Language Studies category: 15171 books
How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis
A Multimodal Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
"How great to have this practical introduction to doing critical discourse analysis, especially one that provides examples of multimodal discourse analysis. Extremely useful for students who need tools for the study of text, talk and images."
- Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University
"The...
Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies
Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals’...
The Discursive Construction of Blame
The Language of Public Inquiries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously the reserve of moral philosophers, sociologists...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and communication...
China Studies in South and Southeast Asia
Between Pro-China and Objectivism
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The rise of China has reconstituted the regional identity in Asia as well as the lens through which understanding of China and self-understanding are no longer separate processes intellectually. China scholarship in South and Southeast Asia necessarily highlights meanings of encountering China that...
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest
Anthem Posture in a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend that has led to deep political divisiveness in America. The author explores this phenomenon by incorporating analysis of media coverage, impact on attitudes...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
At a time when many of the world's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social...
by Lydia H Liu, John Cayley, Russell Scott Valentino
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields...
Rhetorica in Motion
Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations...
by Shari J. Stenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens offers students a lucid and engaging introduction to the discipline’s history, struggles, and accomplishments through the lens of feminism. By illuminating a vast array of feminist contributions to the rhetorical tradition, writing theory, and classroom...
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race
Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90%...
You Say More Than You Think
Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want!, The 7-Day Plan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Now You’re Talking!
Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is...
Bridges Over Water
Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches,...