Pride And Profit

Author : Alexandre Duchêne,Monica Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415888592

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Language in Late Capitalism by Alexandre Duchêne,Monica Heller Pdf

This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific characteristics of the globalized new economy in what can be thought of as "late capitalism". Through ten ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the complex ways in which older nationalist ideologies which invest language with value as a source of pride get bound up with newer neoliberal ideologies which invest language with value as a source of profit. The complex interaction between these modes of mobilizing linguistic resources challenges some of our ideas about globalization, hinting that we are in a period of intensification of modernity, in which the limits of the nation-State are stretched, but not (yet) undone. At the same time, this book argues, this intensification also calls into question modernist ways of looking at language and identity, requiring a more serious engagement with capitalism and how it constitutes symbolic (including linguistic) as well as material markets.

Author : Gerald R. Gems
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0810836858

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For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy by Gerald R. Gems Pdf

Sports history has emerged as a popular study over the past quarter century, and scholars have fueled this interest by providing a wealth of information on baseball and its role in American culture. Despite this increasing focus on the connection between sports and societal values, football, the sport that emerged in the late nineteenth century and merged the values of winning and commercialization with the culture of higher education, has been left relatively unexplored. This gap in sports history has left many questions unanswered, including football's link to American cultural values. Gerald R. Gems has filled this gap in sports history with his latest title, For Pride, Profit, and Patriarchy: Football and the Incorporation of American Cultural Values. This intriguing resource covers a host of issues including the rise of football, football and feminism, militarism and leadership training, and multiculturalism in football. A broad and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which football addressed the cultural and ideological tensions within American society during its period of development and consolidation after the Civil War, this study is ideal for everyone from the football enthusiast to the general reader.

Author : Cecil E. Bohanon,Michelle Albert Vachris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capitalism and literature
ISBN : OCLC:1412649772

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Pride and Profit by Cecil E. Bohanon,Michelle Albert Vachris Pdf

Author : Alexandre Duchêne,Monica Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136581687

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Language in Late Capitalism by Alexandre Duchêne,Monica Heller Pdf

This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific characteristics of the globalized new economy in what can be thought of as "late capitalism". Through ten ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the complex ways in which older nationalist ideologies which invest language with value as a source of pride get bound up with newer neoliberal ideologies which invest language with value as a source of profit. The complex interaction between these modes of mobilizing linguistic resources challenges some of our ideas about globalization, hinting that we are in a period of intensification of modernity, in which the limits of the nation-State are stretched, but not (yet) undone. At the same time, this book argues, this intensification also calls into question modernist ways of looking at language and identity, requiring a more serious engagement with capitalism and how it constitutes symbolic (including linguistic) as well as material markets.

Author : American Poland-China Record Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094269069

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American Poland-China Record by American Poland-China Record Association Pdf

Author : Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400049851

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Why Pride Matters More Than Money by Jon R. Katzenbach Pdf

The book that turns our understanding of motivation on its head . . . and shows why most companies get it wrong. There are few people with more experience and accumulated wisdom about the inner workings of business and how people can work together more effectively than Jon Katzenbach. His groundbreaking research has resulted in several important books, including The Wisdom of Teams and Real Change Leaders. Over the past several years he has turned his attention to one of the perennial questions of leaders everywhere: How do I motivate my employees? Most everyone frets about how to devise schemes that will keep the troops revved up. Conventional wisdom—or at least the practice at most companies—often centers on money as the primary motivating force. Many also rely on intimidation, which like money generally has a short-term impact. But what Katzenbach has found in his research at many organizations is that both of these practices do little to build the long-term sustainability of an organization. For that you need a powerful force that has been—until this point—understood by few managers and implemented by fewer still: pride. From the front lines to the executive suite, most people are motivated by feelings of accomplishment, approval, and camaraderie. It’s why the best employees strive well beyond performance levels that will yield them higher pay and why most true professionals relentlessly avoid retirement. Why does Southwest Airlines consistently turn in the highest levels of performance and profitability of any company in the airline business? What can the U.S. Marines teach us about individual commitment that can be used in the for-profit world? How is General Motors overcoming its history of labor-management enmity through the efforts of “pride-builders” from both the union and the management side? By drawing on what he has learned from these and many other organizations, Jon Katzenbach provides a practical program for understanding the role of pride: • Money is not the motivator most people think it is: Katzenbach shows why pay-for-performance programs by themselves result in employees who focus on self-serving behavior and skin-deep organizational commitment. • Money tends to be a short-term motivational device and works best during times of growth, but pride works in bad times as well as good. • Cultivating pride is an investment that yields high returns on workforce performance over time and is not nearly as costly as relying solely on monetary compensation and the turnover risks that accompany a “show me the money” culture. Katzenbach shares unique insights and specifics about how the best mid-level pride-builders take advantage of the world’s greatest motivational force even in environments as challenging as General Motors and Aetna. He shows how managers at every level are missing a powerful lever if they are not instilling pride as a primary force for building their organization. Also available as an eBook.

