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Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-collar Workplaces (Paperback): Kellie Goncalves, Helen Kelly-Holmes Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-collar Workplaces (Paperback)
Kellie Goncalves, Helen Kelly-Holmes
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection brings together global perspectives which critically examine the ways in which language as a resource is used and managed in myriad ways in various blue-collar workplace settings in today's globalized economy. In focusing on blue-collar work environments, the book sheds further light on the informal processes through which top down language policies take place in different multilingual settings and the resultant asymmetrical power relations which emerge among employees and employers in such settings. Taking into account the latest debates on poststructuralist theories of language, the volume also extends its conceptualization of language to demonstrate the ways in which it extends to a wider range of multilingual and multimodal resources and communicative practices, all of which combine in unique and different ways toward constructing meaning in the workplace. The volume's unique focus on such workplaces also showcases domains of work which have generally until now been less visible within existing research on language in the workplace and the subsequent methodological challenges that arise from studying them. Integrating a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, along with empirical data from a diverse range of blue-collar workplaces, this book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in critical sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, and linguistic anthropology.

Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States - Waves of Change (Hardcover): Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States - Waves of Change (Hardcover)
Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* In the modern world of international communication and social media, identity has turned into a major issue as a result of globalization, displacement, growing power inequities, and internationalization of higher education. * The four parts-language and power, media representation of Gulf identities, identities in transition, and English-medium instruction and the intercultural nature of the Gulf classrooms-encompass central issues to identity research * From Instagram's #women2drive to coronavirus communication, the material is up-to-the-minute but this relevance and timeliness does not in any ways undermine the durability of interest in the topics of the book

Making Sense of the Intercultural - Finding DeCentred Threads (Paperback): Adrian Holliday, Sara Amadasi Making Sense of the Intercultural - Finding DeCentred Threads (Paperback)
Adrian Holliday, Sara Amadasi
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice. We therefore seek to draw attention to the following: How Centre structures and large culture boundaries are sources of prejudice How deCentred intercultural threads address prejudice by dissolving these boundaries How, in everyday small culture formation on the go, the cultural and the intercultural are observable and become indistinguishable How agency, personal and grand narratives, discourses, and positioning become visible in unexpected ways How we researchers also bring competing narratives in making sense of the intercultural How third spaces are discordant and uncomfortable places in which all of us must struggle to achieve interculturality This book is therefore a journey of discovery with each chapter building on the previous ones. While throughout there are particular empirical events (interviews, reconstructed ethnographic accounts and research diary entries) with their own detailed analyses and insights, they connect back to discussion in previous chapters.

Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times - Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity (Hardcover): Prue Holmes, John Corbett Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times - Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity (Hardcover)
Prue Holmes, John Corbett
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lends a critical decolonizing lens to intercultural communication research Brings together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural communication, dialogue, participation, and responsibility among young people in these settings and those who may be marginalised from them.

Cultural Learning Styles in Language Education - A Special Reference to Asian Learning Styles (Hardcover): Lynne N. Li Cultural Learning Styles in Language Education - A Special Reference to Asian Learning Styles (Hardcover)
Lynne N. Li
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* This book addresses the controversies connected with cultural learning styles head-on and brings this longstanding debate up-to-date with current research * Addresses preconceptions about language learning styles and culture in connection to language learning comprehensively by covering such topics as both teachers' and students' learning styles as well as major theories * Ideal for preservice EFL teachers, researchers and scholars, this book bridges the gap between research and practice on culture and language learning in the classroom.

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City - Postmodern Individuals in Urban Communicative Settings (Hardcover): Dick Smakman,... Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City - Postmodern Individuals in Urban Communicative Settings (Hardcover)
Dick Smakman, Jiri Nekvapil, Kapitolina Fedorova
R3,934 Discovery Miles 39 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of international travel and migration, the book accounts for the shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present themselves positively and meet their information and identity goals. While a speaker's experience runs like a thread through this volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out, language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed, the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field. It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.

