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Title Major versus minor? Languages and literatures in a globalized world / edited by Theo D'haen, Iannis Goerlandt, Roger D. Sell
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures ; v. 1
FILLM studies in languages and literatures.
Contents Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgement; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Languages; 1. The "minor language" perspective; References ; 2. The language milieu of the Old Order Amish; Introduction ; The state of the world's languages ; Reasons for concern ; The language context of the United States ; Pennsylvania Deitsch ; Old Order Amish language use and language maintenance ; Discussion and conclusion ; References ; 3. English -- The Last Lingua Franca?; Reference
4. National identities and the Latin language in Hungary and CroatiaReferences ; 5. Error and innovation in postcolonial composition; World Englishes and cultural translation ; Bilingual creativity and composition studies ; Sameness and difference in a postcolonial classroom ; World Englishes: The promise of a term ; Conclusion ; References ; 6. Cultivating learners' intellectual growth and conceptual thinking skills; Introduction ; Rationale and significance of the study ; Objectives of the study ; Methods used in the study ; The population ; The procedures ; Method of data collection
Data analysis Findings ; Part I: Personal information about the participants; Part II: The participants' writing errors in the pre-test; Part III: The participants' writing improvements; Level 4. Types of grammatical and punctuation error; Level 3. Types of grammatical and punctuation error; Comparison of participants' writing improvement; Participants' improvements in using discourse markers; Participants' writing improvement reflected in their haiku poems; Conclusions and implications ; Research question 1. How does reading impact the participants' writing development?
Research question 2. In what way does the strategic approach help develop the participants' writingImplications of the research outcome ; Limitations of the study ; References ; Part II. Theoretical considerations: Language, culture, literature; 7. Critical glissantism: Édouard Glissant's views on language(s); The vindication of Creole ; Language, the imaginary of language, and the question of Caribbeanness ; The amateur linguist ; The defence and illustration of a world poetry: Damas and Glissant compared ; References ; 8. Decolonizing world literature; Literature and the world market
The Nobel Prize in literature and the perpetuation of conservative hypocrisy Gutenberg and world literature ; Concluding methodological propositions ; References ; 9. Minor and major readings across cultures; Reading positions ; Texts across cultures ; Readers across cultures ; Politics across cultures ; References ; 10. From Black Athena to Black Dionysus and beyond? African adaptations of Greek tragedy; References ; 11. From minor genre towards major genre: Crime fiction and autofiction; The legitimation process ; African crime fiction: History of a genre ; Autofiction: History of a genre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Discourse analysis, Literary
Communication in literature -- Globalization
Language and ethics -- Globalization
Literature -- History and criticism -- Globalization
Literature -- Philosophy -- Globalization
Language -- Globalization
literary criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Haen, Theo d' editor
Goerlandt, Iannis, editor
Sell, Roger D, editor
LC no. 2015012091
ISBN 9789027268549
9027268541
9027201285
9789027201287