Language Studies category: 15171 books
A Thesaurus of African Languages
A Classified and Annotated Inventory of the Spoken Languages of Africa With an Appendix on Their Written Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped into a relatively large number of sets and subsets within which the relationship of languages to one another is locally apparent and uncontroversial. The volume presents the languages...
Bantu
Modern Grammatical, Phonetical and Lexicographical Studies Since 1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations,...
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys
From «Vergueenza» to «Échale Ganas»
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North Carolina. Using critical race theory (CRT), Latino...
by Stephen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above...
Cubanisms
A Look at Cuba through Art and Words
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Cubanisms ─ The evolution of Cuban slang, Spanish slang, and Spanglish
The history of Spanish slang: Spanish is a unique language. From Argentina to Spain, accents, meanings, connotations and more get lost between borders. Cubanisms by Pedro García-Menocal details...
by R. Douglas Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions...
Epistemic Freedom in Africa
Deprovincialization and Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their...
Twilight of Press Freedom
The Rise of People's Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
This volume offers a historical, philosophical, and practical critique of public and civic journalism--a movement that gained momentum in the final decade of the 20th century. During that period, proponents of the movement have published nearly a dozen books expanding upon and expounding the virtues...
Unleashing Rights
Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Unleashing Rights is a study of the animal rights movement's efforts to advance social reform through the deployment of legal language and practices. The study looks at how prevailing understandings of rights language have shaped the attempt to put forth the idea that animals have rights, and how...
Digital Matters
The Theory and Culture of the Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Analyzing the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches (including sociology, media theory, cultural studies and technological philosophy), to suggest that the ‘Matrix’ of science fiction and...
by Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Renee S. Besel, Richard D. Besel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection....
Public Relations, Activism, and Social Change
Speaking Up
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Winner of the 2014 NCA PRIDE Book Award
Why are some voices louder in public debates than others? And why can’t all voices be equally heard? This book draws significant new meaning to the inter-relationships of public relations and social change through a number of activist case studies,...
Superstitions
and why we have them
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In Superstitions, Max Cryer explains the origins of many of the things we commonly say and observe and why we continue to include them in our lives: kissing under the mistletoe, the unlucky number thirteen, the significance of the bridal bouquet, saying ‘bless you’ after sneezing, the hanging...
by April McMahon, Robert McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in...