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The rampaging female has become a new cliche in Hollywood cinema, a sexy beauty stabbing and shooting her way to box-office success. Fatal Attraction, Thelma and Louise, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Single White Female are a few of the recent mainstream films that have attracted huge audiences. Meanwhile, true accounts of a teenager shooting her lover's wife and a battered woman bludgeoning her husband to death get prime news media coverage--and are quickly made into TV movies.

This pioneering collection of essays looks at our enduring fascination with...

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THE ADVERT: Six months in the South of France, looking after elderly English lady while family travels. Separate en-suite accommodation. Must be a driver. Ideally 40+ and non smoker. All expenses paid. ME: Laura Bennett just 40 and been divorced longer than married. No dependents. Lease run out on my rented cottage. Sales job going nowhere. Time for a fresh start. So, I decided to go for it. I mean what could be simpler than looking after an 82 year old English lady? I had visions of gentle strolls to the boulangerie and compulsory siestas. But this was before I met Betty. She looked like...

Language and Context breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between register, genre and context. Leckie-Tarry argues convincingly and engagingly for a functional theory of language which specifies register in terms of contextual and linguistic features, and which suggests a discursive relationship between the two. Moving beyond the limits of much of today's theory, this accessible volume develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between text, context, langage function and linguistic form. Helen Leckie-Tarry, a specialist in the area of 'register and applied...