Book Donations from the Estate of Nancy Schwartz

Book Donations from the Estate of Nancy SchwartzList of books and journals donated to the African Studies Library at Boston University by the estate of the late Nancy Schwartz

Building rapport and a sense of communal identity through play in a second language classroom

Many teachers would recognize that a certain amount of laughter and play in a classroom is one of the signs of a socially cohesive and contented group of learners. However, on the face of it, language play in a multinational second language classroom would seem to be highly constrained by an apparent lack of common cultural reference points and, at the lower end of the proficiency spectrum, by the linguistic abilities of the learners. This paper features an investigation into language play consisting of a teacher and two low-proficiency adult learners from different professional fields and nationalities, enrolled on an intensive Business English course. The analysis is informed by Goffman’s concept of frame, by Bakhtin’s ideas about the heteroglossic and dialogical nature of language, and by Bauman and Briggs’s notion of recontextualization. It shows how the learners build a common pool of prior talk and reference points, alluding to them humorously. The data consists of a series of short episodes which together trace the development of one such shared reference point. Over two days, the learners transform an incident which highlights their shortcomings in the language into a celebratory resource that they playfully use to build rapport and to help in the construction of a shared sense of identity and culture. I argue in this paper that the language play found in the featured data is very similar in kind to that in native speaker interactions

pH: A Novel by Nancy Lord

Review of Nancy Lord\u27s pH: A Nove

Book Review: LGBT Families

LGBT Families, by Nancy J. Mezey. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2015. 213 pp., $31.98 (paperback)

Sonnets

Poems include: The Runner by Nancy Hendricks and The Modern Atlas by Ina Marshall

Love as Legal Methodology: Comments on \u3ci\u3eLove in a Time of Envy\u3c/i\u3e

In academic papers about emotion, it is not uncommon to find a kind of disconnect between the detachment of theoretical and scholarly language and the subject of the paper--the emotions. One of the lovely, and challenging, aspects of Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller\u27s article is that it not only conveys the emotions that are its subject, but it brims with its own emotion; it reads like a text written out of shattered love. Goldberg-Hiller takes up Jean-Luc Nancy\u27s contention that love is shattered by its very essence. It fragments the self at the same time as it refracts into many forms. Goldberg-Hiller understands Nancy as suggesting caution about trying to bridge the gap between love and law, and caution about any unifying theory of love. The author suspects that Goldberg-Hiller also finds in Nancy\u27s theory of fragmented love, a methodology and an emotional style. Goldberg-Hiller writes of love, envy, and law in ways that burst, cut, and multiply as Nancy suggests love does. The article throws out shards of theory, literature, politics, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, visual imagery, texts, and emotions. In Goldberg-Hiller\u27s analysis of both of the emotional moments around which his article is built, the law remains submerged. Here the author goes back to the evocative analysis of love and especially envy to see if the law can be resurrected just a little by thinking about the conflict these emotional moments reflect and the ways in which law, like language, mediates emotional conflict and social change

Commited to the Environment

Nancy Broshot, this year’s Edith Green Distinguished Professor, put her passion for the environment to work in Portland’s Forest Park

Dorothee Soelle: mystic and rebel

Title: Dorothee Soelle : mystic and rebel : the biography Author: Renate Wind; Nancy Lukens; Martin Rumscheidt Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2012. ISBN: 978080069808