Language Studies category: 15171 books
Multimodal Conduct in the Law
Language, Gesture and Materiality in Legal Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same sex marriage, to name a few, has shown the central role of written and oral forms of language in the construction of legal...
The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media
An Affective Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning.
The authors begin by setting out the established and recent research on social and existential media, affect and language, before focusing on...
by Liza Bakewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?
Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while !qué padre!...
Deaf Space in Adamorobe
An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha’s Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where everyone signed up until the 19th century. That community...
Multimodal Studies
Exploring Issues and Domains
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "across many disciplines...against the backdrop of considerable social change." Contemporary societies are grappling with the social implications of the rapid increase in sophistication and range of multimodal practices,...
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.
Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing...
How the Market Is Changing China's News
The Case of Xinhua News Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions:
How...
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for...
Slang
The People's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams...
Feminist Translation Studies
Local and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places,...
From Drag Queens to Leathermen
Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of...
by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging...
by Peter Cole, Tony Harcup
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Are newspapers faced with an existential threat or are they changing to meet the challenges of a digital world? With the newspaper's role in a state of fundamental redefinition, Newspaper Journalism offers a timely and up to the minute analysis of newspapers today, in the context of their historical...
by Antony Bateman, Sarah Casey Benyahia, Claire Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
AS & A2 Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA is a comprehensively updated new edition offering advice and guidance to help students pass AS and A2 Media Studies.
Written by a team of experienced teachers and examiners, the book offers clear and engaging pathways through all...