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Deepening our understanding of the social context of interpersonal interaction, this book examines the communication practices through which members of a particular culture construct and maintain their relationships. The author presents an ethnographic case study of urban, largely middle-class Colombians, taking a close look at interactional practices and speech patterns in a range of everyday settings--from schools, workplaces, and social service agencies, to gatherings of family and friends. In focusing on a context outside of North America and Europe, the book sheds light on cultural assumptions about personhood,
relationships, and communication that often remain unexamined in the literature. A compelling epilogue offers a more personal glimpse of Colombian culture and probes both the rewards and the limitations of the ethnographic approach.
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Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work"; children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result. ... Read more

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Culture and Psyche is a collection of Sudhir Kakar's essays on cultural psychology, which analyses various facets of Indian identity and sexuality through sources as diverse as case studies, Indian myths and legends, and popular cinema. The second edition of this classic includes a new introduction and three additional essays which explore issues like riots, the psychology of Islamist terrorism, among others. ... Read more

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This ethnographic study looks at how five Deaf womenwho teach American Sign Language (ASL) come toconstruct teaching, language & culture, and gender. This study also examines how these five women bridgetwo cultures, that of the dominant mainstream and ofthe Deaf, through their teaching ASL & Deaf Culture. These issues were explored through videotapedinterviews and participant-observations in their ASLclasses.Interviews and observations reveal theirunique experiences as Deaf individuals living asdaughters, students, mothers, teachers, and partnersin social relationships.These roles are both atonce similar & dissimilar.Their lived experiencesas Deaf women affect how they teach, how theyperceive hearing people, and how they understandlanguage, culture, and gender. ... Read more

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Insensitive language content in the print media is acontributory factor in the stereotypical portrayaland discrimination on the basis of gender, of thePakistani women.The print media continues to beheavily male-dominated and biased against women.This study examines the perceptions formed throughthe media texts, highlighting attitudes towardswomen, developed in part due to the language contentin the newspapers, the relationship betweenportrayal of women by the print media and existenceof gender bias in the language content, in an effortunderstand, explain, and create a foundation forchange in the print media. It is an attempt totrigger a debate and to encourage other researchersto embark on studies aimed at the critique andrevision of gender stereotypes and gender prejudicesin the print media. The analysis should beespecially useful to professionals and stakeholdersin the Print Media, as well as those who may beconsidering utilizing efforts towards the creationof a more emancipated Print media. ... Read more

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This book undertakes a feminist stylistic analysisof Margaret Ogola's novel The River and theSource. Ogola examines the changing roles of women in an inevitably changing environment and this text identifies and analyzes the efforts in terms oflanguage ? the process types (material or mental),verb types (transitive or intransitive) and theparticipant roles (subject or object) of thecharacters- that portray the changing roles of womenin society. It investigates how the Ogola'stransitivity choice integrates with her largerachievement in terms of theme and meaning. ... Read more

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This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. It a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies. ... Read more

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For courses in Developmental Writing, and perhaps Developmental Reading.This short essay, multicultural reader is designed for developmental composition classes where students work to strengthen their reading and writing skills before going on to traditional freshman composition. It features 58 articles of varying length and difficulty representing an extensive diversity of contemporary topics and cultures - and exceptionally strong reading/writing apparatus for each article. ... Read more

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Based on close empirical work with children and a knowledge of cultural theory, Potent Fictions describes and discusses the current market for children's popular culture, and the implications this has for classroom practice. It shows how children use many literacies and experiences to make sense of the world around them. Thus popular culture can take a place alongside more crafted literature as a vital resource of meaning. ... Read more

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This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.

Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia’s stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This book forms an analysis of the new idea of Asian Diaspora that cuts across area, ethnicity, and nation, incorporating itself into the contemporary global culture whilst retaining a distinct Asian flavor.

Covering the mediums of literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and students of Asian studies and literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and film.

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powerful resource for examining social aspects of language
Best resource I've yet seen for an exposition of how our use of languagehelps to shape our reality. Provides first-rate analysis of linguisticconventions along with numerous examples to illustrate points. ... Read more

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Icelanders are the national group or ethnic group of Iceland descended primarily from Norsemen of Scandinavia and Celts. Historical and DNA records indicate that about 20% of those who settled in Iceland were from Britain and Ireland and 80% were from Scandinavia. On 17 June 1944, when an Icelandic republic was founded the Icelanders became independent from the Danish monarchy. The language spoken is Icelandic, a North Germanic language, and Lutheran is the predominant religious belief. ... Read more

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How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into pedagogical account? Similarly, how often are educators cognizant of Puerto Rican students' struggle to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory realities that comprise their daily existence? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the complex struggles that these students confront in U.S. schools. This book challenges generally accepted perspectives and practices among teachers and calls for new pedagogies that respond to the complex needs of these students. ... Read more

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A groundbreaking literary anthology reveals the nature and history of a lesser-known but vital branch of Jewish culture. ... Read more