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Overcoming isolation in international discourse

Overcoming isolation in international discourse. • A radically changing situation in the teaching of modern languages • lack of the knowledge of languages hampers research - no CE Europe holocaust literature studies - post-colonial studies do not include CE Europe.

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Overcoming isolation in international discourse

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  1. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse • A radically changing situation in the teaching of modern languages • lack of the knowledge of languages hampers research - no CE Europe holocaust literature studies - post-colonial studies do not include CE Europe

  2. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse • It is extremely important to know local languages to analyse current affairs societal mythologies and the attitudes of governments to foreign policy issues

  3. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: Rebellion at Czech Public Service TV (2000-2001) - local TV interest group rebelled against the appointment of Jiří Hodač, a senior BBC journalist - the English speaking media, unaware of the context, hailed the TV rebellion as a new Democratic Revolution http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1093144.stm

  4. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 2A. Women in Czech Politics? (July 2010): WSJ, Daily Telegraph: “Female members of the Czech parliament have posed for a glamorous calendar to highlight the growing presence of women in Czech politics.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/7885809/Female-Czech-MPs-pose-for-calendar.html

  5. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 2B. Why is Central and Eastern Europe so strongly climasceptical? Czech Environment Secretary abolished the scheme to support solar energy Does it matter that we do not know Czech PM appoints extreme right-wingers as „advisers for human rights“? (The Czech PM´s party is a close partner of the British Conservatives in the European Parliament.)

  6. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 3. „Deterritorialised Culture“? Language-based cultures mostly accept only those values from the outside which are within them already. Persuade the Old Hag! Sarah Silverman: Vote for Obama

  7. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 4. „Deterritorialised Culture“? Language-based cultures mostly accept only those values from the outside which are within them already. Persuade the Old Hag! Sarah Silverman: Vote for Obama

  8. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 5. Facebook, YouTube and the „smaller languages“ - hate speech of Facebook in languages „no one understands“ "Their domain is Kaufland, their tempo is murderous"

  9. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse The case study of the Czech Republic: 6. George Bush´s anti-missile shield for the Czech Republic – a total mi sunderstanding by the English speaking media: The Guardian: "The Czechs and the Poles are disappointed"

  10. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse Filip Klusák and Vít Remunda, The Czech Peace

  11. Overcomingisolation in internationaldiscourse How to counter this? - Creating a cross-cultural microclimate in classes of students from both the target area and from the UK

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