Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• PART 1: ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES
• Section One. The impact of differences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints
• Some types of communicative strategies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity
• English as object and medium of (mis)understanding
• The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects
• Culture and language in classroom communication
• English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking
• Invisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principle of adaptation
• Section Two. The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints
• Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa
• Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada. Implications for cross-cultural communication in English
• English as a problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities
• The speak English, don't they?
• PART II: CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH
• Section Three. The impact of differences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints
• British-American lexical differences. A typology of interdialectal variation
• Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations
• Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension
• Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language
• Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns
• Fleibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English
• Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland
• Section Four. The impact of differences in socio-psychological identity of interlocutors: Identity constraints
• Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British Classrooms
• Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech community in New York
• Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English
• Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A Comparison of pronunciation
• Indian literature in English