Language Studies category: 15171 books
Teaching Actors
Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the Teaching Actors book, the author discusses a language for actor training and argues that there is a need to re-assess not only how actors should be trained but also how teachers of acting should be trained. In this book, the author represents several topics that relate to current training practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, educate,...
Deaf Gain
Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates...
Negotiating Languages
Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical...
Walt Kelly and Pogo
The Art of the Political Swamp
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly’s Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow’s radar. The strip’s satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections...
The Four Pillars of Politics
Why Some Candidates Don't Win and Others Can't Lead
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book—fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religion—serve as attitudinal anchors that American voters use in making their voting decisions. The dominant...
Free Speech on America's K–12 and College Campuses
Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Free Speech on America’s K–12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issues on K–12 and college campuses, mostly during the fifty-year period from 1965 through 2015. While this book deals mostly with high school and college...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory – as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe – through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics and a range of issues in contemporary media politics.
Human Rights
Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic...
Special Responsibilities
Global Problems and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are yet to provide any in-depth analysis...
An Apple A Day
Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting.
The university stands at the intersection of two sets of interests, needing to be at one with the world...
Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World
Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This in-depth exploration shows how despite positive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The book studies the current trends of foreign correspondence in Europe. The EU’s expansion has had abundant effects on news coverage and some of the European capitals have become home to the biggest international press corps in world. So, who are these "professional strangers" stationed...