Language History – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 8

Serge Gruzinski,
The Language of the Conquerors

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, pape…

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Women Creating Classics

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in…

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Ben Rhodes
All We Say

What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling …

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Peter Richardson
Brand New Beat

How the iconic publication's unruly first decade rewrote the rules of journalism.Rolling Stone 's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins …

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Isabella Martini,
Representing Minorities in Times of Conflict

This comparative study of the linguistic representation of minorities across different historical and socio-political contexts addresses a unique and under-researched area in linguistics, focusing on lett…

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Hiram L Smith
Wassup, My Nigga

The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American EnglishFew words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is univ…

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Jonina Abron-Ervin
Driven by the Movement

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordina…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Natan Last
Across the Universe

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the history of crossword puzzles, who constructs them, and why crosswords matter as both a reflection of and influence on our culture "Should be at the top of …

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

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C M Kushins
Cooler Than Cool

AN EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL WORKA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARConsistently engrossing ... Kushins does an excellent job of guiding us through Leonard's stories, manuscripts …

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Kelly Biers
Boojoo!

Walloon, a language from and still spoken by a minority population in its home country of Belgium, can also still be found among a few sparse communities in northeastern Wisconsin. Although spoken by a sm…

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

"Provides guidance for teachers on old and new perspectives on Cabeza de Vaca's works, including literary topoi, Chicano literature, postcolonial readings, queer readings, race, adaptations, law and …

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Manchán Magan
Thirty-Two Words for Field

NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER"What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is--an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvag…

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Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca's Account and Other Texts

Teach a conquistador's writings about his journeys in the AmericasIn 1527 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca journeyed from Spain to Florida with the ill-fated Pánfilo de Narváez expedition---and ended up wanderi…

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D B Dowd
Reading Pictures

A history of illustration from the beginning of popular print to the rise of mass literacy and into today's age of digital mediaOf all the visual arts, illustration shares a unique relationship with the w…

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Charles Delgadillo, Jason Stacy
Heartland Utopia

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity. This antholo…

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Colette Colligan, Gregory Mackie
Oscar Wilde's Paris

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies chronicles Wilde's lifelong relationship with the French capital, the city he called "the most wonderful city in the world," and the site of his rise to…

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Laura Gardner
Marginal Fashion Publishing

Surveying the history of marginal fashion publishing, this work explores how these projects have re-imagined fashion from the commercial fringes in their approaches to production, content, and disseminati…

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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