Language Studies category: 15171 books
Meeting the Language Challenges of NATO Operations
Policy, Practice and Professionalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local people was essential to the success of the missions. This book explains how the Alliance responded to this challenge so as to ensure that the missions did not fail through lack of understanding.
Textual Travels
Theory and Practice of Translation in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation...
Mean Green
Nation Building in the National Border Patrol Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life along the border through the...
Public Diplomacy
European and Latin American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Public diplomacy is a diplomatic and international communication activity aimed at foreign publics and seeking to create a positive image and/or political influence, contributing to the achievement of foreign policy goals.
On June 9th, 2015, public diplomacy scholars and practitioners coming from...
Migrant Communication Enterprises
Regimentation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative...
The "M" in CITAMS@30
Media Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume is the second of a two-part series that celebrates the section’s 30th anniversary. Casey Brienza leads the second of the two volumes - *The M in CITAMS@30:...
by Carol Dyhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But...
Tuscan and Etruscan
The problem of linguistic substratum influence in central Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the 'foreign accent'...
Research Methods for Environmental Studies
A Social Science Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence.
Written specifically for social...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2018
Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what...
Inside the Antisemitic Mind
The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society. This innovative empirical study examines written...
Multiplatform Media in Mexico
Growth and Change Since 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Multiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet in Mexico over the last decade, fields that combine to be called multiplatform media. Combining industrial analysis of a major audiovisual field at a time of growth and...
An Improper Profession
Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted...
Doing Discourse Research
An Introduction for Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The...