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  • Progeny

    When You Grow Up You Can be Anything That You Want To Be

    by Ronald Carter ...
    As a child growing up in Philadelphia, I always wondered what I wanted to be when I became an adult. I had watched so much television depicting African Americans having menial job positions. Then I began to realize that the answer was right in front of me. It could’ve bitten me if it was a snake. I also watched many programs on television showcasing African American men and women in the sports ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Language and Literature Reader

    The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar.Divided into three sections, Foundations, Developments and New Directions, the Reader provides an overview ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Only Women Can Save the World

    by Ronald Carter ...
    Only Women Can Save the World-all women have to come together to make this happen. This book is to uplift the thinking of women and to motivate them to get the job done. Man is so out of control, you as a woman must be Lord God like my mother, and take total control to save the world. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Analyse Texts

    A toolkit for students of English

    How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels.This textbook ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Vocabulary

    Applied Linguistic Perspectives

    by Ronald Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Language and Creativity

    The Art of Common Talk

    by Ronald Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Language and Creativity has become established as a pivotal text for courses in English Language, Linguistics and Literacy.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds. In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Ronald Carter explores the idea that creativity, far from ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Language, Literature and the Learner

    Creative Classroom Practice

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature can be used as a resource for language growth at secondary, intermediate and upper-intermediate ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Spoken Corpus Linguistics

    From Monomodal to Multimodal

    Series series Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
    In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in corpus research, the spoken language can reveal patterns of language use that are both different and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Vocabulary and Language Teaching

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    The material in this book reviews work dating back to the vocabulary control movement in the 1930s and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. Two chapters describe the main foundations of lexical semantics and relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography; and a further chapter discusses recent advances in the field of lexis and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Language as Discourse

    Perspectives for Language Teaching

    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural contexts in which they function. They argue that the functions of language are often best ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Language, Discourse and Literature

    An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

    Edited by Ronald Carter, Paul Simpson ...
    This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD