Using English
From Conversation to Canon
Published on 6. June 1996
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-415-13119-3 (ISBN)
Description
English is used the world over by people at work, play and in artistic endeavours. In this book, the second in the series of four, writers from a range of academic disciplines examine a wide variety of texts and discourses, from everyday conversation to the literary canon.
Topics include:
* everyday conversation
* English in the workplace
* English and Rhetoric
* literacy practices in English
* English and popular culture
* what makes English into art? * language and literature
Highly interdisciplinary in approach, it provides a coherent introduction to the ways in which language is shaped and used in practice. This book will be an invaluable text for all students of Language, Communication Studies, Literacy and Literature.
Topics include:
* everyday conversation
* English in the workplace
* English and Rhetoric
* literacy practices in English
* English and popular culture
* what makes English into art? * language and literature
Highly interdisciplinary in approach, it provides a coherent introduction to the ways in which language is shaped and used in practice. This book will be an invaluable text for all students of Language, Communication Studies, Literacy and Literature.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-13119-3 (9780415131193)
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Book
06/1996
Routledge
€50.94
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Content
Everday conversations, Janet Maybin; literacy practices, Mike Baynham; English at work, Neil Mercer; performance, persuasion and construction, Robin Wooffitt; what makes language into art?; English canons, Janet Maybin; a tongue for sighing, Jane Miller; language, art and popular culture, Guy Cook.