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Working with Texts A Core Introduction to Language Analysis Ronald Carter, University of Nottingham, UK, Angela Goddard, York St John University, UK, Danuta Reah, Chief Examiner for English A-Level, Keith Sanger and Nikki Swift, York St John University, UK Edited by Adrian Beard, York St John University, UK Series: Intertext Praise for previous editions: ’A most flexible book ... An invaluable resource both for the quality and presentation of its source material and for the clarity and economy of its writing.’ – Renee Stanton, The English and Media Magazine ’[This] book ... give[s] the serious student not only a wide range of knowledge, but also a high degree of communicative competence.’ – Jean-Pierre van Noppen, Linguistics and Poetics Journal The core textbook in the popular Intertext series, Working with Texts introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through real text examples. Featuring a wealth of contemporary examples of English in use, the book is supported by clear and accessible explanation and commentary. In this new edition, not only have all units been thoroughly revised and updated, but there is also more focus on texts from new technologies and some corpus data, and greater emphasis on theoretical principles ensures evenness of level. Selected Contents: 1. Signs 2. Sounds 3. Words & Things 4. Sentences & Structure 5. Text & Context: Written Discourse 6. Text & Context: Spoken Discourse 7. Applications January 2008: 246x174: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-41421-0: £60.00 Pb: 978-0-415-41424-1: £16.99 Includes real text examples to engage students
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The Language and Literature Reader Edited by Peter Stockwell and Ronald Carter, both at University of Nottingham, UK 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 of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the new theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s, to the most recent and contemporary work in the field. Each article contains a brief introduction by the editors situating it in the context of developing work in the discipline and glossing it in terms of the section and of the book as a whole. The final section concludes with a ’history and manifesto’, written by the editors, which places developments in the area of stylistics within a brief history of the field and offers a polemical perspective on the future of a growing and influential discipline. April 2008: 246x174: 352pp Hb: 978-0-415-41002-1: £70.00 Pb: 978-0-415-41003-8: £22.99
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