wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination
ISBN: 9789004335264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well as in postcolonial texts and media. Both in actual and in imagined communities, membership is constructed on an assumption of shared features be it common values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, professional group or joint interests and practices. But how is membership in such communities achieved, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms of community have developed in the wake of...
This interdisciplinary volume critically investigates the value and topicality of the concept of community in postcolonial language situations as well...
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486,94 zł |
Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective
ISBN: 9789042020146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems',...
Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detect...
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422,30 zł |
Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean
ISBN: 9789027211385 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone Caribbean. A comprehensive framework for the investigation of text production in postcolonial and global English communities is followed by empirically based case studies on specific text formats such as recipes, death notices and obituaries, letters to the editor, newspaper advice columns, radio...
World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genr...
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565,38 zł |
Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities
ISBN: 9789027207081 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. All humans eat and all humans speak - activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which contributes to establishing communities and identities. This omnipresence of eating and drinking in our daily lives has led to a public fascination with foodways. The contributions in this edited collection investigate the connection between language and food from a variety of perspectives. As food discourses operate on local, global, and mediated levels, they are...
All humans eat and all humans speak - activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, ...
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565,38 zł |