Using English from Conversation to CanonNeil Mercer, Janet Maybin English is used the world over by people at work, play and in artistic endeavours. In this book, the second in the series of four, writers from a range of academic disciplines examine a wide variety of texts and discourses, from everyday conversation to the literary canon. Topics include: * everyday conversation * English in the workplace * English and Rhetoric * literacy practices in English * English and popular culture * what makes English into art? * language and literature Highly interdisciplinary in approach, it provides a coherent introduction to the ways in which language is shaped and used in practice. This book will be an invaluable text for all students of Language, Communication Studies, Literacy and Literature. |
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... performance language as art form and communicative gesture 191 Lizbeth Goodman 6 Language play in English 198 Guy Cook 6.1 Introduction 198 6.2 On page and stage : comedy , poetry and song 199 6.3 A singular song 205 6.4 Graffiti 210 ...
... performance language as art form and communicative gesture 191 Lizbeth Goodman 6 Language play in English 198 Guy Cook 6.1 Introduction 198 6.2 On page and stage : comedy , poetry and song 199 6.3 A singular song 205 6.4 Graffiti 210 ...
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Contents
6 | 27 |
interpretative repertoires | 36 |
Mike Baynham and Janet Maybin | 42 |
7 | 63 |
sociolinguistic aspects | 76 |
Introduction | 84 |
4 | 107 |
form filling and | 116 |
What makes English into art? | 162 |
Reading A In the vernacular | 185 |
performance language as art form | 191 |
Language play in English | 198 |
graffiti | 230 |
notes on nation language | 266 |
Reading B Hegemony and literary tradition in the United States | 272 |
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Aboriginal Achebe Activity advertisements African American applause argued audience authors Brathwaite Britain British called canon Caribbean chapter Chinua Achebe client communication compliments context contrast conversation criticism cultural Derek Walcott describe dialect dialogue Dick Lee discussed effect English language English literature Eva Hoffman everyday example experience expression extract Figure genres graffiti Hindi Indian instance interview Kannada Kanthapura Kautiliya kind language play linguistic literary live look Maxine Hong Kingston meaning Naipaul narrative nation language Ngũgĩ nonstandard novel oral particular patterns performance phrases poem poet poetry political puns reader Reading relationship Remember my horse represent rhetorical Riddley Walker Seamus Heaney Singlish social song sound speakers speaking speech spoken story style suggest T.S. Eliot tabloid talk televangelical television things three-part lists traditional University V.S. Naipaul verb vernacular voice women words writing in English written Xhosa
References to this book
English for Primary and Early Years: Developing Subject Knowledge Ian Eyres No preview available - 2007 |