Language Studies category: 15171 books
An Introduction to Multilingualism
Language in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms...
by Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Cultures in Conversation introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which various cultural orientations are operating. Author Donal Carbaugh presents his original research on conversation practices in England, Finland,...
The Tyranny of Writing
Ideologies of the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations...
by John Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a Laundromat serving African Americans who were often...
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical...
White Race Discourse
Preserving Racial Privilege in a Post-Racial Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The election of Barack Obama as president led some to suggest that not only has US society made significant strides toward racial equality, but it has moved beyond race or become “post-racial.” In fact, studies have exposed numerous contradictions between the ways white Americans answer questions...
Faulkner and the Native Keystone
Reading (Beyond) the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The last fifty years have witnessed a never-ending flow of criticism of William Faulkner and his fiction. While this book touches on the prevailing critical theory, it concentrates on a number of fresh observations on themes and motifs that place William Faulkner’s fiction in general, regional,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language,...
Jewish Rhetorics
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors’ definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance as allowing speakers to maintain a “resolute...
African Languages/Langues Africaines
Volume 3 1977
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on the national...
The Greek Verb Revisited
A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
New Testament studies have debated the Koine Greek verb for 25 years--reaching an impasse when it came to both tense and aspect.
Now, a group of scholars offer a new take on this debate. Originally presented as part of a conference on the Greek verb at Tyndale House, Cambridge, the chapters...
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
Searching for Higher Ground
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions--the...
The Politics of Justifying Force
The Suez Crisis, the Iraq War, and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
What are the politics involved in a government justifying its use of military force abroad? What is the role of international law in that discourse? How and why is international law crucial to this process? And what role does the media have in mediating the interaction of international law and politics?...
by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framework from an anthropological perspective.
In...