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Author: Tony Bex Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134839960 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 302
Book Description
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature * provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory * proposes a challenging new way of analysing genre which emphasises communicative function * unusually, considers the relevance of linguistic theories of genre to the study of literary texts. * includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies Variety in Written Discourse will be of interest to all students of language and communication. In addition, it will be an invaluable text for those interested in literature, as well as English for Specific Purposes.
Author: Tony Bex Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134839960 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 302
Book Description
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature * provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory * proposes a challenging new way of analysing genre which emphasises communicative function * unusually, considers the relevance of linguistic theories of genre to the study of literary texts. * includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies Variety in Written Discourse will be of interest to all students of language and communication. In addition, it will be an invaluable text for those interested in literature, as well as English for Specific Purposes.
Author: Tony Bex Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134839979 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature * provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory * proposes a challenging new way of analysing genre which emphasises communicative function * unusually, considers the relevance of linguistic theories of genre to the study of literary texts. * includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies Variety in Written Discourse will be of interest to all students of language and communication. In addition, it will be an invaluable text for those interested in literature, as well as English for Specific Purposes.
Author: Peter French Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1349227234 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 283
Book Description
This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for commentary and analysis. There are further practical activities and new sections on areas such as 'politically correct' usage.
Author: William Fitzgerald Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022629949X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
The distinguished classicist William Fitzgerald examines the concept, value and practice of variety in Latin literature and its reception. He argues that variety was an important value in ancient aesthetic discourse and played a significant role in thinking about, among other things, nature, rhetoric, pleasure and empire. Fitzgerald explains how a discourse of variety passed from Latin writers into the post-classical world up to the modern age, in which words like choice and diversity have taken over its work, though with associative meanings that are much different."
Author: William Robert O'Donnell Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415084377 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
This newly up-dated second edition provides a concise and comprehensive exploration of the complex variations to which a language is subject. The English language has spread a lot over the last few centuries and this takes
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