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Language, politics, and society : the new languages department : festschrift in honour of Professor D.E. Ager / edited by Sue Wright, Linda Hantrais, and Jolyon Howorth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058527312X
  • 9780585273129
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language, politics, and society.DDC classification:
  • 306.44 21
LOC classification:
  • P40 .L298 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Strange Encounters in the Fourth Dimension: Foreign Language Study as a Voyage of Exploration / Michael Townson -- 1 -- 2. Living There: Jewish Identity and Culture in Germany after the Holocaust / Eva Kolinsky -- 16 -- 3. Fugitive, the Transport, the BBC and Mass Murder: A BBC Broadcast about Gassings in Auschwitz in June 1944 / Mark Roseman -- 26 -- 4. Business Elites in France: Reflections on the Continued Exercise of Power / Mairi Maclean -- 40 -- 5. 'Le retour du civil' in French Political Culture / Gino Raymond -- 56 -- 6. City as Narrative: Representations of Paris in French Cinema (1930-1990s) / Susan Hayward -- 64 -- 7. Front National in the 1990s: From Consolidation to Crisis / James G. Shields -- 72 -- 8. Franco-British Relations and the European Common Foreign and Security Policy: From Cooperation to Integration? / Jolyon Howorth -- 85 -- 9. Metaphors and Trains of Thought: Spotting Journey Imagery in British and German Political Discourse / Andreas Musolff -- 100 -- 10. From Contexts to Concepts: Comparing Social Policy Inputs and Outcomes in Europe / Linda Hantrais -- 110 -- 11. Communicating Across Divides: lingua francas in Europe / Sue Wright -- 119 -- 12. Sociolinguistics in a Classless Society? / Frank Knowles -- 129 -- 13. Real-World Contexts for English Spelng Studis / Christopher Upward -- 140.
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Summary: This "Festschrift" is in honour of Professor D.E. Ager, who was one of the instigators of a new style of modern languages department in which literary criticism played a lesser role and where contemporary politics and society replaced them as the main focus of study.
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1. Strange Encounters in the Fourth Dimension: Foreign Language Study as a Voyage of Exploration / Michael Townson -- 1 -- 2. Living There: Jewish Identity and Culture in Germany after the Holocaust / Eva Kolinsky -- 16 -- 3. Fugitive, the Transport, the BBC and Mass Murder: A BBC Broadcast about Gassings in Auschwitz in June 1944 / Mark Roseman -- 26 -- 4. Business Elites in France: Reflections on the Continued Exercise of Power / Mairi Maclean -- 40 -- 5. 'Le retour du civil' in French Political Culture / Gino Raymond -- 56 -- 6. City as Narrative: Representations of Paris in French Cinema (1930-1990s) / Susan Hayward -- 64 -- 7. Front National in the 1990s: From Consolidation to Crisis / James G. Shields -- 72 -- 8. Franco-British Relations and the European Common Foreign and Security Policy: From Cooperation to Integration? / Jolyon Howorth -- 85 -- 9. Metaphors and Trains of Thought: Spotting Journey Imagery in British and German Political Discourse / Andreas Musolff -- 100 -- 10. From Contexts to Concepts: Comparing Social Policy Inputs and Outcomes in Europe / Linda Hantrais -- 110 -- 11. Communicating Across Divides: lingua francas in Europe / Sue Wright -- 119 -- 12. Sociolinguistics in a Classless Society? / Frank Knowles -- 129 -- 13. Real-World Contexts for English Spelng Studis / Christopher Upward -- 140.

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This "Festschrift" is in honour of Professor D.E. Ager, who was one of the instigators of a new style of modern languages department in which literary criticism played a lesser role and where contemporary politics and society replaced them as the main focus of study.

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