Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education

Perspectives of English Studies
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-8233-8604-9
Verlag: Narr

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: AAA - Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik

In one of the contributions to this edited volume an interviewee argues that "English is power". For researchers in the field of English Studies this raises the questions of where the power of English resides and which types and practices of power are implied in the uses of English. Linguists, scholars of literature and culture, and language educators address aspects of these questions in a wide range of contributions. The book shows that the power of English can oscillate between empowerment and subjection, on the one hand enabling humans to develop manifold capabilities and on the other constraining their scope of action and reflection. In this edited volume, a case is made for self-critical English Studies to be dialogic, empowering and power-critical in approach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Degani, Marta

Delanoy, Werner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Werner Delanoy & Marta Degani

Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education: Perspectives of English Studies

Part 1: Perspectives from English Linguistics

Alexander Onysko

Power to the Englishes? - Reflections on the Notion of Equality in World Englishes

Christopher Blake Shedd

Martin Luther King as a Wielder of Power. A Linguistic Analysis of Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Marta Degani

About Attributions of Power and Political Control: Crititical Reflections on Populism and its Challenges from Linguistic Perspectives

Vesna Lazovic

'Wherever You Go, Your Bank Travels with You': Personification as a Powerful Strategy in British and Serbian Online Bank Advertisements

Nikola Dobric & Günther Sigott

The Use of Error Profiles in Applied Linguistics - Empowering Language Instruction by Cataloguing Rating-negative Performance at the English Department, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Eva-Maria Graf, Frédérick Dionne & Melanie Fleischhacker

The Transformational Power of Questioning Practices in Coaching - Insights from Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Research

Part 2: Perspectives from Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Alexa Weik von Mossner

The Power of Love: Reading The Silver Linings Playbook as Romantic Neuronovel

Marijana Mikic

Ecosocial Harm, Grief, and Communal Empowerment in Sherri L. Smith's Orleans

Carina Rasse

Feeling for Others: Environmental Justice, Emotion, and Moral Imagination in Lina Hogan's Solar Storms

Iris van der Horst

"I Am Husband Now in Master Frankford's Place": Abuse of Power in the Main Plot of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness

Matthias Klestil

Unveiling Subjection, Practicing Subjectivation: Race, Power, and Strategies of Rewriting the Self in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Ursula Posratschnig

The Story of Meat - Challenging Carnist Ideology, Science Denial, and the Erasure of Animal Cruelty, Ecocide and Social Injustice

Armin Lippitz, René Reinhold Schallegger & Felix Schniz

Disempowering the Controller - Videogames and the Metanarrative of Agency

Part 3: Perspectives from English Language Education

Werner Delanoy

The Power of Literature (Teaching): Experiencing Warsan Shire's Home

Anita Millonig

Post-inclusive Education, Diversity and Multilinguality in ELT

Ursula Posratschnig & Günther Sigott

Teaching Academic Writing to Undergraduate Students of English in Klagenfurt: From the Word to the World

Carmen M. Amerstorfer & Clara Kuncic

The Power Within: The Motivation, Interest, and Engagement of Students in Problem-based Preservice English Teacher Education

Irena Vodopija-Krstanovic

Understanding EMI Teacher Empowerment: What Does it Mean and How Can it Be Enhanced?

Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Degani was appointed Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy, in 2014 and currently also holds a position as Senior Scientist of English Linguistics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her current research focuses on the analysis of political discourse in the frameworks of cognitive semantics and critical discourse analysis, and the study of varieties of English and language contact in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Werner Delanoy is professor of English language education in the English Department at the University of Klagenfurt. His main areas of research are inter- and transcultural learning perspectives, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship education, English language education in a globalized modernity and contemporary British culture and literature.