Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse

Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse
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Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages : 284
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Synopsis Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse by : Olga M. Mladenova

This book provides an overview of the changes of the Second-Language Learning discursive formation and the Identity discursive formation in Russian history. It proposes an explanatory model in which small-scale linguistic detail is joined with larger-scale language units in order to illuminate matters of cultural importance in their linguistic guise.

Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse

Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse
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Synopsis Russian Second-language Textbooks and Identity in the Universe of Discourse by : Olga M. Mladenova

This book provides an overview of the modifications and interaction of the Second-Language Learning discursive formation and the Identity discursive formation over four centuries of Russian history. It proposes an explanatory model in which small-scale linguistic detail is combined harmoniously with larger-scale language units in order to illuminate matters of cultural importance in their linguistic guise. Hallmark of its interdisciplinary scope is the isomorphic interpretation of image and text. Compositionally, interdisciplinarity pours into a nonlinear narrative; this narrative follows a spiral, redefining on a higher level and in a different setting distinctions, which were first discovered on a lower level with the theoretical devices of other disciplines. The lower coil of the helix accommodates the complementary argumentations of anthropology and lexical semantics; the higher one brings the conclusions to the plane of discourse analysis and semiotics.

Eurasian Integration and the Russian World

Eurasian Integration and the Russian World
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Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9789633862865
ISBN-13 : 9633862868
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Synopsis Eurasian Integration and the Russian World by : Aliaksei Kazharski

This volume examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the monograph is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that is set to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders. The study undertakes a systematic and comprehensive survey of Russian official (authorities) and semi-official (establishment affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Vladimir Putin's second term in power.

Identity in Formation

Identity in Formation
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0801484952
ISBN-13 : 9780801484957
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Synopsis Identity in Formation by : David D. Laitin

Laitin portrays these Russian-speakers as a "beached diaspora" since the populations did not cross international borders; the borders themselves receded. He asks what will become of these populations. Will they learn the languages of the republics in which they live and prepare their children for assimilation? Will they return to a homeland many have never seen? Or will they become loyal citizens of the new republics while maintaining a Russian identity?

Language Textbooks in the era of Neoliberalism

Language Textbooks in the era of Neoliberalism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9781315405520
ISBN-13 : 1315405520
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Synopsis Language Textbooks in the era of Neoliberalism by : Pau Bori

This book examines how neoliberalism finds expression in foreign language textbooks. Moving beyond the usual focus on English, Pau Bori explores the impact of neoliberal ideology on Catalan textbooks. By comparing Catalan textbooks to English textbooks, this book interrogates the similarities and differences between a minor and a global language in the age of neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from critical theory and critical pedagogy, this study provides a fresh perspective on foreign language textbooks and second language education more broadly. Language Textbooks in the Era of Neoliberalism paves the way for new critical perspectives in language education that will challenge the current hegemony of neoliberalism.

Discourse and Identity

Discourse and Identity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9781107320604
ISBN-13 : 1107320607
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Synopsis Discourse and Identity by : Anna De Fina

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic. This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of analytical tools and concepts, the contributors show how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace; medical interviews; education), in a variety of genres (narrative; conversation; interviews), and amongst different communities (immigrants; patients; adolescents; teachers), this revealing volume sheds light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.

The Art of Teaching Russian

The Art of Teaching Russian
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Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Total Pages : 495
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ISBN-10 : 9781647120030
ISBN-13 : 1647120039
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Synopsis The Art of Teaching Russian by : Evgeny Dengub

The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.

Us and Others

Us and Others
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 538
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ISBN-10 : 1588112055
ISBN-13 : 9781588112057
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Synopsis Us and Others by : Anna Duszak

A look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, forgrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation studies and applied linguistics.

Grenzüberschreitungen

Grenzüberschreitungen
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Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages : 714
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ISBN-10 : 3447057920
ISBN-13 : 9783447057929
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Synopsis Grenzüberschreitungen by : Gabriella Schubert

Grenzuberschreitungen" - das Uberwinden von Grenzen in ethnischer, kultureller und fachlicher Perspektive pragen das Werk von Gabriella Schubert, die qua Beruf und Berufung zum Dialog der Volker und Kulturen einladt. Mit der Festschrift Grenzuberschreitungen wird eine Wissenschaftlerin geehrt, die sich in ihrer langjahrigen Lehr- und Forschungstatigkeit zur Kultursemiotik, zu Selbst- und Fremdbild, Sprache und Identitat sowie zu den Volksliteraturen in Sudosteuropa grosse Anerkennung im In- und Ausland (u.a. Mitglied der Serbischen und der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie des Prasidiums der Sudosteuropa- Gesellschaft) erworben hat. Zahlreiche Symposien und Buchveroffentlichungen zeugen davon, dass ihr besonders die deutsch-sudslawischen Beziehungen am Herzen liegen - eben die Uberwindung von Grenzen. "Grenzuberschreitungen" spiegeln sich ebenfalls in den Beitragen der Festschrift fur Gabriella Schubert wider, die 57 Kollegen, Weggefahrten, Schuler und Freunde der Jubilarin zum Geburtstag widmen. In dem Band vereinen sich Beitrage aus Balkanologie, Sudslawistik, Sudosteuropastudien, Rumanischer Philologie, Byzantinistik, Religionswissenschaft, Soziologie und sudosteuropaischer Geschichte, die sich alle thematisch mit den Traditionen und Identitaten in Sudosteuropa auseinandersetzen.

Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency

Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency
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Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781847697875
ISBN-13 : 1847697879
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency by : Lyn Wright Fogle

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. By focusing on a different practice in each family (i.e. narrative talk about the day, metalinguistic discourse or languaging, and code-switching), the analyses uncover different types of learner agency and show how language socialization is collaborative and co-constructed. The learners in this study achieve agency through resistance, participation, and negotiation, and the findings demonstrate the complex ways in which novices transform communities in transnational contexts. The perspectives inform the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift. The book further provides a rare glimpse of the quotidian negotiations of adoptive family life and suggestions for supporting adoptees as young bilinguals.