Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Ofelia Zepeda
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This first pedagogical grammar of the Papago language features twenty chapters on grammatical constructions and five sample dialogs—plus abbreviations, symbols, summary of grammatical elements, and two glossaries. Classroom-tested for teaching both native and non-native speakers, the text also offers linguists an overview of the Papago language not available elsewhere.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The studies in this collection seek to examine the notions of ‘linguistic diversity’ and ‘hybridity’ through the lenses of new critical theories and theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The chapters include critical inquiries...
by Dr. Monika Bednarek, Helen Caple
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news.
The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image and the interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic news stories...
In Defense of the Constitution: Ending America’s Occupation
An Analysis of the Constitution to Stop the Cultural Genocide of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This highly controversial book is going to change the political and cultural direction and scene of America in the 21st Century. It will do this by providing America’s Compatriots the tools they’ve been searching for to stop America’s Government, Supreme Court Judges, and Politicians from continuing...
by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!ABOUT THE BOOKA Framework for Understanding Poverty provides important insight into the nations ongoing difficulty educating poor children. Students from impoverished backgrounds at all levels of Americas education system achieve success at lower rates...
Eve on Top
Women’s Experience of Success in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten ‘successful’ women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences. Each case study includes a...
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation
In Praise of a Plural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate:...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition
A Compendium of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Too often, when struggling to find just the right turn of phrase, exclamation of joy, or witty barb, it's easy to forget that history is positively brimming with rich words deserving of rejuvenation. Lesley M. M. Blume gathers forgotten words, phrases, names, insults, and idioms, plus fascinating...
Linguistic Fieldwork
A Student Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. Drawing on over forty years of fieldwork experience between them, in over two dozen languages, the authors pack the book with examples...
The Subjection of Women - La servitù delle donne
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo inglese a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini,...
Symbols
A Universal Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Symbols: A Universal Language looks at the story behind the world's most famous symbols, from the peace sign to the smiley. It shows just how much importance has been attached to the smallest and simplest of ideas and features over 40 of the most significant symbols from religion, politics and popular...
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni,...
Repairing the Athlete's Image
Studies in Sports Image Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Repairing the Athlete’s Image: Studies in Sports Image Restoration, edited by Joseph R. Blaney, Lance Lippert, and J. Scott Smith, present case studies of various athletes, sports, and public relations scenarios with prescriptive advice for those attempting to repair athletic reputations. This invaluable...