Author : Gaëlle Planchenault
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472588043

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Voices in the Media by Gaëlle Planchenault Pdf

Verbal performances are often encountered in the media where they are used to embody characters or social archetypes. Performed voices define the norm as well as the linguistic Others and by doing so circulate associated values and linguistic ideologies. This book explores the idea that, far from simply being exercises in verbal skill and flair, performances of social, ethnic or gendered voices in the media not only have the power to accomplish ideological work, they are also sites of linguistic tension and negotiation. Critically examining performances of French voices in the media, this book raises the following questions: - How are repertoires of voices constructed and subsequently perpetuated in the media? - How do the stereotypic personae these voices contribute to build become familiar to national as well as transnational audiences? - How do such performed voices reproduce hegemonic ideologies of standard and non-standard languages and participate in the perpetuation of social discriminations? - How are these performed voices commodified into cultural products of otherness that may later be reclaimed by stigmatized communities? Following an innovative framework which allows for analysis of performances of varied voices and their impact in the media sphere, Voices in the Media offers a new approach to the linguistics of media performance.

Author : Mason Funk
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062571694

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The Book of Pride by Mason Funk Pdf

THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution. By shining a light on these remarkable stories of bravery and determination, THE BOOK OF PRIDE not only honors an important chapter in American history, but also empowers young people today (both LGBTQ and straight) to discover their own courage in order to create positive change. Furthermore, it serves a critically important role in ensuring the history of the LGBTQ movement can never be erased, inspiring us to resist all forms of oppression with ferocity, community, and, most importantly, pride

Author : Dr Abubakar S Kasum,Mr Samuel O Idowu,Prof Dr Asli Yüksel Mermod
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409466512

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People, Planet and Profit by Dr Abubakar S Kasum,Mr Samuel O Idowu,Prof Dr Asli Yüksel Mermod Pdf

It is no longer the case that it’s only society which benefits from CSR actions. A corporation actually helps itself when operating sustainably and does well because of its triple bottom line actions. The editors of People, Planet and Profit believe that whilst Corporate Social Responsibility is by now a familiar concept to academics or practitioners, insufficient attention has been paid to the end product of CSR in practice, which they define in terms of social and economic developmental effect. The contributions in this edited volume explain the developmental aspect of CSR from a conceptual perspective and provide empirical evidence of the impact of CSR delivery on stakeholders in different corners of the World. The emphasis is on what corporations take from and give back to their stakeholders whilst trying to behave in a corporately responsible fashion. Stakeholders, including employees, customers, host communities, governments and NGOs have diverse interests and expectations of CSR. This gives rise to questions about whether the activities corporations support are the ones today’s stakeholders need; whether the CSR programmes being delivered are adequate; and about the relationship between the corporations’ view of what constitutes CSR and that of the supposed beneficiaries. This book offers thoughtful answers to these questions and assesses the outcomes of corporate activities both in developed and developing countries and regions, in terms of economic progress and social and political advancement.

Author : Sonia N. Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190675448

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Linguistic Rivalries by Sonia N. Das Pdf

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal, Québec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In Montréal, a city with more trilingual speakers than in any other North American city, Tamil migrants draw on their multilingual repertoires to navigate longstanding linguistic rivalries between anglophone and francophone, and Indian and Sri Lankan nationalist leaders by arguing that Indians speak "Spoken Tamil" and Sri Lankans speak "Written Tamil" as their respective heritage languages. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and linguistic methods to compare and contrast the communicative practices and language ideologies of Tamil heritage language learning in Hindu temples, Catholic churches, public schools, and community centers, this book demonstrates how processes of sociolinguistic differentiation are mediated by ethnonational, religious, class, racial, and caste hierarchies. Indian Tamils showcase their use of the "cosmopolitan" sounds and scripts of colloquial varieties of Tamil to enhance their geographic and social mobilities, whereas Sri Lankan Tamils, dispossessed of their homes by civil war, instead emphasize the "primordialist" sounds and scripts of a pure "literary" Tamil to rebuild their homeland and launch a "global" critique of racism and environmental destruction from the diaspora. This book uses the ethnographic and archival study of Tamil mobility and immobility to expose the mutual constitution of elite and non-elite global modernities, defined as language ideological projects in which migrants objectify dimensions of time and space through scalar metaphors.

Author : Ohio Poland-China Record Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Poland-China swine
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094267774

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Ohio Poland-China Record by Ohio Poland-China Record Company Pdf

Author : Les Schwab
Publisher : Pacific Northwest Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 0892881518

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Les Schwab by Les Schwab Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015035035651

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Saturday Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kailyn Lowry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682612842

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Pride Over Pity by Kailyn Lowry Pdf

Kailyn Lowry, the feisty, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV's hit series Teen Mom 2, opens up in this raw memoir about her painful past and offers an inspiring account of a young girl's resolve to survive and succeed.

Author : Howard Luck Gossage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015035012619

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The Book of Gossage by Howard Luck Gossage Pdf

Thought provoking writings from The Socrates of San Francisco. With Stan Freberg and Jeff Goodby.