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  • Contact Languages and Music

    by Marie-Eve Bouchard, Hubert Devonish, R. Sandra Evans, Ronald T. Francis, Anika Gerfer, Lisa Jansen, Michael Westphal, Renato Tomei, Christina Märzhäuser, Nathan Wendte, Guyanne Wilson, Nickesha Dawkins ...
    Language and music are connected in many ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to express distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social roles and political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial inequalities, are particularly interesting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Language, Race and the Global Jamaican

    by Hubert Devonish, Karen Carpenter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet which continues to defy the odds. The authors trace the history of how a nation of less than three million people has come to be at the centre of cultural, racial and linguistic influence globally; producing a culture than ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Speech Communities

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    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Read more

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  • Trans* Time

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    Edited by Danae Gallo González ...
    Trans*Time is the first international, media and comparative approach to the representation of trans* characters in series in Europe. Trans* visibility has reached a peak in recent years, so much so, that we can state that we are witnessing a primetime, or trans* time, in television and digital streaming series. This visibility has occurred concurrently with a process of social popularization and ... Read more

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  • Global Reggae

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    This collection of illuminating essays highlight the "globalization" of reggae - its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation. ... Read more

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  • New Trends in Audiovisual Translation

    by Jorge DIAZ CINTAS ...
    New Trends in Audiovisual Translation is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection of articles written by leading experts in the emerging field of audiovisual translation (AVT). In a highly accessible and engaging way, it introduces readers to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators encounter when translating films and other audiovisual productions. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Raciolinguistics

    How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

    Edited by H. Samy Alim, John R. Rickford, Arnetha F. Ball ...
    Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world. Combining the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Homegirls

    Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

    by Norma Mendoza-Denton ...
    Series series New Directions in Ethnography
    In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection ... Read more

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  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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  • Art and the Performance of Memory

    Sounds and Gestures of Recollection

    Edited by Richard Cándida Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the implications of this for artists and their publics. ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture

    Edited by Sue-Ann Harding, Ovidi Carbonell Cortés ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture collects into a single volume thirty-two state-of-the-art chapters written by international specialists, overviewing the ways in which translation studies has both informed, and been informed by, interdisciplinary approaches to culture. The book's five sections provide a wealth of resources, covering both core issues and topics in the first part. ... Read more

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