INTRODUCTION Throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium, some second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have begun to conduct research from a perspective on learner development that foregrounds the effects of situational or environmental variables on the learning process. These researchers, according to Swain and Deters (2007), privilege a “participation” metaphor over ...

This paper critically explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production and appreciation of Chinua Achebe’s fiction, mainly, his political novel that deals with militarism, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Intertextuality deals with relations among texts: no text is an island. The departure from author-centred theory of literary criticism to unrestricted and diversified one, followin...

In this paper, I propose that we need to develop an appropriate set of conceptual tools for examining motivational issues pertaining to linguistic diversity, mobility and social integration in a rapidly changing and expanding Europe. I begin by drawing on research that has begun to reframe the concept of integrative motivation in the context of theories of self and identity. Expanding the notio...

Purpose – By using the UNISIST models this paper argues for the necessity of domain analysis in order to qualify scientific information seeking. The models allow better understanding of communication processes in a scientific domain and they embrace the point that domains are always both unstable over time, and changeable, according to the specific perspective. This understanding is even more i...

We are approaching Ken Plummer’s work from the standpoint of our shared history in interactionist sociologies sexuality and interest sexual storytelling. Plummer was truly a trailblazer study sexuality. He one first UK to approach distinctively sociological perspective which, while innovative, out tune with Marxist psychoanalytical mood time later further sidelined by more fashionable poststruc...

The article examines the trajectory of Western avant-garde in 20th century, connection with group formations characteristic these movements. Movements such as Russian and European Dadaism are classified according to various criteria, their rise fall is traced. After a broad overview movements, first part essay analyzes cases modern movement “Language Poetry”. then goes on detail theoretical pri...

This article offers a review of the contribution Marxist theory to urban studies. It focuses on four central themes in this field research: first, dynamics capital accumulation and organization built environment; second, uneven geographical development relation study urbanization processes peripheral regions planet; third, spatial segregation related problems, such as ghettoization, displacemen...

The alignment of the studied discourses has been done under rubric similarities between heteromedial semiotic entities; their status is that aesthetic objects. paper focuses on dilemmas contemporary interart studies and based so-called poststructuralist theory (most notably in work Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze). issues politics human bodies, excerpts Jung’s analytical psychoanalysis, Merleau-...

In this paper, we look at how theory and publishing practices were intertwined in Argentina between 1967 1976. We do so by analyzing “El hombre y su mundo” [“The Man His World"], a collection of books directed Oscar del Barco for Ediciones Caldén (Argentina) during that period. hold Barco´s multifaceted work as editor, translator, compiler, essayist, created politics theory, focusing on two int...

Australian Government policies of ‘mutual obligations‘ are based on the UK’s ‘Third Way’ and the ‘Workfare’ policies of the US. The discussion here is pertinent to the range of welfare reform initiatives adopted by Western governments over recent times. In this paper, I focus on the ‘mutual obligations‘ aspects of the Australian welfare reform agenda as Foucauldian ‘technologies’. A feminist an...