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Altair 4 Multimedia
ALTAIR 4 Multimedia was established in 1986 byAlessandro Furlan, Pietro Galifi and Stefano Moretti, who conceived the studio as an actual workshop where various technological and artistic disciplines would interact in a coordinated and rewarding dialogue.The members of the Altair4 creative team come from diverse backgrounds and experience in computer animation, graphic arts, design and broadcast production.The ongoing dialogue between past and present characterizes all Altair4 productions and its innovative and multi-faceted approach to creating computer products where advanced technological tools and artistic and cultural processes are joined.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2020Race talk
Languages of racism and resistance in Neapolitan street markets
by Antonia Lucia Dawes
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Race talk is about language use as an anti-racist practice in multicultural city spaces. The book contends that attention to talk reveals the relations of domination and subordination in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, while also helping us to understand how transcultural solidarity might be expressed. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted on licensed and unlicensed market stalls in in heterogeneous, ethnically diverse and multilingual contexts, this book examines the centrality of multilingual talk to everyday struggles about difference, positionality and entitlement. In these street markets, Neapolitan street vendors work alongside documented and undocumented migrants from Bangladesh, China, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal as part of an ambivalent, cooperative and unequal quest to survive and prosper. As austerity, anti-immigration politics and urban regeneration projects encroached upon the possibilities of street vending, talk across linguistic, cultural, national and religious boundaries underpinned the collective action of street vendors struggling to keep their markets open. The edginess of their multilingual organisation offered useful insights into the kinds of imaginaries that will be needed to overcome the politics of borders, nationalism and radical incommunicability.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2019Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France
by Glenn D. Burger, Rory G. Critten, Anke Bernau
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2022Migrants shaping Europe, past and present
by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2019Mondegreen (Songs about Death and Love)
by Volodymyr Rafeyenko
It’s possible not to know what a “mondegreen” is, but it’s unlikely that one can completely defend against it. He who is blessed to live is also doomed to make mistakes. For example, to perceive select sayings in a distorted manner, and consequently - to misinterpret them, sometimes to absurdity. But is it possible, having moved as an adult from the Russian-speaking Donetsk to the hardly Ukrainian-speaking Kyiv, to quickly learn the Ukrainian language? Yes, possible. What’s more: one can even be someone like Volodymyr Rafeyenko, a Russian-speaking writer of significant age and renown, and then, having ended up in Kyiv, master Ukrainian to such a degree so as to write an amazing novel in it. In particular, a novel about the immersion of a Russian-speaking migrant into the joyous and sorrowful element of the Ukrainian language. And also, a novel about his not wanting to remain a passive object of Russia’s “protection”. But above all, it’s a novel about how poorly the different parts of our multilingual Ukraine heard each other, thus turning one another into an utter “mondegreen”. Is there still a chance to solve this misunderstanding? Unknown. But first we have to try, at the very least, to listen carefully to one another: maybe then we’ll manage to decipher all this distorted noise.
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June 2022Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Teaching Foreign Languages in Multilingual Settings
Pedagogical Implications
by Anna Krulatz, Georgios Neokleous, Anne Dahl
This book promotes linguistically responsive foreign language teaching practices in multilingual contexts by facilitating a dialogue between teachers and researchers. It advances a discussion of how to connect the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages with previous language knowledge to create culturally and linguistically inclusive foreign language classrooms, and how to strengthen the connection between research on multilingualism and foreign language teaching practice. The chapters present new approaches to foreign language instruction in multilingual settings, many of them forged in collaboration between foreign language teachers and researchers of multilingualism. The authors report findings of classroom-based research, including case studies and action research on topics such as the functions and applications of translanguaging in the foreign language classroom, the role of learners’ own languages in teaching additional languages, linguistically and culturally inclusive foreign language pedagogies, and teacher and learner attitudes to multilingual teaching approaches.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2021Bilingual Families
A Practical Language Planning Guide
by Eowyn Crisfield
Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren’t sure where to start – or how to keep going? Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual Families is a guide for you and your family. It combines academic research with practical advice to cover the essential elements in successful bilingual and multilingual development. Use this book to: Learn about language goals – and how to set them Create a 'living' family language plan that develops and grows with your family Learn how to talk about multilingualism with your children and other key people in your children's life, like teachers and relatives Recognise when you might need further support An indispensable guide for your family’s language journey.
