Takes an original look at what happens when speakers of different varieties of English interact with one another.
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Barbara Fox's thoughtful study examines the use of anaphora in both written and spoken discourse. Any treatment of anaphora must consider the hierarchical of its source texts-type. Texts may be produced and heard or read linearly, but they are designed and understood hierarchica…
This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use. It has been designed to complement functional grammars of English, building on the generation o…
Estudio sobre las fuentes del discurso en la lingüística inglesa, el sistema y la estructura del texto, a través de análisis prácticos aplicados a tres puntos: lingüística educacional, crítica lingüística y lingüística computacional.
This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as wel…
"Separate and Unequal argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial op…
This book argues for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the language of judges with respect to the issue of gender discrimination. Drawing its inspiration from Dell Hymes' socially constituted linguistics, the author examines the language of the judicial opinions of fo…
Evaluation in context
by Thompson, Geoff, Alba-Juez, Laura
fromPragmatics & beyond. New series
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"It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little #x96; if any #x96; discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developmen…