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Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Volume 37
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Kinginger, Celeste, Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2013
The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects. The volume illustrates diversification of theory and method, refinement of approaches to social interactive language use, and expansion in the range…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Second Language Learning
A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Negotiation of Individual and Group Identities: Parliamentary Debates and Editorial Meetings
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Stewart, Miranda – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This article draws on interactional pragmatics and a cross-cultural approach (UK, France, Spain) to investigate the negotiation of individual and group identities in two different speech events, parliamentary debates and editorial meetings. The cross-cultural examination of the use of linguistic resources for signalling "social role,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Pragmatics
Le plus comique de notre epoque? Son serieux. La societe francaise et son rire (The Funniest Thing about Our Times? Its Seriousness. French Society and Its Laughter).
Daninos, Pierre – Francais dans le Monde, 1980
Explores social changes which may account for changes in the type and prevalence of humor in French society. (AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, French, Humor, Language Usage