Text and Context Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Language

Contents Foreword: Peter C. Patrikis I. Introduction 1. (Con)textual Knowledge in Section Language Education, Claire Kramsch and Sally McConnell-Ginet II. Creating Contexts of Communication 2. Science at Dinner, Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor 3. Learning a Language from Learners, Lily Wong Fillmore 4. Performing Expository Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom, Courtney B. Cazden 5. Authenticity, Variation, and Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom, Albert Valdman 6. On Syntax in Discourse in Language Contact Situations, Ellen F. Prince III. Negotiating Meaning Across Cultures 7. Silence Across Languages: An Essay, A.L. Becker 8. Translation as the Double Production of Texts, J. Hillis Miller 9. Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance, Deborah Tannen 10. Cultural Maintenance and "Vanishing" Languages, Muriel Saville-Troike 11. Culture in the Japanese Language Classroom: A Pedagogical Paradox, Eleanor Harz Jorden IV. Shaping Contexts of Learning 12. The Classroom Context: An Acquisition-Rich or an Acquisition-Poor Environment? Rod Ellis 13. Getting Quality Input in the Second/Foreign Language Classroom, Patsy M. Lightbown 14. The Textual Outcomes of Native Speaker-Non-native Speaker Negotiation: What Do They Reveal about Second Language Learning? Teresa Pica 15. Written Texts and Cultural Readings, Janet Swaffar 16. In and Around the Foreign Language Classroom, Barbara F. Freed and Elizabeth B. Bernhardt V. Conclusion 17. Conversational Epilogue, Claire Kramsch and Sally McConnell-GinetKramsch, Claire is the author of 'Text and Context Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Language', published 1992 under ISBN 9780669270242 and ISBN 0669270245.