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Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)July 2022Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging
by Jeff MacSwan
This book brings together a broad, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to critically assess a recent proposal within translanguaging theory called deconstructivism: the view that discrete or ‘named’ languages do not exist. Contributors explore important topics in relation to the deconstructivist turn in translanguaging, including epistemology, language ideology, bilingual linguistic competence, codeswitching, bilingual first language acquisition, the neurolinguistics of bilingualism, the significance of language naming to Indigenous language reclamation efforts, implications for bilingual education and language rights, and the effects of translanguaging on immersion programs for endangered languages. Contributing authors converge on support for a multilingual perspective on translanguaging which affirms the pedagogical and conceptual aims of translanguaging but rejects deconstructivism. The book makes a valuable contribution to the development of translanguaging theory and will be required reading for scholars and students interested in one of the most vibrant and vital debates in contemporary applied linguistics.
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April 2020Forked Tongues
What Language Does to Our Brain
by Jagoda Ratajczak
When we speak a foreign language, are we ourselves? How are bilinguals different from dictionaries? Is the motivation to learn a language related to its effectiveness? Why is it so difficult to express feelings in another language? Can a foreign language be learned at any age?Jagoda Ratajczak's book is an unusual introduction to the world of language learning. With a sense of humor, the author introduces the mechanisms of language learning and dispels many myths about bilingualism. Giving examples from the literature on the subject and from her own experience - a person fascinated by learning foreign languages - she writes about how knowledge of other languages changes our way of thinking, feeling, looking at the world.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2022Language Teachers Studying Abroad
Identities, Emotions and Disruptions
by Gary Barkhuizen
This book focuses on the study-abroad experiences of pre-service and in-service language teachers and language teacher educators. The diverse contributions to this volume provide readers with a deep understanding of what this mobility means for individuals and the language teaching and learning communities they encounter and return to post-sojourn. Considering the broad variability of study-abroad programs and arrangements, as well as the multidimensional, complex nature of study-abroad social, geographical and digital environments, the chapters discuss the teachers’ psychological experiences in cognitive, affective and social terms. Readers will discover the effect of mobility on identity, beliefs, practices, self-efficacy, agency, self-confidence, independence and personal growth, as well as how transitions across borders can result in feelings of self-doubt, anxiety and insecurity. This is essential reading for language teacher educators, mentors and supervisors, managers of study-abroad programs and researchers working in the fields of study abroad, international education and language teacher education.
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Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)September 2022Teacher Reflection
Policies, Practices and Impacts
by Zia Tajeddin, Atsuko Watanabe
This edited book has been compiled in honor of Thomas S.C. Farrell, one of the most distinguished scholars in theorizing and researching language teacher reflection. It examines teacher reflection in three main areas: policies, practices and the impact of teacher reflection on teachers’ practices and professional development. The data-driven chapters shed light on concerns and challenges experienced by teachers in diverse international contexts and institutions, and discuss the practical implications of their findings across a variety of policy settings. The book addresses aspects of reflective practice including macro and micro policies and constraints, as well as opportunities in the engagement of reflective practice. In addition, it explores teachers’ identity, cognition, emotion and motivation, areas which are relevant but often not discussed in the literature on reflective practice.
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August 2022Reconceptualizing English for International Business Contexts
A BELF Approach and its Educational Implications
by Elma Dedović-Atilla, Vildana Dubravac
This book presents a critique of current English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) practices using research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The authors identify English communication behaviors that hinder or promote success in the workplace, and trace these back to curricula and teaching practices. The authors suggest which skills employers need and expect from employees, and question whether English courses concerned with general academic English skills and business vocabulary are sufficient training for linguistically-complex workplaces. The book also examines whether the focus on achieving native-like proficiency with high grammatical standards and a strong emphasis on form are adequately preparing students who aspire to use English in professional contexts as a means to ‘get their job done’.
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Animal stories (Children's/YA)January 2022Just Like Magic
by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos, Iryna Kazakova
“A beautiful and encouraging picture book. This is the book young readers will need to face their fears and to build self confidence. If you are in the market for a book with this kind of theme, then look no more.” – Reedy Discovery Nino is the bravest platypus in Animalandia—at least in his dreams. During his waking hours, Nino has a hard time believing in himself. Luckily, his situation is about to change when a magic genie decides to help him. In this fun and inspiring story, children will learn along with Nino that they can become more confident— even without a magical genie by their side.
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Personal & social issuesMarch 2022My Dad, My Rock
by Victor Dias de Oliveira Santos, Anna Forlati
⭑ A Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of July 2022 A MOVING, KIRKUS-STARRED-REVIEW CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON AND ABOUT THE POWER OF LOVE. Summary: Oliver never met his grandpa. He wonders what he would tell Grandpa if the two of them could meet, even once. Oliver decides that he would tell him about an amazing man that Grandpa never met: Oliver's dad, Grandpa's own son. In this touching and heartfelt story, you will be taken on a journey of what it means to be a dad and to be the master of your own destiny.
