Language Studies category: 15171 books
Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism
Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic...
by Sabrina Billings
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers...
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain a better understanding of the past and cultures of Slavic and East European peoples with American archival collections!
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States, the first collection of its kind, offers perspectives from leading Slavic librarians, archivists...
Keywords for Radicals
The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End Times
Keywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain...
Recoding World Literature
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries,...
Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep...
Airborne Dreams
“Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In 1955 Pan American World Airways began recruiting Japanese American women to work as stewardesses on its Tokyo-bound flights and eventually its round-the-world flights as well. Based in Honolulu, these women were informally known as Pan Am’s “Nisei”—second-generation Japanese Americans—even...
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
Language and Masculinities
Performances, Intersections, Dislocations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof’s 1997 volume. Overall, the chapters are linked together by a critical analytical perspective...
South Asian in the Mid-South
Migrations of Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Winner of the 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies,...
by Paul Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an important...
Signs of Cherokee Culture
Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in...
Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes...
by Vendryes
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.