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1. Language and Creativity

   The Art of Common Talk

   By Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Working with Texts

   A Core Introduction to Language Analysis

   By Maggie Bowring, Ronald Carter, Angela Goddard, Danuta Reah, Keith Sanger

   Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words, sentence grammar and discourse construction.The wide...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Spoken Corpus Linguistics

   From Monomodal to Multimodal

   By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Vocabulary

   Applied Linguistic Perspectives

   By Ronald Carter

   This new edition builds upon these foundations and develops further understanding of a key area of applied linguistics, with updated chapters on:* vocabulary and language teaching* dictionaries and lexicography* the literary study of vocabulary.It also includes new material on:* the relationship...

   Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Vocabulary

   Applied Linguistic Perspectives

   By Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Linguistics and the Teacher

   Edited by Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Language and Literature Reader

   Edited by Ronald Carter, Peter Stockwell

   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....

   Published April 6th 2008 by Routledge
8. Working with Texts

   A Core Introduction to Language Analysis

   By Ronald Carter, Angela Goddard, Danuta Reah, Keith Sanger, Nikki Swift

   Edited by Adrian Beard

   Series: Intertext

   Working with Texts is a well established textbook that introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through contemporary text examples. Covering a wide range of language areas, the book uses an interactive, activity-based approach to support students' understanding of language...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
9. Trust the Text

   Language, Corpus and Discourse

   By John Sinclair

   Edited by Ronald Carter

   John Sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for students.This accessible book collects in one volume Sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis patterns, phraseology, corpus analysis, lexicography and linguistic theory from the...

   Published June 9th 2004 by Routledge
10. Language and Creativity

    The Art of Common Talk

    By Ronald Carter

    Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising. In Language and Creativity Ronald Carter...

    Published January 28th 2004 by Routledge