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. - Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2000. - 1 online resource (xviii, 148 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strange Encounters in the Fourth Dimension: Foreign Language Study as a Voyage of Exploration / Living There: Jewish Identity and Culture in Germany after the Holocaust / Fugitive, the Transport, the BBC and Mass Murder: A BBC Broadcast about Gassings in Auschwitz in June 1944 / Business Elites in France: Reflections on the Continued Exercise of Power / 'Le retour du civil' in French Political Culture / City as Narrative: Representations of Paris in French Cinema (1930-1990s) / Front National in the 1990s: From Consolidation to Crisis / Franco-British Relations and the European Common Foreign and Security Policy: From Cooperation to Integration? / Metaphors and Trains of Thought: Spotting Journey Imagery in British and German Political Discourse / From Contexts to Concepts: Comparing Social Policy Inputs and Outcomes in Europe / Communicating Across Divides: lingua francas in Europe / Sociolinguistics in a Classless Society? / Real-World Contexts for English Spelng Studis / Michael Townson -- Eva Kolinsky -- Mark Roseman -- Mairi Maclean -- Gino Raymond -- Susan Hayward -- James G. Shields -- Jolyon Howorth -- Andreas Musolff -- Linda Hantrais -- Sue Wright -- Frank Knowles -- Christopher Upward -- 1. 1 -- 2. 16 -- 3. 26 -- 4. 40 -- 5. 56 -- 6. 64 -- 7. 72 -- 8. 85 -- 9. 100 -- 10. 110 -- 11. 119 -- 12. 129 -- 13. 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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Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Sociolinguistics.
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.


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