Language Studies category: 15171 books
Mass Communications and Media Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction, 2nd edition is a comprehensive yet concise survey of the history of mass communication media, discussing the current state of each medium, and anticipating the future of mass media. Divided into twelve chapters, it can be used in either 16-week...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
With an eye to the playful, reflexive, self-conscious ways in which global youth engage with each other online, this volume analyzes user-generated data from these interactions to show how communication technologies and multilingual resources are deployed to project local as well as trans-local orientations....
Remade in France
Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English. The abundant data come from primary sources-a large online newspaper...
Repairing the Broken Surface of Talk
Managing Problems in Speaking, Hearing, and Understanding in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers. Throughout her career, Jefferson explored the almost hidden, subterranean world of the seemingly minor errors and...
Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press
Framing Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have...
by Anthony Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Covering topics ranging from the Moral Monday movement to Christian films and performers, Religion and Media in America is a qualitative study of the ways in which religion has been woven into American popular and civic culture. This book explores how Christianity both adapts to and is affected by...
What Christians Believe
The Story of God and People in Minimal English
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Many people today, both Christians and non-Christians, are confused about or unaware of the essentials of Christian faith. In this book*,* Anna Wierzbicka takes a radically new approach to the task of communicating "what Christians believe" to the widest possible audience. "The Story of God and People,"...
Acta Germanica
German Studies in Africa
Language: German
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Der erste Teil «Afrika schreiben», zugleich Schwerpunktsetzung des Jahrbuchs, versammelt Beiträge über Afrikaverarbeitungen in der deutschen Literatur und im kulturellen Gedächtnis, die bezeugen, dass der afrikanische Kontinent nicht erst seit seiner Kolonisierung zu Imaginationen im europäischen...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies,...
Summary: Men In Black - Mark R. Levin
How the Supreme Court is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Mark R. Levin’s book: “Men in Black: How the SupremeCourt is Destroying America”.This summary of the ideas fromMark R. Levin’s book “Men in Black” explains the author’s criticism towards theSupreme Court. According to Levin, the court corrupts the original ideas...
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented."...
The Language of Brexit
How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features...
English Language as Hydra
Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster … a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of “uplifting”,...
Language and Canadian Media
Representations, Ideologies, Policies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media.
Using...