The Language of Speech and Writing

ISBN-13: 9780415231671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 144 str.

Ronald Carter

Opis

This textbook is an addition to the Routledge Intertext series and offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, it combines practical activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and suggestions for further study. Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, The Language of Speech and Writing analyzes the processes involved in writing and speaking; highlights the differences between these two modes of communication; explores written texts including legal documents and recipes and instruction manuals; explores spoken texts including telephone conversations, interviews and television programmes; and explores mixed-mode texts including email, advertisements and election publicity.

Recenzje

'Would easily capture the attention of students new to language study ... an excellent introduction to text and discourse analysis, liable to stir up interest in the workings of the texts that surround us daily.' - Laurel Smith Stvan, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

O autorze

Sandra Cornbleet is a part-time Lecturer at Nottingham University and Examiner for various English Language examination boards. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at Nottingham University and author of numerous books in the area of applied linguistics. He is also involved in developing the CANCODE project, which is a corpus of five million words of spoken English transcribed and stored computationally.