Language Studies category: 15171 books
by Nancy Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An essential "how-to" book for youth services librarians who are interested in effecting social change and offering a dynamic, relevant program for girls.
• Presents complete, low-cost program instructions and recommended resources for librarians who want to offer relevant and dynamic...
by Michael L. Hilt, Jeremy H. Lipschultz
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
As the oldest members of the baby boomer generation head into their retirement years, this demographic shift is having a substantial influence on uses of mass media, as well as the images portrayed in these media. Mass Media, An Aging Population, and the Baby Boomers provides a comprehensive examination...
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the...
by Marouf Hasian Jr., Sean Lawson, Megan D. McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the...
Revue des Deux Mondes juin 2016
Femmes, islam et République
Language: French
Release Date: May 24, 2016
→ Dossier : Les femmes, l’islam et la République
Élisabeth Badinter : « La gauche n’a jamais été aussi soumise aux injonctions religieuses... »
Grande figure du féminisme universaliste, Élisabeth Badinter retrace l’histoire des femmes depuis la Révolution française jusqu’à l’émergence...
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery
Small Languages in New Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked...
Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty-first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created by the educational system. Schools will be expected to prepare young men and women for national as well as global citizenship. Male and female citizens...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This work examines spoken language as a field of study, looking at the various ways in which we can both theorize the place of talk in education, and examine the way talk is actually done in educational settings. It brings quite different and important perspectives to the study of education. It is...
by Dianne Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of African culture, proverbs have been passed on in the oral tradition so it's rare to find such a treasure...
Gonzo Text
Disentangling Meaning in Hunter S. Thompsons Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Hunter Thompson’s writing is widely read and studied, yet as a methodology and body of work his Gonzo journalism has not been the subject of much critical or theoretical examination. This book fills the gap by constructing a coherent theoretical framework around Gonzo journalism.
Drawing on theories...
The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation
From Fornicators to Family, 1600–2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This book has three key aims: first, to show how the legal treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth; second, to chart how the language used to refer to...
Liberation in Print
Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows...
Monsters in the Classroom
Essays on Teaching What Scares Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses. The contributors discuss the implications of inviting fearsome creatures...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
This book comprises contributions by leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law on the subject of the categorisation or classification of armed conflict. It is divided into two sections: the first aims to provide the reader with a sound understanding of the legal questions surrounding...