African American Literacies

By Elaine Richardson

African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture.
Drawing on personal...

Published November 7th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

By Eric Partridge Edited by Paul Beale

The definitive work on slang and unconventional English, this edition is fully revised and updated by Paul Beale and includes some 500 new entries. The...

Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge.

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Working with Specialized Language

A Practical Guide to Using Corpora

By Lynne Bowker, Jennifer Pearson

Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language.
The resources and techniques used to...

Published August 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language

By Thomas Cable

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language.
Each chapter in the...

Published June 27th 2002 by Informa Healthcare.

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Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors

By P.R. Wilkinson

This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information...

Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge.

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Critical Discourse Analysis

Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Michael J. Toolan, Michael Toolan

Over the last decade, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has accrued an exceptional amount of attention across a wide number of academic disciplines within the humanities...

Published May 23rd 2002 by Routledge.

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The Language of Newspapers

By Danuta Reah

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. The core book, Working with Texts, is the foundation...

Published May 16th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Language of Advertising

Written Texts

By Angela Goddard

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. The core book, Working with Texts, is the foundation...

Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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Grammar and Vocabulary

A Resource Book for Students

By Howard Jackson

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, these books offer an accessible overview...

Published March 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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A University Course in English Grammar

By Angela Downing, Philip Locke

This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as...

Published March 22nd 2002 by Routledge.

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