Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Bronislaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This is volume II of “Coral Gardens and Their Magic”, dealing with Kilivila terms related to gardening and agriculture. Kilivila is the language spoken on the Trobriand islands, a group of islands off the east cost of New Guinea. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in anthropology...
Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?
The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award
Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head on, paying special attention to the...
The New Social Studies
People, Projects and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics, people and projects of the NSS is unfortunate...
Body Language: How to Develop Effective Nonverbal Communication Skills to Empower your Personal and Professional Life
Career Success, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
DISCOVER:: How to develop nonverbal communication skills to communicate better and make a positive impact in your personal and professional life!
When it comes to being successful at life, no matter what the task, those who typically come out on top aren't always the most charismatic, the wealthiest,...
A Radical History of Development Studies
Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In this book some of the leading thinkers in development studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period and its establishment during decolonization all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction. They present a critical genealogy...
The Language of Museum Communication
A Diachronic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release. The analysis is based on a corpus of press releases issued by eight high-profile British and American museums, and has been carried out adopting...
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.
The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts...
The Language of Journalism
Volume 1, Newspaper Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology, Melvin J. Lasky provides...
Language across Difference
Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Once a predominantly African-American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of...
Emerging from out of the Margins
Essays on Haida Language, Culture, and History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s focus on language – past, present,...
by David Crystal
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The rapid endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world is a matter of widespread concern, not only among linguists and anthropologists but among all concerned with issues of cultural identity in an increasingly globalized culture. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages...
Vanishing Voices
The Extinction of the World's Languages
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2000
Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the next century. Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine...
Q & Eh
Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Fascinating answers to quirky questions about languageWhy is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or...