Language Studies category: 15171 books
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric
Selected Papers From the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's The Prospect of Rhetoric. In so doing, the conference gave scholars and teachers in various disciplines from all over the country the opportunity to talk about...
Behold the Proverbs of a People
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies)...
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed study of two...
Nihongi
Chronicles of Japan From the Earliest Times to A D 697
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The Nihongi is the standard native history of Ancient Japan. This volume, originally published in 1896 and now of classic status makes accessible to European scholars the extensive store of material for the study of mythology, folk-lore, early civilization and manners and customs which it contains.
by Lilly Metom
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
This book explains the emotion concepts of the Ibans, one of the indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is an outcome of a research study, which aims to analyse the Iban emotion concepts utilizing Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), an analytical tool developed by Anna Wierzbicka (1991), and...
by Norman Fairclough
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization....
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling English Language Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants and Shaggy Dogs & Black Sheep
How To Speak English Like a Native
The English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world. One of the reasons for this...
The Radio Drama Handbook
Audio Drama in Context and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Radio Drama Handbook combines both theory and practice to lead, stepwise, to a full understanding of radio drama form. Broken down into two large sections, the first gives the reader an overview of English language radio drama in the US and UK and explains a variety of approaches to how radio...
The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Implications for American Democracy and the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives...
Brazil
Media from the Country of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled...
by Arthur Herzog
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Fakery and Hypocrisy in American communications are the subjects of this outspoken and hilarious book. Uncovering our thought - polution problem for perhaps the first tiem. Arthur Herzog exposes Executalk, (Name of the game" for Point or Purpose, "ball-park estimate" for rough guess. ) Quote Facts...
Linguistic Ethnography
Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.
The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop...
by S. Masocha
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It illustrates how, through their discursive practices, social workers are able to counteract the dominant anti asylum seeking discourses.