Language Studies category: 15171 books
Puerto Rican Discourse
A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Before conclusions about Spanish in the United States can be drawn, individual communities must be studied in their own contexts. That is the goal of Puerto Rican Discourse. One tendency of previous work on Spanish in the United States has been an eagerness to generalize the findings of isolated studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers.
This volume brings together heritage...
Thai Sex Talk
The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in-depth study of twenty-one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language, has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English learners’ language proficiency in...
by Karen Risager
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is transferable to other kinds of learning materials and to other subjects. The framework distinguishes between...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social variation that have not often been thus juxtaposed: ethnicity/nationality, gender, and participant role relations. The unifying theme of this collection...
by Celia Roberts, Evelyn Davies, Tom Jupp
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Langauge and Discrimination provides a unique and authoritative study of the linguistic dimension of racial discrimination. Based upon extensive work carried out over many years by the Industrial Language Training Service in the U.K, this illuminating analysis argues that a real understanding of how...
Defying Maliseet Language Death
Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts...
Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era
The Struggles for Language Control in the New Order in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine...
Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan
Naming China
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Following the move by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party Kuomingtang (KMT) to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1940s, and Chiang’s subsequent lifelong vow to reclaim the mainland, "China " has occupied—if not monopolized—the...
Language, Culture and Power
English–Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...
Culture, Language and Identity
English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...
by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. The author studies the controversial High Academy of the Quechua Language (HAQL) in Peru, the efficacy of which has been questioned by some experts. The book delves into the positions,...
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book Prize
This book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the book is to examine participants’ conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how...