This original and engaging textbook is concerned with stylistic choices, and the textual
analysis which can illuminate the choices that a text producer has made. It combines the …

An invaluable glossary of significant language and linguistic terms and concepts designed
for students of English Language and Linguistics. The book also provides a very useful …

This study is a contribution to the body of knowledge about what are popularly called
opposites and sometimes also labelled antonyms or binaries. I will refer in general to such …

While there is a considerable literature on most of the kinds of texts that are discussed in this
book, much of it is neither brief nor introductory. My own students' experience has been that …

The structure of this book is influenced by a number of strands of inquiry reflecting the
interdisciplinary nature of this study, including ideology, news discourse, oppositions (hence …

Авторская методика предполагает выбор основных концепций из соответствующих
направлений современной науки и сведение их в единые структуры, объединенные …

Ideal for those who are starting a degree in English language or linguistics, this textbook
covers all the basic knowledge and tools of analysis students need for studying language. It …

Studying Language introduces key ideas about how English functions within its social and
cultural contexts. It explores core topics of study such as language variation, pragmatics …

Reduplication is important in language studies. Its linguistic form at the lexical level has long
been explored in terms of various formalist theories. However, the linguistic function at other …

The orthodox view is that ideology is false consciousness, a system of symbolic
representations that reflects an historical situation of domination by a particular class, and …