Language Studies category: 15171 books
Gourmands and Gluttons
The Rhetoric of Food Excess
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.
While...
by Richard Hoggart
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched...
Public Places
Sites of Political Communication
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book rhetorically and historically examines the contextual and experiential dimensions of a wide range of public places—from memorials to stadiums—that are rife with political implications. Fourteen public places ranging from the national to local, from 9/11 memorials to a baseball park are...
Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium
Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of...
Same-Sex Marriage and Children
A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A....
by Harry L. Simón Salazar
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
After seventeen years as dictator of Chile, in 1990 Augusto Pinochet ceremoniously handed the presidential sash to the leader of his legal opposition to formalize the peaceful transition to civilian rule in that country. Among the many idiosyncrasies of this extraordinary transfer of political power,...
Intercultural Communication & Ideology
SAGE Publications
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
"Taking on issues normally left in the margins, Intercultural Communication and Ideology revises the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds...
Driving Culture in Iran
Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Reza Banakar is Professor and Director of Research in the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. He has previously held the positions of Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal...
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights
How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it's that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns,...
Entertaining Politics
Satiric Television and Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's...
Durkheim and the Internet
On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological...
Culture and Technology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable...
Words at Work and Play
Three Decades in Family and Community Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Childhood and family life have changed significantly in recent decades. What is the nature of these changes? How have they affected the use of time, space, work and play? In what ways have they influenced face-to-face talk and the uses of technology within families and communities? Eminent anthropologist...
by Gillian Brown, George Yule
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1983
Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature...