Language Studies category: 15171 books
Language, Immigration and Labor
Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrant day laborers in Arizona. It examines the value of speaking English in this context and the dynamics of intercultural communication in fast-paced job negotiations.
Ethnic Angst
A Comparative Study of Bapsi Sidhwa & Rohinton Mistry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book is one of the rare books that delves into the psyche of the Parsi community, their culture and anxieties. The book takes into consideration all these aspects reflected in the fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa and Rohinton Mistry. Meticulous style, deep critical insights into the literary, critical,...
by Christine Lohmeier
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This book makes a contribution to the debates on diasporic identities and transnational communication. It provides an analysis of the Cuban American community and its relationship to Miami-based English- and Spanish-language media. Based on extensive ethnographic data, the author demonstrates how...
Discourses of the Developing World
Researching properties, problems and potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based...
by Namrata Pathak
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
It is the very nature of representation to be theatrical and self-referential. This book undercuts the fact that all representational knowledge is autonomous and sovereign. At times, theatrical representations can misguide and mislead. Representation can also ineluctably project ones own preferences...
Racial Worldmaking
The Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust...
Political Communication in the Anglophone World
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Political Communication in the Anglophone World: Case Studies, by Theodore F. Sheckels, extends political communication scholarship—primarily rhetorical scholarship—into the extensive English language arena outside the United States and the United Kingdom. While wrestling with the extent to which...
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book studies the three concepts of translation, education and innovation from a Nordic and international perspective on Japanese and Korean societies. It presents findings from pioneering research into cultural translation, Japanese and Korean linguistics, urban development, traditional arts,...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom
Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from...
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
More Heat Than Light?
Sex-difference Science and the Study of Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the Sedgewick lecture for 2012, Professor Deborah Cameron investigates the age-old question of whether men and women are different kinds of beings, both physically and intellectually. She begins by noting that in the 19th century that most writers saw men as being intellectually superior to women...
Desi Land
Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Desi Land is Shalini Shankar’s lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian Americans, or “Desis,” define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology....
Digital Orientations
Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Might it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital media are understood as manual media?
Has the...
Internationalizing Internet Studies
Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural, social,...