Language Arts & Disciplines

Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, sex, gender relations and youth...

The language of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization that was decimated in the Nazi Holocaust, Yiddish has emerged as a vehicle for young people to engage with their heritage and identity. Although widely considered an endangered language, Yiddish has evolved as a...

A fascinating catalog that analyzes books as historical objects. Scholars increasingly recognize that the cultural and research value of books lies not just in their printed contents, but in their value as historical artifacts. An individual book can tell us many things about the...

As an educator, you know you need to communicate with your families, but it's hard to know what to say and how to say it...it's hard to know what to write and how to write it.In her book, Closing the Loop: A Powerful and...

This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917...

Author: Sarah Longstreth, Hannah BeilensonPublisher: Peter Pauper Press Inc.Published: 07/13/2022Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.25h x 6.25w x 0.50dISBN: 9781441339423Not available to be shipped via Media MailThis title is only available via back order

In this book, Corinne M. Dalelio analyzes how the rise of interactive media over the last few decades has had enormous impacts on every aspect of American society--the ways in which we organize, produce, consume, engage, entertain, and inform. Yet the vestiges of the...

Pioneers in Librarianship profiles sixty notable librarians who made significant contributions to the field. Librarians chosen for inclusion in this volume met one or more of these three criteria: -The librarian conceived a new method for improving library services, invented their own method of...

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors' approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural studies, and the texts analyzed are set on four continents,...

Learn how to integrate book clubs into secondary school communities for transformation and inclusion so as to enhance and nurture students' literacies along with their social and emotional development. Using her extensive experiences with culturally, neurologically, and linguistically diverse students, the author provides a...

Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders and policymakers rather than by...

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct. It displays distinct, characteristic features on all linguistic levels and particularly in its sound system, or its phonology. The dialect is one of the lesser- known...

The book identifies the impact of misinformation in the context of referenda. While the notion of misinformation is at the centre of current events and is the subject of several studies, it has rarely been addressed in the context of referenda or from a...

Writers of great horror don't hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go to places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm.In these columns, Lisa L. Hannett - the award-winning author behind Bluegrass Symphony, Lament for the Afterlife,...

This book offers a socially situated view of the emergence of emotionality for additional language (L2) learners in classroom interaction in Japan.Grounded in a complexity perspective, the author argues that emotions need to be studied as they are dynamically experienced and understood in all...

CPE Speaking testsThis book contains 10 complete practice tests for the Cambridge English C2 Proficiency Speaking, previously known as the CPE. These sample tests have been written to closely replicate the Cambridge Speaking exam experience and so each test follows the same structure and...

Essays for teaching Asian North American texts and their historical and cultural contexts.From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin...

Ideas for teaching critically the literature and film of Central America.Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish imperialism, capitalism, and globalization. In Teaching Central American Literature...

In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective, examining ways to make Japanese nationhood...

Author: Danko SipkaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/16/2021Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781108841658Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2022About the AuthorSipka, Danko: - Danko Sipka is Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University. His research interests include lexicography, lexicology,...