Full Description
The thirteen essays in this volume are dedicated to Professor Dennis Ager on his retirement. Their range is eloquent testimony to the catholicity and openness of Professor Ager's approach to what was originally called "Area Studies". They celebrate the diversity over which he presided as head of the French department and head of the faculty of Modern Language's at Aston University in the period 1971-1998.
Contents
Strange encounters in the fourth dimension - foreign language study as a voyage of exploration, Michael Townson; living there - Jewish identity and culture in Germany after the Holocaust, Eva Kolinsky; the fugitive, the transport, the BBC and mass murder - a BBC broadcast about gassings in Auschwitz in June 1944, Mark Roseman; business elites in France - reflections on the continued exercise of power, Mairi Maclean; "le retour du civil" in French political culture, Gino Raymond; the city as narrative - representations of Paris in French cinema (1930-1990s), Susan Hayward; the "Front National" in the 1990s - from consolidation to crisis, James Shields; Franco-British relations and the European common foreign and security policy - from co-operation to integration, Jolyon Howarth; metaphors and trains of thought - spotting journey imagery in British and German political discourse, Andreas Musoff; from contexts to concepts - comparing social policy inputs and outcomes in Europe, Linda Hantrais; communication across divides - lingua franca in Europe, Sue Wright; sociolinguistics in a classless society?, Frank Knowles; real-world contexts for English Spelng studies, Christopher Upward.
