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Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.
In uno dei periodi più travagliati del mondo moderno, in cui la classe borghese si impadronisce delle leve del potere, un gruppo di pensatori inglesi, partendo dalle premesse filosofiche di John Locke e del materialismo francese, crea un ponte ideale che collega il pensiero illuministico al socialismo, che vedrà la luce nei primi decenni del diciannovesimo secolo. L?antologia presenta l?universo frastagliato del Radicalismo inglese, che vede personaggi quali i cosiddetti "socialisti agrari", i giacobini filo-francesi che invocano una maggiore partecipazione popolare alla vita pubblica attraverso il suffragio universale, il filosofo anarchico William Godwin e la moglie Mary Wollstonecraft, prima lucida paladina dei diritti delle donne, per arrivare a Charles Hall, anticipatore delle teorie di Marx. Molti autori sono qui tradotti per la prima volta in italiano.
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The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940, when the Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No').