Language Through Literature
An Introduction
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:5th Dec '96
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- Paperback£41.99(9780415149648)
Paul Simpson provides a definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English Literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and drama, this book offers a lively and accessible guide to important concepts and techniques in English language study.
Each chapter:
* develops a particular topic in language through a series of practical tasks
* provides points for further discussion
* includes project work for use individually, or as part of a group.
Students will find the author's selection and presentation of topics helpful, as he progressively widens the scope of topics through from single words to the structure of whole conversations. By developing practical activities designed for the study of English Language, this book goes way beyond pure linguistic description, and will be an invaluable aid for the beginner student of the English language.
'A book that has long been needed, collecting together relatively recent linguistic ideas with the most useful of the older work and presenting them accessibly, without the assumption that the reader either has a sophisticated command of grammatical terms or that tutors will necessarily want to subscribe to either a formal or a functional approach to language study. There is no doubt that this book will be a major contribution to the pool of textbooks upon which stylistics teaching can draw.' - Judy Delin, The Linguist
ISBN: 9780415149631
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 600g
238 pages