A Sociolinguistic View of A Japanese Ethnic Church Community (Paperback): Tyler Barrett A Sociolinguistic View of A Japanese Ethnic Church Community (Paperback)
Tyler Barrett
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on sociolinguistic approaches, this book presents unique insights into a Japanese ethnic church community in Canada and the ways in which churches mediate issues of linguistic, cultural, and religious hybridity in addressing the needs of their diverse populations. The book integrates discourse analytic methods with ethnographic perspectives to explore the complex dynamics of negotiating their different members' preferred language practices. The volume outlines the ways in which ethnic churches in this community build themselves around intentionally preferred Japanese language practices but make accommodations for English-language speakers in their own families, in turn making further accommodations for ESL student speakers new to the country. Barrett explores the impact of church members' transcultural experiences in broader decisions around language planning and policy in these churches, shedding light on the distinct implications of hybrid identities on discourses in localized communities. // The volume will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and religious studies.

De-Gendering Gendered Occupations - Analysing Professional Discourse (Paperback): Joanne McDowell De-Gendering Gendered Occupations - Analysing Professional Discourse (Paperback)
Joanne McDowell
R1,237 Discovery Miles 12 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

De-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The volume integrates a range of theoretical frameworks, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, and interactional sociolinguistics, to analyse data from such professions as primary education, healthcare, and speech and language therapy across various geographic contexts. Through this lens, the first part of the book examines men's linguistic practices with the second part offering a comparative analysis of 'male' and 'female' discourse. The settings discussed here allow readers to gain insights into the ways in which cultural, professional, and gendered identity intersect for practitioners in these professions and in turn, future implications for discourse around gendered professions more generally. This book will be key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies, cultural studies, and professional discourse.

Multilingual Education in South Asia - At the Intersection of Policy and Practice (Hardcover): Lina Adinolfi, Usree... Multilingual Education in South Asia - At the Intersection of Policy and Practice (Hardcover)
Lina Adinolfi, Usree Bhattacharya, Prem Phyak
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spanning scholarly contributions from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, this edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the distinct challenges, approaches and possible solutions associated with interpreting, adapting and applying language-in-education policies in a range of linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia. Centring on-the-ground perspectives of scholars, practitioners, pupils, parents and the larger community, the volume offers new insights into one of the most complex, populous, and diverse multilingual educational contexts in the world. Language-in-education policies and practices within this setting represent particularly high stakes issues, playing a pivotal role in determining access to literacy, thereby forming a critical pivot in the reproduction of educational inequality. The broad aim of the collection is thus to highlight the pedagogical, practical, ideological and identity-related implications arising from current language-in-education policies in this region, with the aim of illustrating how systemic inequality is intertwined with such policies and their associated interpretations. Aimed at both academics and practitioners - whether researchers and students in the fields of education, linguistics, sociology, anthropology or South Asian studies, on the one hand, or language policy advisors, curriculum developers, teacher educators, teachers, and members of funding bodies, aid providers or NGOs, on the other - it is anticipated that the accounts in this volume will offer their readership opportunities to consider their wider implications and applications across other rich multilingual settings - be these local, regional, national or global.

The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education (Hardcover): Alessandra Molino, Slobodanka Dimova, Joyce Kling,... The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education (Hardcover)
Alessandra Molino, Slobodanka Dimova, Joyce Kling, Sanne Larsen
R4,065 Discovery Miles 40 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a state-of-the-art of EMI research in European higher education over the last twenty years Offers a comprehensive comparative analysis toward identifying gaps in our understanding of relevant theories, research, and practice. Brings together the authors' collective work on an annotated database of over 200 resources, featuring a range of publications of varying format, type, and language, as well as information on relevant research questions, methodologies, and findings.

Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts (Paperback): Alireza Korangy, Farzad Sharifian Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts (Paperback)
Alireza Korangy, Farzad Sharifian
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Korangy and Sharifian's groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever spoken, can be examined. Linguistics with cultural studies as its backdrop is not a new phenomenon; however, with this text we are afforded an insight into the complex relationship that exists between human cognizance and human expression in this ancient civilization. This study helps develop an innovative understanding of history, intent, and meaning as understood by a culture and by a people, in this case the Persian-speaking folk of Iran. The chapters are insightful resources for analyzing and augmenting our knowledge of linguistics under the rubric of Persian culture but also for proposing and foregrounding new ideas in this field of study.

Space and Language in Architectural Education - Catalysts and Tensions (Hardcover): Kasia Nawratek Space and Language in Architectural Education - Catalysts and Tensions (Hardcover)
Kasia Nawratek
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration. The realm of language, although not considered to be architects' natural environment, opens opportunities to further stretch and expand the architectural imagination and the set of tools used in the design process. When used in the context of architectural pedagogy, the exploration of the relationship between space and language opens the discussion further to include the reflection on the design studio structure, the learning process in creative subjects and the ethical dimension of architectural education. This book offers a glimpse into architectural pedagogies exploring the relationship between space and language, using literary methods and linguistic experiments. The examples discuss a wide range of approaches from international perspective, exploring opportunities and challenges of engaging literary methods and linguistic experiments in architectural education. The theme of Catalysts discusses the use of literary methods in architectural pedagogy, where literary texts are used to jumpstart and support the design process, resulting in deeply contextual approaches capable of subverting embedded hierarchies of the design studio. Tensions explore the gap between the world and its description, employing linguistic experiments and literary methods to enrich and expand the architectural vocabulary to include the experience of space in its infinite complexity. This book will be useful for innovators in architectural education and those seeking to expand their teaching practice to incorporate literary methods, and to creatives interested in making teaching a part of their practice. It may also appeal to students from design-based disciplines with an established design studio culture, demonstrating how to use narrative, poetry and literature to expand and feed your imagination.

Managing Multilingual Workplaces - Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives (Paperback): Sierk Horn, Philippe... Managing Multilingual Workplaces - Methodological, Empirical and Pedagogic Perspectives (Paperback)
Sierk Horn, Philippe Lecomte, Susanne Tietze
R1,242 Discovery Miles 12 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy. The existence of language plurality characterises these. Empirical studies have been established as important and relevant for contemporary research. It has shifted language-sensitive research from the periphery to the centre of international management research. However, this field is rapidly changing, and new thematic approaches have begun to emerge. By addressing this, the book offers genuine and more nuanced insights into existing themes and comes with applications of emergent conceptual developments in different settings. The second part of the book covers methodologies and gives examples and cutting-edge insights into the role of translation in the execution of empirical research and theorising arising from it. Finally, the book draws together innovative ways of how to address the challenges of a multilingual teaching classroom and how to innovate in order to incorporate such diversity through pedagogic practice. This book provides a source that unites insights from multilingual empirical research, methodological considerations and pedagogic practice in order to advance knowledge and debate. It will be a 'handy source' of information that offers direct access to the latest guidance on language-sensitive management challenges. It will, therefore, appeal to an internationally-minded and mobile audience, including scholars, students and decision-makers.

Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement - A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus... Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement - A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Emmaus (Paperback)
Maria Rosa Garrido Sarda
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emmaus movement transnational movement ideas in different socio-political, economic, historical and linguistic contexts. sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias (Hardcover): Jerry Won Lee The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias (Hardcover)
Jerry Won Lee
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume explores the social, cultural, and historical forms of "language" that have come to be associated with "Asia" as a global phenomenon and their implications for better understanding the contemporary linguistic and political landscape in Asias. The book examines the flows of migration, people, cultures, and language resources within, across, through, to, and from Asias in tandem with social, political, and ideological factors, drawing on case studies of global iterations of a wide range of Asian national and cultural imaginaries. In so doing, the volume builds on the growing body of scholarship on the sociolinguistics of globalization in its critical inquiries into the linguistic and cultural practices that have come to be constitutive of national or supranational localities toward unpacking the forces of globalization more broadly. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, linguistic anthropology, Asian Studies, and Asian American studies.

