English across Cultures. Cultures across English: A Reader in Cross-cultural Communication

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Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy
Walter de Gruyter, Oct 25, 2012 - Foreign Language Study - 513 pages

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES
11
Sense and sensitivity
13
English as object and medium of misunderstanding
31
Pragmatic cognitive and social aspects
55
Culture and language in classroom communication
83
A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking
103
Minority pupils and the principie of adaptation
117
Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension
263
Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language
281
Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns
305
Flexibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English
319
Varieties of English in Northern Ireland
335
Identity constraints
357
Black English in British classrooms
359
A Puerto Rican speech Community in New York
373

Macrosocietal constraints
137
Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa
139
Sociopolitical influence on cultural identity in Canada Implications for crosscultural communication in English
161
English as problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities
185
They speak English dont they?
205
CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH
217
BritishAmerican lexical differences A typology of interdialectal variation
219
Questions of standards and intraregional differences in Caribbean examinations
243
Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English
387
Central Canadian English and Received Standard English A comparison of pronunciation
403
Indian literature in English
421
Bibliography
441
Author Index
473
Subject Index
479
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