The Language of Everyday Life by Judy Delin

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The Language of Everyday Life by Judy Delin

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Summary

Provides a linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. This book enables students to discover for themselves what is interesting about different language situations, and to interrogate the relationship between language, society, and ideology.

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The Language of Everyday Life by Judy Delin

This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical concepts and techniques, described in basic, clear terms, and drawn from a broad range of areas of linguistics and language study. The aim of the book is to enable students to discover for themselves what is interesting about different language situations, and to begin to interrogate the relationship between language, society, and ideology. The Language of Everyday Life includes: topics for discussion; exercises, and; further readings; extensive glossary of technical terms; a practical guide to project work.
Judy Delin is a Director of CRCL, the Centre for Research in Language and Communication at Stirling University.
SKU GOR013338600
ISBN 13 9780761960898
ISBN 10 0761960899
Title The Language of Everyday Life
Author Judy Delin
Condition like new
Binding type Hardback
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Year published 2000-09-12
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins