Workforce diversity refers to a strategy that promotes and supports the integration of human diversity at all levels and uses focused diversity and inclusion policies and practices to guide this approach in work environments. While this concept is not new, publications outlining the programming, curriculum, and degree demands that should exist in universities to promote workforce diversity skill development are missing. Developing Workforce Diversity Programs, Curriculum, and Degrees in Higher Education presents conceptual and research-based perspectives on course, program, and degree developments that emphasize workforce diversity skill development and prepare next-generation leaders for the modern and emerging workforce. Highlighting crucial topics relating to career development, human resources management, organizational leadership, and business education, this edited volume is a ground-breaking resource for business professionals, scholars, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, and upper-level students working, studying, and seeking to advance workforce diversity learning across a variety of sectors.

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

Morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being partly dependent on cognitive pathways for processing, storage and generalization of word structure, and vice versa. Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the relationship between linguistic cognition and the morphological diversity found in the world's languages. It includes research from across linguistic and cognitive science sub-disciplines that looks at the nature of typological diversity and its relationship to cognition, touching on concepts such as complexity, interconnectedness within systems, and emergent organization. Chapters employ experimental, computational, corpus-based and theoretical methods to examine specific morphological phenomena, and an overview chapter provides a synthesis of major research trends, contextualizing work from different methodological and philosophical perspectives. Offering a novel perspective on how cognition contributes to our understanding of word structure, it is essential reading for psycholinguists, theoreticians, typologists, computational modelers and cognitive scientists.

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.

Does science fully support biological evolution and cosmological theories? This book provides a closer look at evolution and the unanswered hard questions.

Writing across theological disciplines, nine African American women scholars reflect on what it means to live as responsible doers of justice. With some classic essays and some contributions published here for the first time, each chapter in this new volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series presents analytical strategies for understanding the story of womanist scholarship in the service of the black community.

The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Paradigmatic gaps ('missing' inflected forms) have traditionally been considered to be the random detritus of a language's history and marginal exceptions to the normal functioning of its inflectional system. Arguing that this is a misperception, Inflectional Defectiveness demonstrates that paradigmatic gaps are in fact normal and expected products of inflectional structure. Sims offers an accessible exploration of how and why inflectional defectiveness arises, why it persists, and how it is learned. The book presents a theory of morphology which is rooted in the implicative structure of the paradigm. This systematic exploration of the topic also addresses questions of inflection class organization, the morphology-syntax interface, the structure of the lexicon, and the nature of productivity. Presenting a novel synthesis of established research and new empirical data, this work is significant for researchers and graduate students in all fields of linguistics.

Featuring contributed chapters from established and emerging communication theorists with varied cultural backgrounds and identities, Communication Theory: Racially Diverse and Inclusive Perspectives decenters traditional views of communication by highlighting perspectives from the global majority. The text deviates from a white-colonial-normative theoretical core to provide students with a more holistic exploration of communication theory. The book helps readers understand how the communicative experiences of marginalized groups represent important theoretical frames necessary for a full, comprehensive view of communication. It offers innovative conceptions of communication theorizing centered in and through the perspectives of African American/Black, Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous/First Nations people. Through the presentation of canonized theories alongside innovative, cutting-edge theories, the text challenges students to expand and enhance the ways in which they see, use, and apply communication theory. A unique feature of the text is the inclusion of storied reflections-personal narratives that reveal scholars at various stages of their careers ruminating on their own experiences with theory. These reflections demonstrate how ethnic and racialized standpoints can inform and advance scholarship within the discipline. Communication Theory presents an inclusive, holistic approach to communication theory and inspires continued exploration, research, and theory in the discipline. It can serve as a primary textbook as well as a companion volume to other textbooks on communication theory. Chapters and contributors include: Chapter 1 - Undocumented Critical Theory - Carlos Aguilar and Daniela Juarez Chapter 2 - Black Feminist Thought - Marnel Niles Goins and Jasmine T. Austin Chapter 3 - Cultural Contracts Theory - Ronald L. Jackson II and Gina Castle Bell Chapter 4 - Conflict Face-Negotiation Theory in Intercultural-Interpersonal Contexts - Stella Ting-Toomey Chapter 5 - Co-cultural Theory - Mark P. Orbe and Fatima Albrehi Chapter 6 - Ethnic Communication Theory - Uchenna Onuzulike Chapter 7 - Social Network Theory - Wenlin Liu Chapter 8 - Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Communication - Mackensie Minniear Chapter 9 - Strong Black Woman Collective Theory - Sharde M. Davis and Martinique K. Jones Chapter 10 - Theory of Differential Adaptation - Antonio Tomas De La. Garza Chapter 11 - Four-Faceted Model of Accelerating Leader Identity - Jeanetta D. Sims and Ed Cunliff Chapter 12 - Culture-Centered Approach to Communicating Health - Mohan J. Dutta Chapter 13 - Bilingual Health Communication (BHC) Model - Elaine Hsieh Chapter 14 - Complicity Theory - Mark Lawrence McPhail Chapter 15 - Womanist Rhetorical Theory - Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson Chapter 16 - Positive Deviance Approach - Arvind Singhal Chapter 17 - Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies - Isabel Molina-Guzman Chapter 18 - (Counter)Public Sphere Theory - Catherine R. Squires and Mark P. Orbe Chapter 19 - Critical Media Effects - Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian Chapter 20 - Theory of Hyper(in)Visibility - Amber Johnson and Jade Petermon Storied reflections include: Living for This Stuff! - Mark P. Orbe "Humph, but not for long!" - Jasmine T. Austin Fascinations, Frameworks, and Knowledge Pauses - Jeanette D. Sims Does It Really Work Like That? - Britney N. Gilmore Black Masculinities Theory - Mark C. Hopson It Hasn't Been What I Imagined - Ashlee Lambert An Upward Journey and Sunwise Path - Dalaki Livingston Communication Modalities-Behavior in Search of Theory - Dorothy L. Pennington A Practitioner's Journey with Theory-Using Theories for Skill Building on the Frontlines of Organizations - Pavitra Kavya "I'm Blackity Black, and I'm Black Y'all!" - Ajia Meux The Magic of Mentors and Theory - Kristina Ruiz-Mesa Making Ourselves Visible - Nickesia S. Gordon Representation in Coming - Tianna L. Cobb The Push and Pull of Connection Making - Scott E. Branton Grappling with My Zonas Erroneas as a Double Outsider - Wilfredo Alvarez Connecting and Disconnecting through Proyectos e Investigaciones - Virginia Sanchez Hovering about Prevailing Theories - Alberto Gonzalez Returning Home - B. Liahnna Stanley Searching for Stuart Hall - Catherine R. Squires The (Mis)Education of Race - David Stamps Theory as Liberation - Elizabeth M. Lozano