Language Studies category: 15171 books
Networked Cancer
Affect, Narrative and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various...
A Transplanted Chicago
Race, Place and the Press in Iowa City
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book looks at the movement of urban American blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself. Pressing questions have plagued the community for decades: Why are people from Chicago coming here? Who gets to define community identity? Who...
Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland
Applied Studies in Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Given the centrality of economics and communication in the Occupy movement, Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland uses economic insights and contemporary theories of communication to better understand the movement at this current juncture in history. This collection is organized by complementary...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents....
Developing Dialogues
Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship. Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia, the authors argue that community radio and television...
by Linda S Katz
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Experts present proven methods and techniques for studying about or in Africa!
Research, Reference Services, and Resources for the Study of Africa helps you steer clear of washouts, cave-ins, and dead ends on the road to successful research on-or in-Africa. This one-of-a-kind research guide...
Communication and Discourse Theory
Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This volume gathers the work of the Brussels group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as theoretical backbone and analytical research perspective. The book seeks to show the value and applicability of discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) within the field of media...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This collection of essays presents a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
Whose News?
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media reinforce...
OK:The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every...
by R. K. Sprigg
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book is based on the Khapalu and Skardu dialects of Balti, a member of the Tibeto-Burman family, spoken in Baltistan. The work is distinguished by its phonetic acuity, particularly important in the case of Balti, whose importance to the Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan comparatists is its close...
Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English
Where Privilege Meets Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization....
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,...