Language Studies category: 15171 books
Black Queer Identity Matrix
Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This volume launches the first sustained discussion of the need for a queer of color conceptual framework around Black, lesbian female identity. Specifically, this volume addresses the necessity for a more integrated framework within queer studies, in which the variables of race/ethnicity are taken...
Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television
The New Sapphire
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial...
Provocateur
Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertising. Though we often hear that we live in a period of unprecedented gender and racial equality, both racism and sexism persist in a most telling area—the ads with which...
The Discourse of Special Populations
Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The term "special population" occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others, individuals...
by Judith Van Evra
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Television continues to play a major role in the lives of most children and adolescents, but current research also reflects the explosive growth in new technologies and their widespread use by young people. Integrating information from communication literature as well as from child development and...
Literacy as Gendered Discourse
Engaging the Voices of Women in Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This volume continues IAP’s dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences. It is an edited and refereed collection and part of the larger body of scholarly publications associated with professional organizations...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Communication Yearbook 31 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents...
Xenolinguistics
Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Are language and consciousness co-evolving? Can psychedelic experience cast light on this topic? In the Western world, we stand at the dawn of the psychedelic age with advances in neuroscience; a proliferation of new psychoactive substances, both legal and illegal; the anthropology of ayahuasca use;...
Education, Translation and Global Market Pressures
Curriculum Design in China and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts. It provides an in-depth look at six selected case studies, critically analysing how social,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). Through a critical examination of LPP, the Handbook offers new direction for a field in theoretical and methodological turmoil as a result of the socio-economic, institutional, and discursive processes...
Citizens at the Gates
Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R. Barnard analyzes Twitter’s role in the transformation of American journalism. As the work of media professionals grows increasingly hybrid, Twitter has become an essential space where information is shared, reporting methods...
Constructing Crime
Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
by Alethea Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains a detailed and fascinating treatise on language, with a specific focus on the birth, evolution and development of the English language. Highly accessible and full of interesting information, "The Romance of Language" constitutes a must-have for students of linguistics and...
African Americans and Mass Media
A Case for Diversity in Media Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
In African Americans and Mass Media, Richard T. Craig explores the relationship among the lack of media ownership diversity, in addition to the political, and economical, influences, and policy developments influencing media ownership. Craig also addresses the concern of growing media monopolies and...