Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Sociolinguistics

This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide. The contributors to the volume are international researchers specialising in language policy and early language learning and their contributions aim to advance scholarship on early language learning policies and inform policymaking at the global level. 

The languages considered include learning English as a second language in primary schools in Japan, Mexico, Serbia, Argentina, and Tanzania; Spanish language...

This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the ‘conflict’, and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the ‘conflict’ (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and...

Prononcer le mot genre, c'est déjà classer et proposer un cadre. Pourtant, le genre doit aussi être envisagé comme une forme dynamique. En anglais de spécialité, il est souvent multimodal, voire multimédia. Outre l'interaction entre texte et image dans les articles scienti ques et économiques, le passage du journalisme papier au journalisme en ligne nécessite un changement de mode d'analyse pour s'attacher au média d'écriture.

Les différents chapitres de cet ouvrage s'intéressent au contexte dans lequel un discours est produit et à son environnement, ainsi qu'à ses...