The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research
Examines the linguistic, discursive, and narrative foundations of public administration research and develops a narrative theory of knowledge development and use for the field.
Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English,
A collection of essays on linguistics and language education. It features contributors who take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. It tackles such issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.
And Other Contemporary Issues in Professional Voice and Speech Training
Written by leading theatre voice and speech coaches, this volume comprises 63 articles, essays, interviews, and reviews covering a wide variety of professional concerns, including: How should an actor scream safely? What are the best ways to orchestrate violent voices? How do voice coaches fit in with fight directors? What techniques are available ......
How well were Saussure's ideas understood by those who took them up? Or how badly misunderstood? And why? The answers to these questions address central issues in the history of Western culture.
The bonds among republican citizens are created, in part, through the stories told and retold as the foundational myths of the republic. In this book, Melissa Matthes takes advantage of the way in which republican theorists in different eras—Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau—retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their ......
The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory
The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of Communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon. Against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic reductionism, this careful analysis of the ......
Offers practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction - using subject matter rather than grammar - through eleven case studies of models in various languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency.
Explores the aftermath of the Franco era in Spain. This title presents an objective and nonpartisan view of the important aspects of contemporary Spanish history and society. It covers such topics as: the transition to democracy; regionalism and nationalism; key players in current affairs; and, politicized approaches to Spanish history.
Offers a theoretical linguistic research to the areas of historical linguistics, cross-cultural communications, and text analysis. This title examines the crucial role that language plays in the many problems encountered in contacts between people from divergent cultural backgrounds.
This textual study attempts to subject the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, to a poststructuralist re-reading from a lesbian feminist perspective. Hoogland's current research is preoccupied with configurations of lesbian sexuality in novels of female development in the 50s.
This textual study attempts to subject the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, to a poststructuralist re-reading from a lesbian feminist perspective. Hoogland's current research is preoccupied with configurations of lesbian sexuality in novels of female development in the 50s.
The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-native Englishes
''What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcation of an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic. . . . [Kachru] is to be congratulated for having taken us as far as he already has and for doing so in so stimulating and so productive a fashion.''-- World Englishes ''A potent addition to theoretical, ......
First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil War. Distinguished historian David Brion Davis has chosen a diverse array of primary sources that show the actual concerns, hopes, fears, and understandings of ordinary antebellum Americans. He places these sources within a ......
Stressing the fundamental structural features of contemporary spoken Russian, this title features eighteen audio-lingual lessons that primarily employ imitation and repetition exercises. It also includes reading selections, a pronunciation guide, a Russian-English vocabulary, and an index.
