Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London’s growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university students.
save
₹5,423.00
Multilingual Identities in a Global City
Via these case studies the book explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identities of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London, the quintessential global city.
₹4,027.00₹9,450.00
Only 1 left in stock
| Dimensions | 22 × 14 × 1 cm |
|---|---|
| Book Author | D. Block |
| Edition | 1st |
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN | 9781403939647 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 250 |
| Publication Year | |
| Publisher |
Customer Reviews
There are no reviews yet.
Related products
-
Medieval Paradigms: Volume II
₹4,027.00This collection of essays in two volumes explores patterns of medieval society and culture, spanning from the close of the late antique period to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
₹9,450.00 -
Prophetic Translation
₹6,500.00This book looks at the writers’ claim to secular prophecy as it manifests itself in the adapted narrative voice of their translations to suggest an original sense of literary resistance to colonial oppression and occupation in the early Arabic novel.
₹9,846.00 -
Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson
₹5,844.00The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the “Poets’ War” (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.
₹13,499.00 -
Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance
₹3,240.00Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance.
₹7,550.00 -
The Politics of Representation in Ahdaf Soueif’s
₹2,386.00The book focuses on Soueif’s mapping-out of the complex and conflictual search for identity on the part of the Egyptian protagonists, whilst questioning the possible processes of transformation in maintaining one’s own cultural diversity.
₹4,450.00 -
Romance in the Ivory Tower
₹823.00The important question is not whether they should be encouraged or prohibited but whether the choice to engage in such a relationship should be protected or precluded. Abramson argues ringingly that our freedom to make choices–to worship, make a political speech, or fall in love–is fundamental. Rules forbidding faculty-student romances are not only unconstitutional but set dangerous precedents for further intrusion into rights of privacy and conscience.
₹1,750.00 -
Postmodern Narrative Theory
₹1,019.00This text is aimed at undergraduate students of English Literature, and those on courses in literary theory/contemporary literature/postmodernism/intellectual history/narrative/popular culture.
₹2,189.00 -
Critical Thinking and Communication
₹4,099.00The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.
₹6,699.00
Be the first to review “Multilingual Identities in a Global City”