Language Studies category: 15171 books
Appeals to Interest
Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these...
Faking the News
What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Donald J. Trump’s speaking and writing invite passionate reactions — maybe he’s a bluecollar, billionaire hero who speaks the language of the common man or maybe he’s a gleefully illiterate, tremendously unqualified idiot. Whatever the case, he was persuasive enough to get himself elected...
Chronotopes of Law
Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This book develops a new framework for analyzing the spatio-temporal workings of law and other forms of governance. Chronotopes of Law argues that studies of law and governance can be reinvigorated by drawing on a bundle of quite heterogenous analytical tools that do not have a single provenance or...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document...
Inventing English
A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This...
by Agnieszka Grzasko
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic change. The author subdivided...
Queer Ideas
The Kessler Lectures in Lesbian & Gay Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Exploring questions of sexuality and gender, this volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies and provides an essential introduction to this interdisciplinary field as well as the processes by which new-and queer-ideas are thought into being.The collection begins...
Language and Culture in EU Law
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidisciplinary perspectives on the vital role of language and culture as key forces shaping the dynamics of EU law. The broad spectrum of topics sheds light...
by Michael Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions...
Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across...
Risk, Power and the State
After Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power, the...
Schooling the National Imagination
Education, English, and the Indian Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
What is the nature of textbooks produced by a postcolonial society and how do they shape the national citizen? How do they define social roles in society, and influence the way people look at themselves and others? In what way do textbooks reflect the framing visions about societal change? By exploring...
The Reorder of Things
The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments...
Word
Beyond Language, Beyond Image
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Words are everywhere. Ubiquitous, pervasive. Yet our relations with words are narrowly defined. How does the sound, feel, touch, taste, place, position, speed, and direction of words come to matter in their uses?
Word begins from the premise that, if we consider words only in terms of language and...