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 …

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical
guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a …

School-level learners who study curricular content in a language that is not their first require
active support in their development of academic language, ideally in conjunction with …

This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular
English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study …

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics consists of introductory level textbooks
covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, designed for those entering postgraduate …

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: De Silva Joyce, Helen.| Feez, Susan. Title: Exploring …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

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newspapers the Guardian and the Telegraph 45 4.1 References to characters per 10,000 …