Language Studies category: 15171 books
Culture, Development and Social Theory
Towards an Integrated Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Looking across different international experiences – from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging...
The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic
All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and...
by Grant Walsh-Haines, Marla J. Jarmer, Kevin R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Issue framing is the way that people, especially politicians, get other people to view a particular problem or issue. By framing the issue in a particular way, the goal is to get people to think about the issue, to believe that an action is required and, most importantly, to believe that a particular...
Bible Translation Basics
Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speaker’s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs...
On Language, Democracy, and Social Justice
Noam Chomskys Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically...
Buying and Clearing Rights
Print, Broadcast and Multimedia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Buying and Clearing Rights is the first work to consider the difficulties of rights clearances in all forms of media. It offers practical advice on how to plan, clear and pay for rights. Covering such areas as co-production and the co-financing of contracts, multimedia, text, pictures, footage, software,...
Essay To Write? 2nd Edition
Make It Good, Make It Easy, Make It Fun!
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Whether you are studying to graduate high-school or university, whatever the major, you need to get your essays right. This book will ensure that your essay flows smoothly from the introduction to that all-important conclusion.
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters. The Fanfiction Reader showcases...
Understanding Communication Theory
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal...
The Elements of Academic Style
Writing for the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and...
by Michael Wilcockson, Susan Grenfell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Exam Board: ISEB
Level: 13+
Subject: Religious Studies
First Teaching: September 2012
First Exam: Summer 2013
This book contains over 900 exam-style questions based on Syllabus A of the 13+ ISEB Common Entrance exam; it is ideal for pupils who are looking to achieve top grades in entrance exams...
by Mike Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Exam board: AQA
Level: GCSE
Subject: Citizenship Studies
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Target success in AQA GCSE Citizenship Studies with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips...