The language of everyday life : an introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Delin, Judy. |
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| Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2000. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11228272 |
| Summary: | This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a wide-ranging repertoire of analytical concepts and techniques, described in basic, clear terms, and drawn from a broad range of areas of linguistics and language study. The aim of the book is to enable students to discover for themselves what is interesting about different language situations, and to begin to interrogate the relationship between language, society, and ideology. <p> The Language of Everyday Life includes: topics for discussion; exercises, and; further readings; extensive glossary of technical terms; a practical guide to project work.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857022141 0857022148 9781446218631 1446218635 9781857022148 1857022149 9781446238103 1446238105 1282559389 9781282559387 9786612559389 6612559381 0761960899 9780761960898 0761960902 9780761960904 |