Language Studies category: 15171 books
(Mis)Understanding Political Participation
Digital Practices, New Forms of Participation and the Renewal of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
A comparative approach to media and communication research plays an important, if not indispensable, role in achieving a core mission of researchers: to delimit the generality and specificity of media and communication theories, enabling researchers to more readily identify the influence of social,...
Telephony, the Internet, and the Media
Selected Papers From the 1997 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), this volume begins with a historical survey of a quarter-century of TPRC meetings as one measure of change in and research about the telecommunications industry. Additional papers reflecting the ongoing...
by Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic situation in Zambia: who speaks which languages, where they are spoken, what these languages are like. Special emphasis is given to the extensive survey of the languages of the Kafue basin,...
Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media
American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women’s Online Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks—families, friends, etc.—in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration...
Media Competition and Coexistence
The Theory of the Niche
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
This volume considers how media firms, as well as entire industries, exist and persist over time despite what often seems to be intense competition for such resources as audiences and advertisers. Addressing competition within and among media organizations and industries, including broadcasting, cable,...
The Multilingual City
Vitality, Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the city has emerged as a key driver of the multilingual future, a concentration of different, changing cultures which somehow manage to create a new identity....
by Anamaria Berea
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This book integrates current advances in biology, economics of information and linguistics research through applications using agent-based modeling and social network analysis to develop scenarios of communication and language emergence in the social aspects of biological communications. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more...
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas
Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K–College
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As educators and legislators across the country debate how to improve public schools, the most vital factor often disappears from the equation—the relationship between the teacher and the student. According to veteran educators Rita and Marco Portales, this relationship is the central issue in the...
by Fawziya Al Araimi
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The book entitled Power of Human Resources showcases the growing importance and centrality of HR function from the perspective of modern firms. It highlights the changing face of modern HR from being merely considered as an administrative adjunct to evolving as a strategic business partner, an employee...
Crowdfunding the Future
Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few years. Crowdfunding the Future undertakes a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the...