Pragmatics (Language Workbooks)

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics: <ul>
<li>encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences</li> <li>provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts</li> <li>introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory</li> <li>encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations</li> <li>provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.</li>
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Politics & Social Sciences

Peccei, Jean Stilwell

Social Sciences

Routledge

Language, Society and Power: An Introduction

Language, Society and Power is the essential introductory text for students studying language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions as: How can a language reflect the status of children and older people? Do men and women talk differently? How can our use of language mark our ethnic identity? It also looks at language use in politics and the media and investigates how language affects and constructs our identities, exploring notions of correctness and attitudes towards language use. This third edition of this bestselling book has been completely revised to include recent developments in theory and research and offers the following features: <ul>
<li>a range of new and engaging international examples drawn from everyday life: beauty advertisements, conversation transcripts, newspaper headlines reporting on asylum seekers, language themed cartoons, and excerpts from the television programme South Park and satirical news website The Onion</li> <li>new activities designed to give students a real understanding of the topic </li> <li>a new chapter covering 'Student Projects'– giving readers suggestions on how to further explore the topics covered in the book</li> <li>updated and expanded further reading sections for each chapter and a glossary.</li> </ul>
While it can be used as a stand-alone text, this edition of Language, Society and Power has also been fully cross-referenced with the new companion title: The Language, Society and Power Reader. Together these books provide the complete resource for students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology and psychology.

Mooney, Annabelle

LaBelle, Suzanne

Engøy Henriksen, Berit

Eppler, Eva

Irwin, Anthea

Pichler, Pia

Preece, Siân

Soden, Satori

Child Language

Child Language (Language Workbooks)

Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit. Child Language: * introduces students to key areas involved in the study of children's language: vocabulary development, word and sentence structure, conversational skills and pronunciation * contains a corpus of children's language * includes suggestions for project work.

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics:  encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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