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1. Narrative

   A Critical Linguistic Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Michael J Toolan

   Series: Interface

   Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed. Topics examined include plot structure, time manipulations, point of...

   Published July 25th 2001 by Routledge
2. Exploring the Language of Drama

   From Text to Context

   Edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk

   Series: Interface

   Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.The...

   Published May 27th 1998 by Routledge
3. Patterns in Language

   Stylistics for Students of Language and Literature

   By Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing

   Series: Interface

   Patterns in Language addresses the real needs of students in modular systems who may not have a background either in traditional literature or in linguistic theory.This student-friendly textbook uses the principles of linguistic analysis to investigate the aesthetic use of language in literary (and...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
4. Language Through Literature

   An Introduction

   By Paul Simpson

   Series: Interface

   Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
5. English in Speech and Writing

   Investigating Language and Literature

   By Rebecca Hughes

   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
6. Variety in Written English

   Texts in Society/Societies in Text

   By Tony Bex

   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
7. Twentieth-Century Fiction

   From Text to Context

   By Peter Verdonk, Jean Jacques Weber

   Series: Interface

   By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insights available to student readers. The analytical and interpretive strategies examined in this book are not intended to be prescriptive, rather they...

   Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge
8. Feminist Stylistics

   By Sara Mills

   Series: Interface

   Published June 21st 1995 by Routledge
9. Textual Intervention

   Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies

   By Rob Pope

   Series: Interface

   This user-friendly yet challenging text provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. Thoroughly dialogic in approach, it draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory and creative writing....

   Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge
10. Twentieth-Century Poetry

    From Text to Context

    Edited by Peter Verdonk

    Series: Interface

    This textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to the practice of literary stylistics. It is based on extensive teaching experience, and makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary...

    Published September 22nd 1993 by Routledge