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Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the book reflects a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learning and language mediation in the form of translation. Included in the volumes are the plenary papers given by Jennifer Coates, well known for her work on language and gender, on the expression of alternative masculinities; and by Bencie Woll, holder of the first chair of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the UK, on the insights to be gained from sign language in exploring language, culture and identity.
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Pushing at the boundaries: the expression of alternative masculinities | 1 |
| 2 | The effect of social class and ethnicity on the discursive negotiation of femininities in the talk of British Bangladeshi girls | 25 |
| 3 | 'I'm glad you're not a knitting gran': non-normative family and locale discourses | 47 |
| 4 | Exploring language, culture and identity: insights from sign language | 65 |
| 5 | Global politics and the Englishes of the world | 81 |
| 6 | Panjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: a case study of language maintenance and language loss | 99 |
| 7 | Cross-language metaphors: parents and children, love, marriage and divorce in the European family | 119 |
| 8 | Making sense across culture: the establishment of coherence in translated texts | 135 |
| 9 | Cultural resonance in English and Malay figurative phrases | 151 |
| 10 | Translating sociolects: a paradigm of ideological issues in translation? | 171 |
| 11 | Mother culture impact on foreign language reading comprehension | 185 |
| 12 | A corpus-based analysis of academic lectures across disciplines | 201 |
| 13 | Learning discourse | 219 |
| Contributors | 233 |
Overview
Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the book reflects a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries to work ...