Polish as a Heritage Language Around the World provides a timely insight into Polish diaspora communities around the world and their endeavours in heritage language maintenance and education.
This graphic novel looks at political activism in the public landscape with a particular focus on the UK activist group Led by Donkeys. The book is both an innovative approach to the presentation of academic research, and an exploration of how political activism can use the linguistic landscape as a resource for communicating its message.
Explore Billig and Marinho's highly original study of politicians misusing statistics, misleading the public and manipulating statisticians. This book also highlights how the British and French statistical agencies aim to combat this increasingly serious problem. Tailored for all audiences, it is a clearly written, insightful, and witty work.
Explore Billig and Marinho's highly original study of politicians misusing statistics, misleading the public and manipulating statisticians. This book also highlights how the British and French statistical agencies aim to combat this increasingly serious problem. Tailored for all audiences, it is a clearly written, insightful, and witty work.
Collective remembering is a dynamic process, through which narratives about the past, about ‘us’ and ‘them’ as well as beliefs, values and affective conditions contained in these stories, are produced and reproduced. This book reflects the geographical breadth and empirical depth of the field of collective remembering.
“Incompetence” is not a deficit but a productive force that generates knowledge, subject positions, social relations, and space. This volume explores effects of such “incompetence” in Japanese language classrooms in the US, language tourism in Italy, and Maori language revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand, opening up a new area of study.
This book examines the politics of Japanese language learning in postcolonial Korea from 1945 through the 1970s, revealing the ways in which language functioned as a site of negotiations over identity, social mobility, and historical memory.
This book investigates the politics of language in Hong Kong from a multidisciplinary perspective, showcasing original studies on language use in protest movements, written Cantonese, language attitudes, literary creation, mass media and popular music.
This book investigates the politics of language in Hong Kong from a multidisciplinary perspective, showcasing original studies on language use in protest movements, written Cantonese, language attitudes, literary creation, mass media and popular music.