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  • Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

    by Mick Short ...
    Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Corpus Stylistics

    Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

    by Elena Semino, Mick Short ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'.This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exploring the Language of Drama

    From Text to Context

    Edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk ...
    Series series Interface
    Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Making Sense of Narrative Text

    Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

    by Michael Toolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • English Historical Linguistics

    Approaches and Perspectives

    Edited by Laurel J. Brinton ...
    Written by an international team of leading scholars, this engaging textbook on the study of English historical linguistics is uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches and perspectives. Each chapter features textboxes, case studies, suggestions for further reading and exercises, enabling students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and guiding them on ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Stylistics

    by Richard Bradford ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form * how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century * the role of stylistics in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Metaphor

    by David Punter ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.In this fascinating volume, David Punter:establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The English Writing System

    by Vivian J Cook ...
    Series series The English Language Series
    English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize the wealth of existing linguistic research both on and in English. Each volume in the series ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes

    Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis

    by Michael Parsons ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique.In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes, Michael Parsons explores the tension of this paradox. As they respond to it and struggle to sustain creatively, analysts discover their individual identities. The work of outstanding clinicians ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Linguistics and the Teacher

    Edited by Ronald Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and systematic analysis in the study of the role of language in learning. The essays range from theoretical ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Literature with a Small 'l': Developing Thinking Skills in Language Teaching and Learning

    by John McRae ...
    For decades, the traditional "four skills" approach to language learning and teaching has focused on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The one huge omission, the all-important thinking skill, has been left out of most methodological approaches. But all learners, teachers, and workers in the field know the vital importance of the humanist skills. Interpretation, sympathy and empathy, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

    by Margaret Coulthard ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. This first six chapters report and evaluate major theoretical advances in the description of discourse. The final chapters demonstrate how the findings of discourse analysis can be used to investigate second-language teaching and first-language acquisition and to analyse literary texts. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD