This book has considerable merits ...eminently  readable ...coheres as a whole remarkably well ...an extremely wide range of research and literature is covered ...recommended' - EFL Gazette Until recently, vocabulary has been relatively neglected as an area of language study. This book provides the necessary basis for further study of modern English vocabulary, with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and to educational contexts. A detailed and wide-ranging bibliography covers many aspects of lexis and modern English language studies. Part 1 : offers an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the modern lexicon in English Part 2 : reviews recent work on vocabulary in relation to literary stylistics, lexicography and vocabulary learning and teaching Part 3 : details two case studies

Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives (Aspects of English)

Reference

Carter, Ronald

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Unwin Hyman

This introductory text is a companion volume to "Language and Literature", integrating language and literary study to show how discourse analysis can contribute to an understanding of the creative use of the larger patterns of language. Making extensive use of progressive practical exercises designed to promote fully integrated literary and linguistic competence, the book draws on drama from Shakespeare to Pinter, poetry from Donne to Auden and novels from Joyce to non-canonical authors such as Flann O'Brien.

Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics

Routledge

Introducing Applied Linguistics an A-Z Guide

Penguin Group USA

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the end of the 20th century. It covers the works of novelists, dramatists, and poets from Chaucer to Shakespeare, Austen to Dickens, James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, right through to modern-day authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Roddy Doyle, and Irvine Welsh. Written specifically for non-native speakers of English, it offers many illustrations and literary extracts as well as glossaries of literary and cultural terms, a writer index, and a table showing the most important historical and literary events.

The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Literature & Fiction

McRae, John

British & Irish

Penguin Uk

This book provides an innovative analysis of English grammar in the spoken form. Hitherto, most grammars of English have relied heavily on the written language, and this excludes much normal spoken discourse, This work offers an alternative view of the structure of spoken English based on naturally-occurring language data. A Grammar of Speech has relevance for many areas related to linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and machine translation.

A Grammar of Speech (Oxford Applied Linguistics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sinclair, John

Brazil, David

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Evidence-based Health Communication

What is evidence-based health communication and how does it benefit patients? How has communication been taught to health professionals and how might it be improved? How can health care professionals make the most of short encounters in order to maximise their therapeutic effectiveness for clients? This book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the field of health communication and the kinds of evidence that have been collected concerning effective communication. It also critically evaluates the kinds of training health professionals receive in communication skills and examines its relatively limited role in the curriculum. In addition, it sets out what has been discovered about the micro-structure of interaction in health care encounters. The book offers vital new agendas for research training and practice in health care, based upon lessons learned from linguistics, using a wide variety of gathered evidence to identify patterns that will lead to improved health care practices. Moreover, the book focuses upon brief, ordinary and effective communicative activity in addition to the formal consultations that have been studied by researchers in the past. "Evidence-based Health Communication" is key reading for trainee health professionals as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of health studies, medical sociology and health psychology. It also provides stimulating reading for health care professionals, policy makers and researchers with an interest in improving health communication.

Evidence-Based Health Communication

Brown, Brian

Crawford, Paul

Sociology

Open University Press

This book has considerable merits ...eminently readable ...coheres as a whole remarkably well ...an extremely wide range of research and literature is covered ...recommended' - EFL Gazette Until recently, vocabulary has been relatively neglected as an area of language study. This book provides the necessary basis for further study of modern English vocabulary, with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and to educational contexts. A detailed and wide-ranging bibliography covers many aspects of lexis and modern English language studies. Part 1 : offers an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the modern lexicon in English Part 2 : reviews recent work on vocabulary in relation to literary stylistics, lexicography and vocabulary learning and teaching Part 3 : details two case studies

Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives

Words, Language & Grammar

Just what is Standard English? Is it correct English? Should grammar be taught?The answers to such questions invariably provoke controversy. In this handy A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like `proper English', `real books', `text', and `discourse', and the ways in which concepts are used - and abused - by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers.Each concise definition is cross-referenced, and supported by extensive examples and by references to further reading. Designed as a dictionary, but possessing an encyclopedic range, Keywords in Language and Literacy, provides an invaluable guide to the debates surrounding language and literacy. An indispensible book for all teachers and students of language and education, and anyone interested in the place of language in schools.

Keywords in Language and Literacy

This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish Literature uniquely charts some of the main features of literary language development and highlights key language topics. Clearly structured and highly readable, unlike traditional histories of literature it spans over a thousand years of literary history from AD 600 to the present day. It emphasizes the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and includes literature from the margins, both geographical and cultural. Key features of the book are: * an up-to-date guide to the major periods of literature in English in Britain and Ireland * extensive coverage of post-1945 literature * language notes spanning AD 600 to the present * extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama * a timeline of the important historical and political events This will be essential reading for all students of English literature and language.

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

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