The Language of Speech and Writing

Name: The Language of Speech and Writing
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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

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

June 7th, 2001

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Primary & Secondary Education

Interest Age

From 17 to 18 years

Pages

144

Series

Intertext

Dimensions

174x246x9

ISBN-13

9780415231671

Product ID

1740835

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