Using English from Conversation to Canon

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Neil Mercer, Janet Maybin
Psychology Press, 1996 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 326 pages
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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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
References
311

Rhetoric in English
122
Appendix Transcription symbols
143
Indian traditions
150
a media speech genre
156
Acknowledgements
319
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322
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