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Studying language : English in action / Urszula Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on the English languagePublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: xi, 186 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403922071
  • 9781403922076
  • 140392208X
  • 9781403922083
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420.72 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1408 .C5224 2007
Online resources: Summary: "Studying Language introduces key ideas and current critical debates about how English functions within its social and cultural contexts, and provides practical examples and guidance on how to approach further work in these topics. It introduces the core topics of language study: language variation, pragmatics, stylistics, critical discourse analysis, language and gender, and language and education. Each chapter includes case studies providing worked analysis of sample texts, suggestions for further project work and research and an annotated further reading section."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.

"Studying Language introduces key ideas and current critical debates about how English functions within its social and cultural contexts, and provides practical examples and guidance on how to approach further work in these topics. It introduces the core topics of language study: language variation, pragmatics, stylistics, critical discourse analysis, language and gender, and language and education. Each chapter includes case studies providing worked analysis of sample texts, suggestions for further project work and research and an annotated further reading section."--Publisher description.

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