Language Studies category: 15171 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including...
The New Arab Journalist
Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the Arab World. Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of...
'Hang Onto These Words'
Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2005
In 1985 and 1986, ninety-year-old Witsuwit'en Chief, Maxlaxlex – or Johnny David as he is better known - was the first Witsuwit'en to give Commission Evidence in the Delgamuukw land claims case in which the Witsuwit'en and Gitxsan of Northern British Columbia were battling for title to their traditional...
Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History
(Re)making Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are struggling with the legacy of state terrorism left by the 1970s dictatorships. Coming to terms with...
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the "rhetorical secret" central to constructions...
by E. Glapka
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a ‘princess bride’ on her ‘big day’. Yet little has been written on how the ever-expanding wedding media and the popular wedding culture constructs gender and affects the ways women live and experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This edited collection brings together new research on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) with a focus on ideology, ethics and policy development. The contributions provide fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on the inconsistencies in translation and interpreting provision...
The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States
Wittgenstein, Social Construction, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Social Construction, Communication, and Christianity uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States. Sumser analyzes how Americans apply religious and secular reasoning to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling critiques on the opposition of the public and private spheres, chapters in this volume examine why some...
Asian Popular Culture
New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media, edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons, is an interdisciplinary study of popular culture practices in Asia, including regional and national studies in Japan, China, South Korea, and Australia. The contributors explore the evolution and...
From High School to College
Gender, Immigrant Generation, and Race-Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Today, over 75 percent of high school seniors aspire to graduate from college. However, only one-third of Americans hold a bachelor’s degree, and college graduation rates vary significantly by race/ethnicity and parental socioeconomic status. If most young adults aspire to obtain a college degree,...
Cruising the Library
Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families
Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a...