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Speculative fiction opens doors for imagining beyond what is possible, conventional or acceptable. Speculative fiction has an acute ear for the social, the scientific and for political developments and change, all of which are prominent topics. Reproduction and parenthood are pertinent social questions that are constantly renegotiated in various arenas. By investigating representations of family-making and reproduction in speculative fiction, the research presented in Populating the Future: Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction not only adds to the field of speculative fiction scholarship, but also contributes to the more general discussion about reproduction and parenting.Speculative fiction operates as thought laboratories that make connections between discourses visible. It highlights power structures that can be difficult to detach and represents difficult and abstract issues more concretely. As such, speculative fiction demonstrates the complex entanglement of reproduction with issues of gender, power and agency. By facilitating thought experiments and illustrating alternatives, speculative fiction also enables the representation of new family structures and reproductive technologies, thus paving the way for discussions about various practices and their possible consequences.Due to its multidisciplinary approach, this book will be of value to scholars and students of various disciplines, such as literature studies, philosophy, ethics, political science, the social sciences and gender studies. It will also be a useful resource in teacher training programmes, as well as to a more general audience interested in speculative literature, politics, society, gender and ethics.
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The publication, which is the result of the “Language as a Cure” project, analyses the influence of discrimination experienced by ethnic minorities and migrants on their health and well-being. It also looks at the benefits of preserving native languages and strong ethnic identity as well as the consequences of the pandemic for these groups. The books contains practical recommendations and solutions for improving the functioning of minority groups in Poland and supporting the efforts to preserve their languages and culture, preventing discrimination and stigmatization as well as building better relations between ethnic minorities and majorities.
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Language maintenance --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Sociolinguistics
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Language maintenance. --- United States. --- Officials and employees.
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Code switching (Linguistics) --- Language maintenance --- Sociolinguistics
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"Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they know about their heritage language continues to fascinate the research community as well as teachers and other practitioners working with this group. The different contributions cover a large variety of studies into heritage languages spoken in Europe and North America (including Chinese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). The volume makes a key contribution to the description and explanation of variability in the outcomes of heritage language acquisition, taking into account a wide range of factors which impact on language acquisition. As comparisons are frequently made with monolinguals and foreign language learners, the volume is also highly relevant for researchers working in monolingual language acquisition and foreign language learning and teaching."
Language attrition --- Languages in contact --- Language maintenance --- Bilingualism --- Social aspects
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Le Corpus Eve : Émergence du vernaculaire en Europe est une revue électronique multilingue à classement thématique ayant pour vocation de constituer un corpus de documents (textes, études, relevés bibliographiques) relatif au développement des langues vernaculaires en Europe des premières attestations à la fin du XVIIe siècle, selon une approche pluridisciplinaire et plurilinguistique. La revue est adossée au projet de recherche Babel Eve auquel sont affiliés des chercheurs des universités de Savoie Mont Blanc (laboratoire LLSETI), Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 (IHRIM Lyon 3), Grenoble-3 Stendhal (CERHIUS-ILCEA), Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino), Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano) et Vercelli (Università del Piemonte Orientale).
Language and languages --- Language maintenance --- Langage et langues --- Langue maternelle --- Periodicals --- History --- Périodiques --- Histoire
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Why did the Bildungsroman, defined as the novel of development, and its protagonist Youth, become the symbolic form of the US's cultural preoccupation with regional difference amidst the nation's rapid but uneven development c. 1900-1960? As a genre that historically represented the young individual's development in national-historical time, the Bildungsroman became one crucial means of configuring the culturally, politically, and economically asymmetrical effects of national modernization and the US's political ascendence within the capitalist world-system. Responding to that predicament, the novel of uneven development rose to salience, led by its protagonist, the unfixed youth, whose development within the national-historical time of Americanization is unsettled by their preoccupation with regional difference: an immobilizing entanglement I call American literature's regional complex. This book maps four prominent variations across the Midwest, Northeast, South, and Southwest that responded to that uneven development, fragmenting, and ultimately denying the Bildungsroman's consolidation into a coherent nationalist form.
Bildungsromans, American --- American fiction --- Regionalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999 --- Language maintenance.
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Linguistic minorities --- Language maintenance --- Code switching (Linguistics) --- Germany --- Russia --- Emigration and immigration.
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