Pragmatics and the English Language (Pocket)
avJonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh, Jonathan Culpeper
ISBN: 9780230551732 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics? Pragmatics and the English Language is a bold new textbook that presents an innovative and exciting way of looking at the subject[...]
History of English (Pocket)
avJonathan Culpeper
ISBN: 9780415341844 - UTGIVEN: 2005-03-01An introduction to all the key areas of language and linguistics, this is the useful guide to this core subject. Written in a simple style, with all technical concepts fully explained, it provides 'discussion points' to generate debate and involves readers in collecting and analysing their own data.[...]
Digital Literary Studies (Inbunden)
avDavid L. Hoover, Jonathan Culpeper, Kieran O'Halloran
ISBN: 9780415352307 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02Digital Literary Studies presents a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches that are crucially dependent upon the digital nature of the literary texts it studies and the texts and collections of texts with which they are compared. It focuses on style, diction,[...]
Impoliteness (Pocket)
avJonathan Culpeper
ISBN: 9780521689779 - UTGIVEN: 201102When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and socia[...]
