Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Miranda Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Exam Board: Cambridge
Level: KS4
Subject: Vocational
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2018
Help students build knowledge and prepare for assessment with this essential classroom resource - the only textbook for the Cambridge National Level 1/2 Certificate in Child Development.
Using...
by Robert Murphy, John Jefferies, Josie Gadsby
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Expand your students' political thinking and put global politics into context with this brand new textbook; created for the 2017 politics specifications.
Combining up-to date commentary and analysis with case studies and features, this textbook will help develop an understanding of politics...
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
Chronicles of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic...
Fractured Fandoms
Contentious Communication in Fan Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system. At times, however, being a fan becomes problematic, especially when clashes with other fans occur...
The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Politics and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
The appointment of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa in 1994 signalled the end of apartheid and transition to a new democratic constitution. This book studies discursive trends during the first twenty years of the new democracy, outlining the highlights and challenges of transforming policy,...
Law and Childhood Studies
Current Legal Issues Volume 14
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought....
Computer Games and New Media Cultures
A Handbook of Digital Games Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research...
Racism and Cultural Studies
Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically...
Making Feminist Media
Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking...
by Marcin Kudla
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The author studies ethnic stereotypes in the history of English from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. He views an ethnic stereotype as an idealised cognitive model (ICM) which consists of a cluster of metonymic submodels (such as BODY, CUISINE, NAME, etc.). Each submodel may trigger the formation...
The School of Oriental and African Studies
Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would...
by Karen Robson, David Pevalin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Have you been told you need to do multilevel modeling, but you can't get past the forest of equations? Do you need the techniques explained with words and practical examples so they make sense?
Help is here! This book unpacks these statistical techniques in easy-to-understand language with...
Assisted Dying
Who Makes the Final Decision
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The latest developments in the arguments for and against assisted dying, with a foreword by Terry Pratchett
Assisted dying is perhaps one of the most divisive issues of the modern age, generating endless headlines and moral debates. Published in conjunction with the organization Dignity in...
by Kristin K. Winet, Abby L. Wilkerson, Winona Landis
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives.
Contributors...