English as a Lingua Franca in Migrants' Trauma Narratives

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Guido, Maria Grazia (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Cognitive grammar.; Applied linguistics.; Emigration and immigration.; Intercultural communication.; Discourse analysis.; Communication.; Cognitive Linguistics.; Applied Linguistics.; Migration.; Intercultural Communication.; Discourse Analysis.; Communication Studies.

"Providing a positive counterbalance to the current anti-immigration rhetoric which is so prevalent, Guido's research offers pertinent insight into English as a Lingua Franca being used in high stakes communicative acts where power imbalances are acute, and will make substantial contributi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: setting the scene
• 2. Trauma narratives in unequal migration encounters
• 3. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Modality
• 4. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Language Typology
• 5. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Lexis
• 6. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Text Structure
• 7. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Pragmalinguistic Schemata
• 8. Trauma-narrative analysis at the level of Sociopragmatic Schemata
• 9. Conclusions: a cross-cultural reassessment of the 'cooperative principle'.