Language Studies category: 15171 books
Voices of Resistance and Renewal
Indigenous Leadership in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies...
Short Cuts
A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers...
"To Remain an Indian"
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal—one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically...
The Latin American Story Finder
A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides (“...an invaluable...
Third World Studies
Theorizing Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power—notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The informative and wide-ranging essays in this second volume of Borgo Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, by authors from Britain, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Russia and Spain, look at intercultural communication in action--whether in television or the movies, in the press, on the internet, in...
Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
Media Literacy Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches on the representation...
Queer Media Images
LGBT Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....
Diversity Now
People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries!
Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides...
by Clara Fernández-Vara
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Game analysis allows us to understand games better, providing insight into the player-game relationship, the construction of the game, and its sociocultural relevance. As the field of game studies grows, videogame writing is evolving from the mere evaluation of gameplay, graphics, sound, and replayablity,...
Libraries, Telecentres, Cybercafes and Public Access to ICT
International Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Public venues are vital to information access across the globe, yet few formal studies exist of the complex ways people in developing countries use information technologies in public access places. Libraries, Telecentres, Cybercafes and Public Access to ICT: International Comparisons presents groundbreaking...
Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation
Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed...
by Ulrich Lins
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as an answer to a widespread...