Product Description: How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts...read more

Product Description: Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and systematic analysis in the study of the role of language in learning...read more

Product Description: This edited collection brings together established and newer scholars who, collectively, are able to represent "the state of the art" on creativity in language.  Including a substantial introduction, section introductions and critical responses, this is a unique resource for students, encouraging critical dialogue and debate...read more

Product Description: English Grammar Today Workbook contains hundreds of varied tasks and exercises that help learners practise the most important features of the grammar in the English Grammar Today reference book. Ideal for B1-B2 (CEF) learners, the workbook has a simple A-Z structure and practises grammar points in context through authentic examples of spoken and written English taken from the Cambridge International Corpus...read more

Product Description: A major grammar reference book of modern English specially written for B1-B2 learners of English. This pack includes the English Grammar Today reference book with CD-ROM and an accompanying workbook. Written by a team of experts in the field, the reference book features hundreds of clear grammar explanations with authentic examples organised into an easy-to-use A-Z structure...read more

Product Description: This is one of the first books to comprehensively explore representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction. The five authors come from diverse backgrounds – literary studies, social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing – and as such the book's perspectives are informed through several discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline of Health Humanities. The ...read more

Product Description: A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar...read more

Product Description: The most balanced approach to human genetics to date, this resource features coverage of every major topic in human genetics, genomics, molecular genetics, medical genetics, and even ethical and societal issues related to genetics research and clinical application...read more

Product Description: From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular reference to the development of corpus-informed pedagogy...read more

Product Description: What is evidence-based health communication and how does it benefit patients? How has communication been taught to health professionals and how might it be improved? How can health care professionals make the most of short encounters in order to maximise their therapeutic effectiveness for clients? This book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the field of health communication and the kinds of evidence that have been collected concerning effective communication...read more

Product Description: Urban Fiction - Eye 4 A Eye - Wonder, the main character, uses his knowledge of the strett to get through college and to navigate his way through the Dynasty, a notorious Chicago housing project. Looking our for himself and his family while bringing his closest friends along for the ride with him...read more

Product Description: For Xylophones, Metallophones, Solo B-Flat and E-Flat Instruments, Percussion, and Voice. Middle school-aged general music students will have the opportunity to learn about jazz through hands-on, performance based activities. May also be used with Orff instruments...read more

Product Description: A major reference grammar offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage. The CD-ROM makes the Cambridge Grammar of English even more accessible with: • The whole book in handy, searchable format...read more

Product Description: A major reference grammar offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of spoken and written English based on real everyday usage. The Cambridge Grammar of English is a major reference grammar from the world's leading grammar publisher...read more

Product Description: John Sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for students.This accessible book collects in one volume Sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis patterns, phraseology, corpus analysis, lexicography and linguistic theory from the 1990s...read more

Product Description: In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was shot, Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar, and the Beatles were in their prime. This was a changing world, which British and Irish writers both contributed to and reflected in drama, poetry and prose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising...read more

This best-selling introduction to language studies includes a huge range of activities and projects, introducing core areas of language structure and grammar through analysis of real texts. Ideal for both A level and beginning undergraduate students, this second edition includes: an introductory section on how to use the book material on spoken and written language, children's language, language and ideology an range of texts, including advertisements, beer mats, horoscopes, newspaper articles, junk mail, political speeches extensions suggesting project work with an answer key at the back a concluding section giving students practice in analyzing the different topics explored throughout the book.

Product Description: Working with Texts is a well established textbook that introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through contemporary text examples. Covering a wide range of language areas, the book uses an interactive, activity-based approach to support students' understanding of language structure and variety...read more

In this challenging and at times controversial book, Ronald Carter addresses the discourse of 'English' as a subject of teaching and learning.Among the key topics investigated are:* grammar* correctness and standard English* critical language awareness and literacy* language and creativity* the methodological integration of language and literature in the curriculum* discourse theory and textual interpretation.Investigating English Discourse is a collection of revised, re-edited and newly written papers which contain extensive contrastive analyses of different styles of international English. These range from casual conversation to advertisement, poetry, jokes, metaphor, stories by canonical writers, public notices and children's writing. Ronald Carter highlights key issues for the study and teaching of 'English' for the year 2000 and beyond, focusing in particular on its political and ideological inflections.Investigating English Discourse is of relevance to teachers and students and researchers in the fields of discourse analysis, English as a first, second and foreign language, language and education, applied and literary linguistics.

Wide-ranging and accessible, this textbook covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. It includes extensive accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature. The narrative is underpinned by quotations from poetry, prose and drama.

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

The teaching and practice of language and literacy is a hotly contested subject. Questions like "what is standard English?", "what is grammar?" and the place accorded to canonical writers in the curriculum continue to provoke controversy. In this A to Z guide to language and literacy, Ronald Carter unpicks the meaning of key terms like "proper English", "real books", "text" and "discourse", and the way in which such concepts are used - and abused - by teachers, politicians, linguists, journalists and employers. Each definition is cross-referenced and supported by examples and references to further reading.