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The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

Designer Immigrants Learning English in Singapore

By: Peter I. De Costa

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The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

Designer Immigrants Learning English in Singapore

By: Peter I. De Costa

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard English ideology and their discursive positioning over the course of the school year. Specifically, the study traces how the prevailing standard English ideology interacted in highly complex ways with their being positioned as high academic achievers to ultimately influence their learning of English. This potent combination of language ideologies and circulating ideologies created a designer student immigration complex. By framing this situation as a complex, the study problematizes the power of ideologies in shaping the trajectories and identities of language learners.

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186

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Springer

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3319302116

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9783319302119

The Shetland Dialect

By: Peter Sundkvist

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The Shetland Dialect

By: Peter Sundkvist

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct. It displays distinct, characteristic features on all linguistic levels and particularly in its sound system, or its phonology. The dialect is one of the lesser- known varieties of English within the Inner Circle. Increasing interest in the lesser- known varieties of English in recent years has brought a realization that there are still blanks on the map, even within the very core of the Inner Circle. Sundkvist’s comprehensive treatise draws upon results from a three- year research project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, for which a phonological survey of the Shetland dialect was carried out between 2010 and 2012. This book is a useful resource for those working on historical linguistics and is intended to serve as a comprehensive description and accessible reference source on one of the most distinct lesser- known varieties of English within Britain. It documents and offers a systematic account of the rich regional variation as well as being a reference source for those studying the historical formation and emergence of the Shetland dialect and language variation and change in Shetland, as well as those within the broader field of Germanic linguistics.

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Routledge

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1000214842

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9781000214840

Biafra

The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970

By: Peter Baxter

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Biafra

The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970

By: Peter Baxter

Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule in 1960 with the best of intentions and a profound hope on the part of the British Crown that it would become the poster child of successful political transition in Africa. It did not. One of the signature failures of imperial strategists at the turn of the 19th century was to take little if any account of the traditional demographics of the territories and societies that were subdivided, and often joined together, into spheres of foreign influence, later evolving into colonies, and finally into nation states. Many of the signature crises in postcolonial Africa have owed their origins to this very phenomenon: incompatible and mutually antagonistic tribal and ethnic groupings forced to cohabit within the indivisible precincts of political geography. Congo, Rwanda/Burundi, Sudan and many others have suffered ongoing attrition within their borders as historic enmities surge and boil in restless and ongoing violence. Such was the case with Nigeria in the post-independence period. The traditions and practices of the Islamic north and the Christian/Animist south, and even within the multiplicity of ethnic division in the south itself, proved to be impossible to reconcile. The result was an immediate centrifuge away from the center, complicated by the vast infusion of oil revenues and the inevitable explosion of corruption that followed. All of this created the alchemy of civil war and genocide, which erupted into violence in 1967 as the eastern region of Nigeria attempted to secede. The war that followed shocked the conscience of the world, and revealed for the first time the true depth of incompatibility of the four partners in the Nigerian federation. This book traces the early history of Nigeria from inception to civil war, and the complex events that defined the conflict in Biafra, revealing how and why this awful event played out, and the scars that it has since left on the psyche of the disunited federation that has continued to exist in the aftermath.

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Helion and Company

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1909982369

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9781909982369

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

A Life

By: Peter Edward Russell

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Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

A Life

By: Peter Edward Russell

Studie over de centrale rol die prins Hendrik de Zeevaarder (1394-1460) speelde bij de eerste Portugese ontdekkingsreizen.

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508

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Yale University Press

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0300091303

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9780300091304

The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law

Studies on the Iberian Kingdoms and Papal Rome in the Middle Ages

By: Peter Linehan

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The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law

Studies on the Iberian Kingdoms and Papal Rome in the Middle Ages

By: Peter Linehan

This third volume of essays by Peter Linehan deals with matters of perennial interest to all historians of medieval Church and State, and in particular to students of the history of medieval Spain and Portugal and of the papacy in the 12th and 13th centuries. Amongst those discussed and explored are the question of feudalism in the 11th and 12th century, the rise and fall of a royal capital, the city of León, the ritual of king-making, focusing on Castile and Portugal, the interplay of royal influence and papal authority, and the impact of the mendicant orders. A previously unpublished study provides a cautionary tale of a particular bishop in politics. Four essays are devoted to the investigation of individuals and issues central to the history of late 13th-century papal Rome, while two look at medieval and modern historiography.

