Front cover image for Change and language : papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Leeds, September 1994

Change and language : papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Leeds, September 1994

This volume is a collection of papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics at the University of Leeds, September 1994.
Print Book, English, cop. 1996
British Association for Applied Linguistics in association with Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, cop. 1996
viii, 182 p. : gráf., tablas.
9781853593598, 1853593591
644771098
Hywel Coleman and Lynne Cameron: Change and Language: Editors' PrefaceSection 1: Change, Language and Society at the End of the Twentieth CenturyIntroduction1. Norman Fairclough: Border Crossings: Discourse and Social Change in Contemporary Societies2. Michael Foster: Language Change and Darwinian Principles3. Chris Kennedy: 'La Creme de la Creme': Coercion and Corpus Change - An Example from Recruitment Advertisements4. Ulrike Hanna Meinhof: Dialect as Metaphor: The Use of Language in Edgar Reitz' Heimat films5. Margaret Rogers: Modern Foreign Languages and Curriculum Policy at 16+: Plus ca change6. Graham H. Turner: Language Change at the British Sign Language/English InterfaceSection 2: Change, Language and the IndividualIntroduction7. Catherine E. Snow: Change in Child Language and Child Linguists8. Ben Rampton: Crossing: Language across Ethnic Boundaries9. Christine Raschka and Lesley Milroy: Developing Grammars in Their Social Context: The L2 Acquisition Patterns of Three Chinese Learners of English10. Alan Tonkyn: The Oral Language Development of Instructed Second Language Learners: The Quest for a Progress-sensitive Proficiency Measure11. Joan M. Turner and Masako K. Hiraga: Elaborating Elaboration in Academic Tutorials: Changing Cultural AssumptionsSection 3: Change, Language Education and the Developing WorldIntroduction12. D. P. Pattanayak: Change, Language and the Developing World13. Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin: Changes in Learning English Vocabulary in China14. Clinton D. W. Robinson: Winds of Change in Africa: Fresh Air for African Languages? Some Preliminary Reflections