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Fundamentals of the Persian Alphabet - Letters and Sounds (Paperback): Shahla Adel Fundamentals of the Persian Alphabet - Letters and Sounds (Paperback)
Shahla Adel
R1,118 Discovery Miles 11 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A complete introduction to the letters and sounds of Persian, the ideal starting point for anyone new to the Persian language wanting to build a strong foundation on which to develop their language skills. Video and audio support show learners how each letter is written and pronounced. Exercises throughout allow the student to learn the alphabet over the course of several weeks through rigorous practice, and provides the opportunity to internalize the alphabet.

The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback): Mona B. Livholts The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback)
Mona B. Livholts
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds. It critically and creatively examines how social work can be theorised, practised, and written in renewed ways through dialogical and transdisciplinary practices. This book is composed of eight essayistic spaces, envisioning social work through embodied, glocal, and earthly entanglements. By drawing on research-based knowledge, autobiographical notes, stories, poetry, photographs, and an art exhibition in social work education, these essays provide readers with analysis and strategies that are useful for research, education, and practice as well as life-long learning. The book constitutes key literature for researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists in social work, sociology, architecture, art and creative writing, feminist and postcolonial studies, human geography, and post-anthropocentric philosophy. It offers the readers sustainable ways to re-think and re-write social work towards a glocal- and post-anthropocentric more-than-human worldview.

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies - The Linguistic Construction of Certainty (Paperback): Chris Fitzgerald Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies - The Linguistic Construction of Certainty (Paperback)
Chris Fitzgerald
R1,091 Discovery Miles 10 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools Shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden Shows what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy - Speaking Truth to Power (Paperback): Richa Chilana, Rashi Bhargava Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy - Speaking Truth to Power (Paperback)
Richa Chilana, Rashi Bhargava
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from across the world who have raised pertinent issues regarding the role of stand-up comedy in contemporary times especially with increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. 2. It looks at the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand up comedy, as well as case studies of various forms of stand up comedy such as Finnish, Persian, Indonesian, Indian, etc. 3. It will be of interest to departments of media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology/anthropology, and English literature across the US and UK. IT will also appeal to proplr interested in performance and performance studies as it looks at the genre of stand-up comedy in the global context with chapters on Finnish, Australian, Persian and Indian stand-up comedy, to name a few.

Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Paperback): Naomi Gurevich,... Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Paperback)
Naomi Gurevich, Christopher Grindrod
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*Provides a foundational understanding of linguistics as it applies to spoken and signed languages. *Covers numerous linguistic disciplines such as phonetics, semantics and sociolinguistics. *Makes linguistic theory accessible to speech-language pathologists. *Highlights the importance of integrating linguistic frameworks into clinical decision-making.

From Subjection to Survival - The Artistry of American Women Writers (Paperback): Molly J. Freitas From Subjection to Survival - The Artistry of American Women Writers (Paperback)
Molly J. Freitas
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, Zitkala-Sa, Nella Larsen, and Helena Maria Viramontes), From Subjection to Survival establishes a genealogy of how women writers claim the power and possibility of visual art to make sense of their experiences. These writers write about women and feature female protagonists who engage with art as painters, writers, muses, or icons in the texts themselves. The texts are written visually to expose the fundamental substantiation of gender in art and the unavoidable aestheticization of women in daily life. As every text in this book makes clear, women can claim substantial power through art. Yet, aestheticization is not always positive. As a consequence of such negative possibilities, the artistic self-referentiality of all of the texts in From Subjection to Survival exposes a negotiated course between subjectivity and objectness which women experience when engaging with art. From Subjection to Survival studies this negotiated course to lay bare the difficult path of women's artistic and aesthetic experience, but ultimately to claim the power and the possibility of the visual arts for women.

Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages (Hardcover): Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages (Hardcover)
Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding
R4,349 Discovery Miles 43 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon's texts, investigating how, when, where and why these-especially his seminal Les Damnes de la Terre (1961) -were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author's works in both postcolonial studies and revolutionary movements in recent years, as well as travelling theory, micro-history and histoire croisee interests in Translation Studies, the volume tells the stories of translations of Fanon's texts into twelve different languages - Arabic, Danish, English, German, Italian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili and Swedish - bringing both a historical and multilingual perspective to the ways in which Fanon is cited today. With contributions from an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, the stories told combine themes of movement and place, personal networks and agency, politics and activism, archival research and textual analysis, creating a book that is a fresh and comprehensive volume on the translated works of Frantz Fanon and essential reading for scholars in translation studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, and African and African diaspora literature.

