1st Edition
Language and Discrimination
440 Pages
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Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
480 Pages
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Routledge
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Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how language functions as a means of indirect racial discrimination must be founded on an expanded... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
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1. Discrimination and language learning: an overview
2. Mapping interaction: practice and theory
3. Cross-cultural training
4. Ethnographic and linguistic analysis in the workplace
5. Language teaching and learning
6. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Industrial Language Training: its origins, aims and objectives
Appendix 2: The role of the National Centre for Industrial Language Training (NCILT)
Appendix 3: Race Relations Act 1976
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
1. Discrimination and language learning: an overview
2. Mapping interaction: practice and theory
3. Cross-cultural training
4. Ethnographic and linguistic analysis in the workplace
5. Language teaching and learning
6. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Industrial Language Training: its origins, aims and objectives
Appendix 2: The role of the National Centre for Industrial Language Training (NCILT)
Appendix 3: Race Relations Act 1976
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Celia Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at King's College London, UK. Her research interests include langauge and ethnicity, sociolinguistics and ethnography.
