Ronald Carter (University of Nottingham), Walter Nash (University of Nottingham)

Seeing Through Language

A Guide to Styles of English Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Riddle : Why is a telescope like a bad excuse? Answer : Because anyone can see through it. The authors of this (laudatory adjective supplied by the publisher) book would like to help anyone -- but particularly students of English -- to 'seea through language, and also to 'see througha language.

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Produktdetails

• The Language Library
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1990.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780631151357
• ISBN-10: 0631151354
• Artikelnr.: 13605522

Autorenporträt

Ronald Carter is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the Centre for English Language Education (CELE) at the University of Nottingham. He is also currently acting as National Coordinator of the Language in the National Curriculum (LINC) project. Walter Nash is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Language and Style.
2. Language, Style and Literariness.
3. Sample Cases.
4. Style, Composition and Creativeness.
Exercises.
Further Reading.
Bibliography.
Glossarial Index.
Index of Extracts.

Rezensionen

"Fills a gap in the field of stylistics and satisfies the needs of scholars for a better knowledge of how to face text analysis." Journal of Literary Semantics
"A highly commendable work combining both textual analysis and composition" Moderna Sprak, Spring 1999