Language Studies category: 15171 books
Discourse and Narrative Methods
Theoretical Departures, Analytical Strategies and Situated Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major influential theoretical and methodological fields - discourse and narrative methods - and examines them in their interrelation. It offers readers an orientation...
Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage
Individuals, Couples, and Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex...
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
American Women Learn to Speak
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...
The Language of Inequality in the News
A Discourse Analytic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the 1970s do the Daily Mail's TV reviews address serious contemporary themes such as class- and race-relations, whereas forty years later...
Gender Representation in Learning Materials
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their various chapters cover the nature, status, and function of English in Japan, focusing on the ways in which globalization is influencing language practices in the country.
by Claire Penn, Jennifer Watermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current...
by Ho-Won Jeong
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
'...effectively fills a long-standing void and will no doubt be hailed as a much-needed new addition to the literature... This text very much exemplifies the strength of Ho-Won Jeong as a theorist and one of the more prolific writers in the larger peace and conflict studies field... the final three...
Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium
Hong Kong as Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book discusses the notion of “Hong Kong as Method” as it relates to the rise of China in the context of Asianization. It explores new Hong Kong imaginaries with regard to the complex relationship between the local, the national and the global. The major theoretical thrust of the book is to...
by Paramjot Singh Chahel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Paramjot Singh Chahel a science graduate percieved Law degree and completed PG diploma in Philosophy of Communal Harmony and Social Peace. He is currently doing a research work on the subject RELIGION AND PEACE from Yashwantrao University, Nasik. He is a retired senior judge (was deputed at the union...
Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Eastern Bloc Countries
Two Decades after the Regime Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume offers empirical perspectives on the current sociolinguistic situations in former Eastern Bloc countries. Its seventeen chapters analyse phenomena such as language choice, hierarchies and ideologies in multilingualism, language policies, minority languages in new legal, educational, business...
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political,...
Crooked Talk
Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at five hundred years of crooks and...
by Marika Seigel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you’re pregnant and can afford one, you’re going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice on how to navigate each stage of pregnancy....