Major versus minor? Languages and literatures in a globalized world

Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Series editor’s preface
Acknowledgement
Contributors
Introduction
Part I. Languages
	1. The “minor language” perspective
		References
	2. The language milieu of the Old Order Amish
		Introduction
		The state of the world’s languages
		Reasons for concern
		The language context of the United States
		Pennsylvania Deitsch
		Old Order Amish language use and language maintenance
		Discussion and conclusion
		References
	3. English - The Last Lingua Franca?
		Reference
	4. National identities and the Latin language in Hungary and Croatia
		References
	5. Error and innovation in postcolonial composition
		World Englishes and cultural translation 
		Bilingual creativity and composition studies
		Sameness and difference in a postcolonial classroom
		World Englishes: The promise of a term
		Conclusion
		References
	6. Cultivating learners’ intellectual growth and conceptual thinking skills
		Introduction
		Rationale and significance of the study
		Objectives of the study
		Methods used in the study
		The population
		The procedures
		Method of data collection
		Data analysis
		Findings
			Part I: Personal information about the participants
			Part II: The participants’ writing errors in the pre-test
			Part III: The participants’ writing improvements
			Level 4. Types of grammatical and punctuation error
			Level 3. Types of grammatical and punctuation error
			Comparison of participants’ writing improvement
			Participants’ improvements in using discourse markers
			Participants’ writing improvement reflected in their haiku poems
		Conclusions and implications
			Research question 1. How does reading impact the participants’ writing development?
			Research question 2. In what way does the strategic approach help develop the participants’ writing
		Implications of the research outcome
		Limitations of the study
		References
Part II. Theoretical considerations: Language, culture, literature
	7. Critical glissantism: Édouard Glissant’s views on language(s)
		The vindication of Creole
		Language, the imaginary of language, and the question of Caribbeanness
		The amateur linguist
		The defence and illustration of a world poetry: Damas and Glissant compared
		References
	8. Decolonizing world literature
		Literature and the world market
		The Nobel Prize in literature and the perpetuation of conservative hypocrisy
		Gutenberg and world literature
		Concluding methodological propositions
		References
	9. Minor and major readings across cultures
		Reading positions
		Texts across cultures
		Readers across cultures
		Politics across cultures
		References
	10. From Black Athena to Black Dionysus and beyond? African adaptations of Greek tragedy
		References
	11. From minor genre towards major genre: Crime fiction and autofiction
		The legitimation process
		African crime fiction: History of a genre
		Autofiction: History of a genre
		The concept of autofiction: A historical overview
		Comparisons in trajectory
		References
	12. World literature / World culture? TV series and video games
		Technology and culture
		TV series
		Video games
		Conclusion
		References
Part III. Literatures
	13. Small presses and the globalization of poetry
		References
	14. Between “minor” and “major”: The case of Polish literature
		The problem
		A Slavic literature?
		An East Central-European literature?
		European literatures
		References
	15. From Goethe’s idea of world literature to co
		References
	16. Who is the Other? Goethe’s encounter with “China” in his concept of Weltliteratur
		References
	17. “Major” and “minor” literatures: Indian cases
		References
	18. A “minor” language in a “major” literature: Contemporary Irish literature
		References
Index