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The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of 'languaging' seems to capture most effectively the essence and the continuity in the life and work of Giuseppina Cortese, to whom the book is dedicated. It brings together contributions by a number of distinguished scholars that shed new light on current developments in this dynamic area of discourse analysis, especially taking into account recent research and emerging insights on speech communities and communities of practice.
The sections in the volume are designed as main threads of a new investigation into 'languaging'. The first, entitled Languaging Awareness, deals with recent findings in applied linguistics, exploring key topics in language acquisition, language learning and teaching and the changing role of the media. The second section, Languaging Identity, prioritizes the theme of the construction of identity in text and talk within a linguistic and languaging framework. The third section, Languaging Community, explores the notion of community, of the lifeworld and the textworld emanating from a variety of domains, closely inspecting contemporary events and showing, on a continuum with Cortese's approach, how memory of the past gives depth of meaning to a discourse analysis that is geared to linguistic and textual awareness.
List of contents
Contents: Elana Ochse: Introduction: 'Languaging' Revisited - Maurizio Gotti: Native/Non-native Cooperation in English
as a Lingua Franca - Roberta Facchinetti: Media Studies and Media Discourse(s) in English: One Term, Many Identities - Maria Pavesi: From the Screen to the Learner-Viewer. Exploring Audiovisual Contexts of Second Language Acquisition - Stefania Nuccorini: The Treatment of Lexical Collocations in English Collocations Dictionaries and Learners' Dictionaries: A Languaging Perspective - Hugo Bowles: Learning through Languaging in ELF Service Encounters - Sandra Campagna: English as a Medium of Instruction. A 'Resentment Study' of a Micro EMI Context - Philip Riley: How Do They Get Away With It? Identity Construction, 'The Imposter' and the Psychology of Consumer Deterrent - Nicoletta Vasta: Identities in Conflict: Making Sense of Voices from inside the War on Terror - Carla Vaglio Marengo: Vico and Joyce: Landscaping/Langscaping - John Douthwaite: Self and Society: Art and Identity Formation in Billy Elliot - Virginia Pulcini: Naming 'the Other': Terms for Migrants across Varieties of English - Edith Esch: Women Doing Things with Words to Women without Words - Anna Duszak: From Academic Community 'in Transition' to Academic Community 'in Combat' - Marina Dossena: Discovering the Environment. The Indebtedness of Present-day Ecological Culture to Late Modern English Vocabulary - Marina Bondi: Chrononyms in Academic and Popular History - Rita Salvi: Languaging in Corporate Discourse - Martin Solly: Reconciling Tradition and Innovation: Languaging in Professional Communities of Practice - Michelangelo Conoscenti: In Transit between Two Wor(l)ds: NATO Military Discourse at a Turning Point - Maria Grazia Guido: Modality Tagging as Evidence of ELF Communities' Languaging - Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli: Sign Language: The State of the Art in Italian Universities Fourteen Years On.
About the author
Sandra Campagna, Elana Ochse, Virginia Pulcini and Martin Solly work at the University of Torino where they teach and carry out research in the field of English Language, Linguistics and Translation.