Translation and Public Policy - Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies (Hardcover): Reine Meylaerts, Gabriel Gonzalez... Translation and Public Policy - Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies (Hardcover)
Reine Meylaerts, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
R4,345 Discovery Miles 43 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely perspectives and case studies allow for the problematizing and exploration of translation policy, an area that is beginning to come to the attention of scholars. This book offers the first truly interdisciplinary approach to an area of study that is still in its infancy. It thus makes a timely and necessary contribution. As the 21st century marches on, authorities are more and more confronted with the reality of multilingual societies, and the monolingual state polices of yesteryear seem unable to satisfy increasing demands for more just societies. Precisely because of that, language policies of necessity must include choices about the use or non-use of translation at different levels. Thus, translation policy plays a prominent yet often unseen role in multilingual societies. This role is shaped by tensions and compromises that bear on the distribution of resources, choices about language, legal imperatives, and notions of justice. This book aims to inform scholars and policy makers alike regarding these issues.

Arts in Corrections - Thirty Years of Annotated Publications (Hardcover): Grady Hillman Arts in Corrections - Thirty Years of Annotated Publications (Hardcover)
Grady Hillman
R3,554 Discovery Miles 35 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Arts in Corrections, the author-a poet, translator and teacher-takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting US arts programs in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities. Anyone interested in corrections and arts-in-corrections will be drawn in by the poetic sensibility Hillman brings to his writing. Readers will gain a historical and personal perspective not only into correctional arts programming in the US over the last 40 years, but also the institutional transformations in policy, culture, populations, economics, and the criminological mission expansion into other institutional settings like K-12 education. Original essays, articles, monographs and poems are interspersed with recent annotations to deliver not only a top-down view of the correctional system but also the author's personal journey of "discouragement and hope" from work conducted in approximately 200 adult and juvenile facilities in 30 states and six countries. This comprehensive book is essential reading for a broad cross-section of international readers interested in and involved in the arts-in-corrections field. With two million individuals behind bars in the US at any given time, the profile of arts programs in prisons and jails is rising and interest in criminal-justice matters more generally is increasing. This includes not only arts-in-corrections professionals, policy makers, students, researchers, advocates and academics, but professionals in multiple other fields as well as the general public.

Feminist Translation Studies - Local and Transnational Perspectives (Hardcover): Olga Castro, Emek Ergun Feminist Translation Studies - Local and Transnational Perspectives (Hardcover)
Olga Castro, Emek Ergun
R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to local and transnational processes of feminist knowledge building and political activism. This collection does not pursue a narrow, fixed definition of feminism that is based solely on (Eurocentric or West-centric) gender politics-rather, Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives seeks to expand our understanding of feminist action not only to include feminist translation as resistance against multiple forms of domination, but also to rethink feminist translation through feminist theories and practices developed in different geohistorical and disciplinary contexts. In so doing, the collection expands the geopolitical, sociocultural and historical scope of the field from different disciplinary perspectives, pointing towards a more transnational, interdisciplinary and overtly political conceptualization of translation studies.

A Dictionary of Cliches (Hardcover): Eric Partridge A Dictionary of Cliches (Hardcover)
Eric Partridge
R3,484 Discovery Miles 34 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the cliches, venerability in every case.

Language - The Loaded Weapon - The use and abuse of language today (Hardcover): Dwight Bolinger Language - The Loaded Weapon - The use and abuse of language today (Hardcover)
Dwight Bolinger
R4,785 Discovery Miles 47 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Today there is a reawakening interest in how language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities and a running debate between the attackers and defenders of our schools. Our deepest problems all are entangled with it: What shall be the official speech of emerging nations like Zambia and the Philippines, or even in certain areas of established ones like Belgium and Canada? What kind of English should be taught, or should there be no standard at all? How is government to make its regulations understandable? What are the verbal persuasions of television doing to our children? Which way does information flow, what are its biases, when does it inform and when conceal, and who benefits? Are the people who consider themselves experts in these matters as expert as they pretend to be? We feel adrift in a sea of words, and would welcome and a chart and a compass. Language aEURO" The Loaded Weapon offers a glimpse of what the recent study of language is beginning to tell us about these things. It explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions of correctness, truth, class and dialect, manipulation through advertising and propaganda, sexual and other discrimination, official obfuscation and the maintenance of power, and aEURO" most pervasive of all aEURO" language as the vital agent with which we build our worlds. Explaining language has been Dwight BolingeraEURO (TM)s life work, and as his invigorating new book amply shows he believes that what is true and important can also be made clear and pleasurable.

