Technical discourse and Technocratic Ideology

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors xi
4. Part II: Keeping Language
5. Introduction 3
6. The Uniqueness of the Language Situation in Australia 7
7. A General Model for the Lexicographical Treatment of Peripheral Vocabulary 25
8. Les Mots régionaux, c’est du “chenit” (or What to do with Regionalisms in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language) 41
9. The Influence of Multilingualism on a Northern Norwegian Dialect 51
10. Language Attitudes and Language Change in the Urban Community of Krefeld, Germany 63
11. Italian Language Attrition in Sydney 75
12. Language Maintenance of Overseas Hindi 91
13. Factors Affecting the Successful Development of Spoken Languages into Written ones 115
14. Towards a Model for Predicting the Acceptance of Vernacular Literacy by Minority Language Groups 131
15. Evaluating Bilingual Education in the Philippines 153
16. Torres Strait Creole 163
17. Language and Ideology of a Police Tracker Story in Gooniyandi 175
18. Indigenized Englishes and Post-Creole Continua 189
19. Part III: Using Language
20. Introduction 199
21. World Englishes and Applied Linguistics 203
22. Automated Analysis of the Vocabulary of English Texts and Generation of Practice Materials 231
23. Isochrony and ‘Uncomfortable Moments’ in Conversation 269
24. Discourse Structure of “Conversation for Action” 283
25. Instructions for Use 299
26. Instructions for Use 315
27. The Analysis of Deixis as a Basis for Discourse Analysis of Dramatic Texts 333
28. Train Sex Man Fined 349
29. Towards a Componential Approach to Text 363
30. Professional vs. Non-Professional Translation 381
31. The LSP Text and its Social Context 385
32. Source and Derived Discourse 415
33. Technical discourse and Technocratic Ideology 435
34. What Happens when Applied Linguistics goes Critical? 461
35. Afterword 487