Language Studies category: 15171 books
Five Chapters on Rhetoric
Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Michael Kochin’s radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence—to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of a mob.
Five...
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.
Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930...
Talking with the President
The Pragmatics of Presidential Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language. Pragmatics is concerned with "meaning in context," or the relationship between what we say and what we mean. John Wilson explores the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used language within specific social contexts to achieve...
Translating Women
Different Voices and New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles from Morocco, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, China,...
by Gary L. Kreps, Allan D. Peterkin, Karina Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions about health care disparities and insurance reform. The perspectives and needs of LGBT people should...
Language and Mobility
Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia,...
by Kathy Bussert-Webb, María Eugenia Díaz, Krystal A. Yanez
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Justice and Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community provides a detailed analysis of colonias along the Mexico–United States border, examining the intersection of culture, education, language, literacy, race, religion, and social class in Latino immigrant communities. The researchers investigated...
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media
Diasporic Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture. Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes...
Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography,...
Pirate Modernity
Delhi's Media Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is...
Sexual Teens, Sexual Media
Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly, including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, standards...
by Elisabeth El Refaie
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way...
New Perspectives on Irish TV Series
Identity and Nostalgia on the Small Screen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Within the growing field of television studies, little work has yet been done on the Irish context. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering new and compelling studies of contemporary Irish TV series. Fictional TV series, which constitute an autonomous genre within the broader cultural phenomenon...
by la paperson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary...