Language Studies category: 15171 books
Scripts of Servitude
Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that...
by Janet M. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Spanish Speakers in the USA explores the relationship between language and culture both as specific to Latin@s and as a generalizable example of linguistic and cultural diversity. The concept of identity is explored, with special attention to culturally embedded ideas about 'race' and ethnicity, and...
Sustaining the Nation
The Making and Moving of Language and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies which have been implemented in these respective areas. The authors provide new data and reflections on these linguistic communities which have languages somewhere in between the majority...
Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Africana Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies. Correlating this book to research and writing in Africana Studies, helps to extend the perplexity, paradox, and parley of social science and humanistic research. This book attempts to answer, what is Africana Studies...
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection...
Born To Kvetch
Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution: they never...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, featuring contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Each chapter presents a brief historical summary of research in the field and discusses topics and issues of current concern to people doing...
Research Methods in Social Studies Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field. It is not a “how to” guide but an exploration of key issues related to the design and implementation of empirical studies. The authors are active...
Multicultural Education in South Korea
Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book examines the political, ideological, and socio-cultural politics underlying the 2009 National Multicultural Curriculum Reform and recent multicultural education policies in South Korea. Unlike the conservative groups in Western countries who argue that supporting cultural diversity and the...
Playing with Languages
Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety of factors affecting a diverse group of college...
Critical Humanities from India
Contexts, Issues, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution...
Esperanto and Its Rivals
The Struggle for an International Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global...