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Humanities & Social SciencesREAD TO BREATHE
WHY READ BOOKS IN THE DIGITAL ERA?
by MIHA KOVAČ
All book readers that have doubts about whether book reading still makes sense and anyone professionally involved with struggling readers (i.e., teachers and librarians); also young parents who need motivation to regularly read books to their children. Pick up a Book to Pick Yourself Up is a mass market book · Although based on the latest scholarly research, the author discusses the meaning of book reading in a journalistic narrative enhanced with graphics in a way that makes the book comprehensible to non-specialists. · The book’s main point is that in an abundance of digital recreational and informational content in text, audio and video format, readily available to any smartphone user, the nature and perception of book reading has changed as well. · The author shows that besides enjoying the content, book readers benefit from a set of “positive externalities” of long-form reading that are not present when using screen media. · These positive side effects represent an important counterweight to some of the negative effects of social media and as such a allow more balanced and productive use of screen content, thus making the book an important member of the quickly growing media family. The author discusses these positive effects of book reading in ten short illustrated chapters. 156 pages / 200 photos, illustrations and tables / format 14 x 20 cm
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Children's & YABUNT! - COLORFUL!
by Lena Hesse
BUNT! - COLORFUL! is a story about human, sensory, landscape and biological diversity. On his journey, Dog discovers different kinds of people, a multitude of plants and animals, chaos and calm, highs and lows and along the way, his world becomes ever more colorful. It is a subtile call for us to not just welcome diversity in our lives, but to seek it out. A very special book for our multilingual and multicultural society.
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March 2016Literary Travel Guide Upper Silesia
Five Tours through a baroque, (post)industrial, green and mystical Borderland
by Marcin Wiatr
Upper Silesia – a region in Poland with an eventful past, characterized by diverse cultures which influence each other and overlap. Here people live together, who feel themselves as Polish, German or Upper Silesian. Impulses for regional identity gives the multilingual literature. Here Joseph von Eichendorff, Max Herrmann-Neisse and Horst Bienek were born. Also Janosch has set a literary monument to his homeland, Tadeusz Różewicz lived and wrote here, Jaromír Nohavica sang about the region and director Kazimierz Kutz captured it in a film trilogy. The book literarily presents Upper Silesian places like Neisse/Nysa, Gleiwitz/Gliwice, Myslowitz/Mysłowice, Lubowitz/Łubowice and St. Annaberg/Góra Świętej Anny by examples of location, architecture, industry, landscape and mysticism.
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November 2017Literary Travel Guide Bratislava/Pressburg
Six City Walks
by Renata SakoHoess
Pressburg - Hungarian Pozsony, Slovakian since 1919 Bratislava - is more than the little sister of nearby Vienna. For centuries it was Hungarian coronation city and was located on the important trade routes of Central Europe. Multilingualism was characteristic for the authors born and living here. Among these is the great baroque scholar Matthias Bel or the German-speaking writer and translator Alfred Marnau, whose works mirrors the eventful history of the 20th century. The city on the Danube often appears as a place of remembrance, for example in the the texts by Elsa Grailich who wrote between the world wars or in the "Bratislava ghetto pictures" by Karl Benyovszky. A personality of the rich Jewish culture was Selma Steiner with her famous bookshop. It survived all historical breaks: from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the First Czechoslovak Republic, the Slovak state and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. With six literary walks the Literary Travel Guide accompanies through the historic complexity of the Slovak capital, which also fascinated contemporary writers such as Michal Hvorecký, Jana Beňová or the Hungarian writing Lajos Grendel.
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August 2020Leila Means Night
by Aleksandra Lipczak
For eight centuries, southern Spain has been home to a multicultural political entity founded by the Arabs and co-created by Muslims, Jews and Christians. Medieval Cordoba, Seville and Toledo are bustling metropolises to which merchants, scientists and artists are drawn from all over the world. Here the first tracheotomy procedure is performed and astronomy is developed, here magnificent libraries are created, Greek philosophers are translated, multilingual poetry is written, and foreign policy at the Muslim court is directed by a Jewish diplomat.In a book stretched between history and modernity and between essay and reportage, the author deconstructs popular symbols of Spain (flamenco, mosaics, palm trees), revealing their Muslim-Arab roots. She shows how Andalusia today handles its heritage. Coexistence, the meeting of the so-called West with so-called Islam, the fluidity of borders, but also fundamentalisms, expulsions, exorcising others.... Al-Andalus is a palimpsest that is useful in thinking about the world today. Prizes: Nike Literary Prize 2021 - shortlist Witold Gombrowicz Prize 2021 - winner
