Using English from conversation to canon / edited by Janet Maybin and Neil Mercer. - vi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index.

Book editors and contributors -- Introduction -- Everyday talk -- Literacy practices in English -- English at work -- Rhetoric in English -- What makes English into art? -- Language play in English -- An English canon? -- A tongue, for sighing -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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English language--Social aspects--English-speaking countries--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Spoken English--English-speaking countries--Problems, exercises, etc.
Intercultural communication--Problems, exercises, etc.
English philology--Problems, exercises, etc.
Canon (Literature)--Problems, exercises, etc.
Readers--Language and languages
Readers--English philology

PE1074.75 / .U85 1996

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