Stories of Ourselves: Volume 1 - Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English (Paperback, New... Stories of Ourselves: Volume 1 - Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English (Paperback, New Ed)
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This series contains poetry and prose anthologies composed of writers from across the English-speaking world. Parts of Stories of Ourselves Volume 1 are set for study in Cambridge IGCSE (R), O Level and International AS & A Level Literature in English courses. Each short story in this collection has its own unique voice and point of view. They may differ in form, genre, style, tone and origin, but all have been chosen because of their wide appeal. Written in English by authors from different countries and cultures, the anthology includes works by Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, R.K Narayan, Janet Frame, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Annie Proulx and many others.

The Thiri Rama - Finding Ramayana in Myanmar (Hardcover): Dawn F. Rooney The Thiri Rama - Finding Ramayana in Myanmar (Hardcover)
Dawn F. Rooney
R3,940 Discovery Miles 39 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Thiri Rama - or the Great Rama - was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar, this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose. The volume also includes essays on the history and tradition of the Ramayana in Myanmar as well as the cultural context in which the play was performed. It contains many helpful resources, incorporating a glossary and a list of characters and their corresponding personae in Valmiki's Ramayana. With over 250 fascinating visuals and core text contributions by distinguished Burmese scholars, U Thaw Kaung, Tin Maung Kyi, and U Aung Thwin, this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian culture, literary forms, epics, art and art history, theatre and performance studies, religion, especially those concerned with Hinduism, as well as folklorists.

Edmund Spenser (Hardcover): Andrew Hadfield Edmund Spenser (Hardcover)
Andrew Hadfield
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work, from early literary experiments such as The Shepeardes Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work,The Fairie Queene. The introduction provides an overview of critical responses to Spenser, setting his work and the debates which it has generated in their perspective contexts: new historicist, post-structural, psychoanalytic and feminist. His study also covers the critical responses of leading British, Irish and American scholars.

Tennyson (Hardcover): Rebecca Stott Tennyson (Hardcover)
Rebecca Stott
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The Introduction discusses ways in which orthodox critical approaches have dominated readings of Tennyson's poetry and provides a critical overview of the radical reappraisal of his work. It also provides a guide to the varied ways in which these new debates have shaped and are shaping themselves, with a final discussion of the future directions which Tennyson criticism is likely to take. The essays chosen cover and reflect a range of modes of critical enquiry compelling in themselves.

English with an Accent - Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States (Paperback, 3rd edition): Rusty Barrett,... English with an Accent - Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, Kevin B. Mcgowan
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Controversial and accessible, this book is popular with lecturers and students alike as it enthuses and inspires engagement with pertinent and contemporary language discrimination issues. Features discussion questions and exercises which supports learning and engagement of students with the material covered. Supported with a companion website that features extra exercises, audio files and YouTube clips which provides an interactive experience for students and brings the material in the book alive.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning - Quantitative Methods and Outcomes (Paperback): Steven J. Ross, Megan C.... Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning - Quantitative Methods and Outcomes (Paperback)
Steven J. Ross, Megan C. Masters
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Features/Benefits o Provides a hands-on methodological guide and overview for understanding the data/results of longitudinal research in SLA/applied linguistics and for conducting one's own such studies, illustrating these methods with exemplary studies of language learning outcomes over a long term. o Original reportings of unique large-scale research studies offer the best one-stop shop for reading and understanding current quantitative longitudinal studies in language learning. o Appendices with data and pedagogical features make it useful for course use by instructors and students. * Demand/Audience o Meets the need for methodological clarity in collecting, managing/organizing, and analyzing quantitative longitudinal data on language learning by offering students and researchers of applied linguistics, testing, and education a practical guide to conducting this research along with unique exemplar studies. * Competition o The only book to focus on quantitative longitudinal data analysis specifically for an SLA/applied linguistics readership. One older book focuses on qualitative and other methods with a narrower focus, and no other book comes very close to doing what this book does.

