An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and assists students in the analysis of written texts. By looking at the technique and the craft of writing, Language in Literature examines the ways in which language is organized to create particular meanings or effects.
An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and assists students in the analysis o...
Since the 1990s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has taken hold and accrued an exceptional ammount attention in and across a number of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This collection collects: the most influential shorter pieces which adopt a CDA approach; some of the most influential antecedent essays and articles; critiques of CDA which clarify what is central and what is peripheral, what is theoretically well-grounded and what is fragile; and pieces which illustrate applications of the CDA principles and methods. A new index and chronological table of contents...
Since the 1990s, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has taken hold and accrued an exceptional ammount attention in and across a number of academic disc...
Language Teaching demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of interactants interpretive behaviour, mean that it radically reconceptualizes language learning and language teaching. Detractors have implied that IL is so philosophical or theoretical an...
Language Teaching demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of langua...
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In "Total Speech," Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same time, Toolan extends the integrationalist argument and calls for a radical change in contemporary theorizing about language and...
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how langu...
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In "Total Speech," Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the same time, Toolan extends the integrationalist argument and calls for a radical change in contemporary theorizing about language and...
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how langu...
