Description
Book SynopsisA political science approach integrates multidisciplinary case studies about culture and language from multiple perspectives. Culture and language are viewed broadly with topics ranging widely across the conflict/cooperation continuum of human activities. Case studies involve four perspectives on culture and language – linguistic perspectives, cultural perspectives, identity perspectives, and visual perspectives. Each chapter is self-standing with conclusions about the case study at hand. The final chapter integrates all the case studies with separate conclusions about each of the four perspectives.
Table of ContentsContents: Michael A. Morris/Yanhua Zhang: Introduction – Richard Oliver Collin: Revolutionary Scripts: The Politics of Writing Systems – José M. Franco-Rodríguez: Linguistic Landscape and Language Maintenance: The Case of Los Angeles and Miami-Dade Counties – Clementina E. Adams: Music as Cultural and Linguistic Ambassador for Latin America – Michael A. Morris: Culture, Language and Global Issues – James Crombie: From Heavy to Light: Communication Technology and Vernaculars – Kimberley K. Williams: Maya Voices and Identity: Two Case Studies – R.G. Kainer: The Language Spoken and Unspoken on the Jerry Springer Show – Robert W. Smith: Ethics and Political Symbols: The Basis for Comparative Cultural Analysis – Plantu: Cross-Cultural Encounters through Cartoons – Michael A. Morris: Synthesis and Conclusion.