Content Strategy - A How-to Guide (Paperback): Guiseppe Getto, Jack T. Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz Content Strategy - A How-to Guide (Paperback)
Guiseppe Getto, Jack T. Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz
R1,070 Discovery Miles 10 700 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

-A comprehensive text for students and professionals on an essential and emerging area of knowledge and skills for today's technical communication professions -Covers a growing area of focus for the field of technical communication, with relevance to digital marketing, social media publishing, and other professional fields -The first core textbook in this area designed to cover a full range of content strategy skills and practices

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development - A Guide for Research (Paperback): Philip Durrant Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development - A Guide for Research (Paperback)
Philip Durrant
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*Combines the author's own cutting edge research in writing development with a 'how to' guidebook approach, making it the complete package for students starting out in this area of research. *Cross-disciplinary market of students of both Education and Applied Linguistics in areas of Language Acquisition and Language and Literacy. Requires no background in Corpus Linguistics as it walks students through the basics. *The first book to combine research in this area with an activity-based approach- none of the competition demonstrates how to put theories and methods into practice like ours does.

Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education - International Students' Stories and Self-Reflection (Paperback):... Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education - International Students' Stories and Self-Reflection (Paperback)
Lily A Arasaratnam-Smith, Darla K. Deardorff
R1,205 Discovery Miles 12 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- This volume builds on the success of Deardorff's introductory Story Circles manual (see related titles) and uniquely applies this to individual experiences in higher education. - Strong author networks, and interest from the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence, the International Association of Intercultural Researchers (IAIR), STAR Scholars Network, and The Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). These associations have expressed a willingness to promote or offer the book at annual events. - Alongside international students and faculty, the volume may have some appeal amongst policymakers and professionals including IC trainers and counsellors. Deardorff's previous UNESCO-funded OA publication of the Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles, means there is already awareness of the approach amongst these professional groups.

Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Paperback, 3rd edition): Zoltan... Questionnaires in Second Language Research - Construction, Administration, and Processing (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Zoltan Doernyei, Jean-Marc Dewaele
R1,063 Discovery Miles 10 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This new edition is thoroughly updated to reflect developments in the field and with recent example studies that focus on considerations, challenges, and opportunities raised at all stages of the research process by online questionnaires. There is also expanded, detailed guidance on how to use the IRIS database and how to clean, process, and analyze questionnaire data prior to determining and reporting findings.

Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication (Paperback): Isabella Poggi, Francesca D. Errico Social Influence, Power, and Multimodal Communication (Paperback)
Isabella Poggi, Francesca D. Errico
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Examines fragments of real multimodal communication, which provides insights on the universal mechanisms and devices of power and social influence * Enhances the readers awareness of how people may use multimodal communication to achieve and maintain power, and of how, by their own body, they may influence others and defend themselves from their influence, making this essential reading for students and academics * Refers to a variety of contexts in which communication is used and adapted, including in everyday life, at work, at school, and in politics to show the similarities and differences in these environments

Why We Read (Paperback): Why We Read (Paperback)
R215 R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Save R45 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers. From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for her life; from Malcolm Gladwell on entering the minds of others to Michael Lewis on books as secret discoveries; and from Lea Ypi on the search for freedom to Slavoj Zizek on violent readings, each offers their own surprising perspective on the simple act of turning a page. The result is a celebration of seeing the world in new ways - and of having our minds changed.

Critical Genre Analysis - Investigating interdiscursive performance in professional practice (Hardcover): Vijay K. Bhatia Critical Genre Analysis - Investigating interdiscursive performance in professional practice (Hardcover)
Vijay K. Bhatia
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Genre theory has focused primarily on the analysis of generic constructs, with increasing attention to and emphasis on the contexts in which such genres are produced, interpreted, and used to achieve objectives, often giving the impression as if producing genres is an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. The result of this focus is that there has been very little attention paid to the ultimate outcomes of these genre-based discursive activities, which are more appropriately viewed as academic, institutional, organizational, and professional actions and practices, which are invariably non-discursive, though often achieved through discursive means. It was this objective in mind that the book develops an approach to a more critical and deeper understanding of interdiscursive professional voices and actions. Critical Genre Analysis as a theory of discursive performance is thus an attempt to be as objective as possible, rigorous in analytical endeavour, using a multiperspective and multidimensional methodological framework taking into account interdiscursive aspects of genre construction to make it increasingly explanatory to demystify discursive performance in a range of professional contexts.

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