Language Studies category: 15171 books
The First Word
The Search for the Origins of Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language
The first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial, compelling new field. Acclaimed science...
by Mark David Ledbetter
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language and Globalization is a combination of my two interests, linguistics and history. Linguistics contains some intriguing hints about the entirety of the human journey, hints which have been confirmed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century by genetics. How do history, linguistics,...
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement...
Love Stories
Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were...
A Waxing Moon
The Modern Gaelic Revival
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Thirty years ago, the Gaelic language and culture which had been eminent in Scotland for 1,300 years seemed to be in the final stages of a 200-year terminal decline. The number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland had fallen tenfold over the previous century. The language itself was commonplace only in...
Gameworlds
Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual...
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School
A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. It makes a substantial contribution to research...
Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language
An Intercultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society.
The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are...
by Theo van den Hout
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible introductory course, which can be used in both trimester and semester systems, offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction...
by Maarten A. Hajer, Robert Hoppe, Bruce Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and argumentation and referring to such...
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice
An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization....
Chinese as a Second and Foreign Language Education
Pedagogy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This book presents key issues in the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language (TCSL or TCFL). It investigates how multimedia can help to assist TCSL/TCFL and explores practical effects of multimedia-assisted teaching at secondary schools in the Philippines. It addresses the psychology of...
Semiotics and Verbal Texts
How the News Media Construct a Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics. Envisaging whole news media representations as ‘signs’, and using the real-world example of the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis, the author demonstrates how business crises are constructed through...