Language Studies category: 15171 books
Maintaining Black Marriage
Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Maintaining Black Marriage: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Marianne Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success...
Transcultural Performance
Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages.
Constructions of Terrorism
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective...
Reviving Gramsci
Crisis, Communication, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change. The book is motivated by two intertwined...
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China
Dazzling the Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during this time. While the Chinese media has often been a topic within studies of globalization...
by Denis McQuail
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
"Denis McQuail's Mass Communication Theory is not just a seminal text in the study of media and society - it is a benchmark for understanding and appreciating the long and winding road people and their media have taken to get us here."
- Mark Deuze, Indiana University and Leiden University
"This...
Intercourse in Television and Film
The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit sex scenes since the 1990s, some of such scenes featuring the performance of actual sex acts. The incidence of sex in narratively powerful, resonant visual...
Creating Television
Conversations With the People Behind 50 Years of American TV
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Creating Television brings television and its creators to life, presenting fascinating in-depth interviews with the creators of American TV. Having interviewed more than 100 television professionals over the course of his 15 years of research, Professor Robert Kubey presents here the 40 conversations...
by American Anti-Slavery Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2019
A crisis has arrived, in which rights the most important which civil society can acknowledge, and which have been acknowledged by our Constitution and laws, in terms the most explicit which language can afford, are set at nought by men, whom your favor has invested with a brief authority. By what...
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine
The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history-and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today’s society
The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America’s first openly gay journalist and the...
by John Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
First published in 1988. Language is an important developmental ability which facilitates communication both at home and at school. It is also the foundation of many of a child’s learning experiences in school. A certain level of language is often a pre-requisite both for success in particular curriculum...
Spinglish
The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Spinglish—the devious dialect of English used by professional spin doctors—is all around us. And the fact is, until you’ve mastered it, politicians and corporations (not to mention your colleagues and friends) will continue putting things over on you, and generally getting the better of you,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Special interest in topics relating to library management over the last decade has led to the close examination of crisis management practice among library professionals. Due to the importance of the archives, documents, and books housed within libraries around the world, preemptive planning for potential...
Researching a Posthuman World
Interviews with Digital Objects
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite readers to embrace their inner – and outer – cyborg as they consider how today’s professional practices and everyday ways of being are increasingly intertwined...