Overview

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on speech and writing. Written in a clear, user-friendly style, it combines practical activities with texts, accompanied by commentaries and suggestions for further study. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the series core textbook Working With Texts: A core introduction to language analysis . Aimed at A and AS Level and beginning undergraduate students, the Language of Speech and Writing : Analyses the processes involved in writing and speaking Highlights the differences between these two modes of communication Explores written texts from recipes to legal language, spoken texts from telephone conversations to interviews and mixed-mode texts from email to adverts Compares and contrasts spoken and written texts on the same theme

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Author:   Sandra Cornbleet (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Ronald Carter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.220kg
ISBN:  

9780415231671

ISBN 10:   0415231671
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 June 2001
Recommended Age:   From 17 to 18 years
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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A clear and readable introduction, with modern, wide-ranging and thorough examples...Academically rigorous and thought-provoking. <br>- Margaret Walker, Chief Examiner for English Literature A Level <br> An excellent introduction, well organised, accessible and readable. The book covers the central issues in this important (and developing) subject area. <br>-Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan <br> Not only does this book offer a balanced and thorough account of the formal and functional differences between speech and writing, it does so in a way that makes it a lively and accessible introductory textbook for the beginning student of English language studies. <br>-Paul Simpson, Queen's University, Belfast <br>

Author Information

Sandra Cornbleet is a part-time Lecturer at Nottingham University and Examiner for various English Language examination boards. Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at Nottingham University and author of numerous books in the area of applied linguistics. He is also involved in developing the CANCODE project, which is a corpus of five million words of spoken English transcribed and stored computationally.

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