Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U) : Americanization and Popular Culture. by McKay, George

Table of Contents: “…Popular Culture and Political Discourse in American Narratives about VietnamI Am the King: Cultural Appropriation in Australia's Gothic Graceland; Postscript; American Life by Proxy: Dutch Youth and Sense of Place; Diverse Interplays of Cultural Localization and Globalization in Popular Music; Conclusions; The Origins and Evolution of French Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the 1980s and 1990s; Afterword: Downsizing America; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Contemporary feminist pragmatism

Table of Contents: “…Transforming whiteness with Roycean loyalty: a pragmatist feminist account / Shannon Sullivan -- The hostile gospel and democratic faith: black feminist reflections on rap and John Dewey / V. Denise James -- Border communities and Royce: the problem of translation and reinterpreting feminist empiricism / Celia T. …”
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Understanding peace cultures

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 13: Making Peace with Gangsta RapPART E: Social and Political Perspectives: Challenges for Peace Educators and Peacebuilders -- CHAPTER 14: Sunset Over Jerusalem -- CHAPTER 15: Both Sides Now -- About the Contributors -- Index…”
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East Asian pop culture : analysing the Korean wave

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka Mōri -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee -- Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi.…”
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Muslim subjectivities in global modernity : Islamic traditions and the construction of modern Muslim identities

Table of Contents: “…Contributors -- Introduction: Islamic Modernities and Modern Muslim Subjectivities / Dietrich Jung and Kirstine Sinclair -- 1 Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Theories, Concepts, and First Findings / Dietrich Jung -- 2 Decolonizing Body and Mind: Physical Activity and Subject Formation in Colonial Algeria / Jakob Krais -- 3 Daily Ritual, Mission, and Transformation of the Self: The Case of Tablighi Jamaat / Zacharias Pieri -- 4 Hasan al-Banna and the Modern Muslim Self: Subjectivity Formation and the Search for an Islamic Order in Early Twentieth Century Egypt / Dietrich Jung and Ahmed Abou El Zalaf -- 5 "Worship is Not Everything:" Volunteering and Muslim Life in Modern Turkey / Fabio Vicini -- 6 The Modernity of Neo-traditionalist Islam / Mark Sedgwick -- 7 An Islamic University in the West and the Question of Modern Authenticity / Kirstine Sinclair -- 8 The Muslimist Self and Fashion: Implications for Politics and Markets / Neslihan Cevik -- 9 Social Class, Piety, and the Formation of the Singaporean Muslim: Exploring Educational Choices in a Highly Regulated Society / Kamaludeen Mohamad Nasir -- 10 Imaginaries of the Good Life from the Egyptian Revolution in 2011: Pride and Agency / Line Mex-Jørgensen -- 11 "When I'm on the Mic Everything is Ḥarām :" Narrative Identity and Modern Subjectivities among American Rap Artists / Philipp Bruckmayr -- Concluding Remarks: Modern Muslim Subjectivities, Islamic Modernities, and the Multiple Modernities Thesis / Dietrich Jung and Kirstine Sinclair -- Index.…”
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Star struck : an encyclopedia of celebrity culture

Table of Contents: “…List Of Entires: African American -- Anti-hero -- Arrests of celebrities -- Artists -- Asian American -- Athletes -- Authors -- Awards and ceremonies -- Bloggers -- Child celebrity -- Children's show hosts -- Circus celebrities -- Classical music -- Comedy -- Corporate celebrity -- Country and western -- Criminals -- Criticisms of celebrity culture -- Culinary -- Cult films and figures -- Dancers -- Disc jockeys -- Disputes and fueds -- Divas -- Divorces -- Dream girls -- Drugs and alcohol -- Early deaths -- Endorsements -- Fads -- Family celebrity -- Famous for being famous -- Fan clubs and sites -- Fashion designers -- Former sports stars as media celebrities -- Globalization -- Halls of fame -- Hip-hop and rap -- Hispanic/Latino -- Hobbies and sports -- Humanitarian efforts -- International celebrity -- Internet's role -- Jazz and blues -- Kitsch -- Lawsuits and court cases -- Lawyers -- LGBT celebrity -- Magazines' role -- Magicians -- Martial arts -- Military celebrity -- Mourning celebrities -- Movies' role -- Murders of celebrities -- News media figures -- Newspapers' role -- Nicknames -- One-name celebrity -- Paparazzi -- Paranoia -- Parodies -- Physicians -- Plastic surgery -- Politics -- Power -- Presidential -- Privacy and right of publicity -- Product lines -- Pseudonyms -- Psychoanalysis -- Publicity -- Reality television's role -- Rock and pop -- Setbacks and obstacles -- Sex and scandal Sidekicks -- Stalkers -- Suicides -- Supermodels -- Tabloids' role -- Talk show hosts -- Television's role -- Temporary celebrity -- Tough guys.…”
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Comparative perspectives on Afro-Latin America

Table of Contents: “…Blackness and cultural difference -- Nurturing Bantu Africanness in Bahia / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Strategies of the Black Pacific: Music and Diasporic Identity in Peru / Heidi Carolyn Feldman -- Malandreo Negro: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Exclusion in Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes -- Performing the African Diaspora in Mexico / Angela N. …”
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Global linguistic flows : hip hop cultures, youth identities, and the politics of language

Table of Contents: “…Hip hop as dusty foot philosophy : engaging locality / Alastair Pennycook and Tony Mitchell -- Language and the three spheres of hip hop / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- Conversational sampling, race trafficking, and the invocation of the gueto in Brazilian hip-hop / Jennifer Roth-Gordon -- "You shouldn't be rappin', you should be skateboardin' the x-games" : the coconstruction of whiteness in an MC battle / Cecelia Cutler -- From da bomb to bomba : global hip hop nation language in Tanzania / Christina Higgins -- "So I choose to do am Naija style" : hip hop, language, and postcolonial identities / Tope Omoniyi -- "Still reppin por mi gente" : the transformative power of language mixing in Quebec hip hop / Mela Sarkar -- "Respect for da chopstick hip hop" : the politics, poetics, and pedagogy of Cantonese verbal art in Hong Kong / Angel Lin -- Dragon ash and the reinterpretation of hip hop : on the notion of rhyme in Japanese hip hop / Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis -- "That's all concept; it's nothing real" : reality and lyrical meaning in rap / Michael Newman -- Creating "an empire within an empire" : critical hip hop language pedagogies and the role of sociolinguistics / H. …”
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Science and technology hybrid materials (ICMAT 2005), 3-8 July 2005, Singapore : the 3rd International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies International Union of Mate...

Table of Contents: “…Powder XRD and Solid-State 2H-NMR Studies on RAP-Protected Palladium Nanoparticle (RAP = Rubeanic-Acid Polymer)Preparation and Characterization of Polyimide-Silica Nanocomposites by Sol-Gel Process; Preparation and Characterization of Porous Hydrogen Silsesquioxane by Sol-Gel Process; Preparation and Optical Properties of Thin-Films of Layered Perovskite-Type Hybrid Compounds (CnH2n+1 NH3)2 PbX4 ; Magnetic Properties of Highly-Ordered Ni, Co and Their Alloy Nanowires in AAO Templates; Finite Deformation Behavior of Biological Soft Material on Cartilage Anisotropy under Loading Conditions.…”
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An Introduction to Particle Physics and the Standard Model. by Mann, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Feynman Rules for the Standard Model; Appendix J. The Large Hadron Rap; References; Back cover.…”
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Black Los Angeles : American dreams and racial realities

Table of Contents: “…Race, space, and the evolution of Black Los Angeles / Paul Robinson -- From Central Avenue to Leimert Park: the shifting center of Black Los Angeles / Reginald Chapple -- The decline of a Black community by the sea: demographic and political changes in Oakwood / Andrew Deener -- "Blowing up" at Project Blowed: rap dreams and young Black men / Jooyoung Lee -- Out of the void: street gangs in Black Los Angeles / Alex Alonso -- Imprisoning the family: incarceration in Black Los Angeles / M. …”
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KulturConfusão : on German-Brazilian interculturalities

