Language Studies category: 15171 books
The Media and Elections
A Handbook and Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This comparative study brings together academics and practitioners who work in the field of media and elections to provide a set of national case studies and an analysis of the legal and regulatory frameworks that are employed by nation states to ensure that the media perform according to certain...
Citizen Journalism
Global Perspectives- Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies...
Education in Afghanistan
Developments, Influences and Legacies Since 1901
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
A comprehensive and up to date study of the history of education in Afghanistan since 1901, this bookdemonstrates how modern education emerged and charts its fluctuating process of development, regression and destruction.
Combining historical and contemporary analysis of key international and national,...
An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
Post-Revolutionary Cuban Spanish
A Glossary of Social, Political, and Common Terms (Glosario de Terminos Socio-Politicos y Autoctonos de Actualidad)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Because the first socialist revolution in the Americas took place in Cuba, this country has also seen the rise of new terms and the introduction of new, very specific meanings for old terms, adopted as required to express new realities. How can these neologisms be rendered in English, when no English-speaking...
by Paul Mathews, Annabelle Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This publication lists in Part 1 the names, qualifications and interests of Filipinists in Australia and a few former residents who have made significant contributions to Philippine studies in Australia and/or continue to take an active interest in such studies.Part 2 lists Dissertations on the Philippines...
Expanding the Gaze
Gender and the Politics of Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary surveillance goes far beyond the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection or the proliferation of security cameras on every corner.
Expanding...
by Janet Lynn Roseman
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The Way of the Woman Writer, Second Edition continues the work of the inspirational original, offering guidance to women who wish to document their lives in writing. More a template than a how-to manual, this insightful book addresses the concerns, needs, and issues of women writers (both aspiring...
by Danielle M. Stern, William E. Loges, Steve Granelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming;...
Judicial Independence in China
Lessons for Global Rule of Law Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
This volume challenges the conventional wisdom about judicial independence in China and its relationship to economic growth, rule of law, human rights protection, and democracy. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach that places China's judicial reforms and the struggle to enhance the professionalism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the usefulness of the study...
Translating Foreign Otherness
Cross-Cultural Anxiety in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It offers to theorize and contextualize a related range of issues concerning translation practice in response to foreign otherness....
by Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and philosophical legacy.
The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a series of temporal contexts, starting with the rigidity of Soviet-era ideologies, through to the...
by Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492.
This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands...