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Title Intersections : applied linguistics as a meeting place / edited by Elke Stracke
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, tables
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I -- ch. One Joining a New Community of Workplace Practice: Inferring Attitudes from Discourse / Janet Holmes -- ch. Two Being Heard: The Role of Family Members in Bilingual Medical Consultations / Julie Bradshaw -- ch. Three Hospital Humor: Patient-initiated Humor as Resistance to Clinical Discourse / Suzanne Eggins -- ch. Four Linguistics in Law: Improving the Cross-examination of Child Witnesses / Kirsten Hanna -- ch. Five Who is Ẁe'?: Anniversary Narrative as Collective Memory / Farzana Gounder -- Part II -- ch. Six Where the Academy Meets the Workplace: Communication Needs of Tertiary-level Accounting Students / Hui Ling Xu -- ch. Seven Learning Spaces as Meeting Places: Academic Literacy is Everyone's Responsibility / Angela Ardington -- ch. Eight The Development of L2 Academic Literacy through Online Intercultural Networks / Hiroyuki Nemoto
Note continued: ch. Nine Expressing Oneself through Digital Storytelling: A Student-Centered Japanese Language Learning Project / Yuki Itani-Adams -- ch. Ten Integrating Literature and Cooperative Learning in English Language Teaching / Wan-lun Lee -- ch. Eleven The Importance of Writing in Mathematics: Quantitative Analysis of U.S. English Learners' Academic Language Proficiency and Mathematics Achievement / H. Gary Cook -- ch. Twelve Aboriginal English and Bi-dialectal Identity in Early Childhood Education / Elizabeth M. Ellis -- ch. Thirteen Meeting Place of Cultures: Aboriginal Students and Standard Australian English Learning / Ian G. Malcolm -- Part III -- ch. Fourteen Anomalous Data about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Ecologies / Sophie McIntosh -- ch. Fifteen Making an Example of Arizona: Analyzing a Case of Restrictive Language Policy for Language Minority Rights / Karen E. Lillie
Summary This book makes an essential contribution to the developing and expanding scope of the field of applied linguistics through an understanding of applied linguistics as a meeting place. As Terrence G. Wiley of the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC, states in the Foreword, Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place ""extends the boundaries of the field while providing spaces for mediating within it and between other disciplines."" This book presents 16 papers by important researchers working in various countries around the globe. It focuses on the many junctions within app
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015)
Subject Applied linguistics -- Data processing
Applied linguistics -- Research
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Applied linguistics -- Data processing
Applied linguistics -- Research
Form Electronic book
Author Stracke, Elke, editor
ISBN 9781443873420
144387342X
1322607915
9781322607917