Table of Contents: “…Hurley -- From documentation to dialogue: on bringing Brazilian popular music and jazz to West Germany / Ulrike Schröder -- Conceptual metaphors: a culture-specific construction of meaning using the "life is war" metaphor in Brazilian and German rap lyrics / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Transnational film history?…”
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Transglobal sounds : music, youth and migration

Table of Contents: “…4 Popular music and generational dynamics of immigration in 'postcolonial Finland' -- the case of Ourvision Singing Contest 2009 Antti-Ville Kärjä5 Nanyin and the Singaporean culture: The creation of intangible cultural heritage in Singapore and intergenerational contrasts Kaori Fushiki; Part Three Identity politics and negotiations; 6 Protest rap and young Afro-descendants in Portugal Ricardo Campos, Pedro Nunes and José Alberto Simões.…”
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Demands of the dead : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States

Table of Contents: “…State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated -- Katy RyanRap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror -- Matthew Stratton; Poems -- Delbert L. …”
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Appliable linguistics

Table of Contents: “…Making many meanings in popular rap music / David Caldwell -- 15. Rank in visual grammar: some implications for multimodal discourse analysis / Sumin Zhao -- 16. …”
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Queer theory in education

Table of Contents: “…Or, pedagogy is a pretty queer thing / Susanne Luhmann -- Queer texts and performativity: zora, rap, and community / Rinaldo Walcott -- (Queer) youth as political and pedagogical / Nelson Rodriguez -- Appropriating queerness: Hollywood sanitation / Shirley R. …”
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The freaks shall inherit the earth : entrepreneurship for weirdos, misfits, and world dominators by Brogan, Chris

Table of Contents: “…6: Structure a Framework for Your Days Structure Gets a Bad Rap; Cure Your Procrastination; Fear and Procrastination; Develop a Long View: Our Days Must Serve Our Weeks and Our Weeks Must Serve Our Larger Goals; A Daily Framework; What Not to Do; Commit to Working for Two Months with a List; A List of Lists of Awesomeness (or Helpfulness); But Frameworks Aren't All Lists: Habits and More; What Comes Next?…”
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The Politics of Technology in Latin America Volume 2 Digital Media, Daily Life and Public Engagement. by Plascencia, David Ramírez

Table of Contents: “…Discursive trends on femicide violence and youth culture in the consumption of the narcorap aesthetics versus feminist rap resistances…”
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The middle schoolers' debatabase : 75 current controversies for debaters by Bettivia, Rhiannon

Table of Contents: “…Physical Education, MandatoryPlastic Bags, Banning; Pledge of Allegiance in Schools; Presidents, Non-native; Puerto Rican Statehood; Rap Music; Restaurants, Ban All-you-can-eat Establishments; Right to Know; School Day, Length of; Schools, Year-round; Second Amendment; Single-sex Schools; Smokers, Government Benefits and; Space Program; Spanish Mandatory in Schools; Sports in Schools; Swimming Pools, Private; Term Limits; Terrorists, Negotiate with; Torture; Trans Fats, Ban; U.N. …”
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Religion and popular culture in America

Table of Contents: “…/ Robert K. Johnston -- Rap music and its message : on the contact between religion and popular culture / Anthony B. …”
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Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia. by Garrido Castellano, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…14 ARTifariti: An Artistic, Political and Committed Encounter with the Sahrawi People -- 15 Geopolitical Shifts and Diasporic Struggles in Former Metropolitan Territories -- 16 Angolan Art: A Conversation on Curating, Archives, Coloniality and Diaspora -- 17 Insurgent Aesthetics: Creole Rap from the Outskirts of Lisbon -- Notes…”
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Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia

Table of Contents: “…14 ARTifariti: An Artistic, Political and Committed Encounter with the Sahrawi People -- 15 Geopolitical Shifts and Diasporic Struggles in Former Metropolitan Territories -- 16 Angolan Art: A Conversation on Curating, Archives, Coloniality and Diaspora -- 17 Insurgent Aesthetics: Creole Rap from the Outskirts of Lisbon -- Index…”
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Crossing waters, crossing worlds : the African diaspora in Indian country

