Language Studies category: 15171 books
Family Talk
Discourse and Identity in Four American Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dual-income...
Arab Cultural Studies
Mapping the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Arab Cultural Studies:Mapping the Field is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab cultural studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, epistemology,...
Teaching Indigenous Students
Honoring Place, Community, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language...
Identity and Language Learning
Extending the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple,...
Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication
Cognition/culture/power
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers...
The Heart of the Matter
Seeking the Center in Maya-Mam Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Can a culture have a theme that unifies seemingly unrelated practices? In this volume, Collins suggests that Maya-Mam customs as different as constructing a house, staying healthy, seeking God, disciplining children, agreeing to a contract, or just speaking the language, all originate from the same...
Creating Language Crimes
How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
This book by Roger W. Shuy, the senior figure in forensic linguistics, is the first to explain in an accessible way the vital role that linguistic evidence and its proper analysis play in criminal investigations. Shuy provides compelling case studies of how language functions in investigations involving,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
This edited volume provides a critical review of political communication research conducted in Asia over the past twenty years. Each chapter focuses on studies published in a specific Asian country, selected according to the level of contribution made to the field of political communication in Asia....
Language Conflict and Language Rights
Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use their preferred language(s). Such rights are often asserted and defended in response to their being...
Discourses of Ageing and Gender
The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages contained in public discourse...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining. Yet little is known...
by Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
The papers in this second volume show some of the results of the empirical exploration of Bernstein's hypothesis. The volume represents a significant contribution not only to the study of the sociology of language, but also to education and the social sciences.
"This collection demonstrates the...
by David Machin
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Introduction to Multimodal Analysis is a unique and accessible textbook that clearly and critically explains this groundbreaking approach to visual analysis. Each chapter outlines the tools for analysis and takes the reader through examples of analysis, providing a model that can then be followed....