Language Acts and Worldmaking by Catherine Boyle - ISBN: 9781529372304
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Words shape worlds: language research empowers action and transforms understanding.

Language Acts and Worldmaking

How and Why the Languages We Use Shape Our World and Our Lives

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    14 June 2022

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Summary

Collectively authored by the Language Acts and Worldmaking team, this defining volume offers reflective narratives on research, theory and practice over the course of the flagship project of the same name, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Open World Research Initiative. It returns to the project’s key principles - that our words make worlds and we are agents in worldmaking - analyses the practices and outcomes of collaborative working, and looks to the future by o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529372304
ISBN-10:1529372305
Author:Catherine Boyle
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Languages
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:14 June 2022
Weight:280g
Dimensions:214mm x 134mm x 22mm
Series:Language Acts and Worldmaking
About The Author

Catherine Boyle

Catherine Boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London where she is also the Director of the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking in King’s Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Her research and practice is based in connections between cultural history and translation and on methodologies for theatre translation in research and performance, and she was Principal Investigator for the Language Acts and Worldmaking research project.

Debra Kelly is Professor Emerita in Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Westminster, London. In 2005 she received the award of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the French Government in recognition of her services to French language, literature and culture. She has published widely in French and Francophone literary and cultural studies. Her research now focuses on the historical and contemporary French and Francophone communities in London. Since 2008, she has been Co-Director of Routes into Languages London, a programme which supports and encourages language learning from primary through to higher education with a focus on access and widening participation. She is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London working with the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking in King’s Art and Humanities Research Institute and co-leads the research strand ‘Language Transitions’ with Ana de Medeiros.

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