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN - Transformation of Language Habitats (Paperback): Azirah Hashim, Gerhard Leitner English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN - Transformation of Language Habitats (Paperback)
Azirah Hashim, Gerhard Leitner
R1,254 Discovery Miles 12 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This analysis includes the role and impact of American English in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical development, English used in specific domains, language policies and concludes with the future of English and future challenges. This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the transformation of entire language habitats, including the major national and regional languages that participate in this process. It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language contact, policy and planning.

Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia - The Politics of Language and Public Signage (Hardcover): Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia - The Politics of Language and Public Signage (Hardcover)
Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, the chapters explore how different individuals and collectivities use semiotic resources in different spaces - schools, airports, streets and shops as well as online platforms - to reinforce or contest existing social structures, bearing strong implications for language maintenance and cultural revitalization, construction of ethnolinguistic and national identities, and socioeconomic mobility. Part I looks into how globalization and its accompanying forces and influences - such as the importance of English in socioeconomic mobility - come into contact with local Asian cultures and languages. Part II examines minority languages, demographically and socio-politically established in the countries, shedding light on the role of LL that plays in both their minorization and revitalization processes. Part III investigates how LL is utilized as a site for constructing identities to pursue socioeconomic, political and cultural goals. It is within this perspective that the presence and salience of English in the LL of the countries along with the use of the Asian languages is analyzed and understood, shedding light on how Asian heritage languages and cultures are preserved and/or certain identities in the times of political unrest or economic development are expressed. This fascinating insight into linguistic landscapes in Asia will be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics anywhere in the world.

Spanish in Miami - Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Hardcover): Andrew Lynch Spanish in Miami - Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Hardcover)
Andrew Lynch
R4,077 Discovery Miles 40 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spanish in Miami reveals the multifaceted ways in which the language is ideologically rescaled and sociolinguistically reconfigured in this global city. This book approaches Miami's sociolinguistic situation from language ideological and critical cultural perspectives, combining extensive survey data with two decades of observations, interviews, and conversations with Spanish speakers from all sectors of the city. Tracing the advent of postmodernity in sociolinguistic terms, separate chapters analyze the changing ideological representation of Spanish in mass media during the late 20th century, its paradoxical (dis)continuity in the city's social life, the political and economic dimensions of the Miami/Havana divide, the boundaries of language through the perceptual lens of Anglicisms, and the potential of South Florida-as part of the Caribbean-to inform our understanding of the highly complex present and future of Spanish in the United States. Spanish in Miami will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of Spanish, Sociolinguistics, and Latino Studies.

Decolonizing Language Learning, Decolonizing Research - A Critical Ethnography Study in a Mexican University (Paperback):... Decolonizing Language Learning, Decolonizing Research - A Critical Ethnography Study in a Mexican University (Paperback)
Colette Despagne
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume explores the socio-political dynamics, historical forces, and unequal power relationships which mediate language ideologies in Mexican higher education settings, shedding light on the processes by which minority students learn new languages in postcolonial contexts. Drawing on data from a critical ethnographic case study of a Mexican university over several years, the book turns a critical lens on language learning autonomy and the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in postcolonial higher education settings, and advocates for an approach to the language learning and teaching process which takes into account minority language learners' cultural heritage and localized knowledge. Despagne also showcases this approach in the unique research methodology which underpins the data, integrating participatory methods such as Interpretative Focus Groups in an attempt to decolonize research by engaging and involving participants in the analysis of data. Highlighting the importance of critical approaches in encouraging the equitable treatment of diverse cultures and languages and the development of agency in minority language learners, this book will be key reading for researchers in sociolinguistics, educational linguistics, applied linguistics, ethnography of communication, and linguistic anthropology.

