Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and furthering their studies...
Language, Culture, and Communication
The Meaning of Messages
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language, Culture and Communication, Eight Edition, introduces students to the topics and theories of the board field of linguistic anthropology by examining the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Through...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book provides a linguistic and cultural profile of the Polish diasporic communities in three different European countries: Ireland, France and Austria. The eight contributing chapters present original research on the acquisition and use of the languages of the respective host communities and...
Young Children as Intercultural Mediators
Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This multidisciplinary approach to cultural mediation brings together insights from anthropology, sociology, linguistics and intercultural communication to offer a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach...
Mediating Cultures
Parenting in Intercultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than the parents. Each contributor views the family as a site of intercultural dialogue and mediation, and uses compelling studies throughout...
The Bantu Languages of Africa
Handbook of African Languages
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely...
Clockwork Rhetoric
The Language and Style of Steampunk
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement "Steampunk" persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its...
Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies
Ideology, Control and Resistance in Turkey since 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Popular music has long been used to entertain, provoke, challenge and liberate but also to oppress and control. Can popular music be political? What types of popular music work best with politics? How can songs, videos, concerts or any other musical commodity convey ideas about power, politics and...
Investigating Hong Kong English
Globalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the Hong Kong context. Previous research has demonstrated...
Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping
Institutional Encounters with Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, within the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. In this volume, which is one of the first books on gatekeeping, Tranekjær seeks to address...
The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East
With Reference to The Merchant of Venice in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This interdisciplinary study traverses the disciplines of translation studies, hermeneutics, theater studies, and sociology. Under the "power turn" or "political turn" in translation studies, the omission and untranslatability of religious material are often seen as the product...
Popular Myths about Memory
Media Representations versus Scientific Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Misconceptions about memory phenomena often go hand-in-hand with popular misrepresentations of its function in media. In Popular Myths about Memory, Brian H. Bornstein examines how the representation of memory in novels, movies, and television shows often clashes with scientific research. Bornstein...
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
As the Mexican American student population in U.S. public schools climbs to over 8 million, the establishment of policies that promote equity and respect have never been more crucial. In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides an overview of the relationship between Mexican...
Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia
Private Chat to Public Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weibo,...