Language Studies category: 15171 books
Unnormalizing Education
Addressing Homophobia in Higher Education and K12 Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Recently, with the number of students from higher education and K12 settings committing suicide, it is apparent that homophobia and homophobic bullying are tremendous problems in our schools and universities. However, educators are unclear about an appropriate process for addressing these challenges....
by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1994
Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve....
Espanol medico y sociedad
Un libro para estudiantes de espanol en el tercer ano de estudios (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Espanol medico y sociedad/ Medical Spanish and Society is an innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides...
Fashioning Lives
Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Winner, Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Advancement of Knowledge Award from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing, 2017
Fashioning...
Global Media Discourse
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of lifestyle and entertainment...
Mexican-American
My Hybrid Blood
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
After publishing fourteen books of poetry, Rudy Caldern introduces a collection of poetry that compiles the very best of his published poetry as well as introduces the reader to his more recent work. Known for his impassioned deliveries at poetry readings, Caldern has been invited to and read at legendary...
Gender in a Transitional Era
Changes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...
by Kimberly M. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal...
Removable Type
Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious...
Museum Texts
Comunication Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:
* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?
* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation...
Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955
Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Over the course of its three-hundred-year history, the Catholic Church in Louisiana witnessed a prolonged shift from French to English, with some south Louisiana churches continuing to prepare marriage, baptism, and burial records in French as late as the mid-twentieth century. Speaking French in...
Event Power
How Global Events Manage and Manipulate
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
“Rojek’s argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people’s needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they allow a break from daily routines, provide an illusion of intimacy and social membership, and create...
International and Comparative Studies in Information and Library Science
A Focus on the United States and Asian Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Comparative studies in information and library science published in the past ten years have reflected a broad spectrum of backgrounds, interests, and issues. But until now, services between different countries have never been gathered or organized into a single source. As demand from researchers,...
Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Despite widespread agreement about the need to develop interculturally competent graduates, there is a lack of agreement about how this goal may be achieved in practice. This is significant as universities around the world, particularly in English-speaking countries, have espoused an interculturally-aware...