1st Edition

Introduction to English Across Contexts A Practical Guide to Language as Code, Social Tool, and Medium of Meaning

By Michele Sala Copyright 2027
322 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research. Organised into three thematic parts, it explores language as a code (focusing on its structural regularities and patterns of use), as interaction (examining... Read more

Introduction: Language, meaning and communication Part I: Language as a code Part II. Language in interaction Part III. Language and reality representation References Index

Biography

Michele Sala is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bergamo, Italy.