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Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or...
Published October 16th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Interface
In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English.Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of...
Published September 11th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Interface
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...
Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
Series: English Language: Past, Present and Future
In this book, writers from a range of academic disciplines examine a wide variety of text and discourse: from everyday conversation to the literary canon....
Published June 5th 1996 by Routledge
Series: English Language: Past, Present and Future
The story of English is often presented as one of progress: from a set of Germanic dialects to a fully-fledged national and international language. The emphasis in this book is on the diversity of English throughout its history and the changing social meanings of different varieties of English....
Published April 3rd 1996 by Routledge
Reading Images provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, Kress and van Leeunwen examine the ways in which images communicate meaning....
Published March 27th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Language Workbooks
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. Language Change: covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks...
Published April 27th 1994 by Routledge
Published March 16th 1994 by Routledge
In this original Thesaurus, the author's definition of "metaphors" is usefully broad and covers a wide variety of figurative language. Offering explanations and derivations, the volume contains around 20,000 traditional English sayings - including metaphors, similes, proverbs, catch phrases, idioms...
Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
Published September 30th 1992 by Garland Science
