Texts Through History

By Adele Wills

Texts Through History:

* provides students with the skills they need to analyze the historical context of a text, without relying on extra research
* introduces some...

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Language of Schooling

A Functional Linguistics Perspective

By Mary J. Schleppegrell

This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling. It demonstrates that the variety of English expected at school differs from...

Published March 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Family Stories and the Life Course

Across Time and Generations

Edited by Michael W. Pratt, Barbara H. Fiese

This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of...

Published March 16th 2004 by Routledge.

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Language Change

By Adrian Beard

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second...

Published February 12th 2004 by Routledge.

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Language and Creativity

The Art of Common Talk

By Ronald Carter

Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.
Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as...

Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

Edited by Rebecca Rogers

This landmark text is the first introduction to concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis for educational researchers. The central premise is that critical discourse...

Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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Linguistics Encyclopedia

Edited by Kirsten Malmkjaer

The Linguistics Encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised and updated and a substantial new introduction, which forms a concise history of the field, has been added.
The...

Published January 8th 2004 by Routledge.

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Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning

By Ference Marton, Amy B.M. Tsui, Pakey P.M. Chik, Po Yuk Ko, Mun Ling Lo

Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning is about learning in schools and the central role of language in learning. The investigations of learning it...

Published January 5th 2004 by Routledge.

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Analysing Political Discourse

Theory and Practice

By Paul Chilton

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we...

Published December 11th 2003 by Routledge.

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

By Daniel Hole

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific...

Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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