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Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in Foreign Language Studies
In the last part of the twentieth century, the human sciences witnessed three paradigmatic turns' that made it possible to comprehend each individual discipline in the light of a unitary object of study, the text: the pragmatic turn within linguistics, the linguistic turn within historical and cultural studies, and the cultural turn within literary studies. Combined with the more comprehensive nature of the texts studied (the mass media, postcolonial studies, etc.), reflection on the theoretical approach is more important today than ever as a means of interdisciplinary practice across both disciplines and languages. Most of the contributions in this book were originally presented at a conference on Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in Foreign Language Studies. The conference took place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, 19-20 September 2003 and was organised by The Language and Culture Network. Founded in 2002, the network promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between the traditional branches of Foreign Language Studies.
Littérature et engagements en Belgique francophone
En Belgique francophone, les décennies d'après-guerre voient plusieurs groupes d'écrivains relayer le débat sur le « devoir d'engagement » qui traverse les milieux intellectuels en France. Quels sont les choix défendus par les écrivains belges ? Et qu'est-ce qui explique le silence qui, dans l'historiographie littéraire actuelle, entoure ces auteurs et ces oeuvres ? Deux figures d'écrivains se détachent : Charles Paron et David Scheinert qui, dans l'immédiat après-guerre, franchissent la porte des maisons d'édition parisiennes. C'est cependant à partir du champ littéraire belge, dans la revue politico-culturelle Les Aubes (1953-1957), que les deux auteurs formulent un projet ...
Discussing Borders, Escaping Traps
We live in strange times. Old borders are vanishing just before our astonished eyes, while new ones are rapidly emerging. Nearly three decades after the publication of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, the zeitgeist that predicted a bright future for mankind to a large extent turned out to be rather more of a dystopia. Crises in and outside Europe multiplied the number of border controls, triggered the construction of walls and fences and widened ideological gaps. The book Discussing Borders, Escaping Traps is a transdisciplinary and transspatial approach to investigating these vanishing, emerging and changing material and immaterial borders. It is the result of a two-year project by AreaS, a research group in area studies located at Østfold University College in Norway, and by AreaS’ partners.
Mentality and Thought
"Mentality and Thought - North, South, East and West presents the reader with an informed pluri-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance and its interconnection with culture past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other. The exploration is one of both theoretical depth and socio-historical width, each paper providing its own synthetic combination of conceptual and empirical analysis." --Book Jacket.
Dialogues
Que se passe-t-il au croisement de la littérature et de l’histoire ? Comment les écrivains se représentent-ils l’histoire et quel est leur rapport avec elle ? Que se passe-t-il entre les oeuvres et entre les langues ? Quels sont les enjeux liés à la traduction des textes littéraires ? C’est à ces questions que s’efforcent de répondre, selon des approches différentes, les auteurs des études ici réunies en signe d’hommage et de reconnaissance à Hans Peter Lund, chercheur et traducteur remarquable, qui a placé le questionnement sur l’histoire, la littérature et la traduction au coeur de sa démarche intellectuelle. La première partie de l’ouvrage éclaire le rapport...
Language use in business and commerce in Europe
The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the use of a language in other domains, the future development of the European languages will not mainly depend on language-internal processes, but will increasingly be influenced by the use of English as the international vehicular language. The present development in Europe is discussed in several overview articles and a series of reports on the specific situation in various European countries. In addition, the Lisbon Resolution of EFNIL, pointing at the advantages of multilingualism in international business, is presented in 26 languages including the 23 official languages of the European Union. It calls the EU and its members to acknowledge languages as key factors for economic success, also from the perspective of consumers and workers.
Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate since 1945
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning
This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline. Throughout the book, the authors address LPP from different perspectives, exploring the interface between planning in theory and its practical problems in implementation. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in LPP in particular, and educational, social, and public policy more broadly.
English in Business and Commerce
This volume fills an important gap in exploring English in the domains of business and commerce through the prism of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, as opposed to analyzing business genres or taking a linguodidactic approach. It expands the regional coverage of English in Europe, with several studies based in Central Europe, and also considers contexts which interact with Europe even though they are physically outside of it (Asia, Africa). It addresses English as just one of several languages at play in the ecology of the countries. It focuses not only on the position of languages as declared in documents of various organizations, that is, language policy, but also everyday l...
