Language Studies category: 15171 books
LGBT People and the UK Cultural Sector
The Response of Libraries, Museums, Archives and Heritage since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This book examines the complex and conflicting relationships between LGBT people and our cultural and heritage organisations including libraries, museums and archives. In this unique book established author John Vincent draws together current good practice, and also highlights issues which urgently...
A Journey into Women's Studies
Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The present book is a journey of many women across the world who have struggled to give women's studies visibility. Drawing upon the contributors' diverse experiences and concerns, it explores the metamorphosis of women's studies from the early days to date.
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Media and Terrorism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
"This is an excellent source which puts students in the heart of the contemporary discussion and encourages them to form opinions. It is a great resource for seminars as well as gateways to research."
- Paul Matthews, University College Birmingham
"An excellent text that covers...
State Violence and the Execution of Law
Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the...
by Francois Debrix
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international...
Reporting Dangerously
Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
More journalists are being killed, attacked and intimidated than at any time in history. Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security examines the statistics and looks at the trends in journalist killings and intimidation around the world. It identifies what factors have led...
Complete New Testament Greek
A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding New Testament Greek with Original Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Do you want to be able to read New Testament Greek with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Carefully structured units teach Greek from the New Testament right from the start, and topics of interest for New...
Changing Minds or Changing Channels?
Partisan News in an Age of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for...
Talking Back to Globalization
Texts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Globalization is one of the most widely circulated, high-stakes buzzwords of the past generation; yet discussion of the topic is often encased in paradox and contention over what globalization is, to whom and where it may (or may not) apply, and to what effect. In Talking Back to Globalization: Texts...
by Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This anthology offers a refreshing and novel look at the linguistic and cultural practices of Caribbean societies, from the perspective of leading Caribbean scholars.
Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse
Inquisitorial and Adversarial Procedures of Witness Examination in Criminal Trials
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse brings together the fields of discourse analysis and socio-legal studies to identify, illustrate and explain the cross-cultural similarities and disparities between the inquisitorial and adversarial procedures of witness examination in criminal trials.
Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion
Feelings, Affect and Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries.
by B. Craig
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space.