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Diversity and Inclusion across languages
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in a corporate business may once have been no more than a lofty goal. Today it is seen as an important asset for all types of businesses. This book analyzes the communicative aspects of D&I in organizational as well as corporate settings. Its close look into linguistic practices allows a deeper understanding of D&I and the challenges related to it. The interdisciplinary contributors (scholars and practitioners alike) used quantitative and qualitative approaches. They examined the communication for, within and about a diverse society from a variety of angles. The topics they cover include linguistic diversity, D&I in corporate reports and D&I in criminal law and boardrooms. Thus, they lay out the challenges of implementing D&I management in everyday business. They also highlight the relation between language use and D&I.
Language Policy and the Future of Europe
This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to reflect critically on the future of language policy and practices in post-Brexit Europe. Born out of Alice Leal’s English and Translation in the European Union, this volume features annotated interviews with Seán Ó Riain, newly appointed Multilingualism Officer by the Irish diplomatic service, whose decades of experience in key milestones in EU language policy offer a unique perspective on its development. Each chapter, bookended by a contextual introduction and a closing commentary by Leal, addresses such key questions as: How long can the EU ...
Divers versus verständlich?
Leichte Sprache ist eine verständlichkeitsoptimierte Varietät des Deutschen, die versucht, Texte weniger schwierig zu machen, indem sie Kommunikationsbarrieren abbaut. Der Einsatz von gendergerechten Formulierungen scheint im Vergleich dazu genau das Gegenteil zu bewirken. Dennoch kann die Inklusion als gemeinsames Ziel der beiden so unterschiedlichen Sprachbewegungen angesehen werden und es wird zudem zunehmend versucht, auch in der Leichten Sprache zu gendern. Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, inwiefern der Genderstern Texte für Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung schwerer verständlich macht. Dafür wurden zwei Versionen eines Textes erstellt, der von den befragten Personen mit geistiger...
Disappearing Acts
Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. Fletcher describes how organizations say they need such behavior and yet ignore it, thus undermining the possibility of radical change. She shows why the "female advantage" does not seem to be benefit women employees or organizations. She offers ways that individuals and organizations can make visible the invisible work.
Romania diversa – Potentiale und Herausforderungen
Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Sammlung von Beiträgen, die auf der interdisziplinären Nachwuchstagung Forum Junge Romanistik, die vom 11.–13. April 2022 an der Universität Wien stattfand, präsentiert wurden. Die Tagung widmete sich dem Thema der Diversität und Vielfalt in den romanischen Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen. In einer globalisierten und pluralen Welt steht die Romanistik vor der Herausforderung, sich einzelsprachlich und gesamtromanisch kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln sowie interdisziplinäre Forschungsansätze zu integrieren. Ein besonderes Anliegen dieser Publikation ist es, Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen der Romanisti...
The Madame Curie Complex
The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall. Why is science still considered to be predominantly male profession? In The Madame Curie Complex, Julie Des Jardin dismantles the myth of the lone male genius, reframing the history of science with revelations about women’s substantial contributions to the field. She explores the lives of some of the most famous female scientists, including Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist; Rosalind Franklin, the chemist whose work anticipated the discovery of DNA’s structure; Rosalyn Yalow, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist; and, of course, ...
Grammatical Metaphor
Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical metaphor, and to foreground the potential of further study in the field. There is a need to highlight the SFL perspective on metaphor; other traditions focus on lexical aspects, and from cognitive perspectives, while SFL focuses on the grammatical dimension, and socio-functional aspects in the explanation of this phenomenon.
Gender Across Languages
This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the a...
A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations
"This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some 'clash of civilisations'. Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has conditioned us to think in 'tribal' categories. Accompanying the reader on this journey from the wars between ancient Persia and Greece, the Crusades, Colonialism and the Enlightenment to the contemporary 'wars on terror' are thinkers from 'East' and 'West': Adorno, Derrida, Farabi, Foucault, Hegel, Khayyam, Marcuse, Marx, Said, Ibn Sina, and Weber. In asking where ideas such as the 'clash of civilisations' come from, and by whom they are perpetuated, Adib-Moghaddam enga...
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