Language and Culture

Traditional teaching saw language as a product that learners had to internalize, and the process-oriented approach from the 1970s, which considers language as a tool for communication, is incomplete. On this foundation, scholars from around the Anglophone world look at language as a means for self-definition and personal transformation. Their topics include speaking Romance-esque, achieving community, living on the hyphen, negotiating multiple language identities, the foreign-ness of native speaking teachers of color, a microethnography of the culture of majick in Old Salem, Berlin Babylon, vanishing acts, sweating cheese and thinking otherwise, transforming identities in and through narrative, and a short course in globalese. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)