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  • Aspiring to be Global

    Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China

    di Shuang Gao ...
    Serie eBook 13 - Encounters
    This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining the dynamics between language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. The author makes use of multiple sources, including ethnographic interviews, tourist literature, public signage and policy documents, to examine how tourist mobilities are embedded in and interact with ... Altre info

    11,85 €

  • Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness

    The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China

    Rivisto da Shuang Gao, Xuan Wang ...
    Serie eBook 20 - Encounters
    This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters reveal the power dynamics and ideologies underlying the varied ways Chineseness is performed, represented and contested. Together they highlight four perspectives on Chineseness: the multiplicity of Chineseness, aspirational ... Altre info

    22,77 €

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  • Intercultural Communication

    A Discourse Approach

    di Ron Scollon, Suzanne Wong Scollon, Rodney H. Jones ...
    Serie series Language in Society
    This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource.Features new original ... Altre info

    49,99 €

  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    di Fengshu Liu ...
    Serie series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Altre info

    74,28 €

  • The Handbook of Language and Globalization

    Rivisto da Nikolas Coupland ...
    Serie eBook 64 - Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing fieldFeatures new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a ... Altre info

    38,99 €

  • Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific

    Gender and The Art of Being Mobile

    di Larissa Hjorth ...
    Serie series Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
    This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is most palpable in the Asia-Pacific in which a diversity of innovation and consumer practices – reflecting gender and locality – ... Altre info

    59,90 €

  • English in Singapore

    di Hong Kong University Press ...
    English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and ... Altre info

    21,41 €

  • Gendered Mobilities

    di Tim Cresswell ...
    Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this ... Altre info

    69,49 €

  • Translation, Globalisation and Localisation

    di Wang NING and Sun YIFENG ...
    The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the present anthology, translation is viewed as a cultural and political practice, and accordingly translation studies is based on a heightened ... Altre info

    19,02 €

  • Ethnography in Education

    di David Mills, Missy Morton ...
    Serie series BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education
    ′Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate the importance of developing an ethnographic sensibility. A most valuable resource′- Cris Shore, University of AucklandEthnography in Education is ... Altre info

    57,29 €

  • Glocalization

    A Critical Introduction

    di Victor Roudometof ...
    Serie series Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics
    This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to date, there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept. Historically theorists have intertwined the concepts of the ‘global’ and the ‘glocal’ or have subsumed the ‘glocal’ under other concepts – ... Altre info

    59,90 €

  • Public Relations As Activism

    Postmodern Approaches to Theory & Practice

    di Derina R. Holtzhausen ...
    Serie series Routledge Communication Series
    This volume applies postmodern theory to public relations, providing an alternative lens to public relations theory and practice and developing public relations theory within the context of postmodernism. Author Derina R. Holtzhausen focuses on two key issues and their application to public relations theory and practice: the postmodernization of society, and the possibilities postmodern theories ... Altre info

    75,48 €