Language Studies category: 15171 books
The Burden of Visual Truth
The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world. This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in everyday life, the mediation of...
Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization
Doing the Lost Language Ghost Dance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model...
Translation Theory and Development Studies
A Complexity Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section’s argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualising...
Shame and Pride in Narrative
Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
South Korea's Education Exodus
The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States,...
Woodstock Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when...
The Mourners' Bench
How God Saved An Illiterate Sinner Like Me
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Growing up wasn't easy for Aron Seaborn, the second oldest son of Northampton county sharecroppers. Despite an intense desire to attend school, Aron was relegated to child servitude to help sustain his growing family. At the age of six, Aron had to forego reading, writing and arithmetic to plow a...
by Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary...
by David Bergsland
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Save 50% on this four book bundle!
The first three books are
Finding the Power to Believe
Learning to Walk in Freedom
Godly Leadership and Power
This bundle begins with four verse-by-verse Bible studies of Philippians, Galatians, I Timothy, and II Timothy. They are the type of Bible...
Media in Hong Kong
Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule.
Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews...
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World
Communication Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent...
Conceptualizing Racism
Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes...