De vele gezichten van het Nederlands in Vlaanderen biedt een volledig, actueel en wetenschappelijk overzicht van de huidige taalsituatie in Vlaanderen. Het gaat in op de historische ontwikkeling van het Nederlands in Vlaanderen, de veranderende relatie met het Nederlandse Nederlands, de groeiende populariteit van de zogenaamde tussentaal en de onstopbare dialecterosie, met onvermijdelijke gevolgen voor taalnormen en taalbeleid. Het boek kijkt ook naar de manier waarop gewone taalgebruikers ki...

Op 29 maart 2019 organisearre de Stifting Freonen Frysk Ynstitút Ryksuniversiteit Grins, yn ’e mande mei de Fryske Akademy, in sympoasium oer de takomst fan de frisistyk, de wittenskiplike stúdzje fan de Fryske taal en kultuer. Hoe moat dy stúdzje stal jûn wurde no’t de niget oan talestúdzjes stadichoan minder wurdt? Wa is eins ferantwurdlik foar de takomst fan de frisistyk? Yn dizze bondel litte alve minsken út it fjild har ljocht oer dizze problematyk skine.

When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have imagined the world in which today's students would be conducting research. Yet while the ways in which we research and compose papers may have changed, the fundamentals remain the same: writers need to have a strong research question, construct an evidence-based argument, cite their sources, and structure their work in a logical way.

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations--also kn...

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory.

Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This third edition has been updated with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and a new section on linguistic cartography.

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences provides a framework to help students understand the relationship between media and society and helps students develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and one's own assumptions about the social role of the media. The Seventh Edition retains its basic sociological framwork, but also includes additional discussions of new studies and up-to-date material about a rapidly changing media landscape. This edition significantly...

Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing shows students how to approach stories and think on their feet in the evolving media landscape. Author Vincent F. Filak guides them through essential newswriting elements like lead writing, structure, and storytelling, while teaching them to think critically and focus on what matters most to readers.

This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places and probe the complex intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, disability, family, and race. Together, they explore the role of sensory perception in constructi...

Examining the role of the media in the generation, circulation and contestation of racist ideas, this text provides the theoretical and analytical tools needed to interrogate how media dynamics and processes impact on racism and anti-racism