Language and Culture Books

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11. Language, Identity and Conflict

    A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia

    By Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the...

    Published September 3rd 2003 by Routledge
12. Understanding African American Rhetoric

    Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

    Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II, Elaine B. Richardson

    First published in 2003...

    Published April 3rd 2003 by Routledge
13. Quotation Marks

    By Marjorie Garber

    Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable men and women in history, using great writers to bolster what we ourselves have to say. The entertaining turns and reversals of Marjorie Garber's arguments offer the rare...

    Published November 7th 2002 by Routledge
14. Representing Rape

    Language and sexual consent

    By Susan Ehrlich

    Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the...

    Published January 24th 2001 by Routledge
15. The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

    Edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin

    This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity....

    Published April 19th 2000 by Routledge
16. Language and Gender

    By Angela Goddard, Lindsey Mean

    Series: Intertext

    Language and Gender* explores the relationship between language and our ideas about men and women* challenges commonly expressed views on the subject of language and gender* highlights the individuals role in the expression of gender stereotyping* includes a range of text types as diverse as...

    Published February 16th 2000 by Routledge
17. Englishness and National Culture

    By Antony Easthorpe

    In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and...

    Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge
18. New Departures in Linguistics

    By George Wolf

    Published January 31st 1992 by Routledge