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Working with Texts
This is a core book that provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of texts. ' ... It is informative, challenging, engaging and entertaining.'- M Toolan, University of Birmingham.
Working with Texts
Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words, sentence grammar and discourse construction. The wide range of texts examined include literary extracts from prose fiction (Jeanette Winterson, Anne Tyler), poetry (D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Atwood), drama (John Godber) and graphic novels (Neil Gaiman), but also a huge diversity of texts from contemporary media: newspaper articles, advertisements (Gap, Kelloggs), political speeches and original authentic materials (children's writing, signs, everyday ...
Language and Region
This indispensable guide to regional variation in the English language covers topical issues and examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry. Ideal for students, it also benefits from an accompanying website.
The Language of Work
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 edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.
Crossing Borders
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The Language of Humour
This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. The book also includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson.
Language and Gender
This study explores aspects of discourse and the way discourses in society represent ideas about the sexes. It reveals how texts are covertly gendered, with embedded ideas about the way men and women are.
The Teacher's Guide to Grammar
This guide focuses directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic training, this text provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context, with chapters on words, phrases, verbs and clauses.
The Language of Poetry
This accessible textbook is unique in offering students hands-on, practical experience of textual analysis focused on poetry. It combines activities with texts, commentaries and further activity suggestions.
The Language of Fiction
What makes literature? How does it work? How do we read it? This work explores these questions and varying literary styles and authorship. It deals with openings, point of view, speech, gender and pop fiction. The book includes a wide-range of literary extracts, from the classics of Hardy and Austen, to the contemporary work of Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Nick Hornby and Irvine Welsh.
