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  • Interrogating Capitalism in Education

    Critical Perspectives in the Digital Age

    by Pau Bori ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Informed by Marxist scholarship, this book aims to shed light on the complex relationship between capitalism, education, and digitalization.The book is structured in two parts, related dialectically. The first part traces the new global educational order from the 1980s to the current highly digitalized moment. The second part draws on interviews with teachers and activists in Catalonia about the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Language Textbooks in the era of Neoliberalism

    by Pau Bori ...
    Series series Language, Society and Political Economy
    This book examines how neoliberalism finds expression in foreign language textbooks. Moving beyond the usual focus on English, Pau Bori explores the impact of neoliberal ideology on Catalan textbooks. By comparing Catalan textbooks to English textbooks, this book interrogates the similarities and differences between a minor and a global language in the age of neoliberalism. Drawing on insights ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Slang

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edited by Ruth Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity

    Wedded but Not Always a Wife

    by Julie Whitlow, Patricia Ould ...
    This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex marriages. At a time when same-sex marriage is on the cusp of becoming legal across the United States, the authors demonstrate through in-depth interviews and rich survey data how the use of relationship terms by married lesbians is tied to a variety ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • English Language as Hydra

    Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures

    Edited by Vaughan Rapatahana, Pauline Bunce ...
    Series Book 9 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster … a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of “uplifting”, “essential”, “proper” or even “better” means of communication than any other language. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Religious Language

    by M. Scott ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the latest research in the philosophy of language. The historical background to research on religious language is also explored and connections are made with both Continental Philosophy and Theology. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Language and Community in Early England

    Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

    by Emily Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving through the eighth century to the thirteenth century, and finally to the sixteenth-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this important period in the history of English can only ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • What We Say, Who We Are

    Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language

    by Parker English ...
    In What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of "negritude" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of "Negro expression." For English, these two concepts emphasize that a person's view of herself is above all dictated by the way in which she talks about herself. Focusing on what he ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Multiliteracies, Discourses and Identities

    The Multiliteracy Practices of Chinese Children in Britain

    by Jing Sheng ...
    This book explores the everyday reading and writing experiences of children from Chinese families living in Britain. Using an ethnographic approach, the author presents in-depth case studies of three migrant children, all of whom received some education in mainland China before moving to Britain. The theoretical framework is based on the New Literacy Studies approach and the author introduces a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China

    Theory and Practice Since 1949

    Edited by Minglang Zhou, Hongkai Sun ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Language matters in China. It is about power, identity, opportunities, and, above all, passion and nationalism. During the past five decades China’s language engineering projects transformed its linguistic landscape, affecting over one billion people’s lives, including both the majority and minority populations. The Han majority have been juggling between their home vernaculars and the official ... Read more

    $143.99 USD