Author: Lee Bok
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing
ISBN: 1848398166
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Forget the jokes that have been doing the email rounds at work; Here is a collection of new Chav funnies.
Little Book of Chav Jokes
Author: Lee Bok
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing
ISBN: 1848398166
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Forget the jokes that have been doing the email rounds at work; Here is a collection of new Chav funnies.
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing
ISBN: 1848398166
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Forget the jokes that have been doing the email rounds at work; Here is a collection of new Chav funnies.
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World
Author: Julian Petley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623564050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with critically exploring moral panics in the contemporary world, it contains case studies instantly recognisable and familiar to a student readership (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and racism). The collection brings a fresh approach to analysis and argument by testing and extending the concept of moral panic and analyzing a range of topics and geographical contexts, accurately reflecting the state-of-the-art moral panics research today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623564050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with critically exploring moral panics in the contemporary world, it contains case studies instantly recognisable and familiar to a student readership (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and racism). The collection brings a fresh approach to analysis and argument by testing and extending the concept of moral panic and analyzing a range of topics and geographical contexts, accurately reflecting the state-of-the-art moral panics research today.
Chavs
Author: Owen Jones
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839760923
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from “salt of the earth” to “scum of the earth.” Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality. Based on a wealth of original research, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain. This updated edition includes a new chapter exploring the causes and consequences of the UK riots in the summer of 2011.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839760923
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain’s Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from “salt of the earth” to “scum of the earth.” Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality. Based on a wealth of original research, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain. This updated edition includes a new chapter exploring the causes and consequences of the UK riots in the summer of 2011.
Current Issues in Late Modern English
Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039116607
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039116607
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.
Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media
Author: Emilia Di Martino
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030968189
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations. The author then discusses the 'chav' label in light of recent re-appropriations in social network activity (particularly through the video-sharing app TikTok) and subsequent commentary in the public sphere. She traces the evolution of the term from its use during the first decade of the twenty-first century to make sense of class, status and cultural capital, to its resurgence and the ways in which it is still associated with appearance in gendered and classed ways. She then draws on recent developments in linguistic anthropology and embodied sociocultural linguistics to argue that social media users draw on communicative resources to perform identities that are both situated in specific contexts of discourse and dynamically changing, challenging the idea that geo-sociocultural varieties and mannerisms are the sole way of indexing membership of a community. This volume contends that equating 'chav' with 'underclass' in the most recent uses of the concept on social networks may not be the whole story, and the book will be of interest to sociocultural linguistics and identity researchers, as well as readers in anthropology, sociology, British studies, cultural studies, identity studies, digital humanities, and sociolinguistics.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030968189
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations. The author then discusses the 'chav' label in light of recent re-appropriations in social network activity (particularly through the video-sharing app TikTok) and subsequent commentary in the public sphere. She traces the evolution of the term from its use during the first decade of the twenty-first century to make sense of class, status and cultural capital, to its resurgence and the ways in which it is still associated with appearance in gendered and classed ways. She then draws on recent developments in linguistic anthropology and embodied sociocultural linguistics to argue that social media users draw on communicative resources to perform identities that are both situated in specific contexts of discourse and dynamically changing, challenging the idea that geo-sociocultural varieties and mannerisms are the sole way of indexing membership of a community. This volume contends that equating 'chav' with 'underclass' in the most recent uses of the concept on social networks may not be the whole story, and the book will be of interest to sociocultural linguistics and identity researchers, as well as readers in anthropology, sociology, British studies, cultural studies, identity studies, digital humanities, and sociolinguistics.
The Literary Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Diary of a Chav
Author: Grace Dent
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316042870
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316042870
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.
Chav!
Author: Mia Wallace
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817132
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Chav is an attitude, a way of life, a tribal thing and those in it have chosen to be there. Now, with this user's guide, you can check out the new cultural phenomenon that is sweeping Britain!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0553817132
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Chav is an attitude, a way of life, a tribal thing and those in it have chosen to be there. Now, with this user's guide, you can check out the new cultural phenomenon that is sweeping Britain!
Susan Boyle
Author: Aaron Fischer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409279251
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Susan Boyle, a feisty 47 year old church worker from Blackburn, Scotland, has become a global singing sensation after appearing on Britain's Got Talent in April 2009.Susan's incredible television debut has been watched by millions on YouTube and this book is the definitive collection of comments from the first few days.... some good, some bad and some "bloody fantastic!".
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409279251
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Susan Boyle, a feisty 47 year old church worker from Blackburn, Scotland, has become a global singing sensation after appearing on Britain's Got Talent in April 2009.Susan's incredible television debut has been watched by millions on YouTube and this book is the definitive collection of comments from the first few days.... some good, some bad and some "bloody fantastic!".
The All-American: A Novel
Author: Joe Milan Jr.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324035668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
“Joe Milan Jr. has rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere.” —Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph—full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom. Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad’s disappearance; he can’t even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the U.S. government to deport him to South Korea, he’s forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and as an outsider, Bucky has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn’t know he had. In an expat bar in Seoul, in the bleak barracks of his Korean military, on a remote island where an erratic sergeant fights a shadow-war with North Korean spies, and in the remote town where he seeks out his drunken, indebted biological father, Bucky has to assemble the building blocks of a new language and stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch. That means managing his ego, insecurities, sexual desires, family legacies, and allegiances in order to make it back home—wherever that might be—and determine who he is to himself, who he is to others, and what kind of man he wants to become.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324035668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
“Joe Milan Jr. has rocketed himself into the literary stratosphere.” —Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph—full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom. Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad’s disappearance; he can’t even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washington State with a tire tied to his waist, his sights are set on one all-American goal: to become a college football player. So when a misadventure with his adoptive family leads the U.S. government to deport him to South Korea, he’s forced to navigate an entirely foreign version of his life. One mishap leads to another, and as an outsider, Bucky has to fall back on not just his raw physical strength, but resources of character and attitude he didn’t know he had. In an expat bar in Seoul, in the bleak barracks of his Korean military, on a remote island where an erratic sergeant fights a shadow-war with North Korean spies, and in the remote town where he seeks out his drunken, indebted biological father, Bucky has to assemble the building blocks of a new language and stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch. That means managing his ego, insecurities, sexual desires, family legacies, and allegiances in order to make it back home—wherever that might be—and determine who he is to himself, who he is to others, and what kind of man he wants to become.