Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

✍ Annelies Kusters (editor); Mara Green (editor); Erin Moriarty (editor); Kristin 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p> This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

📁 Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

✍ Annelies Kusters (editor); Mara Green (editor); Erin Moriarty (editor); Kristin 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p> This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-

Language, Ideology and Social Consciousn

📁 Language, Ideology and Social Consciousness

✍ Chik Collins 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Taylor & Francis 🌐 English

Language and Power (Language in Social L

📁 Language and Power (Language in Social Life)

✍ Norman Fairclough 📂 Library 📅 1989 🌐 English

Examines how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society. It discusses ways of analysing language which can reveal these processes, how people can become more conscious of them, and more able to resist and change them.

The Biopolitics of Stalinism: Ideology a

📁 The Biopolitics of Stalinism: Ideology and Life in Soviet Socialism

✍ Sergei Prozorov 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

<h4>The first book to investigate Soviet socialism from a biopolitical perspective</h4> <p>Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities. In opposition to this, Stalinism was oriented more towards transforming life in accordance with the communist ideal, and less tow

Language, Culture and Identity - Signs o

📁 Language, Culture and Identity - Signs of Life

✍ Ana Moreno-Núñez; Zhen Tian; Vera da Silva Sinha 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping per