Language Studies category: 15171 books
by M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International’s 80 years of fieldwork in local language communities. Using...
The Culture of Mean
Representing Bullies and Victims in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and consciously contribute to the communication shaping our environmental present...
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure...
You Are What You Speak
Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
"An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus
What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers the world...
Relocating Authority
Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Relocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira...
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the key concepts, exploring their origins, what they’re used for and why they provoke discussion. The author provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of...
Body Language: How to Read People Instantly, Master Non-Verbal Communication & Analyze People
Analyze People and Body Language, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Learning Body Language Has Never Been This Easy!
**Avoid conflicts, and become a better communicator! **
There are many things in adult life that no one seems to teach you about. Learning experiences may vary, but many valuable life skills seem untaught in the modern education system, and...
An Introduction to Mahāyāna Buddhism
With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...
Translation, Globalization and Translocation
The Classroom and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts. It foregrounds the connections between cultural analysis, literary critique, pedagogy and practice, uniting the disparate fields that operate within translation...
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these...
Sexual Rhetorics
Methods, Identities, Publics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the...
The Anti-Dictionary
A Selected List of Words Being Forced from the Modern Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2002
Words are dying. Not all words. Only a select few-words that have specific bearing on our moral health as a nation and our moral past. In this book, a selected list of words is given. These words are not dying because of misuse, but because their essential meanings have been forgotten, compromised...