Filter By
Books (17)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Language in Literature by Michael Toolan
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $51.48An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and helps students in analysing written texts. How can you tell good writing - the... -
Language Teaching: Integrational Linguistic Approaches by Michael Toolan
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics' shunning of both realist... -
Language, Text and Context: Essays in stylistics by Michael Toolan
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.39First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and... -
Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language by Michael Toolan 9780822317906
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of... -
The Language of Inequality in the News: A Discourse Analytic Approach by Michael Toolan 9781108464208
Booksplease Price: $33.06Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the 1970s do the Daily Mail's TV... -
Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories by Michael Toolan 9780367023522
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture... -
Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan by Ruth Page 9780367586850
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan's pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which... -
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics Keith Allan 9780367868079
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of... -
Teaching Stylistics by Lesley Jeffries 9780230235878
Booksplease Price: $59.70Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary... -
Teaching Stylistics by Lesley Jeffries 9780230235885
Booksplease Price: $60.29Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary... -
Word Meaning and Legal Interpretation: An Introductory Guide by Christopher Mark Hutton 9781137016140
Booksplease Price: $51.34This book introduces ideas about word meaning in the context of law. It analyzes cases from common law jurisdictions that concern the meaning, definition and legal status of individual words, labels... -
Theorizing Narrativity by John Pier 9783110202441
RRP: $176.09Booksplease Price: $119.05Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative... -
Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory by Michael S. Macovski 9780195070637
Booksplease Price: $73.49This interdisciplinary volume of collected, unpublished essays demonstrates the importance of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning for a wide range of... -
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar M.A.K. Halliday 9781444146608
RRP: $74.81Booksplease Price: $72.83Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply... -
Dialect in Film and Literature by Jane Hodson 9781403937087
Booksplease Price: $55.79What is a dialect? How are dialects represented in film and literature? How can they be analysed? In the first textbook to cover dialect representation in both film and literature, Jane Hodson... -
The Language of Metaphors by Andrew Goatly
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly looks at how we use metaphor to communicate meaning. Combining insights from functional linguistics and relevance theory, he provides a powerful... -
Contemporary Stylistics by Marina Lambrou 9781441183842
Booksplease Price: $59.02Written by internationally renowned researchers in stylistics, this volume of twenty chapters aims to provide a snapshot of current research and innovations in the field of stylistics. "Contemporary...