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. "The Language of Everyday Life" includes: topics for discussion; exercises, and; further readings; extensive glossary of technical terms; and, a practical guide to project work.
- ISBN10 1282487264
- ISBN13 9781282487260
- Publish Date 1 January 2008 (first published 8 January 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Counterpoint
- Imprint Soft Skull Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 176
- Language English