Language Studies category: 15171 books
Show of Hands
A Natural History of Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts...
Language, Thought, and Reality
Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report."
The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape...
by Mark Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Language and Human Nature" exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by examining the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. These sometimes take the form of new words, but...
by Minglang Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This text considers contemporary China’s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China’s language order unfolds on two front, promoting Putonghua domestically and globally, alongside its economic growth and...
Linguistic Justice
International Law and Language Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Globalization and migration are producing societies of increasing linguistic diversity. At the same time, English is achieving unprecedented global dominance, smaller languages are becoming 'extinct' at an alarming rate, and ethnic tensions in countries from Belgium to Tibet continue to centre on...
Rethinking Language and Culture in Japanese Education
Beyond the Standard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How does language or culture come to be standardized to the degree that it is considered 'homogeneous'? How does teaching language relate to such standardization processes? How can teaching be mindful of the standardization processes that potentially involve power relations? Focusing on the case of...
Statehood, Scale and Hierarchy
History, Language and Identity in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Against the background of language and nation formation in Indonesia, this book demonstrates how language planning is inseparable from the broader actions of the state, and how postcolonial nationalism and globalization have had profound implications for language use and state actions to control it....
The Instruction of Imagination
Language as a Social Communication Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function:...
Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language and Materiality integrates linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship on a range of topics: semiotic approaches to language, language commodification, sound, embodiment, mediatization, and aesthetics. Empirically rigorous, the volume engages scholars and students interested...
Intersection of Service and Learning
Research and Practice in the Second Language Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book on servicelearning provides a current view of servicelearning research in the second language classroom and practical applications for the acquisition of both cultural knowledge as well as the different language modalities. This book helps in understanding how using servicelearning in the language...
by Morris Swadesh
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language. This volume, left nearly completed at his death and edited posthumously by Joel F. Sherzer, is his last major study of this difficult...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the world is immune from language...
Never Stop
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned company in the history of the book industry. In this memoir, Sana reveals how his experience with Karibu jumpstarted his...
Wordcraft
The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
"Five little words: BlackBerry, Accenture, Viagra, Cayenne, e-business. Two of the words are appropriated (BlackBerry and Cayenne); two are completely made up (Viagra and Accenture); and one (e-business) is a composite word made of a word and a letter that already exist. . . .These five words...