Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Jared Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush’s 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama’s 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues...
Social Media and Social Movements
The Transformation of Communication Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural...
The Diversity Paradox
Seeking Community in an Intercultural Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In recent years, a sense of community has declined throughout the United States. This trend is especially evident among younger generations, whether measured by civic participation, political involvement, or religious affiliation. Central Community Church—an intercultural congregation located in...
Race News
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage...
European Studies in Asia
Contours of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary...
The Man Between
Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
When Michael Henry Heim-one of the most respected translators of his generation-passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus,...
by Jason Edward Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government...
Language and State
A Theory of the Progress of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Is the state formed because of a natural course, the making of a social contract, initial conquest, the self-defense of the community or the formation of a class society? This book eloquently argues that the state is not simply formed in one way. It contends that the state is formed because of language....
African Languages/Langues Africaines
Volume 4 1978
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Volume 4 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1978, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on lexical...
African Languages/Langues Africaines
Volume 1 1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on African...
Language as Hermeneutic
A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language in all its modes—oral, written, print, electronic—claims the central role in Walter J. Ong’s acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s...
Teen Talk
The Language of Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of adolescents'...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can...