Language Studies category: 15171 books
Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children
The Grammar of Upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2019
This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary ‘parenting’ culture. Hodgson and Ramaekers use film in...
Dimensions of Justice
English Teachers' Perspectives on Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Teacher leaders are practicing researchers. They constantly investigate and reflect on innovative strategies for student success. During a season of drastic change in Durham, North Carolina, public school teachers were forced to reconceptualize the curriculum. Two separate and unequal school districts...
African Languages/Langues Africaines
Volume 2 1976
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Volume 2 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1976, 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 an early...
African-Language Literatures
Perspectives On Isizulu Fiction And Popular Black Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral and...
The Buddhist Sects of Japan
Their History, Philosophical Doctrines and Sanctuaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The philosophy of Buddhism, originating in India, has undergone considerable changes in its adoption in the Far East. It has, in Japan, assumed a more practical aspect, and has come to play an important role in the everyday life of action. But in this process Japanese Buddhism has split itself into...
Networking Arguments
Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Networking Arguments presents an original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally,...
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics
A Syntactic, Semantic and Stylistic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces. It provides a comprehensive...
Wellness Beyond Words
Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health practitioners come from dissimilar cultures and speak different languages. Responding to the need for in-depth ethnographic studies in cultural and communicative...
Treating Sex Offenders
A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Gain important new insights into religious personnel who molest children!
Treating Sex Offenders: A Guide to Clinical Practice with Adults, Clerics, Children, and Adolescents, Second Edition updates the groundbreaking original with new material that integrates adolescent and adult sex offenders,...
Atravesando Fronteras
Un Periodista en Busca de Su Lugar en el Mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Nuestra ""casa"", más que un lugar físico, es un conjunto de recuredos que nos permite comprender mejor quienes éramos, quienes somos, y puede ayudarnos a comprender quienes seremos. Ese sentido de pertenencia es el que nos define. Algunos dejan su ""casa"",...
Media and Translation
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those who believe that so much has been published in this field that any further publications are superfluous. But if one views media and translation as anything ranging from film and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging...
Digital Audiobooks
New Media, Users, and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Audiobooks are rapidly gaining popularity with widely accessible digital downloading and streaming services. This book engages with the digital form of audiobooks, framing audiobook listening as both a remediation of literature and an everyday activity that creates new reading experiences that can...
The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb
A Minimalist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program.