Table of Contents: “…race in the lived experiences of two Black Choctaw mixed-bloods / Robert Keith Collins -- From ocean to O-Shen : reggae, rap, and hip hop in Hawai'i / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui -- Heartbreak / Roberta J. …”
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Chinese Under Globalization : Emerging Trends in Language Use in China

Table of Contents: “…The "standard" tests on dialect competence; 3. Dialect Rap Songs and Local Youth Identity; 3.1. Distinctive local sensibilities; 3.2. …”
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The pop, rock, and soul reader : histories and debates by Brackett, David

Table of Contents: “…-- Postpunk goes Indie -- Indie brings the noise -- Hip-hop, don't stop -- "The music is a mirror" -- Where rap and heavy metal converge.…”
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Reading contemporary African literature : critical perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Verbal Fluidities and Masculine Anxieties of the Glocal Urban Imaginary in Kenyan Genge Rap; Section IV: Drama and Theatre; 18. Language Use and Identity Negotiation in Cameroonian Drama.…”
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Counseling African American males : effective therapeutic interventions and approaches

Table of Contents: “…Kniffley -- Community violence exposure and racial discriminationas barriers to treatment : implications for African American males in counseling / Broderick Sawyer, Ryan DeLapp, and Monnica Williams -- Ubuntu : a framework for African American male positive mental health / Derek Wilson, Seyi Olubadewo, and Veeda Williams -- Humanistic theories and African American males in counseling / Yolanda Hamilton -- Utilizing the empathy wheel to counsel African American male students / David Julius Ford, Jr -- Socially conscious rap music as a therapeutic intervention to work with African American males / Ahmad R. …”
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CAD and rapid prototyping for product design by Bryden, Douglas (Designer)

Table of Contents: “…Research and the Future of Computer-Aided Design and Rapid PrototypingEconomics; Materials; The Environment; Consumers; Technology; Design ; Case Study: RepRap; Case Study: Fab@Home; Case Study: AM Research Group; Case Study: Growthobjects; Case Study: Future Factories; Case Study: Bespoke Innovations; Case Study: Exstent; Case Study: Southampton University ; Case Study: EADS; Conclusion; Glossary; 3D Modelling, Rendering and Engineering Software; Common Types of 3D File; Further Reading; Internet Resources; Picture Credits; Acknowledgements…”
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Local Music Scenes and Globalization. by Burkhalter, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Local Music Scenes and Globalization; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Theory and Methodology-Music Making in a Digitalized World; 1 Globalization and Digitalization in Music; 2 Theoretical Frame; 3 Methodological Approach; PART II Ethnography-Musicians from Beirut Born During the Lebanese Civil War; 4 Experimental Music; 5 Metal Music and Classic Rock; 6 Urban Music; 7 Rap; 8 Transnational Networks (Human Hubs); 9 Music as a Media Product; 10 Musicians as Actors.…”
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Rockin' out : popular music in the USA by Garofalo, Reebee

Table of Contents: “…-- Christmas in Ethiopia: the advent of charity rock -- Mega-events: the politics of mass culture -- 10. Rap and metal : the voices of youth culture -- The continuing history of heavy metal -- Heavy metal: the new wave -- Metal fragments -- "Jump" -- "...And Justice for All" -- Hip hop, don't stop -- Old school rap -- Hip hop: the next generation -- "Rock Box" -- "Ladies First" -- Regulating popular music: the politics of censorship -- The Parents Music Resource Center -- The issues: sex, drugs and Rock 'n' roll revisited --…”

Multiliteracies : beyond text and the written word

Table of Contents: “…Harder -- Numbers / Wensen Lin -- Sign languages: communication in a silent world / Miriam Lipsky -- Tattoos: the power of ink / Jennifer Diptee -- The lectore: reading aloud as a collective literacy / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. -- Rap music: a socio-cultural revolution / Maribel G. …”
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Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Nery Gabriel Lemus -- Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / Priscilla Leiva -- What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?: Making Music in Nuevo L.A. / Josh Kun.…”
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Black and brown in Los Angeles : beyond conflict and coalition

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- The Art of Shared Practices: Excerpts from Fallen Nature and the Two Cities and Black Is Brown and Brown Is Beautiful / Nery Gabriel Lemus -- Raiding Los Angeles: The Raider Nation at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Beyond, 1982-1994 / Priscilla Leiva -- What Is an MC if He Can't Rap to Banda?: Making Music in Nuevo L.A. / Josh Kun.…”
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Saints in Exile : the Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture. by Sanders, Cheryl J.

Table of Contents: “…s Song in a Strange Land: Gospel Music and Popular Culture in the United States -- European Protestant Hymnody -- Negro Spirituals -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rhythm and Blues: Soul Music -- Gospel Rap -- Classical Music -- Gospel Musicians in the Sanctified Tradition…”
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Language, rhythm, & sound : black popular cultures into the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…The Language Culture of Rap Music Videos -- Patricia A. Washington and Lynda Dixon Shaver -- Part III. …”
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Brain-Compatible Assessments. by Ronis, Diane L.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Spectrum of Interdependence -- Opportunity for Assessment #17: Photosynthesis Rap -- The Cooperative Learning Environment -- Conscious Attention -- Opportunity for Assessment #18: Checks and Balances Video -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.…”
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COVID-19-related vaccines and therapeutics Preliminary insights on related patenting activity during the pandemic. by Staff, World Intellectual Property Organization

Table of Contents: “…Other biologic-based therapies -- Analysis of COVID-19 therapeutics in clinical trials -- Analysis of COVID-19 therapeutics data in the Milken Institute and Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) tracker data -- Distribution of COVID-19 drug candidates across small molecules and biologics, repurposed drugs and de novo synthesized drugs -- Classification of COVID-19 drug candidates in clinical trials by molecular nature and function -- Feature summary of examples of anti-COVID-19 drug candidates in clinical trials -- Perspectives -- Annex -- Data sources and methods…”
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Fantastic Realities : 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm. by Wilczek, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Virtual Particles; 45. Gluon Rap; 46. Reply In Sonnet Form; 47. From Beneath An e-Avalanche; 48. …”
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Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. by Warnke, Ingo

Table of Contents: “…A case study of place-making in German rap music; Graffiti als Eroberungsstrategie im urbanen Raum.…”
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Linguistic diversity and cultural identity : a global perspective

Table of Contents: “…Fasching-Varner -- An investigation of individual networks of linguistic contact among Vietnamese origin children in Australia / Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen and Quynh Lê -- The language rights of Indigenous languages: an approach to maintaining Indonesia's linguistic and cultural diversity / Handoyo Puji Widodo and Aan Erlyana Fardhani -- The future of Low German -- results from a sociolinguistic field study / Heiko Wiggers -- Preserving one's mother tongue: second and third generation Native language loss in immigrant families / Brian O'Sullivan -- Vietnamese person reference system as an appraisal resource / Thu Thi Bich Ngo and Len Unsworth -- The significance of the pan-cultural factors of self-concept, friendship, and emotional development on students' learning and identity / Ian Hay and Nathan Simmons -- Linguistic shock: a challenge to language learning / Si Fan, Yongming Shi and Thao Lê -- Rap music: language, culture and identity / Yang Yang, Sun Hee Jang and Hoang Boi Nguyen -- Music and empowerment: educational and cultural perspectives / Mark Huy Lê -- Impoliteness and face: the pragmatics of insulting in Cameroon Pidgin English / Joseph Nkwain and Thao Lê -- International students in a new cultural environment / Yun Yue and Quynh Lê -- Global migration: linguistic and social challenges / Robert MacLeod and Quynh Lê -- English language teaching materials and learners' cultural identity / Sasan Baleghizadeh -- A critical perspective on the representation of racial identities in business English course books / Sarah Bedford -- How to research street kids? …”
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