Language Studies category: 15171 books
Hate Narratives
Language as a Tool of Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Hate Narratives examines the limits of free speech and focuses on the role of language in creating images of reality, and on language’s power to build social relationships based on hatred. The study provides an analysis of language used in totalitarian systems, along with a particular kind of narrative...
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.
The Language of Money and Debt
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour. It documents and critiques this language from an array of disciplinary perspectives, with chapters on children’s books, government infomercials, television poverty porn, the emotional...
NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016
Organizing for Safety and Security in Military Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
NL ARMS 2016 offers a collection of studies on the interrelatedness of safety and security in military organizations so as to anticipate or even prepare for dire situations. The volume contains a wide spectrum of contributions on organizing for safety and security in a military context that are theoretically...
The Politics of Women's Studies
Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
The true stories of those bold women who espoused feminism in the world of academia and forever changed our educational system and culture.
In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women—students, faculty, administrators, members...
Interactional Linguistics
Studying Language in Social Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and...
Going Performative in Intercultural Education
International Contexts, Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Over the last two decades drama pedagogy has helped to lay the foundations for a new teaching and learning culture, one that accentuates physicality and centres on performative experience. Signs of this ‘performative turn’ in education are especially strong in the field of foreign/second language...
English in Medical Education
An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. In both fields, there have been methodological shifts towards 'task-based' and 'problem-based learning'. In addition, both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural...
by Sanjeev Rai
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book presents an overview of the democracy movement and the history of education in Nepal. It shows how schools became the battleground for the state and the Maoists as well as captures emerging trends in the field, challenges for the state and negotiations with political commitments. It looks...
Leadership in Agriculture
Case Studies for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
In a world facing chronic and increasing shortages in food crops and natural resources, visionary leadership in agriculture becomes more and more critical for building and maintaining a sustainable future. It is of paramount importance that the dynamic and challenging evolution in agriculture over...
A Study of the Kanuri Language
Grammar and Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Originally published in 1937, this book is a practical manual of Kanuri which will be of use to both the layman and the linguist. This analysis makes it clear that kanuri is a tone-language and the author urges the reader to observe the tone-system of the language so that the accidence can be fully...
by Chris Myrski
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This is the Introduction
I think some introductory remarks are necessary here because this is not a book but a folder with quite motley materials, and they are surely not fiction, and the name is not only “Feast” but also PIR. About the name it is easy, the initials PIR in Russian — and I usually...
A Grammar of Zoulei, Southwest China
Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in China’s Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dialect of the highly diverse Gelao group within the Tai-Kadai language family. Zoulei is a typical isolating and analytic language, basically monosyllabic,...
Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship
Rights, Access, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors...