Language Studies category: 15171 books
Language, Culture, and Education
Challenges of Diversity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Exploring language, culture and education among immigrants in the United States, this volume discusses the range of experiences in raising children with more than one language in major ethno-linguistic groups in New York. Research and practice from the fields of speech-language pathology, bilingual...
by Eduardo Faingold
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
This book analyzes the language policies that result from the promulgation of linguistic rights in the constitutions and statutes of the United States and its territories. The United States is a nation in which speakers of minority languages were conquered or incorporated and the languages spoken...
Because Internet
Understanding the New Rules of Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer
“Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too
Because Internet is for...
Flirting with French
How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“A delightful and courageous tale and a romping good read. Voila!” —Mark Greenside, author of I’ll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)
William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There’s one small obstacle though: he doesn’t speak la langue française....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology,...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
by Eoin Devereux
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers."
- Chindu Sreedharan, Bournemouth University
"Has...
by Roberto Schaefer, Lindsay Coleman, Ceri Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices....
by Frans Mayra
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research.
Key...
Transgender Communication Studies
Histories, Trends, and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...
Raciolinguistics
How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed...
Language in Late Capitalism
Pride and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific...
Mediated Girlhoods
New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls’ media representations, girls’ media consumption, and girls’ media production. In an attempt to push research on girls’ media culture...
Critical Essays
Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States. Critical Essays challenges the marginalization and tokenization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing exclusively on...