Intercultural Spaces : Language, Culture, Identity

, by Pearson-evans, Aileen; Leahy, Angela

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ISBN: 9780820495460 | 0820495468
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Copyright: 8/1/2007

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This selection of peer-reviewed essays is taken from the Royal Irish Academy Symposium Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity, hosted by Dublin City University in November 2003. It brings together a fascinating range of scholarly interpr

Brian Friel's Translations : codes, codification and (inter)cultural spaces	p. 1
Living and teaching in intercultural spaces : a close(r) look at the impact of the assistant experience on prospective foreign language teachers	p. 9
Pis(s)ing on intercultural boundaries : Manneken-Pis and cultural identity	p. 21
The concept of culture in la Francophonie : myth and reality	p. 31
Support for the societal presence of minority languages and as symbols of identity : assessing the views of Irish and Galician student groups	p. 43
From language to culture : on the intercultural dimension of foreign language learning and teaching	p. 57
The Islamic scarf in France today : an issue of interculturalism	p. 73
The encounter between Christendom and Islam in Wolfram's Willehalm	p. 91
The Lysistrata Project : intercultural resistance and the economy of sacrifice	p. 105
Have portfolio, will travel : the intercultural dimension of the European Language Portfolio	p. 115
Current thinking on language and collective identity in Sweden	p. 127
Une terrible beaute, or 1916 and all that : French fictional representations of modern Irish history	p. 137
South Tyrol in the 20th century : retaining ethnicity between nationalism and regionalism	p. 149
Challenging fantasies of the Orient in Pipe le Moko by Julien Duvivier (1936)	p. 161
A study on perceptual match and mismatch between Chinese EFL students and their teachers	p. 169
Post-Soviet community building in the Baltic states	p. 187
Loneliness or satisfaction : tracing the path of cross-cultural adaptation by members of the Vietnamese community in Ireland	p. 203
Identity, culture and language learning : the benefits of a mobility capital	p. 219
Rights, choices and values : voyages through intercultural spaces	p. 227
Language policy and planning and the status of the Anglophone, Francophone and Allophone communities of Canada and Quebec : demographic linguistic trends	p. 235
'Lost in translation' : fictional translator figures caught between cultures	p. 245
Where Cuba meets Mexico : Alejo Carpentier and Elena Garro	p. 257
Belated memory : the 'postcolonial eye' on Africa in Uwe Timm's novel Morenga	p. 275
Questions of language and identity within the world of music : the case of Massilia Sound System	p. 283
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