Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738194559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738194559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Teaching Culture in Introductory Foreign Language Textbooks
Author: Carol A. ChapellePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137495995
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book demonstrates how foreign language textbook analysis can inform future materials development to improve foreign language teaching. Through chronological analysis of French textbooks in the United States, this book explores the representations of Canada and Quebec in French beginner textbooks produced from 1960 to 2010. Chapelle couples a large collection of 65 textbooks with a social-semiotic qualitative analysis of the genres, language and images that communicate Quebec's cultural narrative to learners. Findings about the amount and type of content are presented by decade to track the trends in foreign language teaching and changes in Quebec’s representation. Particular attention is given to how language politics is presented to students through text and images. This book will be of interest to scholars of Canadian Studies, Quebec Studies and Second Language Acquisition, as well as foreign language materials developers.
Women
Author: Roger CélestinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136648445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 2001, Women is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.
L'U.R.S.S. Aujourd'hui et Demain
Author: Sam StuartPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483138798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
L'U.R.S.S. Aujourd'hui et Demain
On the Defensive
Author: Sharon MarquartPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442650664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines how well-intentioned people - including victims, their family members, and readers of witness literature - respond to such testimony in ways that are understood as ethical by their communities but serve instead to ignore victims' experiences. As Marquart shows, collective disasters such as the Holocaust expose the limitations of our ethical theories. To cope with this instability we withdraw and defend ourselves through inattentive and formulaic responses that turn a blind eye to the plight of victims. Challenging contemporary theorizations of community, ethics, testimony, and trauma, On the Defensive is a far-reaching reflection on the ways in which communal understandings of our duties and responsibilities to others can facilitate the denial of an atrocity's horrors.
Femmes
Author: R. CelestinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9057005719
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Personal and the Political
Author: Charles de Secondat baron de MontesquieuPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761840787
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Personal and the Political presents three fables written by social commentator and political thinker Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu: The Temple of Cnidus (on eros and justice), Lysimachus (on philosophy and imperial ambition), and Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate (on the limits of political ambition). This work is author W.B. Allen's response to attempts that collapse Montesquieu's analysis of modern political philosophy into a general discussion of virtue and morality by raising anew the issues of true and false happiness and pleasures. Allen maintains that Montesquieu's fables demonstrate the continuing relevance of the issue of philosophical morality, and offer a reconciliation of the tension between philosophical morality and political morality. The Personal and the Political provides a translation of each fable (with parallel French text), a brief introduction and commentaries to develop the context in which each is written and the situations that they address. Each fable is suited to introduce Montesquieu's conceptions of ancient virtues and vices, and what they contribute to modern sensibilities.
Vocabulaire Français-Esquimau
Author: Mile PetitotPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108049796
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The first dictionary and analysis of an extremely complex Inuit dialect, published in 1876 by a French missionary.
The French-Speaking World
Author: Rodney BallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134792786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of French but who has little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics. It combines text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. In Part One Rodney Ball looks at the diversity of the French-speaking world and the function of French in particular countries and regions, including Switzerland, Belgium and Canada. He explores its status in relation to other languages and its role in intercommunity relations. In Part Two the focus shifts to individual language features and among topics explored are regional speech forms, the differences between written and spoken French, the `social meaning' of different styles and levels of language, and French used by immigrants. Part Three looks at recent developments in the French language particularly in France itself. Key features of this book: * Informative and comprehensive: covers a wide range of current issues * Practical: contains a variety of graded exercises and tasks plus an index of terms * Topical and contemporary: deals with current situations and provides up-to-date illustrative material * Thought-provoking: encourages students to reflect and research for themselves Rodney Ball is a lecturer in French in the School of Modern Languages, Southampton University. He teaches General Linguistics and French Sociolinguistics, on which he has published a number of articles, and is involved in designing practical courses.
Handbook of French Literature
Author: Margaret FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
