Language Studies category: 15171 books
Digital Technology and Journalism
An International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This edited volume discusses the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding changes in journalism in the digital era. The chapters explore how technological innovations have transformed journalism and how an international comparative perspective can contribute to our understanding...
Speaking with Substance
Methods of Language and Materials in African History
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data. The introduction lays out the supplemental approach, situating it in the broader context of similar interdisciplinary research methods in other world regions....
Food and Language
Discourses and Foodways across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us?...
Celebrity Media Effects
The Persuasive Power of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
America is fascinated with celebrities—from chefs to athletes to television, movie, and rock stars, and even to people who are only famous for being famous. This book explores the effect of celebrity on Americans' public and private lives. The contributors examine how celebrities bring about change,...
by Andrew Strathern, Professor Pamela J. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on...
by Maurizio Ortolani, Roberto Spingardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2014
“Non è vero ma ci credo”
Il titolo, che vuole essere anche un omaggio al grande Peppino De Filippo, è tratto da una sua deliziosa commedia scritta nel 1942. La commedia rappresenta in maniera molto divertente “l’altra faccia” della scaramanzia, descrivendo avventure e disavventure del...
Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication
Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communication studies. The topics engaged in this collection of essays is necessarily diverse, with some of the figures discussed within often viewed as “minor” or ancillary...
City Son
Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case called Cooper vs. Power. In 1968, the courts agreed...
by Amanda Nell Edgar, Andre E. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. Exploring cultural influences...
Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement
Applications To Social Health Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
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Discourse, Culture and Organization
Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In doing so,...
Food Across Cultures
Linguistic Insights in Transcultural Tastes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either...
Social Skills
Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
What can we do to help those who struggle to develop effective social skills?
Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication is a definitive guide to understanding and meeting the needs of those who have difficulty with social skills. Written in a clear and accessible manner,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
This volume addresses the persistent and frequently toxic associations between masculinity and games. It explores many of the critical issues in contemporary studies of masculinity—including issues of fatherhood, homoeroticism, eSports, fan cultures, and militarism—and their intersections with...