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  • 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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  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Introducing English Language

    A Resource Book for Students

    by Louise Mullany, Peter Stockwell ...
    Series series Routledge English Language Introductions
    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 ... Read more

    $63.99 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

  • Impoliteness

    Using Language to Cause Offence

    by Jonathan Culpeper ...
    Series Book 28 - Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
    When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Single Woman

    A Discursive Investigation

    by Jill Reynolds ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society. Most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a committed partner relationship. Yet there is still a degree of social stigma attached to this status. Single women are a crucial group for study in relation to perceived changes in family life and relationships. This ... Read more

    $77.99 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

  • Teaching English Literature 16-19

    An essential guide

    by Carol Atherton, Andrew Green, Gary Snapper ...
    Series series National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
    Teaching English Literature 16 – 19 is an essential new resource that is suitable for use both as an introductory guide for those new to teaching literature and also as an aid to reflection and renewal for more experienced teachers. Using the central philosophy that students will learn best when actively engaged in discussion and encouraged to apply what they have learnt independently, this highly ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Metaphor

    by L. David Ritchie ...
    Series series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
    'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, pragmatists, discourse analysts and also those working at the interface of language and literature and in other disciplines such as philosophy and psychology. This book provides a summary, critique ... Read more

    $42.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics

    Edited by Peter Stockwell, Sara Whiteley ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary ... Read more

    $185.39 USD