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  • Stylistics

    by Lesley Jeffries, Dan McIntyre ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. Now in its second edition, this book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics. Organised to reflect the historical development of stylistics, it covers key principles such as foregrounding theory, as well as recent advances in cognitive and corpus stylistics. This edition has been fully ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict

    Edited by Matthew Evans, Lesley Jeffries, Jim O'Driscoll ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations of conflict. Spanning 30 chapters by a variety of international scholars, this Handbook:includes real ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Language of Contemporary Poetry

    A Framework for Poetic Analysis

    by Lesley Jeffries ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Babel Lexicon of Language

    by Dan McIntyre, Lesley Jeffries, Matt Evans, Hazel Price, Erica Gold ...
    What's the word that describes the process of making supportive noises when you're listening to someone? What is syntax and how does it differ from grammar? Do you know what a morpheme is? And did you know that it's not only an atom that has a nucleus? The Babel Lexicon of Language is an entertaining and accessible introduction to the key terminology involved in the study of language. It defines ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Discovering Language

    The Structure of Modern English

    by Dr Lesley Jeffries ...
    Series series Perspectives on the English Language
    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 introduces methods of English language description and enables readers to learn about the smallest units of language (sounds) and work through the subsequent levels (morphology and syntax) until the sentence is ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Stylistics

    by Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that they do. This book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics. Organised to reflect the historical development of stylistics from its origins in Russian formalism, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years

    by Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker ...
    Series series Corpus and Discourse
    Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the 'New Labour' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the 'Blair Years', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Opposition In Discourse

    The Construction of Oppositional Meaning

    by Dr Lesley Jeffries ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics
    In this important book, Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned. The significance of oppositional meaning is well-known but the main emphasis has always been on the ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • Significance in Language

    A Theory of Semantics

    by Jim Feist ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches.The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Narrative Text

    Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

    by Michael Toolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This 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 of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Emmott, and others. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Discourse Analysis

    by Gillian Brown, George Yule ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Trust the Text

    Language, Corpus and Discourse

    by John Sinclair ...
    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. All the papers have been edited and updated for this book. The clear and accessible ... Read more

    $84.99 USD