In this book, Mick Howard uses a Saussurean framework to explore how bodies and technologies intermingle through a theory of cyborg semiotics. Howard argues that, like words, this combination follows rules of language and can be fruitfully analyzed through the lens of the cyborg. Just as spelling and grammar dictate which words may be formed and ......
Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200-3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first ......
Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading brings together for the first time Roosevelt's writings about his experiences as a reader and collector of books, his scholarly essays about literature and literary history, and his exuberant reviews of some of the books that he especially liked.
The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Mili
Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military, a topic euphemistically known as the "comfort women." Examining various artifacts in Japan, the author argues that Korean women were exoticized similarly to "Orientals" by Western Orientalists.
This book introduces research on a wide variety of technologies that can support second language pronunciation learning. While working to introduce practitioners to numerous technologies available, it also dives into the research-basis for their use, providing new studies and data featuring for language-learning contexts.
This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (often similar to Ogden's, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.
In Debate as Global Pedagogy, Voth illustrates how Rwanda's debate instruction and several other international examples of deliberative and argumentation practices demonstrate the power of debate to address the problem and ongoing risk of genocide. Debate and argumentation instruction observably improve the social outcome of discursive complexity.
Jusuur 1 provides entry-level students with a wealth of written and audio-visual materials to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students who finish the two-book program will be able to communicate at novice-high or intermediate-low levels of proficiency.
Jusuur 1 provides entry-level students with a wealth of written and audio-visual materials to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students who finish the two-book program will be able to communicate at novice-high or intermediate-low levels of proficiency.
