The Routledge English Language Introductions series provides a one-stop resource for students of all areas of language and linguistic study. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, books in the series offer activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. Each book contains an introduction, development, exploration and extension section and includes real texts from a wide range of sources. An innovative 'two-dimensional' design enables easy and flexible use. A companion website will be launched to coincide with publication of the book....
The Routledge English Language Introductions series provides a one-stop resource for students of all areas of language and linguistic study. Assuming ...
The Routledge English Language Introductions series provides a one-stop resource for students of all areas of language and linguistic study. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, books in the series offer activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. Each book contains an introduction, development, exploration and extension section and includes real texts from a wide range of sources. An innovative 'two-dimensional' design enables easy and flexible use. A companion website will be launched to coincide with publication of the book....
The Routledge English Language Introductions series provides a one-stop resource for students of all areas of language and linguistic study. Assuming ...
Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona; it can be a common ground between people or can be used as a divide between social groups. This Companion is for anyone who is interested in how and why people speak and write with such diversity.
The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics includes articles by leading scholars in the field on:
methods of observation and analysis
social correlates
socio-psychological factors
socio-political...
Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona; it can be a ...
Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to literature has achieved in recent years. Taking key familiar concepts such as characterisation, tone, empathy, and identification, the book describes the natural experience of literary reading in a thorough and principled way. Accessibly and informatively written, Texture draws on stylistics, psycholinguistics, critical theory and neurology to explore the nature of reading verbal art. The aim is a new cognitive...
Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness whi...
Can it be true Roger Waite has witnessed his wife s suicide? Or has he rid himself of an albatross? Sheriff Detective Marcus Jefferson investigates a shooting and discovers a complex family. His investigation uncovers a younger sister, a dead ringer for the older sister and other suicide attempts by Mary Waite. Has the pressure of two children and a frustrated husband pushed Mary to the brink of disaster and mercilessly shoved her over? Does Roger desire losing his crazy wife to gain a younger more stable version? Would Victoria kill her sister to have Roger?
Motives abound in...
Can it be true Roger Waite has witnessed his wife s suicide? Or has he rid himself of an albatross? Sheriff Detective Marcus Jefferson investigates...
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible two-dimensional structure is built around four sections introduction, development, exploration and extension which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on...
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.
Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible two-dimensional structure is built around four sections introduction, development, exploration and extension which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on...
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.