Language Studies category: 15171 books
South Asia and Disability Studies
Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Incorporating scholarship that addresses the social, economic, cultural, and historical facets of the experience of disability in South Asia, this book presents the reader with a comprehensive, cogent, and nuanced view of the constructions of disability in this region. In doing so, it focuses on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online...
Language, Normativity and Europeanisation
Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at the discursive interface of European, national...
A Critical Discourse Analysis of South Asian Women's Magazines
Undercover Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women’s lifestyle magazines, exposing the disconnection between the magazines’ representations of South Asian women and the lived realities of the target audience. The author challenges the notion that discourses...
by Richard Hoggart
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes inescapable. But in this book he is interested...
Ma A-Poi-Yaa-Kii-Ko-Wan Kii Mii-Ksi Niooks-Koh-Kiaa-Yoiksi
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
I am focusing on children's books because this is where we need to start in saving our language. I plan on publishing more books for children in the near future. My books will be in written form and audio format so children can read along as I tell the story. It will not only be educational it will...
Language, History, and Identity
Ethnolinguistic Studies of the Arizona Tewa
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Arizona Tewa are a Pueblo Indian group that migrated around 1700 to First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and who, while speaking Hopi, have also retained their native language. Paul V. Kroskrity examines this curiosity of language and culture, explaining the various ways in which the Tewa use their...
Language Use and Social Change
Problems of Multilingualism with Special Reference to Eastern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Africa. This book, originally published in 1971, contains papers which concentrate on East Africa but it also discusses theoretical problems and methods...
by Salman Al-Azami
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response study. In this book, the author investigates how the three Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are represented in mainstream British media and analyses how members...
Language, Migration, and Identity
Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
While much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relationships, we know less about how this plays out interactionally in diverse transient settings. Based on research in Indonesia, this book examines how talk plays an important role in mediating social...
by David Hirsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Many of the world’s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural loss, with variable success....
Deaf in DC
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where “deaf” meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his acceptance at Gallaudet College far away in America....
Engaging Superdiversity
Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book is the fruition of five years’ work in exploring the idea of superdiversity. The editors argue that sociolinguistic superdiversity could be a source of inspiration to a wide range of post-structuralist, post-colonial and neo-Marxist interdisciplinary research into the potential and the...
Language and Development in Africa
Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched...