Language Studies category: 15171 books
Sociolinguistics
Theoretical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original...
African Cities
Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies....
Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture
Differential Equations
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.
The contributors...
Rhetorical Touch
Disability, Identification, Haptics
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds,...
«All Men and Women Are Created Equal»
Elizabeth Cady Stantons and Susan B. Anthonys Proverbial Rhetoric Promoting Womens Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Even a cursory glance at the letters, speeches, and essays of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) and Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) reveals that these two nineteenth-century feminists relied on Biblical and folk proverbs to make their relentless case for the equality of men and women before the...
by Andrew van der Vlies, Leon de Kock, Archie L. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives?historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as...
The Opinions of Mankind
Racial Issues, Press, and Progaganda in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
During the Cold War, the Soviets were quick to publicize any incident of racial hostility in the United States. Since violence by white Americans against minorities was the perfect foil to America’s claim to be defenders of freedom, news of these occurrences was exploited to full advantage by the...
Limiting Resources
Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...
Tasteful Domesticity
Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge...
by Steve Johnson, Graeme Roffe
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
An OCR endorsed textbook.
Association for Citizenship Teaching Quality Mark resource.
Encourage students of all abilities to develop an enthusiastic interest in contemporary UK society with knowledge-boosting activities and assessment support for the changed content and assessment criteria; produced...
by David Sheerin, Frank Cooney, Gary Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The complete resource for National 4 & 5 Modern Studies endorsed by SQA.
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies titles from Hodder Gibson provide up-to-date resources for the Natioanl 4 & 5 syllabus outlines offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for examination from 2014 onwards....
Videography
Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book provides an overview of the current state of video analysis, including the most recent developments in this rapidly growing field. It covers various methodological approaches. The authors address practical and technical questions and potential problems arising during the research process....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade, this volume provides a comprehensive representation...
Black Culture and Experience
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and political issues...