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347

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Taylor & Francis

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1040238262

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9781040238264

M: The Caravaggio Enigma

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By: Peter Robb

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M: The Caravaggio Enigma

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By: Peter Robb

M is the name of an enigma. In his short and violent life, Michaelangelo Merisi, from Caravaggio, changed art for ever. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longing and the brutal realities of his life with shocking frankness. Like no painter before him and few since, M the man appears in his art. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408819899

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9781408819890

Globi Neerlandici

The Production of Globes in the Low Countries

By: Peter Van Der Krogt

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Globi Neerlandici

The Production of Globes in the Low Countries

By: Peter Van Der Krogt

With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.

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BRILL

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9004614079

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9789004614079

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases E-Book

2-Volume Set

By: James Cherry,Gail J. Demmler-Harrison,Sheldon L. Kaplan,William Steinbach,Peter J Hotez

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Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases E-Book

2-Volume Set

By: James Cherry,Gail J. Demmler-Harrison,Sheldon L. Kaplan,William Steinbach,Peter J Hotez

Offering unparalleled coverage of infectious diseases in children and adolescents, Feigin & Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 8th Edition, continues to provide the information you need on epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. This extensively revised edition by Drs. James Cherry, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, Sheldon L. Kaplan, William J. Steinbach, and Peter J. Hotez, offers a brand-new full-color design, new color images, new guidelines, and new content, reflecting today's more aggressive infectious and resistant strains as well as emerging and re-emerging diseases - Discusses infectious diseases according to organ system, as well as individually by microorganisms, placing emphasis on the clinical manifestations that may be related to the organism causing the disease. - Provides detailed information regarding the best means to establish a diagnosis, explicit recommendations for therapy, and the most appropriate uses of diagnostic imaging. - Features expanded information on infections in the compromised host; immunomodulating agents and their potential use in the treatment of infectious diseases; and Ebola virus. - Contains hundreds of new color images throughout, as well as new guidelines, new resistance epidemiology, and new Global Health Milestones. - Includes new chapters on Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323392814

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9780323392815

M

The Man Who Became Caravaggio

By: Peter Robb

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The Man Who Became Caravaggio

By: Peter Robb

A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same."Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality, qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose. As with Caravaggio's art, M arrests and susps time to reveal what the author calls "the theater of the partly seen." Caravaggio's wild persona leaps through these pages like quicksilver; in Robb's skilled hands, he is an immensely attractive character with an astonishing connection to the glories and brutalities of life.

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610

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466887435

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9781466887435

Infelicities

Representations of the Exotic

By: Peter Mason

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Infelicities

Representations of the Exotic

By: Peter Mason

In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.

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JHU Press

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0801858801

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9780801858802

The Eyewitness Atlas of the World

By: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc,Dorling Kindersley, Inc,Peter Clark,Jan-Peter A. L. Muller,Andrew Tatham

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The Eyewitness Atlas of the World

By: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc,Dorling Kindersley, Inc,Peter Clark,Jan-Peter A. L. Muller,Andrew Tatham

Features three-dimensional maps created from a computerized terrain model of the globe, including physical maps, fifty detailed large-scale maps, diagrams, artwork, and photographs of various regions of the world.

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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

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0789408414

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9780789408419

The Rough Guide to Central America

By: Peter Eltringham

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The Rough Guide to Central America

By: Peter Eltringham

A team of experienced, enthusiastic young authors covers Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, with particular concern for environmental and sustainable tourism. of color photos. 90 maps.

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1858287367

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9781858287362

Book's by Peter I. De Costa

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

The Shetland Dialect

The Shetland Dialect

Biafra

Biafra

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

Prince Henry 'the Navigator'

The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law

The Processes of Politics and the Rule of Law

M: The Caravaggio Enigma

M: The Caravaggio Enigma

Globi Neerlandici

Globi Neerlandici

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases E-Book

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases E-Book

M

M

Infelicities

Infelicities

The Eyewitness Atlas of the World

The Eyewitness Atlas of the World

The Rough Guide to Central America

The Rough Guide to Central America

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