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Theorising Linguistic Prejudice in Brazil: Pierre Bourdieu – The Symbolic Power of Language and the Principle of Error Correction
This paper examines the deeply ingrained nature of linguistic prejudice towards popular varieties of Brazilian Portuguese and analyses it with...
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Überlegungen
Die in der Einleitung skizzierte Thematik soll ein Beitrag zur Translationsgeschichte sein und auf Grundlage der Konzepte der Translationskultur von...
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An Approach to the Discourse of Standard English: A Disciplinary Power Exercise in the Colombian ELT Curriculum
This chapter proposes a discussion on how the discourse of standard English exercises disciplinary power in the Colombian ELT curriculum. In this...
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The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study
Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world’s fifth most populous country...
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Language and the Sociolinguistic Market
This chapter discusses principles and concepts that underpin the construction of a sociolinguistic market in an age of globalisation. This...
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The Logic of Linguistic Exchanges and Model of Investment
Currently, there is a lack of empirical research on the strategies for social reproduction, including study destination and language choices,...
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Chinese Language Ideologies Reflected in African Students’ Discourses
As the first of three data chapters, this chapter responds to the one of the primary themes thrown up by the data itself—that is the Chinese language...
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Ideology, Investment, and Identity in Chinese Language Learning: Past, Present, and Future
Due to the large-scale emigration of Chinese-speaking populations to locations in Anglophone countries, Chinese has been a popular additional...
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Virtuelle Metamorphosen - Zur Subversion der Selbstoptimierung in Kevin Kuhns Roman Hikikomori
Kevin Kuhn’s novel Hikikomori is a postmodern Entwicklungsroman. In this essay, I read the novel as a subversion of the neoliberal paradigm, which...
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“What Deeply Irritates You”: Subjective Evaluation and Societal Evidence of (Socio)Linguistic Phenomena
Language is a social practice subject to the evaluation of the speaker on the one hand and the evaluation of the listener on the other. Therefore,...
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Motive
Schließen wir also die Phänomene aus, in denen Handelnde die Sprach- und Kulturbarrieren anders als mittels Translation überwanden und schließen...
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Confrontation in Academic Communication: Theoretical Background
This chapter deals with some theoretical issues related to the areas of interest of the study. First, the role of evaluation in academic...
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The Hierarchical Ordering of Languages and Language Ideologies
While Chapter 2 reviews the international student mobility (ISM) literature, this chapter turns the spotlight on...
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Emotion in Politics in Times of War: A Corpus Pragmatics Study
Emotions remain a fertile field of research. Thanks to newly available technology, investigating people’s preferences, emotions and feelings is...
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Akteur/-innen und alimentäre Praktiken im Online-Diskurs
Bei einer diskurslinguistischen Analyse spielen die Akteur/-innen eine zentrale Rolle. Neben Individuen, die in Kommentarforen im Kontext von...
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Shadow Education in Literacy for Migrant Students Learning in English as an Additional Language in Australian Primary Schools
This chapter reports an investigation of the educational needs served by private tutoring in English for families whose children are learning English...
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English Private Tutoring: The Case of Brazil
English private tutoring is a pervasive phenomenon around the globe, regardless of countries development level, cultural differences and politics....
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Ideology and Language Change
This chapter presents Kroch’s (1978) model of language variation (Sect. 1.1), which links maintenance of conservative speech norms with resistance by...
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Tutors’ Perspectives of English Private Tuition in France: Challenges and Implications
In France, English has become the most studied international language at school and is regarded as an asset for workers. In order to stand out in the...
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Introduction
The first chapter introduces the purpose of the study, which is to depict the consumer of experiential luxury by exploring how online reviewer...