Overview
Studying Language: English in Action provides students with practical guidance on studying 'real' spoken and written language data. It introduces key ideas and current critical debates about how English functions within its social and cultural contexts, and provides examples and guidance on how to approach further work in these areas.Exploring how language is used in everyday life, the book introduces core topics of language study; language variation, pragmatics, stylistics and critical discourse analysis. The book is divided into four chapters, each of which provides an overview of the topic under consideration, examining the issues, debates and frameworks that currently affect research undertaken in each area. Every chapter ends with a section which provides students with advice on undertaking their own research into its particular topic, including suggestions for students' own investigation and further reading.
About the Author:
Urszula Clark is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aston
Synopsis
Studying Language introduces key ideas and current critical debates about how English functions within its social and cultural contexts, and provides practical examples and guidance on how to approach further work in these topics. It introduces the core topics of language study: language variation, pragmatics, stylistics, critical discourse analysis, language and gender, and language and education. Each chapter includes case studies providing worked analysis of sample texts, suggestions for further project work and research and an annotated further reading section.