Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Justin B. Richland, Sarah Deer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This second edition of Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies is the only available comprehensive introduction to tribal law. In clear and straightforward language, Justin B. Richland and Sarah Deer discuss the history and structure of tribal justice systems; the scope of criminal and civil jurisdictions;...
Learning to Be Tibetan
The Construction of Ethnic Identity at Minzu University of China
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has launched a nation-wide ethnic identification project to recognize ethnic minorities, which are widely considered as “peripheral,” “barbarian,” “inferior,” “backward,” and “distrusted.”...
Approaches to Videogame Discourse
Lexis, Interaction, Textuality
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
The first significant collection of research in videogame linguistics, Approaches to Videogame Discourse features an international array of scholars in linguistics and communication studies exploring lexis, interaction and textuality in digital games.
In the first section, "Lexicology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual chapters...
by Javed Majeed
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions...
The UK ‘at Risk’
A Corpus Approach to Historical Social Change 1785–2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2019
This book presents a case study of the proliferation of at risk-language in The Times news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk.
Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how...
That's The Way It Crumbles
The American Conquest of the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now.
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Public Relations, Society & Culture
Theoretical and Empirical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Historically, public relations research has been dominated by organisational interests, treating the profession as a function to help organisations achieve their goals, and focusing on practice and processes first and foremost. Such research is valuable in addressing how public relations can be used...
Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies
Properties of Meaning, Power, and Value in Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.S. hegemony on the global stage. Critics who challenged these practices of mass persuasion were quickly discredited by the emergent field of communication...
LOL
Losing Our Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
LOL is a tongue-in-cheek look at language trends in the wireless age through the jaundiced eye of a self-hating Luddite and grammar scold. LOL: Losing Our Language is an irreverent guide to what's funny about the American English vernacular in the new millennium. LOL sheds...
by Andrew F. Herrmann, Art Herbig, Tony E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy...
The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics, science and technology studies, political communication theory and popular culture studies, this volume engages both with theoretical debates and detailed empirical studies, showcasing how the...
The Language of Social Media
Identity and Community on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.