Language Studies category: 15171 books
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse.
Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot,...
Islamist Rhetoric
Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric, this book sheds light upon attitudes towards other Muslims, religious authority and secular society.
Examining the rhetoric of three central...
Podcasting
New Aural Cultures and Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of academic research exploring the definition, status, practices and implications of podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens. By bringing together research from experienced and early...
The Socially Responsible Feminist EFL Classroom
A Japanese Perspective on Identities, Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers’ lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions...
White Kids
Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from...
by James Watson, Anne Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition, James Watson and Anne Hill provide a detailed compendium...
The Subjection of Women - De l'assujettissement des femmes
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue avec le texte parallèle: English - French / Anglais - Français
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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Édition bilingue Anglais-Français avec le texte parallèle.
"De l’assujettissement des femmes" par John Stuart Mill.
Traduit par Émile Cazelles (1869).
Ouvrage dans lequel John Stuart Mill défend la cause de l'émancipation...
Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Library
Principles and Issues for Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Discover ways to raise staff awareness regarding diversity!
Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity In the Library: Principals and Issues for Administrators is an academic guide to diversity issues such as affirmative action, career development of minorities in the library science profession,...
by Bernard Spolsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2003
Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages;...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
"A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essential guides to the good life of cultural consumption... a long overdue examination of how cultural intermediaries work, and how their work supports the new capitalist...
Higher Education in Southeast Asia
Blurring Borders, Changing Balance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...
Contemporary Latina/o Media
Production, Circulation, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The cultural politics creating and consuming Latina/o mass media.
Just ten years ago, discussions of
Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated
by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political
economy have resulted in an unprecedented...
A Better Pencil
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself. A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love...
Academic Writing
A Handbook for International Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated, it is designed to let teachers and students easily find the topics they need, both in the classroom and for self-study.
The...