Date: 24-May-2007 From: Shereen Muhyeddeen <s.muhyeddeenpalgrave.com> Subject: Studying Language: Clark
Title: Studying Language
Subtitle: English in Action
Series Title: Perspectives on the English Language
Published: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
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 areas. It introduces 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 an annotated further reading section.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics