The global and local dimensions of English
Subtitle: exploring issues of language and culture
By: edited by Marija Brala Vikanovic and Irena Vodopija Krstanovic
Contributors: Vodopija-Krstanović, Irena
Publisher: Lit; Transactio Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9783643900739
Subjects: English language; Globalization; Variation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : From local to global English (and back) : an invitation to a journey / Maja Brala Vukanović & Irena Vodopija Krstanović; title: ELT : current discussion and classroom enlightenment. Perception of English accent by EFT students and teachers : subjective ideals and objective realities / Irena Vodopija Krstanović & Marija Brala Vukanović ; The importance of intercultural competence development in tourism studies / Živa Čeh ; Does my text meant the same as yours? Cultural bias in reading tests / Helen Heaney ; Application of a speech archive analysis to English pronunciation teaching / Rastislav Šuštaršič; title: Explorations from the crosslinguistic and crosscultural perspectives. Impact of language proficiency on error rate in Croatian-English false friends / Anita Memišević and Branka Drljača Margić ; Idiomaticity in dictionary-making : a bilingual perspective / Dušan Gabrovšek ; British and American English : the case of the present perfect and "colloquial" preterite with adverbials / Katarina Dea Žetko ; The globalizing effect of English on the language of the Slovene media / Nada Šabec ; English as a lingua franca : a dilemma for translation studies? / Veronica Smith ; Translator and author in relation to the text / Božana Knežević ; Bambi and what became of him : a case study in global and local exploitation / Margret Holt.