Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Yasmin Barrachini-Haß
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,2, University of Bremen, course: Das (französische) Lexikon: theoretische, synchrone und diachrone Aspekte, language: English, abstract: The orthographic agreement of 1990 will be the focus of this term paper....
Communicating Marginalized Masculinities
Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially...
by Ed Madison, Ben DeJarnette
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In a world of "alternative facts" and "post-truth" politics, producing public-interest journalism is more important than ever—but also more complex. This book examines how journalism is evolving to meet the demands of the digital media ecosystem, where lies often spread faster...
Words and the First World War
Language, Memory, Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator
First World War expert Julian Walker looks...
Korean Stories For Language Learners
Traditional Folktales in Korean and English (MP3 Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories—especially when they're told in two languages!
Korean Stories for Language Learners introduces 42 traditional Korean folktales with bilingual Korean and English versions, presented on facing pages, together...
Language and Canadian Media
Representations, Ideologies, Policies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media.
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Shakespearean Neuroplay
Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Readers and Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.
Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the...
The Irish Language (RLE Linguistics E: Indo-European Linguistics)
AN Annotated Bibliography of Sociolinguistic Publications 1772-1982
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In compiling this bibliography, the main purpose was to assemble references to published material of a sociolinguistic nature concerning the Irish language. The intent was not to cover publications treating language per se, but rather to consider those dealing with language in its social context....
Lost Sound
The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry,...
by Dave Montalbano
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney...
Attitudes to Endangered Languages
Identities and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length studies relate attitudes to language policies, or address the changing attitudes of non-speakers and the motivations of members of...
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'
Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while...
by Jerry White
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine Rolling Stock, mostly publishing reports from the Telluride Film...