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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lourdes torres”
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  • Puerto Rican Discourse

    A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb

    by Lourdes M. Torres ...
    Series series Everyday Communication Series
    Before conclusions about Spanish in the United States can be drawn, individual communities must be studied in their own contexts. That is the goal of Puerto Rican Discourse. One tendency of previous work on Spanish in the United States has been an eagerness to generalize the findings of isolated studies to all Latino communities, but the specific sociocultural contexts in which people -- and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Spanish in Chicago

    by Kim Potowski, Lourdes Torres ...
    Series series OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES
    Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Latino Studies: A 20th Anniversary Reader

    Edited by Lourdes Torres, Marisa Alicea ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bookhighlights cutting-edge articles published in the journal, Latino Studies, over the last two decades. It features the work of leading and emerging scholars whose innovative theoretical and conceptual contributions to Latinx studies have shaped scholarly debates in our interdisciplinary field and continue to have an impact. This collection embraces a broad range of topics organized in four ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Evaluating e-Participation

    Frameworks, Practice, Evidence

    Edited by Georg Aichholzer, Herbert Kubicek, Lourdes Torres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    There is a widely acknowledged evaluation gap in the field of e-participation practice and research, a lack of systematic evaluation with regard to process organization, outcome and impacts. This book addresses the state of the art of e-participation research and the existing evaluation gap by reviewing various evaluation approaches and providing a multidisciplinary concept for evaluating the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands

    From the Molecular to the Landscape

    Edited by María de Lourdes Torres, Carlos F. Mena ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands. How can we define invasive species? What is their history? How did they come to dominate and transform ecosystems? These are relevant questions when trying to understand the behavior of invasive species—primarily in fragile ecosystems such as islands—and to understand the biological, ecological, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • EU-MERCOSUR Interregionalism

    Diplomatic and Trade Relations

    by Mario Torres Jarrín, Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on EU-MERCOSUR relations from a diplomatic and trade perspective against the background of the political agreement between the two in 2019. The authors take into consideration that EU-MERCOSUR cooperation developed during recent decades has tried, on the one hand, to build a strategic partnership to respond to the main challenges of international agendas and, on the other, to ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

    by Carlos Ulises Decena ...
    Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching

    Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures

    by Melina Porto, Michael Byram ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Expanding Definitions of Giftedness

    The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities

    by Guadalupe Valdes ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    This book is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world--between minority and majority communities. It examines the experiences of these young interpreters and the skills they develop in order to fulfill this role.The authors' purpose in this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World

    Edited by Maria Elena Placencia, Carmen Garcia-Fernandez ...
    One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im)politeness in the different regions of the Spanish-speaking world, gathering together overviews by distinguished scholars. Additionally, the book advances the field with new empirical research on linguistic (im)politeness, and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Language, Identity and Urban Space

    The Language Use of Latin American Migrants

    by Tabea Salzmann ...
    Series Book 11 - Sprache - Identitaet - Kultur
    Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage, migration, space, in particular urban space, and the constitution of cultural identity. Two corpora of Andean migrants’ Spanish ... Read more

    $98.09 USD