1st Edition
Communicating Beyond Language Everyday Encounters with Diversity
By Betsy Rymes
Copyright 2014
144 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell stories, the... Read more
1. Communicative Repertoires: An Introduction 2. Multilingualism 3. Routines 4. Names and Nicknames 5. Mass Media and Popular culture 6. Storytelling 7. Performances: Putting It All Together 8. New Words for the New World: The Implications of a Repertoire Perspective
Biography
Betsy Rymes is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
