Language and Culture : Papers From the Annual Meeting of the British Association of [i.e. For] Applied Linguistics, Held at Trevelyan College, University of Durham, September 1991

These papers from the 24th Annual Meeting of BAAL (University of Durham, September 1991), have been selected for the diversity of perspective which they offer on the theme of language and culture, and on the way in which they reflect current thinking on the interdependence of language use and situational context. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Copyright © 1993......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 6 Cultural Considerations in Linguistic Description......Page 7 Culture is a Verb: Anthropological Aspects Of Language And Cultural Process......Page 29 Discourse and Cultural Change in the Enterprise Culture......Page 50 Cultural Studies for Advanced Language Learners......Page 61 'I am a Creole, So I Speak English. ' Cultural Ambiguity and the 'English'/Spanish Bilingual-Bicultural Programme of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast......Page 77 Cultural Orientation and Academic Language Use......Page 90 Projecting A Sub-Culture: The Construction of Shared Worlds by Projecting Clauses in Two Registers......Page 104 Developing Practices of Resistance: Critical Reading for Students of Politics......Page 119 Song-Lashing as a Communicative Strategy in Interpersonal Conflicts In Yoruba Land: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal......Page 129 What is the Russian For Perestroika?......Page 139 Dialogic Relationships and the Construction of Knowledge in Children's Informal Talk......Page 148 Selected papers from the 24th Annual Meeting.