Scripting Japan - Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese (Paperback): Wesley C. Robertson Scripting Japan - Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese (Paperback)
Wesley C. Robertson
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions of how language variants influence interpretation of language acts/users have focused on variation in speech. But it is important to remember that specific ways of representing a language are also often perceived as linked to specific social actors. Nowhere is this fact more relevant than in written Japanese, where a complex history has created a situation where authors can represent any sentence element in three distinct scripts. This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways Japanese authors and their readers engage with this potential for script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices reflect social ideologies, become linked to language users, and influence the total meaning created by language acts. Throughout the text, analysis of data from multiple studies examines how Japanese language users' experiences with the script variation all around them influence how they engage with, produce, and understand both orthographic variation and major social divides, ultimately evidencing that even the avoidance of variation can become a socially significant act in Japan.

The Coherence of Linguistic Communities - Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning (Hardcover): Karen V. Beaman, Gregory R. Guy The Coherence of Linguistic Communities - Orderly Heterogeneity and Social Meaning (Hardcover)
Karen V. Beaman, Gregory R. Guy
R4,081 Discovery Miles 40 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume investigates such key themes as covariation and co-occurrence restrictions; indexicality, perception and social meaning; coherence and language change; and the structure and measurement of coherence at different levels of analysis.

The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants - East Asian Communities in Germany (Hardcover): Zi Wang The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants - East Asian Communities in Germany (Hardcover)
Zi Wang
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing. Zi Wang takes an innovative look at migration and wellbeing by examining the crucial role language - a quintessential part of the international migration experience - plays in migrants' wellbeing. Drawing on case studies from Chinese and Japanese-speaking communities in Germany, as well as secondary survey data on the general migrant population, Wang shows that proficiency in both host country and heritage languages is associated with robust enhancements of migrants' subjective wellbeing. He argues that acquisition of host country language and the preservation and promotion of heritage culture should not be portrayed as a zero-sum game by stakeholders in host societies. Instead, we ought to consider the unique experiences of migrants in order to fully comprehend the ways in which they experience, evaluate, and pursue happiness in a host society. Presenting a novel approach to the study of migrants' wellbeing, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of area studies, education, international migration, sociology of language, and wellbeing research.

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (Hardcover): Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander
R6,442 Discovery Miles 64 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field. The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists, inside and outside the academy. The first book of its kind, the handbook traces and documents the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation. This handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students studying rhetoric, communication, cultural studies, and queer studies.

Geordie-English Glossary (Paperback): Percy Douglas Geordie-English Glossary (Paperback)
Percy Douglas 2
R78 Discovery Miles 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Applying Anzalduan Frameworks to Understand Transnational Youth Identities - Bridging Culture, Language, and Schooling at the... Applying Anzalduan Frameworks to Understand Transnational Youth Identities - Bridging Culture, Language, and Schooling at the US-Mexican Border (Hardcover)
G. Sue Kasun, Irasema Mora-Pablo
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Framed by the theoretical work of Gloria Anzaldua, this volume focuses on the cultural and linguistic practices of Mexican-origin youth at the U.S. border to explore how young people engage in acts of "bridging" to develop rich, transnational identities. Using a wealth of empirical data gathered through interviews and observations, and featuring perspectives from multinational and transnational authors, this text highlights how youth resist racialized and raciolinguistic oppression in both formal and informal contexts by purposefully engaging with their heritage culture and language. In doing so, they defy deficit narratives and negotiate identities in the "in-between." As a whole, the volume engages issues of identity, language, and education, and offers a uniquely asset-based perspective on the complexities of transnational youth identity, demonstrating its value in educational and academic spaces in particular. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in the sociology of education, multicultural education, and youth culture more broadly. Those interested in language and identity studies, as well as adolescence, schooling, and bilingualism, will also benefit from this volume.

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