Investigating English Discourse: Language, Literacy, Literature

Author:   Ronald Carter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415140652


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 October 1997
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Author:   Ronald Carter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 139.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9780415140652


ISBN 10:   041514065
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
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Part I Language, Discourse and ‘English’; Introduction1 Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1 The text of this Chapter was first delivered as an inaugural lecture at the University of Nottingham on 3 December 1992. Some of the characteristics of the spoken discourse of its delivery have been retained in this written version; the Chapter is also a modified version of a paper published in English in Education, 27, 3 (1993).; Chapter 2 This Chapter was first published in Carter, R. (ed.) Knowledge about Language and the Curriculum: The LINC Reader (Hodder and Stoughton, Sevenoaks, 1990).; Chapter 3 This Chapter is a modified version of a paper of the same title in Hasan, R. and Williams, G. (eds) literacy in Society(Longman, 1996). It was originally delivered as a plenary paper to the annual conference of the Australian Applied Linguistics Association, Sydney, July 1992.; Chapter 4 This Chapter is an extensively revised version of a paper entitled ‘Standard Englishes in speech and writing’ previously published in Hayhoe, M. and Parker, S. (eds) Who Owns English? (Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1994).; Chapter 5 This Chapter has not previously been published. It is based on a plenary paper delivered at a conference on ‘Language and Knowledge’ at the National University of Singapore in September 1996.; postscripts1 Postscripts and Prospects; Part II Literature, Discourse and ‘English’; Introduction2 Introduction to Part II; overview Overview: ‘Lang’ and ‘Lit’: Interpreting Discourse; Chapter 6 This Chapter is a re-edited version of a paper with the same title in Steele, R. and Threadgold, T. (eds) Language Topics: Essays Presented to Michael Halliday, Vol. 2 ().; Chapter 7 This Chapter is a rewritten version of a paper entitled ‘Clines of metaphoricity and creative metaphors as situated risk taking’ first published in Journal of Literary Semantics, 17, 2 (1988). The original paper was co-written with Rukmini Bhaya and Michael Toolan and I am grateful to my co-authors

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Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham and was National Co-ordinator of the 'Language in the National Curriculum' Project (LINC) from 1989-1992. He has published extensively and is the editor of the Interface and co-editor of the Intertext series, both published by Routledge.

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