Borjian Language and Globalization

An Autoethnographic Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-39460-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, educational and applied linguists from a range theoretical perspectives and sub-disciplines, time periods, and geographical spaces throughout the world examine the interaction and intersectionality of languages and the implications for world languages and cultures. A feature of the book is the application of autoethnography as its underlying approach/method, in which contributors draw on their own lived experiences (of life, scholarship, and work) to investigate and reflect on linguistic globalization and its issues and challenges against the backdrop of the globalized world of the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borjian, Maryam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Ofelia Garcia, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA

Preface

- Introduction: Language and globalization through an autoethnographic lens

Maryam Borjian, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA

- From intercontinental travelling as a rare adventure to a common procedure – and its linguistic consequences

Ulrich Ammon, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

- Language and identity: Reflections by a cultural commuter

Birgit Brock-Utne, University of Oslo, Sweden & Director of UNESCO’s Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa Project

- English language as thief

Vaughan Rapatahana, Co-editor of English as Hydra and Senior Instructor of English, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Philippines & Celebrated Maori Poet of New Zealand

- A journey with English: Re-examining the pragmatic stance towards the language of globalization

Nigussie Negash Yadete, Ethiopia University & Abu Dhabi Vocational Education Training Institute, UAE

- Biscriptal English learners: A 'blindspot' in global English language teaching

Pauline Bunce, Co-editor of English as Hydra & Senior Instructor of English, Australia and Hong Kong

- What my school teachers failed to appreciate about translanguaging

Ruhma Choudhury, City University of New York, USA

- How to deal with the researchers’ Eurocentric knowledge about language(s)

Susanne Becker, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

- Being ‘the villain’: Globalization and the ‘native-speaker’ English language teacher

Elizabeth J. Erling, Open University, UK

- My Name: An autoethnography

Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore

- Living in linguistic contradiction: Western Armenian and the neo-speaker

Jennifer Manoukian, Columbia University, USA

- Naturalizing a planned language: Esperanto and the promotion of linguistic diversity

Humphrey Tonkin, Former President University of Hartford, USA

- Globalization and linguistic diversity: the view from New York City

Daniel Kauffman, Queens College, City University of New York & Director of Endangered Language Alliance, USA

- An Alaskan language odyssey

Bob Holman, Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Co-Director of Endangered Language Alliance, Narrator of PBS Documentary "Language Matters," USA

Über Autor(innen)

Maryam Borjian is Language Coordinator and Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.