This book examines how sociopolitical and intercultural ideologies surrounding globalisation and neoliberalism are constructed and negotiated in travel documentaries, focusing on the role of the BBC in reproducing neo-imperialistic and neoliberal values.
Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
This innovative collection spotlights the role of media crossovers in humour translation and how the latter is conveyed through new means of communication.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research.
This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages.
Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.
Sadly, and far too pervasive, submerged pain-narratives are so easily hidden and are historically, sometimes trapping humankind within gross diachronic amniotic darkness, where it is difficult to breath.
El diagnóstico de época que se desprende de los testimonios de jóvenes populares en los que se basa este libro refiere al sentimiento de inexistencia de claras trayectorias institucionales que aseguren el tránsito entre los diferentes períodos etarios; en la imagen de una trama institucional globalmente abusiva y que sólo algunos individuos logran matizar; en la fuerza de las aspiraciones y de los sueños personales que no se abdican.
Hoy en día en los sectores acomodados la adolescencia se prolonga indefinidamente para los jóvenes, y los mayores se adolescentizan con las cirugías, las cremas, las tinturas, las gimnasias, las vestimentas.
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts.
This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts.
This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.
This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.
This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "e;self-identity"e; and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India.
This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.
En el tránsito del siglo XIX al siglo XX, un influyente grupo de intelectuales conservadores impulsó y combinó múltiples prácticas culturales tendientes a estudiar y promover una lengua "pura" y "uniforme", convencidos de su potencial para (re)construir la comunidad nacional a partir de valores cristianos y de la exaltación del patrimonio cultural hispánico.
El análisis de la variación léxica que manifiestan las lenguas ha sido objeto de interés constante por parte de profesionales provenientes de diversos ámbitos, como la lingüística, la educación, la estadística, la psicología, la dialectología y la sociolingüística.
La obra tiene como objetivo principal comprender cómo se naturaliza y se racionaliza una relación de actividad masculina y de pasividad femenina sin imponerse de manera violenta en una escena local de rock en Bogotá.
Este estudio aborda temas importantes y muy discutidos en la actualidad (el matoneo, las emociones cotidianas de los niños, la relación hogar-escuela, la construcción de comunidad en el ámbito escolar, etc.
