Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil
Examines Pentecostalism, media, society, and culture in the turbulent favelas of Brazil. Explores both the evolving role of religion in Latin America and the proliferation of religious ideas and practices in the postmodern world.
In recent decades, the study of Biblical Hebrew has profited enormously from the application of methodologies derived from general linguistics. During the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius organized sessions devoted to exploring new developments in Biblical Hebrew linguistics, bringing together many of the ......
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge ......
A Measure of Vocabulary, Syntax, and Language Acquisition Skills in Young Children
Early identification is the first step to helping young children with language delays improve their skills. But how do you find the children who might need help? It's simple with the Quick Interactive Language Screener (TM) (QUILS (TM)), a fun and fast web-based screening tool that helps you evaluate whether children are making language progress ......
Explores how memories of Lincoln became an important form of political rhetoric, and how divergent schools of U.S. political thought came to recruit Lincoln as their standard-bearer.
Explores how memories of Lincoln became an important form of political rhetoric, and how divergent schools of U.S. political thought came to recruit Lincoln as their standard-bearer.
Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, this book includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.
Of extant languages, Ch'orti' Mayan is the closest to ancient the Maya hieroglyphic script, but it is a language that is decreasing in usage. In southern Guatemala where it is spoken, many children no longer learn it, as Spanish dominates most experiences. From linguistic and anthropological data gathered over many years, Kerry Hull has created ......
Melding research with practical innovations in teaching practice, this volume features contributors who confront the limitations of existing approaches in heritage language learning to introduce new solutions informed by linguistic, sociolinguistic, and educational research on heritage languages.
