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English as a Lingua Franca among Adolescents
This volume is not only the first book-length investigation into adolescents’ use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it also explores ELF in an African-European context, which has received little attention in ELF research so far. The book examines the interplay between language, culture and identity in adolescents’ ELF interactions. It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore strategies secondary school students employ in a German-Tanzanian student exchange in order to reach their communicative goals. Introducing and drawing on the TeenELF corpus, the book investigates the speaker- and situation-specific potential of repetition and repair, complimenting, laughter and humour as well as various practices of translanguaging. The study reveals ELF as a transcultural space, in which different linguacultural influences meet and merge, while meaning, rapport and identity are interactionally negotiated. In the face of an increasing interest in ELF-informed pedagogy, the present approach investigates the communicative needs and competences of school students and derives both theoretical as well as classroom implications from its linguistic findings.
Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts
The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how positioning the self and other varies, what kind of reference choices language users make and what follows from these choices. The data come from a variety of public texts, private encounters and questionnaires, and the methodologies range from macro to micro perspectives, including combinations of qualitative close-reading and quantitative corpus methods, and synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The findings enhance our understanding and use of reference practices in the context of global, institutional, political and multicultural, as well as media texts.
Studies in Comparative Pragmatics
In the current discourse in pragmatics, multi-perspective methods are seen as the best way to understand language use in context. Within this discussion, the volume adopts diverse approaches to pragmatics, and focuses on comparing a wide selection of languages, including English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Polish, and Swedish. The contributions deal with grammatical expressions, prosody, textual genres and speech acts, which occur in different social interactions and in multicultural environments, including foreign language learning and lingua franca situations. Each topic is analysed by comparing its usage in at least two different languages or by contrasting the linguistic behaviour of different groups of language users.
Old English Medievalism
An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Pop Culture in Language Education
Pop Culture in Language Education provides comprehensive insight on how studies of pop culture can inform language teaching and learning. The volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of empirically informed, cutting-edge research that tackles both theoretical concerns and practical implications. The book focuses on how a diverse array of pop culture artifacts such as pop and rap music, movies and TV series, comics and cartoons, fan fiction, and video games can be exploited for the development of language skills. It establishes the study of pop culture and its language as a serious subfield within language education and applied linguistics and explores how studies of pop culture, its languag...
Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik im Dialog
Auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungs- und Lehrprojekte zeigt dieser Sammelband systematisch Bezugspunkte zwischen Sprachwissenschaft, Fachdidaktik und schulischem Englischunterricht auf und leistet damit einen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung der gegenwärtigen Debatte um Kohärenz und Professionalisierung in der Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Die Beiträge, die den Schwerpunktbereichen Englisch als Sprachsystem, Englisch als Weltsprache, Englisch als Sprache von Lernenden und Lehrenden sowie Englische Korpuslinguistik und Fachdidaktik zugeordnet sind, erörtern, welche linguistischen Inhalte, Methoden und Werkzeuge für den Englischunterricht besonders relevant sind und wie diese für die Professionalisierung von (angehenden) Lehrkräften nutzbar gemacht werden können. Damit dient der Band als Ideensammlung und Handreichung für alle Akteur*innen im Bereich der Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung.
