Attitudes towards English in Europe

This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication.

The current series was conceived in 2015, but it actually emerged from two earlier book series also published by De Gruyter Mouton. Founded in 1999 by Richard Watts and Monica Heller as Language, Power and Social Process, the series ran until 2011 although Monica had stepped down in 2008. From 2011, the series continued under the new name Language and Social Processes, with David Britain joining Richard Watts as editor. When Richard stepped down at the end of 2014, Crispin Thurlow joined David as editor; this is when David and Crispin worked together on updating the series with an expanded, more contemporary scope and a more fitting title: Language and Social Life.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

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Attitudes towards English in Europe

This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication.

The current series was conceived in 2015, but it actually emerged from two earlier book series also published by De Gruyter Mouton. Founded in 1999 by Richard Watts and Monica Heller as Language, Power and Social Process, the series ran until 2011 although Monica had stepped down in 2008. From 2011, the series continued under the new name Language and Social Processes, with David Britain joining Richard Watts as editor. When Richard stepped down at the end of 2014, Crispin Thurlow joined David as editor; this is when David and Crispin worked together on updating the series with an expanded, more contemporary scope and a more fitting title: Language and Social Life.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

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Overview

This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication.

The current series was conceived in 2015, but it actually emerged from two earlier book series also published by De Gruyter Mouton. Founded in 1999 by Richard Watts and Monica Heller as Language, Power and Social Process, the series ran until 2011 although Monica had stepped down in 2008. From 2011, the series continued under the new name Language and Social Processes, with David Britain joining Richard Watts as editor. When Richard stepped down at the end of 2014, Crispin Thurlow joined David as editor; this is when David and Crispin worked together on updating the series with an expanded, more contemporary scope and a more fitting title: Language and Social Life.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501500695
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/24/2015
Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] , #2
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 355
File size: 6 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Andrew Linn, Neil Bermel, and Gibson Ferguson, University of Sheffield, UK.

Table of Contents

Series preface v

Introduction: Attitudes to English Gibson Ferguson 1

I Attitudes towards English in Society

1 Attitudes towards English in France Olivia Walsh 27

2 Images of English in the French press Marc Deneire 55

3 Policies and attitudes towards English in the Faroes today Bjarma Mortensen 71

4 Attitudes towards English language use on Greek TV: a threat or not? Zoi Tatsioka 97

II Attitudes towards English in Universities

5 Attitudes towards English in university language policy documents in Sweden Beyza Björkman 115

6 English as an international language of science and its effect on Nordic terminology: the view of scientists Anna Kristina Hultgren 139

7 Communicating across Europe. What German students think about multilingualism, language norms and English as a lingua franca Claus Gnutzmann Jenny Jakisch Frank Rabe 165

8 "It's so natural to mix languages": Attitudes towards English-medium instruction in Sweden Maria Kuteeva Niina Hynninen Mara Haslam 193

9 English as an academic lingua franca in Estonia: students' attitudes and ideologies Josep Soler-Carbonell Hakan Karaoglu 213

III Attitudes towards English in Schools

10 Who owns English in Norway? L2 attitudes and choices among learners Ulrikke Rindal 241

11 Learning English in contemporary Iceland - the attitudes and perceptions of Icelandic youth Anna Jeeves 271

12 English in London: Opportunity or Threat? English and Cypriot Greek in the Greek Cypriot community of North London Chryso Hadjidemetriou 297

13 Teaching English to Young Learners in Europe: teachers' attitudes and perspectives Sue Garton Fiona Copland 321

Index 345

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