Language Studies category: 15171 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This volume provides an exploration of the manifold ways pedagogy is enacted in cultural studies practice. Pedagogy in the book comes to stand as far more than simply the "art of teaching"; contributors explore how pedagogy defines and shapes their practice as cultural studies scholars. Chapters variously...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native...
by Charles P. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social justice. By challenging traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene does just that in this book. Exploring the many different...
by Prof. Graham Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In the age of globalization and the changing welfare state, community relations are now more important than ever. What are Community Studies? gives an overview of the community studies field, with particular focus on the research methods used, and how they have evolved in recent years. Defining the...
Ideology in Language Use
Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world's leading pragmatists, introduces...
Native-Speakerism in Japan
Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. Existing work has tended to focus upon the position of non-native teachers...
Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts
Truth, Love, Hate and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
'Ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key...
Keeping Languages Alive
Documentation, Pedagogy and Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Many of the world's languages have diminishing numbers of speakers and are in danger of falling silent. Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep these languages alive. Mindful that their work will be used by future speech communities...
Beyond Words
Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In Beyond Words, Steven Connor seeks to understand spoken human language outside words, a realm that encompasses the sounds we make that bring depth, meaning, and confusion to communication. Plunging into the connotations and uses associated with particular groups of vocal utterances—the guttural,...
Language Investment and Employability
The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services. Drawing on extensive ethnographical research carried out in Regional Employment Offices in Switzerland, the authors follow the stories of various job seekers....
Between the Andes and the Amazon
Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Why can’t a Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open an analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern and western, highland and lowland Bolivia. Through an exploration of categories such as political affiliation, ethnic identity, style of dress, and...
International Development Studies
Theories and Methods in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
'A sure-footed and self-confident book, ambitious in scope, authoritative in execution and practical in its implications' - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London
'At last, a development studies text that encourages self-reflection from within the discipline. Highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of articles defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level and using the critical and intersectional lens encompassing the field. The emergence of Deaf Studies programs at colleges and universities and the broadened...