sarangi, Cardiff University and Celia Roberts, Thames Valley University
Commentaries to Part III
Part IV: Interaction Rituals in Language Acquisition and Use
9. Ritual, Face and Play in a First English Lesson: Bootstrapping a Classroom Culture, Jet van Dam, University of Amsterdam
10. Negotiating the Paradoxes of Spontaneous Talk in Advanced L2 Classes, Anne Bannink, University of Amsterdam
Commentaries to Part IV
